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Purpose Of The Person's Life In The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren Literature Book Report/Review

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This means that for religion to be truly significant, it should be practiced as a group. In this regard, religion functions to promote social cohesion and control among members. As such, it is considered as a powerful tool in effecting social change as members or community of believers act towards a particular objective that is congruent with the religious teachings they adhere to.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that Sir Gawain agrees and beheads the Green Knight. The Knight picks up his head and leaves, reminding Sir Gawain of the challenge he has acquitted to. The poem reflects the problems faced by Gawain until his appointment with the Knight, each adventure deep with themes of romance and chivalry.

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Heroic Characters of Oedipus, Tom Wingfield, and Willy Loman Literature Essay

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Heroism is most alive in the immortality that begins with the tragic death of a hero. Literature has woven the epic tale of the hero that struggles against all odds to save his family, friends, and community. Upon his tragic death, the hero is immortalized and his heroism is forever validated. Yet, sometimes the tragedy is in the life of the protagonist.

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Bell Hooks Is Teaching to Transgress Literature Book Report/Review

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Gloria Jean Watkins is an African American intellectual, whose negative educational experience inspired her to develop strong feminist activism and to write over thirty books where she promotes communication and literacy as main elements to develop healthy relationships and communities, and love as a basis to overcome class and gender barriers.

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Childrens Literature: Instruction through Delight Literature Book Report/Review

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Generally, children’s literature and books may have been taken for granted and dismissed as a person matures just like any of the childhood paraphernalia that one has to grow out of and store away along with outgrown clothes and toys. Transformative Energies by Kimberley Reynolds, however, puts emphasis on the relevance, dynamism, and magnitude of children’s literature.

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James Joyce and Virginia Woolf Literature Essay

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The book explores these ideas philosophically, and the thought processes of characters are traced through the stream-of-consciousness technique. Also, in Joyces' Dubliners, similar themes and techniques are found, though perhaps varied in the extent to which each is displayed in the given texts.

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The Problem of Poverty and Human Rights Violations Literature Essay

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It is undeniable that many people in the world today are unable to obtain even the most basic of education due to poverty. This social phenomenon leads to a variety of complications such as being unable to obtain an education, medicine, and shelter. Many people in the world today suffer from malnutrition and even some die of hunger.

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Russian myth in modern literature Literature Essay

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To demand allegiance, cultural literacy is often brought out in modern literature and filmography and entertains its avid reader or viewer. True enough; a desired effect is probably gained if the audience is limited to a group of similar beliefs.

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A Raisin in the Sun Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that Mama’s dream is to buy a comfortable house in an all-white locality, while Walter Lee’s dream is to get into the business. Ruth is an independent intelligent girl, who wants to steer clear of all the Americanisation and get in touch with her African roots. Mama is scheduled to get the pension amount.

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The Downfall of Macbeth Literature Essay

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The author states that Lady Macbeth loses her sanity by finally coming to question whether she has to be an agent of effect or an agent of cause. Macbeth’s downfall arrives only after he has decided to become as amoral as his wife, and only after he no longer even contemplates whether he can be an agent of his own fate.

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes Literature Essay

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The author states that the poet takes the four great rivers that have long been connected to the development of human civilization and link them to the African American, or Negro experience. In order to show this, he takes us back in time, with this powerful metaphorical poem, and forward to the more recent days of slavery and abolition.

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Analysis of Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones Literature Book Report/Review

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Much of the book focuses on Derk, and about his personal life, especially in regards to his son and daughter, and although the main theme of this book is fantasy, there is much more than is divulged into within this book. For instance, the trappings of various different fantasy epics are spoofed in this book.

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Narrative review and interpretation someday my elders will be proud Literature Book Report/Review

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While this narrative ends up on a good note, many experiences leading up to it are discouraging. Jean grew up in poverty after her father left the family when she was at a very young age. This meant her mother was the sole breadwinner for her and her brothers.

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Critical Review of A Streetcar Named Desire, and A Supermarket in California Literature Book Report/Review

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American Literature’s and undoubtedly playwright Tennessee Williams’ most revered work, A streetcar named desire is a story that depicts pathos and human fixation to do with sex, desire, money, class consciousness, and struggle, deceit and fallacy, relationships, beliefs, and modernism. In New Orleans, lust and casual sex came relief in times of stress.

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Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that both of the epic poems pertain directly to live during the respective centuries in which they were written. Because of this, both use imagery, folklore, and artifacts that were common or revered at the time of writing. While Beowulf brings a great deal of Norse folklore and traditional characters into the story.

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Shakespeare's Hamlet Main Character Contradiction Literature Essay

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One of the widely debated issues about the Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the portrayal of the character of Hamlet who is widely regarded as its tragic hero. However, an analysis shows that in contrast to the prevailing belief that Hamlet is a hero, he is a murderer who killed his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, his former lover Ophelia, and Polonius.

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On Arm Wrestling with my Father by Brad Manning Literature Book Report/Review

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The conclusion states that the essay “On arm wrestling with my father” is a well-written tribute to the author’s love for his father, along with all the trials and tribulations that came with it. It is a warm retrospective that enjoins us somehow to all look back our relationships with our fathers, and to appreciate the love and care that was bestowed upon us long ago, unsaid or not.

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Research on Chicano background and plays Literature Essay

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Raymund Paudes uses the term Chicano to refer to people of Mexican ancestry who have resided permanently in the United States for a prolonged period. Chicanos can be native born citizens or Mexican born immigrants who have adapted to life in the US.

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My Last Duchess Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the setting is a Duke preparing to meet a new crop of young women to take the place of his deceased wife and he is discussing her portrait with what appears to be a marriage broker. In discussing the color in his painted wife’s cheeks, he states “She had A heart---how shall I say?---too soon made glad, Too easily impressed;”.

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Wilde & Shaw: Two Satirical Responses to Social Class Literature Essay

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This discussion talks that by analyzing the similarities and differences present in Wilde’s and Shaw’s mindsets, one can gain a better appreciation of how immensely complex elitism is in general, both in what causes it and how it can be eradicated. Both "Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime" and "Pygmalion" purport the idea those on the higher end of the class hierarchy.

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The Visual Aspects of Persepolis Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the daughter of a noble family of Iran, Satrapi lived a comfortable life in Iran. In 1984, in her early teens, she is forced to flee Iran and study in a school in Austria. She feels like an outsider among her classmates at school but struggles to acquire a sense of belonging.

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Truth in Autobiography: The Rigoberta Mench Controversy Literature Term Paper

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Does it matter that parts of the testimonio of Rigoberta Menchu are not true? This question has to be answered from a certain point of view. From the point of view of an outsider looking into the social injustices and atrocities that occurred during the time being recounted, this author’s position is that it does not matter.

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The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Elliot Literature Book Report/Review

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The paper gives a review on "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Elliot and explores modernism through it. Modernism and the development of a city culture brought with it feelings of losing one's self, and many writers began to question the previous ideas of a society and how to function within it.

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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Literature Essay

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Objective actuality does not exist in As I Lay Dying; we have merely the highly subjective interior monologues of 15 different narrators. Darl, who comes into view early as the novel's vital narrator, is expressive but considered strange by his family and neighbors. He finishes up being put into an asylum, with his older brother Cash mulling over the definition of "insane."

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Racism in Aphra Behns Oroonoko Literature Book Report/Review

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But why Nowhere is it intimated that Oroonoko has any European parentage. It is therefore very important to discern the reason why Behn distinguished Oroonoko from his fellow Africans. Without fully grasping why Behn attaches such European characteristics to her hero the careless reader runs the risk of being left with the impression that the whole story is but a racist endeavor to assign to an African man attributes that inevitably raise the specter of assessing superior masculine looks from a Western point of view.

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Cold Mountain and Season of Migration to the North Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that “The Cold Mountain” is a metaphor for the poet himself. It symbolizes a particular way of life. At one level the cold mountain seems to be a retreat or refuge at certain other times it becomes an unattainable goal. Here the poet is trying to lend an aura of mystery or mysticism to the cold mountain.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula Literature Book Report/Review

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The Victorian era is presented in Bram Stoker’s Dracula as consisting mostly of the middle and upper class. This is the image of the morally upright period presented in literature and film that deals with London of the time, but Stoker’s prose also indicates the existence of the real dark foundation upon which the industrial revolution was built.

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Death and Destruction in Toni Morrisons Sula Literature Essay

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Morrison's dramatization of tradition's unperceived barriers to self-discovery reflects her belief in the need for experimenting with life, of breaking rules, not simply out of boredom or curiosity but because there is no other way to explore possibilities. Sula discovers the terror and thrill of the free-fall into life through her own creative capacity for invention.

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The Origin of Thanksgiving in Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick Literature Essay

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Looking east it doesn’t seem any change since 1620. The author of the book Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick describes the American history covered in mythology and romantic fantasy and calls it as a restorative myth of national origins. The Mayflower, Plymouth Rock was the first Thanksgiving that tells about the Pilgrim settlement of New England.

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Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Literature Assignment

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The author states that Don Quixote and Toy Story, both, present accounts of prominent, thrill-seeking gentlemen exposed to two different cultures. Don Quixote, or Alonso Quijano, is a man from La Mancha, Spain who immerses his thoughts on stories of chivalry, knights and their weaponry and ladies.

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Virginia Woolfs To The Lighthouse Literature Book Report/Review

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Although T.S. Eliot is widely known for his literary works as his famous poems Pufrock and Other Observations (1917), The Waste Land (1922) or Four Quartets (1935-1942) and his famous plays such as Murder in the Cathedral (1927) or The Rock (1927); he is also considered one of the finest literary critics of the twentieth century[1].

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Analysis of Hamlet Play Authored by Shakespeare Literature Essay

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Shakespeare's hero became the burning spokesman of those new sights brought by the Renaissance when the advanced minds of mankind aspired to restore not only the loss for the millennium of Middle Ages understanding of ancient world art but also the trust of the person to own forces without hopes on favor and help of heaven.

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Every Man in His Humour Literature Book Report/Review

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The earliest dramatic representation in England is believed to have been the performance of a Latin play in honor of St. Katherine in 1110. Drama originated from the rich symbolic ceremonial of the Church. It was the work of priests who used it as a means of conveying the truths of their religion to the illiterate masses.

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Richard Wright The Man who was almost a man Literature Essay

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He felt a gun would give him an opportunity to show them that he was a man, and should be treated and respected like one. Later on after obtaining his prized gun, his frame of mind changes to excitement as he walks to work for his boss, Jim Hawkins and his mule Jenny, he anticipates firing the gun for the first time.

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Thoreaus Masculinity Literature Book Report/Review

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Thoreau’s value of self-sufficiency, oneness with nature, and virtue are not just implied through his writing as the key characteristics inherent in the ideal American male, but they are directly referred throughout the entire body of his work. Thoreau doesn’t just hard-fought characteristics seem appealing, but he makes the tedious struggle of achieving them appealing as well.

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Treatment of Love in the Following Romantic Poem and Extract from a Romantic Poem Literature Book Report/Review

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They help the reader to understand that such love cannot be divorced from the physical, which some may consider as mere lust. Physical and psychological are intertwined in the final consummation of passionate love, or what individuals may perceive such love to be. Byron and Dacre have, in their different ways, exposed the different facets of this enigmatic emotion, this love, whatever it may be.

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Wilfred Owens Dulce et Decorum Est Literature Essay

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If they could live and see what war is really like, they wouldn't encourage the young men to go. In the first stanza, the author describes the infernal situation of the soldiers. He describes them as "drunk with fatigue", they "marched asleep". They were deaf from the noise of the shells passing though the air.

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The Death of Reasoning Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that imaginative is that it makes the reader think that there is more to this than an ordinary narration of stages. This sense of imagination is further emphasized in that the language used is in the past tense. It is being recounted from the past. Is the persona narrating her own funeral?

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Romance by Edgar Allan Poe Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the poem, in the first stanza, talks about the beauty of Romance. Here, the poet portrays Romance as a bird, ‘paroquet’. The poet depicts this bird as one that is in complete harmony with nature. The varied manifestations of nature provide refuge to this bird and the bird, in turn, lives in the midst of Nature.

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The Roles of Virgil and Beatrice in Inferno and Purgatorio Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that Virgil had been a Roman poet famous for his creation a legendary initiation of the Roman Empire through ‘The Aeneid’, his well-known epic. Dante takes him as his hero to support the value of ‘Justice’ and ‘Reason’ without any strict religious application and this is the main role of Virgil in the comedy.

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One Art by Elizabeth Bishop Literature Essay

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The rhythmic flow of this poem mimics the human penchant for denial, stemming from intellectualizing a threat to one's personal equanimity, until the very last strand of control gives way to truth. Overall, form and content merge naturally in this poem - embodying three elements which make for good poetry: structure, rhythm and voice/speaker.

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Great Expectations: Moral Judgment of Characters by the Reader Literature Book Report/Review

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Pip’s journey is thus a highly ‘individual’ journey and is a tale of alienation. It is a journey where Pip goes through a diverse range of experiences that continually challenge his understanding of class, family, and individuals at large to finally come to a better understanding of himself. Being a bildungsroman, this journey towards self-realization is quite expected and in fact, commonplace.

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the book is read by the individuals of this era may not be understood by them if they do not get the concept of the mid 19th century. Ellison was an individual of a black ethnicity who lived in America and had to pass different phases of life. He had to go through different instances in life in the states.

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Still I Rise by Maya Angelou Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the tormentor is depicted as using all his or her whiles to cut the persona down to size as in using the eyes to stare and send hurtful messages. The persona appears to have a shameful as well as painful distant past as in “Out of the huts of history's shame I rise,” and “Up from a past that's rooted in pain, I rise.”

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The Significance of Twins in Search of an Identity Literature Essay

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The trial focuses attention on the identity motif and enlarges it to expound on the uniqueness of the individual. Palmistry is one device that Twain uses to expose a person’s identity (83-84). Fingerprints are used in a similar way but delve deeper into the identity issue by representing one’s uniqueness.

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Midsummer Nights Dream Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that Shakespeare conveys the message that the comedy is not on the comical character of Bottom but the jokes are on the category of people that Bottom represents. Nick Bottom has a name that is a pun. However, he is a serious comical character. One definition of a ‘bottom’ is the core which is used to wind the weaver’s skein of thread.

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The Knights of the Round Table and this Standard of Excellence Literature Essay

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I chose the Green Knight as being the best and truest knight. In the epic poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the author uses the character, Sir Gawain, to illustrate the heroic ideals of chivalry, loyalty, courteousness and honesty in fourteenth century England. In the poem, Gawain is the epitome of virtue and all that is good.

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Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman Literature Book Report/Review

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The American Dream is a mere pretention. Miller exemplifies this in the persona of Willy Loman, a salesman. Miller grew in the environment of trade and marketing. He knew the life of a salesman for his father used to own a clothing company and dealt with a few salesmen.

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The Most Important Characters of the Picture of Dorian Gray Literature Book Report/Review

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Oscar Wilde was a man of many talents; he was a very prominent playwright and in addition to this he was also a very popular poet, author, and short story writer. He was Irish and he was born in Dublin which also happens to be the capital of Ireland. His name is conspicuous when the Victorian Era is talked about; he was a cynosure and hogged all the limelight in the Victorian Era.

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The Romantic Fantastic by Tobin Siebers Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that in the world of the supernatural, frogs can turn into princes at the touch of the beautiful princess, and princesses can be awakened by the kiss of a heroic prince. The domain of the supernatural, then, is the realm of the fairy tale, of fantasy literature in which the author's creative imagination knows no ground rules.

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