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The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant Literature Essay
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The author of the paper states that this story could have had a very different, although admittedly less moving, conclusion had Mathilde simply admitted the truth to her friend right away. But, as foolish as Mathilde behaves, it is not easy to be certain that in her place I would have acted differently.
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Postcolonial Melting Pot Literature Book Report/Review
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This may indicate Rhys's awareness that the logic of the Creole mode of subjectivity, dependent as it is upon the structures and ideology of European colonialism and imperialism, becomes unraveled in the postcolonial Caribbean. Such a subject cannot any longer exist. The white West Indian must negotiate a new relationship in terms of the socio-political structures in place in the West Indies.
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Imagination and Poetry: An Analysis of Three Lyrical Creations Literature Essay
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Imagination, combined with the clever and powerful use of language and rhythm, shapes them into beautiful expressions of art. The past merges with the present to transform notions of the future, both for the author and the reader, that become, stanza after stanza, critical pieces of opinion and food for the soul.
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Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process Literature Essay
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In general, methods employed by social scientists can be divided into two broad groups - quantitative methods, which are aimed at measuring social phenomena and analysis of numerical information, and qualitative methods, which highlight personal interpretations in order to achieve a better understanding of the significance of social phenomena.
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George Emerson: A Symbol or a Human Being Literature Book Report/Review
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So runs Colmer’s assessment of George in E.M. Forster’s novel ‘A Room with a View’ and there certainly is some truth in such an outright critical dismissal. To say the least, George Emerson, as Forster portrays him, does not appear to be a powerful enough character to bear the burden of symbolism placed on him and thereby becomes a victim of it.
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Charles Dickenss Great Expectations Literature Book Report/Review
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Pip visits the eccentric Miss Havisham and her adopted child Estella for the first time in chapter eight. In chapter 29, as an adult, he makes yet another visit to the estate. Dickens sets up the chapters scene by scene: both entail Pip's arrival to the estate, his wanderings inside Miss Havisham's home, his encounter with Estella (and therefore his perception of her), and his concluding thoughts in each chapter.
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The Women of Middlemarch Literature Book Report/Review
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Mary Ann's mother was Christina Evans (nee Pearson) a farmer's daughter, and her father-Robert Evans. She had four siblings-two brothers and two sisters. Of these, a brother and a sister much older, were from her father's previous marriage. Robert Evans was the manager of Arbury Hall Estate in Warwickshire.
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True West by Sam Shepard Literature Assignment
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The author states that the story revolves around two brothers Lee and Austin and tells how change can play a role in the life of an individual. This essay would further analyze the theme of change in the characters as shown in the play. True West is a play written by Sam Shepard which revolves around two brothers Austin and Lee.
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Comparison of the Story of an Hour and the House on Mango Street Literature Essay
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The writers have shown the dark side of society. The lead characters are females who are victims of the evils of society. The titles are simple but have a lot of meaning hidden in it. It arouses curiosity in the readers about what would happen to the main characters. The language used in both stories is simple and allegorical. 
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Friendly Fire - the Accidental Shootdown of the US Black Hawks over Northern Iraq by Scott Snook Literature Essay
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“Friendly fire” is a military phrase and refers to the unintended attack by friendly forces, largely as a result of mistaken identity. Historically, its occurrence has been steadily increasing in US warfare from the killing of Confederate Lieutenant General "Stonewall" Jackson in the Civil War to that of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan (Jones 38-41).
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Light at the Edge of the World by Wade Davis Literature Book Report/Review
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The author through his work takes readers deep into worlds. This book basically covers the notion and existence of nature from one corner to the other covering rituals, beliefs, and lives of the Waorani, the Penan, the Inuit, and many other unique and hidden traditional cultures. He writes “The human imagination is vast.
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Dickinson: A Haunting of the Social Self Literature Essay
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In the first stanza of the poem Dickinson says, "One needs not be a Chamber - To be haunted - The brain has corridors - surpassing - material place" (Dickinson). Dickinson is using imagery in this stanza to compare the internal confrontation between "the social self" and "the poetic self" to the haunting of a house.
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Fate in Romeo and Juliet Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Romeo and Juliet meet by accident, and it is love at first sight. Accidents follow in quick succession; Juliet is forced to accept Paris as her fiancée; Romeo and Juliet marry in secret; Mercutio and Tybalt are killed; the Prince banishes Romeo, and the lover messages become lost.
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Elizabeth Gaskell's and James Froude's Use of Language Literature Essay
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Elizabeth Gaskell's language is as fresh and relevant to the modern reader as it was to the Victorians. With short, simple sentences, she portrays a truthful and sympathetic picture of Charlotte Bronte. This is not to say it is boring or prosaic. The descriptive passages all contain strong poetic elements which bring them to life.
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The Ministers Black Veil Literature Essay
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The author of the paper states that there are faint suggestions that he was in love with the girl and thought it was a sin. Young Goodman Brown is about a gentleman, who travels with the devil to participate in an unholy ritual that has Faith, his wife, and many of his respected neighbors in it.
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Product of the Art Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Lee has denied any conscious connection between her and Scout, and contends she was merely writing about what she knew. Writers, such as Harper Lee, routinely put themselves into the characters they construct as an unconscious by-product of the creative writing process.
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A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen ,1879 and Trifles by Susan Glaspell,1916 Literature Book Report/Review
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She wanted to stop just being her husband's plaything or her father's "little doll".Her character showed how women were expected to be dutiful to men and that men had power that could destroy both them and the women they dominated. In Act 1, Nora appeared playful, manipulative and materialistic with regard to money.
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Answers to Midsummer Nights Dream Literature Assignment
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Egeus says Lysander wins Hermia's heart with all these tokens and it is an unfair advantage over Demetrius, who has never had a chance to woo Hermia. (Act 1, Scene 1). 2. The sort of entertainment Puck describes in Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 47-57, is not the sort of comic entertainment provided by this play.  
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Metaphorism in The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes Literature Essay
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Marquita, read ‘The Thought Fox’ by Ted Hughes because this is where the idea for this poem came from. You can find it on the internet or in the Norton Anthology of Poetry. You can explain the origins of the poem to your teacher, once you know it. This poem is a METAPHOR, like his, for the act of creation and how it can be lonely and difficult.
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Analysis of Shakespeares Sonnet 16 Literature Essay
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Shakespeare provides insight in how true love would withstand everything, even certain doom. Again, Shakespeare offers a grain of truth in his words. He speaks of true love as though it were living, breathing, no matter that it is emotion. Shakespeare paints the picture that love makes time stand still, no matter how brief the time may be.
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Emily Dickinsons Death Poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the poem is hard to understand unless you have more knowledge about it. How can the narrator mourn a person they have never seen? The answer to this question is simple once you know that the poem was around 1862, during the bloodiest part of the Civil War. Many people mourned the men lost in Civil War battles.
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A Wife's Story by Bharati Mukherjee Literature Essay
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The author states that Panna had an aristocratic British-style education in India and at the time of the story was enrolled in a Ph.D. program in New York. But her physical movement to American culture accelerated the pace of change. Her alien status within American culture is driven home at the beginning of the story.
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The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov Literature Book Report/Review
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'The Cherry Orchard' has been written at the very end of Chekhov's life. Karlinsky in the book ‘Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary’ writes: “The reading public is aware that his days are numbered, and every new work is received with a sort of tender gratitude, with the realization that it was written with the remainder of his dwindling strength”.
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Why Were Most Witches Female Literature Essay
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Many cultures have goddesses for instance, often as the member of a large pantheistic structure including members even sometimes having hermaphroditic gender identities as well as the conventional ones. As historian Lyndal Roper notes in 1994, “large-scale historical transformations may barely disturb the relations of power between men and women.
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The Destruction of Content in The Metamorphosis Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the ironic lesson that is learned from reading The Metamorphosis is that Gregor Samsa undergoes a metamorphosis in the physical sense only; philosophically Gregor had always been a bug and becoming one physically has no effect on his enjoyment of life. Gregor sticks stubbornly to the very same conformist mindset.
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Niccol Machiavelli's The Prince Literature Book Report/Review
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His writings were dominated by the realistic conception of politics and the work of any ruler. Only one book that could be compared with The Prince was written in Sanskrit by a Minister of the Mourya Dynasty, whose name was Kautilya (also called Chanakya) and the book is Arthashastra. Apart from this, The Prince remained unparalleled.
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A&P by John Updike and Araby by James Joyce Literature Essay
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The author states that John Updike portrays Sammy, the narrator of "A & P", as a nineteen-year-old cashier at the local A & P in a coastal town near Boston. Sammy, thru the use of daring means, fruitlessly attempts to win the attention of a beautiful girl. The narrator of "Araby" depicted by James Joyce, also, conveys his first failed love.
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Alienation in Franz Kafkas The Metamorphosis Literature Essay
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We read that Gregor was not surprised to see his own transformation. Kafka’s purpose was to include absurdity as a normal way of life, to open our eyes to the responses of Gregor’s predicament.
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Analysis of Reviews of Animal Farm by Orwell, Jane Austen's Emma, and Pride and Prejudice Novels Literature Assignment
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The conclusion of the review left me with the same desire to see the film that it started with. There were a few technical errors, very minor, such as an improper pronoun in the last paragraph. (Should have been they instead of it) Also, switching between character names and the use of pronouns sometimes got confusing to follow.
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Literature Book Report/Review
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"Septimus Warren Smith, aged about thirty, pale-faced, beak-nosed, wearing brown shoes and a shabby overcoat, with hazel eyes which had that look of apprehension in them which makes complete strangers apprehensive too"(14). This is our lingering impression of Septimus in Mrs. Dalloway.
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The Myth in Poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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Millay succeeds through juxtaposing the actions of Penelope and Ulysses against her own, seeming more mundane, but in reality similar actions in the present day. She shows that ancient myths are so evocative because they take the actions of ordinary people and make them something profound (Milford, 2002).
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1984 by George Orwell Literature Essay
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The author states that Orwell’s vision of women was limited, thinking of Julia as the forbidden, fun and sexually active, pretty but not so smart girl; while only mothers were honorable and cause for admiration. Orwell’s famous line: “You’re Only a Rebel from the Waist Downwards” can be thoroughly discussed.
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Analysis of the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Audre Lorde Literature Book Report/Review
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Both of them form the very important literary tradition of the black woman’s discourse who were denied a voice and who have risen through generations and proclaiming their political rights but also questioning the female identity under male-centered power structures and in contrast to the white feminist
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Overcoming Societal Oppression in 2005 Literature Essay
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Gaines’s novel examines the difficulties facing African Americans in the rural South during the 1940s, but the historical content covers nearly a century. Between 1910 and 1970, more than six million blacks left the South. During this time, the Civil Rights Movement did much to increase civil equality among the races.
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James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the novel reveals David's struggle to accepting himself and rejecting the fear of his own sexuality. Self-acceptance and fear of one's sexuality are both different things, and so they can never be resolved in the same way. A person can lack fear of one's sexuality by openly practicing it.
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Saint Apollonias Back Teeth Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that surprisingly Mancio bets military secrets and somehow wins against the Incas and cashes the gold. In Montezuma’s peacock how a cook shows his love, affection, and gratitude towards his lover has been sketched. All the recipe's instructions were given. All the happenings of the French revolution were described.
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The Golden Ass by Apuleius Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Socrates described Meroe, the witch to Apuleius. This woman loved somebody deeply. But unfortunately, her man loved somebody else besides her. With just one word, Meroe turned his man into a beaver. She also changed one of his neighbors into a frog. One of the advocates of the court spoke bad things against her.
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Approaches to Monitor the Government's Strategy to Tackle Poverty and Social Exclusion Literature Book Report/Review
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Her columns commonly support New Labour, but she has also made keen criticisms of the Blair government. She was born on the Isle of Wight. After she attended the Holland Park School, a comprehensive school in London (she had failed the Eleven Plus examination), she read history at St Anne's College, Oxford, but dropped out before completing her degree.
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The Significance of Choices in Frankenstein and Uncle Toms Cabin Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that both characters represent how individuals can respond differently to distressing situations and, ultimately, effect their future. Uncle Tom and Victor’s creation endure horrible treatment from other human beings. Tom decides to remain positive and he fights the urge to become bitter.
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Man vs Environment in Juan Rulfos Short Stories Literature Book Report/Review
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Killings are frequent in The Burning Plains and other stories.  In fact, killings are the plotlines of both “The Man” and “Talpa.”  In “The Man” the main character wrestles with his conscience as much as he wrestles with the landscape.  One mirrors the other.  Similarly, in “Talpa” the story occurs after the murder of Danilo.  
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Putting Humans First : Why We Are Nature's Favorite Literature Literature review
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The Great Tibor R. Machan, was a professor of emeritus in the department of philosophy at Auburn University, Moreover had perfect observation about hidden truths and objects of life therefore he holds the R. C. Hoiles Professorship of Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics at Chapman University in Orange, California because of his passionate career.
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The Diamonds by J. Sorie Conteh Literature Book Report/Review
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However the diamonds are equally a nuisance and a blessing. J. Sorie Conteh's debut novel is about how the craving for great wealth can cause corruption and eventually collapse. Particularly when it comes to focus on the ways that the diviner's role changed, the novel presents a simulating present-day appearance of Gibao, an individual who construes wealth in the fields of diamonds of Sierra Leone, West Africa.
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Comparison of the Characters Emily, and Deborah Literature Term Paper
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The stories presented the status of women during the time of the writers. A lot of changes occurred since then and women are not given more responsibilities and roles that make them feel important in the development of society. Emily is the protagonist while her father and the townsmen are the antagonists. Emily is a round and dynamic character.
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Ancient Epic and Tragedy: Iliad Literature Book Report/Review
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 These were commonly associated with women who would use laments to express feelings of abandonment, sorrow, and loneliness. Greek women from the ancient period are known for their fondness for laments. This was seen as a powerful source of expression and since women had little control over other things apart from expression.
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Repression of War Experience Poem Literature Essay
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The poem succeeds in portraying the sufferings of the poet who is a soldier who is disturbed by the horrifying memories of the war. Although the poet tries to forget those memories by taking deep breaths and reading books but still at the end of the poem he expresses his frustration when he finds it impossible to prevent himself from hearing the sounds of guns.
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A Moral for an Age of Plenty by Jacob Bronowski Literature Book Report/Review
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The book covers the universal truth of morality, and while we are all different, we must follow our own conscience in every act we carry out. The story explained how Louis Slotin, who worked on creating the atomic bomb in 1945 and 1946, died as a result of an accident while experimenting with plutonium.  
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On the Jericho Road by J. Alfred Smith Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that this story is basically an autobiography of one of the authors, Dr. J Alfred Smith Sr., and it tells the story of how Smith grew up in an era of intense poverty and segregation, as well as his many experiences of the racially divided country that existed at that time; although racism is certainly still an avid.
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Invocation to the Muses Literature Assignment
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The author states that a great rivalry and jealousy ensued between Turnus and Aeneas which resulted in war between Latins and Trojans people. In this war, Turnus fought bravely and killed the son of Evander and took his sword belt. Aeneas was extremely enraged on this and sought to kill Turnus.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Coming of Age in Mississippi Literature Essay
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The author states that there is a saying that a good story is composed of a well-written plot and well-made characters. It is simply saying that a writer should give fifty percent of his talent and effort in making a good plot and another fifty percent in creating beautiful characters. However, one should not think of this.
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Jane Austen's Novel Sense and Sensibility Literature Book Report/Review
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This report will begin with the statement that Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility broaches a number of human failings with a gentle but firm admonishment.  Despite the story’s close adherence to acceptable social behavior, both its inception and its execution reveal a much more revolutionary nature.
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