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Comparison of Louise Mallard in Story of an Hour and Sylvia in A White Heron Literature Essay
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For Louise, in “Story of an Hour,” it is the institution of marriage; she was never to be more than some man’s wife; little room left for self-discovery or self-aspirations (Chopin 1-3). While, Sylvia, still a child, related herself more to the animals she loves. To be coupled is like being caged, kept from freedom (Jewett).
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Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Literature Essay
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In his book, he wrote: “For instance, why weren’t Native Americans, Africans, and Aboriginal Australians the ones who decimated, subjugated or exterminated Europeans and Asians?” (Diamond 15). He recognizes the control and ownership of guns, germ, and steel as the crucial explanation, marking out their influx in the colonial hands of the Europeans for more than thirteen millennia of agriculture and technology.
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Dublin in Benjamin Walter's and Roddy Doyle's Books Literature Essay
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The author of this essay is considered that the city conditions have significant impact over its inhabitants. The surroundings actually play a vital role in framing the ideological perspectives of people while representing their subjectivity. Every writer who writes about his/her city actually symbolizes the culture of a particular region.
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Read an excerpt of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (Read full directions) Literature Book Report/Review
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Even though the story is familiar to most as zeitgeist book, it is actually more than that; in comparison to the ways of the youth today is more of a historical artifact that could change the lives of most of these youths (O’Hagan 1). The broad purpose of this paper is to discuss three significant themes from Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’; the few themes elaborated have been clearly depicted in the most parts of the story.
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On Allen Ginsbergs Howl Literature Book Report/Review
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On Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’. Allen Ginsberg was a poet of the immediate, and his lesson, if there is one, is that there is a kind of rapture to be had from being completely present in the moment, from crying out in a primal but perceptive and intelligent way about the sanctity of personality and human freedom in the face of oppressive social and political forces.
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St. Augustines spiritual journey of divine reverence as evidenced in his Confessions Literature Essay
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St. Augustine of Hippo’s early years was marked by confusion and unscrupulous behaviour. As a result there was no scope for spiritual development. In his early youth he believed in the Manichaean religion which was full of superstition.
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Racial Identity, Space and Geography Operating within Girl and On Being Brought From Africa to America Literature Essay
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The essay shall focus on the thematic analysis of the short story, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and the poem, “On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley and judge the intricate relations between race, culture, identity, space and geography inherent and operational within the texts.
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Punishment by Rabindranath Tagore A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka Literature Research Paper
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According to the report Kafka wrote the fiction 'A Hunger Artist' out of the need to point out worker safety, for which he worked in his later years as well. The hunger artist had no other option to live his life than performing the art he knew to get the attention of people. The art no longer charmed people and his efforts went unnoticed later on.
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Editha - Whether the Author Harbored Misogynist Emotions Literature Essay
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It is this author’s understanding that the representation of Edith the within howls short story by the same name does not necessarily indicate the shape or form that Powell himself is a misogynist and/or a feature of women. The paper will present that this author deems to be a fair justification for Powell representing one type of woman and man.  
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Homer's Odysseus and Virgil's Aeneas Literature Essay
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Although the Roman culture indeed “borrowed” a great deal of mythological subject matter from the Greeks, they also engaged in their own interpretation with regards to the way in which humans interact with the Pantheon. As a microcosm of this differential, the following analysis will seek compare and contrast holders Odysseus and Virgil’s Aeneas.
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The Intergenerational Conflict Literature Essay
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Homer attempts to point the reader to the fact that even though Odysseus is able to grow and make use of the lessons that he has learned, Telemachus is little more than a petulant youth who, although strong in some aspects, does not engender the qualities of manhood that Odysseus is capable of representing.
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The Quest for St Aquin by Anthony Boucher Literature Essay
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The story begins with a scene of pope is sending Thomas out on a mission to look for the body of saint Aquin who had been a popular and powerful preacher. Pope hopes that the evidence of this purportedly indecomposable body can bring more converts into the church, which has being persecuted and forced to go underground.
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ENGL 402 assign 3 Literature Assignment
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The format comprises of various parts like the title page, abstract, table of contents, introduction, background, description of proposed research. It also includes elaborate information about the description of relevant institutional resource, list of references, personnel as well as the budget factor.
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Literary Devices Used by Edgar Allan Poe Literature Essay
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His work of poetry is still relevant today as it was during his time. The poem Raven is one of his most widely read works. This poem is in the form of a narration where the persona talks about his grief over the death of a beautiful woman. The main theme is undying devotion where the narrator experiences a conflict over the desire to let go of the grief.
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Overtones and Nuances of Auden, Blake, Browning, Dickinson, Harmon, and Hayden's Poetry Literature Literature review
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In comparing and contrasting six poems; tell all the Truth, but tell it slant, Those Winter Sundays, The Chimney Sweeper, the unknown citizen and the last duchess numerous stylistic and creation techniques are visible. The authors based their content of different ideas and content. Additionally, different themes are also displayed in the poems. 
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Allegories and Satire in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Literature Book Report/Review
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Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is described as a satire on human nature as a whole and a satire on Victorian traditions.  It is more than a child’s fantasy of a reversed and chaotic world. It is a socio-political satire on the conflict between the individual’s deepest consciousness and the actual world.
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What characteristics of Romanticism do you see in either Rip Van Winkle Literature Essay
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Romanticism in Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” In Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” several Romantic elements are exemplified – the hatred of industrialization, the emphasis on nature’s beauty, the inclination towards the supernatural, and the defiance of reason.
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Beowulf as a Good King Literature Essay
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The first of these is the identity of a warrior, and the second is the identity of a king. The debate continues to go on among reviewers as to whether or not Beowulf excelled in any of these two areas, and if he did, to which degree he excelled. In the current paper, the character of Beowulf as a king is critiqued.
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Significance Of Hamlets Ghost Scenes Literature Essay
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The ghosts in Hamlet can, however, be viewed as objective, as this paper continually tries to prove. At one point it is viewed as if the ghost is asking for relief from which it suffers. Id any ghost fails it is considered as the evil spirit, that of necessity it then has to be for anyone who does not accept Purgatory.
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Punishment by Rabindranath Tagore and The Conscience of the Court by Zora Neale Hurston Literature Research Paper
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The work that follows compares and contrasts the literary elements in ‘Punishment’ by Rabindranath Tagore and ‘The Conscience of the Court’ by Zora Neale Hurston based on plot, character, setting and theme with an aim of demonstrating the harsh conditions that the poor pass in the rural community.
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The Placement of Female Characters in Homer's The Odyssey Literature Essay
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A young Phaeacian princess named Nausicaa contributes greatly to bring Odysseus back home after she brings him to her father’s palace with his hopes of gaining a crew and a ship to Ithaca, which happened through divine intervention by Athena, Odysseus’ long-time goddess protector, and is discussed in Book 19.
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An Analysis of Fire and Ice Literature Essay
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Figuratively, fire and ice could refer to emotions. The Free Dictionary defines fire as “the burning intensity of feeling, ardor or enthusiasm. From the phrase, “From what I’ve tasted of desire”, it could be well understood that the term fire as used in the poem refers to such feelings.
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Three Themes from On the Road by Jack Kerouac Literature Book Report/Review
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There is much about the work of Jack Kerouac that is revolutionary and exhilarating at the same time, chief among them the sheer magic that can be had from reading something that seems so out of place with the conventional way that people of his time thought, acted and lived their lives. The first theme is the relationship between Sal and Dean.
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James Joyce Ulysses which aspects of the Bloom character are most apparent to you Literature Essay
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Perhaps, it is because of his representation of both the positive and negative attributes that he was called as such. Even in the initial passages of the Ulysses, one particular attribute of Bloom has already been revealed: he is a man of extreme and debauched appetite, as described by the following lines: “Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.
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The analysis of the poem Eating Poetry by Mark Strand Literature Essay
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One can see that the poet is interested in using metaphors to convey his messages to the readers. For instance, the process of eating is used as a metaphor that represents the problems faced by writers. The writer considers that his work must be experienced by the readers.
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Comparing Punishment by Tagore and The Conscience of the Court by Hurston Literature Research Paper
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This paper will compare two short stories written by different authors and in different placements. The stories are Punishment written by Rabindranath Tagore and The Conscience of the Court written by Zora Neale Hurston. The two stories have several features in common that therefore compel the comparison of how the authors use them in developing the conflicts, which sustain the story.
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Punishment by Tagore and The Conscience of the Court by Huston Literature Essay
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This paper is aimed to compare and contrast Tagore’s “Punishment” with Huston’s “The Conscience of the Court” on the bases of its major characters, themes, use of symbolism and settings of both stories. Themes are the essential part of storytelling which highlights the context of the story. However, in these stories, themes are significantly similar.
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Literature Essay
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The monster grows to despise itself and generates a lot of hatred toward its creator. In order to hurt him, the monster kills several people close to his creator, Victor, including his wife Elizabeth. The story is horrific in every sense of the word, and to have had such imaginations, Mary Shelley must have had various psychological issues.
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Literature of the African Diaspora Literature Essay
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One common Diasporic African theme in the magazine is racial discrimination, portrayed in Caryl Philips’ fiction about the West Indian. In this fiction, the West Indian sphere is a place where whites discriminate and belittle Diasporic Africans. In fact, the first-person narrator in the story does not want to have her luncheon near a black woman.
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Research poem for Sestina( Elizabeth Bishop) Literature Research Paper
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intersting! (Here is the link for the information ) The central theme of the poem deals with the feeling of loss stirred up within the kid and her grief stricken grandmother.
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Literature and Mythology Literature Essay
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In the story, Grendel the monster slew Beowulf. Then Grendel’s mother attacks He to avenge his death. This made Beowulf to destroy Grendel; he went into her lake-based home. Grendel mother sensed his presence; therefore, she attacked Beowulf and took him to her home.
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Literature of the African Diaspora Literature Essay
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Name: Instructor’s Name: Course: Date of Submission: Literature of the African Diaspora, Response Paper 1 The globalized notion of the African diaspora is a representation of multifaceted and multidimensional themes which essentially symbolize the development of the black identity through an understanding of historical contexts.
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Response to film Literature Movie Review
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These Negroes were then transported as slaves to America and were made to live and work in agonizing conditions (Tibbles, 37). However, most people have the perception that these slaves did nothing but their new master’s bidding, tried to survive in harsh conditions and did nothing to free themselves from these stubborn shackles.
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The Analysis of Mrs. Dalloway Literature Essay
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In other words, there seems to be specific motives that caused the characters to lead isolated lives. Clarissa refused to get married to Peter Walsh and got married to her husband Richard. Yet over seventeen years later, Peter visits Clarissa and all their talk revolves around their past.
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Oneness and Spiritual Healing and Growth in Winthrops A Model of Christian Charity Literature Essay
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Winthrop uses the Body of Christ as a model for perceiving others by answering questions that help them understand human oneness through their oneness with God. The context of Winthrop’s sermon is Christian charity and he answers several questions about charity and lending.
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The Use of Nature, Natural Images vs Industrial Objects in Romantic and Victorian Poetry Literature Research Paper
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From the earliest scriptural writings to contemporary poetry, nature is and was to enhance easier communication. Romantics and Victorians alike have employed nature in different ways. Similarly, manmade objects like iron hoes are employed as well especially by Victorians. This essay concentrates on the application or lack thereof of manmade objects and nature.
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Sizwe Bansi Is Dead by Athol Banzi Literature Essay
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Sizwe narrated to Styles his challenges of carrying the passbook. According to him, his passbook prevented him from working in Port Elizabeth since blacks were only restricted to work in their homelands. The dialogue also shows how the whites’ hostility towards blacks forced them to change their identity.
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Otherness Literature Research Paper
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We think we have arrived, only to discover we have actually fallen flat. The concept of ‘otherness’ is truly an us against the world mentality. When experienced, the individual often feels that they are fighting an uphill battle against society. This concept does not simply refer to an individual who is ‘different’ than everyone else, because that is simply not the case.
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The Address Book by Sophie Calle Literature Book Report/Review
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Is the hope of this author that such a level of analysis will be able to provide a firm understanding to the reader of whether or not this author agrees or disagrees with the prior quote which was provided from the critic Rozalia Jovanovic in “The Gallerist”.
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Dichotomiesas Used in Genesis Literature Essay
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The Old Testament reconciles the existence of dichotomies that may cause havoc (evil) or be balanced (to create peace, love, and creativity) in a number of ways. One of the ways is through issuing curses to the dichotomy that causes evil. When Cain killed Abel, he was cursed and made to be a wanderer of the earth.
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Why Guns Should Not Be Legal in the United States Literature Essay
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Why Guns should not be Legal in the United States. One essential aspect of a positive and civilized society is that in such a society the access to the means of death and destruction tends to be strictly controlled and regulated, and this access is facilitated by law to only a few select statutory agencies and organizations.
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Chinese Traditional Literature Literature Research Paper
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It is credited for transforming the ancient Chinese culture, but did also evolve with the changing Chinese dynasties and their social-political demands. The evolution has extensively altered the characteristics of the doctrine and facilitated different interpretations.
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Analysis of Chinese Literature Literature Research Paper
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Scholars who have contributed to the writing industry in China are Cao Cao the Warlord, Cao Pi the Crown Prince, and Tao Qian, the Master Five Willows. Their contribution to literature was influenced by the environment with which they were living and in most cases, applied their literacy skills to offer influence to the readers.
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Analysis of Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh Literature Essay
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The Syrian wants to fight for liberation, and the price is not being able to see his wife and kids. Zuhdi cannot share his frustrations with his family, and so he lets them out on an Israeli ending up alone in prison and no one is to provide for his family. Wild Thorns shows that solving internal and external conflicts needs a delicate balance.  
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Ozymandias and Those Winter Sundays Literature Research Paper
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The author uses refrain a special line that he repeats at the end of every stanza. The special line is part of the literary piece and is repeated as a means of stressing some of the most important messages in the piece and to help develop the structure of the poem. Ozymandias is the masterpiece that compares favorably with other modern day poems.   
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Eternal Themes in Sula by Toni Morrison Literature Book Report/Review
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The book Sula written by Toni Morrison is a story about the deep friendship between Nel and Sula from the Bottom. The book starts with the introduction of the character named Shadrack who returned from World War I. Then the story introduces the character of Nel’s mother, Helene Sabat, and her grandmother, Cecile.
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Collection Development Policy Literature Essay
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Subjects should be described in terms of a library’s or information unit’s subject descriptions and classification schemes, and the library unit or selector responsible for the collections. Narrative statements can also include useful information that relates to interdisciplinary relationships, policies for acquiring access to information, and consortial relationships.
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Sammy Is Determined to Achieve His Target at Any Cost Literature Essay
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The main character of the story appears to be its narrator Sammy. Sammy is a nineteen years old boy who is working as a checkout clerk at one of the grocery stores named A&P. The owner of the store happens to be an acquaintance of Sammy as well. Sammy, who has a very different view regarding life, happens to be sensitive enough to take sudden decisions based on random incidents of life.
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Liberal Theme in Matthew Arnolds and Marjane Satrapis Poetry Literature Essay
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His poem is mainly melancholic and portrays the poet’s somber feelings about how man will be negatively affected by his disregard of the basic tenets of the Christian religion. In Matthew Arnold’s society, the industrial revolution was already starting to bring different effects to society by re-defining the functions of social classes.
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African Diaspora Literature Essay
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Despite the variant backgrounds of the writers in the African diaspora, there are several recurring themes in the short stories examined herein. The major ones are male chauvinism and sexism which force the reader to question the perception the gender roles and why they are so slanted against women.
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