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Macbeth monologue Literature Essay
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In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, figurative language is effectively used in the latter part of Act I, Scene 3 in order to denote the true gravity of the exchange that takes place between the two generals and the three witches. Even though both men were brave and unshakeable in battle, each became fearful and emotionally disturbed from the prophetic messages that they were given during their encounter with the foreboding women on a tumultuous night in the moor.
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Stanford Prison Experiment Literature Assignment
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In order to develop the ethical rigor of the experiment, the researchers “followed the guidelines of the Stanford human subjects ethics committee that approved” the experiment (O’Toole, 1997). This means that an independent board reviewed the goals and conditions of the experiment and did not anticipate any harm that would occur to the participants.
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'The Kray Sisters' and 'Standing Female Nude' Poems Literature Coursework
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As a contemporary, I clearly think that Carol Ann Duffy furthers this cause in her poems The Kray Sisters and Standing Female Nude. She may be termed as being postmodern philosophically, but not artistically, therefore, apprehension thus ensues amid the conventional form as well as the politicized content.
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Male, Female, and beyond Gender: An Analysis of One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest Literature Essay
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True to its setting, Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest presents a chaotic portrayal of our society as a world of madness, where gender is stereotyped to assign specific roles and grant us individual characters, such that men and women are expected to adhere to their respective “masculine” and “feminine” nature.
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Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Literature Essay
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The very first person Dante encountered within the Inferno is the distinguished Roman poet of B.C. era i.e. Virgil, who would serve Dante’s guide to Inferno, and would lead him towards all the nine circles. Since Virgin was born several decades before Jesus Christ, he is certainly a non-believer of the Christian faith.
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Valley of the Wind and Other Manga Readings Literature Essay
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As has always been the case against all forms of gender disparity, the writer notes of how attempts were made to integrate girls into this whole saga of Manga and thus the opening of the closed world of Shoio Managa.
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Romanticism in America Literature Essay
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The ideals and thoughts of Romanticism reached America and its writers in the nineteenth century. Romanticism in America was often the product of the transcendentalism that was also a feature of the American philosophical landscape during the nineteenth century. Writers were influenced by this school of thought and it reflected in their writings. 
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Henry IV-Falstaff's Verbal Expansiveness Literature Essay
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He swears at the Prince and Pons warning them that he would defeat the king and chase him out of his kingdom. His verbal expansiveness is evident right from the beginning and slowly develops with time in due course of progress of the scene. Falstaff has a very convincing way of speaking.
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The House on Mango Street by Cisneros Sandra Literature Essay
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The first device is a symbol. The first symbolic figure in the book is a shoe. It has been used to serve the purposes of evoking sex and adult and feminity images. In the case of Esperanza, the shoes serve the main role of illustrating the conflict she experiences between her independent desire and her emerging sexual attractiveness.
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A Comparison between the Dark Knight Movie and Good Country People Literature Essay
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A Comparison between the “Dark Knight Movie” and “Good Country People” The dark knight movie is based on a comic book which debut in 1940 called the Long Halloween. This movie is directed by Christopher Nolan and follows the previous movie called the Batman Begins which was filmed in the year 2005.
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Poetic devices in the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Literature Essay
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Literally, the poem, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost talks about a traveler who comes across a Y junction. There are two roads of nearly the same quality though one has used just a little bit more by travelers before but that morning, neither of the two roads had been used. The traveler, for a while cannot decide on which of the two roads to take: “…long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth” (Frost, 2012).
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Drama: Domestic Tragedy Literature Essay
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In English phonology, tragedy refers to a disastrous event which results in a negative consequence like injury or even loss of life. Within the literature element of drama, tragedy refers to a literary work where the main character undergoes distress, suffering or death at the end of a play.
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The Ethical Questions of Duty Literature Essay
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So when our duty to the law, to our beliefs, is contrary to the duty to the family we can be caught in be brought to an emotional and ethical conundrum that is at the core of many great stories. Antigone, Abraham, and Medea are exceptional examples of when the question of duty is resting at a crossroads between family and the rest of the world we live in.
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Ideas of Uncertainty within Rilke's Literature Essay
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The poem as a whole is a shaped one. We can see that this was intentional because of the way Rilke repeats the word “enough” (Rilke, I Am Too Much Alone, www.poets.org, 2001) yet leaves it on a separate line, in order to make the appearance fragmented, and draw attention, not only to this word in particular, but also to these few lines of the first stanza.
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Loyalty in King Lear Literature Essay
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The researcher states that loyalty is one of the most important themes of the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, since the plot is fundamentally shaped by Lear’s attempt to judge the loyalty of his daughters towards himself. The author thinks that Lear’s way of judging the love and loyalty of his daughters for him is shallow and unsophisticated.
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Assignment 2: Project Paper Literature Assignment
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The Courtier states “I wish our courtier be of gentle race and be nobly born; . . . given that noble is perceive as and really is like a bright light that distinguishes and makes plain both wicked and good actions” ( Sayre, The Perfect Courtier, para 4, retrieved from Earenyeka’s essay 2012 ).
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Common Themes in Robert Frosts Poetry Literature Essay
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We see therefore that Frost has certain common elements in his poems: his humanist concerns, his use of the first-person narrative as a contrapuntal voice, his rich imagery drawn from nature, his use of a simple surface-level narrative to hide a deeper meaning. Each of these indicates the poet’s thoughtful, humane and introspective outlook that comes across in his work as well.
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Voltaires Book Candide: the Sufferings of the People Literature Research Paper
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The main character in this book “Candide ” is portrayed as a man of sufficient determination amidst disillusionment in the entire book. His life is described from a premature background as struggling to chart his destiny despite the many pitfalls on his way. Candide is said to have been forced to join the Bulgarian army when found lost.
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My Weary Blues by Langston Hughes Literature Essay
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This research will begin with the statement that of the vast number of literary works that have since flourished different cultures of the world and enriched various minds heretofore, the researcher must confess having had a deep appreciation of poetries especially those that depict the essence of understanding history with respect to the issue of race and color.
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Women and the Society as Presented in Frankenstein by Mary Shelly Literature Research Paper
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Mary Shelley has also used another female character, Margaret Seville, to show how men take control of their women in the family institution. Being submissive to men and respecting all their decisions without objection. Mary tries to show how any male-dominated society fails to consider women’s role and view on factors affecting the whole society.
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Biography to Eleonora Duse Literature Research Paper
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She lived in poverty during the early years of her life, and this phase was to her, a great teacher. Duse had no formal education and her learning came from her mother Angelica. She performed her first role, that of Cosette, in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables at the tender age of four, when the Duse family troupe performed the play.
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The Narrators Voice and Race Relations: A Synthesis of Three Stories Literature Literature review
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 All of them speak of seemingly ordinary and innocuous occurrences from daily life but have a universal message on the differences between human beings and both the bridges and the walls that we construct daily in the course of our interactions with each other.
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Carmen (1845) novella by Prosper Mrime Literature Book Report/Review
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Although they all meet at different times and under different circumstances, their stories intertwine to give rise to the author’s narration. This essay seeks to examine how the author incorporates his thoughts and attitudes into the characters within the novella, judging by the information contained in the appendix.
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The Gwendolyn Brooks Poems Literature Essay
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The sequence of "A Street in Bronzeville” poems vividly explains Gwendolyn Brook’s theory that challenges and obstacles encumber the person’s hopes of fulfilling one’s dreams of equally better community life. These obstacles, however, may be related to a person’s financial status, gender, sexual orientation, age group, or any other factor.
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The Unique Aspects of Popular Culture Literature Essay
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The true reason for the NATO intervention in Libya had little if anything to do with humanitarian rights. Rather, as this writer became aware, the ultimate causation was Old European powers along with their American counterparts realizing that there was a fundamental weakness exhibited in the aging leadership of a very wealthy North African nation.
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Frankenstein versus Dantes Inferno Literature Essay
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In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, there are some intertextual references that aid the reader in better appreciating the narrative and it is connections to other installations (Shelly, 2009). There are palpable references in the narrative, such as the one on the heading page; Frankenstein (Ruthwell, 2010).
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Salem Witch Trials Literature Book Report/Review
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The play ‘The Crucible’ is a classical drama that was written in the 1950s by the author Arthur Miller. The setting of this drama is in Salem, Massachusetts, and it dates back to 1692. The setting is in Puritan only societies who were known to be very religious. However, there was a practice of witchcraft which was not acceptable.
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A Literary Analysis of the Supernatural from a Sociological Point of View Literature Research Paper
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Dracula, one of the most renowned novels by Bram Stoker is not just a piece of everyday fiction but rather contains an entire generation in itself that incorporates various famous beliefs, thoughts, ideas that are belonging to the Victorian time period. In this novel, the author Bram Stoker draws a detailed picture of what society looked like in his generation.
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Importance of Setting to the Hound of the Baskervilles Literature Essay
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Importance of Setting to the Hound of the Baskervilles In Arthur Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, the atmosphere is characterized by attributes which conform to those of a detective at work. The novel, therefore, has a mystic and scary sensation, which is intended to build the reader’s tension and excitement thus making this literary work intriguing.
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Eileen Chang: Represntative of the Modern Chinese Literature Literature Essay
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This essay explores the Chinese modern literature based on such novels of Eileen Chang as Golden Cangue, Dilemmas, Love in a fallen City, Idealism and others. Writer’s works are full of metaphors and symbolism. Some of her novels were filmed. Eileen Chang talks about human feelings in her works, about the relationship between people.
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Trifles by Susan Glaspell Literature Essay
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“Trifles” is a drama about the marital conflict between a couple, Mr. Wright and Mrs. Wright, leading to the murder of the former. Investigations are carried out to identify the alleged murderer by the local legal authorities and the astute women friends of the Wright family.  What is the reason for the serious differences between the bard-like Mrs. Write and the hard-hearted Mr. Wright?
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A Father and Son Reunion on the Way to the Abyss Literature Assignment
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Nick, though more watchful and diffident and suffering from the ravages of his father's neglect, has very destructive behavioural patterns; albeit these patterns are presented as much milder than his father's. Olivia Thirlby is Nick's one-time lover, closest friend, and co-worker who also witnesses Nick's struggle with moral addictions.  
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain Literature Essay
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This story made Mark Twain famous, because it already reflected his unique humor that had been formed gradually in his previous stories. The humor of Mark Twain represents unique and at the same time real American fictional phenomenon. Twain became uninterested in traditional American humor that attracted the attention of the people, who were not too unpretentious in literature.
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Sherlock Holmes and Detective Fiction Literature Essay
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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author Arthur Doyle and he is a famous and immensely successful fictional detective with many successful stories in his name. This detective story is considered to be amongst the greatest detective stories of the modern times and his abilities border great fantasies.
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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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The Things They Carried Literature Term Paper
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The analysis concluded that the writer’s approach is a fusion of facts and fiction to grab the attention and interest of the readers. The writer has used a frank and matter-of-factly tone throughout the story and uses his creative imagination and power on language to keep the readers engrossed until the end.
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Comparison and Contrast of Lives The Lottery by Chris Abani and The lottery by Shirley Jackson Literature Essay
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In conclusion, the two“lotteries” are each significant in their own ways and the underlying similarities between them are undeniable. However, a critical examination of the contents and the writers’ different backgrounds and motivations leave little doubt that to a large extent the commonalities are coincidental.
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Tragedy of Macbeth Literature Essay
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However, an embrace of the convectional concept is evident where more weight is given to famous and influential individuals across the world. Shakespeare’s play Macbeth is a classical tragedy that depicts events and actions by humans of distinction in the society in specific places of high regard.
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The Use of Sound Effects in the Production of a Film Literature Essay
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The music and the sound effects that are incorporated play an integral part in this experience. Sophisticated sound technology and approaches are used in contemporary documentaries, matching those of feature films. Well-recorded original location sound is crucial in documentary films, more so than in feature films where ADR techniques are regular used in postproduction.
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Comparison of Hamlet move to Hamlet original play Literature Movie Review
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A very typical example of this is Hamlet, which has both a play version and a movie version. The work was however originally written as a play by William Shakespeare. In 2000, Michael Almereyda made a film version of the play, the two of which has their similarities and differences.
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The Wife of Bath's Tale as a Counter-Version of the Arthurian Romance Tradition Literature Research Paper
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The wife of Bath and Tales from Chaucer’s Canterbury is one of the foremost literary works from the medieval period and the main character “The wife” (Alison) is arguably one of the most extensively discussed and studied women characters. Her attributes sharply contrast with the submissive and docile nature that was characteristic of women in that particularly patriarchal historical period.
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We All Belong to a Particular Class Literature Essay
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Conflict is any form of disagreement that may occur between two or more parties, for various reasons. People often fail to agree on a number of factors because they have different views and opinions about the said factors. Conflict is also another factor that is affected by the existence of social classes.
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Schenck versus United States Literature Essay
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Critiques have pointed out Dos Passos leanings towards socialism and his sympathy towards the “common man” as opposed to the privileged in society. This aspect of the author is crucial because it is evident that he sees freedom of speech as one whose tenets largely derive from the ideologies of the affluent in society and mainly for their benefit.
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Biography of Edgar Allan Poe Literature Research Paper
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He is most likely responsible for our culture’s fascination with death, the macabre, and the mysterious. His life seemed to parallel many of the themes he wrote about, with his many losses of significant women in his life, which inspired his works, even up to his bizarre, mysterious, and explained death.
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Women - Japanese Picture Bride Literature Essay
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Women - Japanese Picture Bride. In the first part of the paper that I have written, there were comparisons drawn among the level of life led by the Japanese, Korean and Filipino women immigrants in U.S and how they are compared to that of the Americans’.
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Hawthorne and Irving Literature Book Report/Review
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Also, we are able to know how the authors maintained their distinct styles and approaches despite the fact that American English literature had yet not ripened enough by that time. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving are two reputable and influential authors of that time, whose contributions are extremely relevant even today.
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The Modern Dance and Alvin Ailey Literature Essay
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Dance is a significant source that can facilitate in marking out the history of any society, culture, or nation. The olden times reveal the facts that dance is a form that dates back centuries, but the emergence of modern dance came into existence in the latter nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Issues with the Criminal Justice System Literature Essay
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The advocates of capital punishment can provide evidence for the positive effect of the death penalty. On the other hand, the death penalty's challengers also have many reasons why it is ineffective in preventing crimes. Some studies also show the ineptitude of capital punishment as a means of preventing crime.
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Analysis of the Poem The Waste Land by T S Eliot Literature Essay
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T S Eliot, a winner of the coveted Nobel Prize in 1927, is one the most controversial and acclaimed poets of the twentieth century. The publication of The Waste Land (1922), an elusive and obscure poem, which symbolizes the disappointment and disgust of the post-war generation, has made him a celebrity.
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Reflect upon and discuss comfusionism vs taoism Literature Essay
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Countries like China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam have been greatly influenced by Confucianism while some of them took up this system as state religion. At the same time, Taoism is a quasi-scientific and religious concept that notably influenced the living of East Asian people for more than 2,500 years.
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