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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking and Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman Literature Essay
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Whitman’s comments regarding the fields and orchards in “Song of the Open Road” are actually very similar to comments made by Thoreau in his own book Walden. As Thoreau discusses the process of buying and then losing ownership of a farm, he illustrates the transcendental approach to the concept of possession.
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The Outsiders - a Documentation of Its Popularity Literature Essay
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What started as learning tools, eventually lead to hobbies, interests and long time love for reading. Most of the children’s books, classified as fiction, are clearly and concisely defined as “literary narratives, collectively, with imaginary characters or events, specifically novels and short stories. 
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Religion Myth and Magic in Fifth Business Literature Essay
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No form of religion but Christianity existed for him, and everything outside of a narrow range of Protestantism was mysterious: even the Anglicans are at the limit. These churches play no role in what might be called a spiritual life of Deptford. Rather, they are concerned with the merely social relations of their members.
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Detective Invertion in The Cask of Amontillado Literature Essay
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His Inspector Duplin was the original clue-assembling master of detection, solving baffling cases like The Purloined Letter, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue long before Sherlock Holmes or Hercules Poirot began to puzzle out flabbergasting mysteries — so perhaps it’s not surprising that Poe was also the first to deconstruct the detective story.
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A Story of Strength of Lakota Woman Literature Essay
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Although the Indians had already developed a complex intercultural confederation of nations before the white man’s arrival on the North American continent, they were quickly overpowered by the more significant numbers, unfamiliar diseases, tricky politics, and more advanced technology of these devils from across the sea.
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The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman Literature Essay
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Coulter who are actually Lyra’s parents seems to have a great influence on Lyra and she is capable of making smart decisions and learns things very quickly. She appreciates her acquaintance with John Faa who is the Lord of the Gyptians who teaches her how to interpret the responses from the ‘altimeter’ and also how to ask questions and get answers.
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Random Family by N. LeBlanc Critique Literature Book Report/Review
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It is a story about poverty and violence, drug-dealers, and young mothers in the Latino ghettos of the Bronx. The author of this book and an award-winning investigative journalist spent a decade living with a mixed group of Latinos of Bronx and recorded their lives. The result is a riveting account of the lives and travails of this motley group.
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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee Literature Essay
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The stories hold the mirror which provides an accurate view into traditional Chinese legal systems, method, and dispensation of justice, reformation attempts and the punishments meted out to the accused and the prisoners. How people felt assured about getting justice from the upright judges, who carried out their duties with ruthless efficiency. 
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The Shirley Letters: Life in a Mining Camp through the Eyes of a Protected Wife Literature Essay
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Life in California in the mid-nineteenth century was hard, especially for a delicately nurtured, upper-class girl from New England. There were prospectors and miners, and people who were pouring into the area to find gold. California, especially the mining area, was a male-dominated zone at the time.
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The Effect of Truth on the Protagonist Survival Literature Case Study
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The truth about the metamorphosis hits him when he finds that he has many legs that he waves in the air. Gregor is devastated when he becomes alienated from his family because he does not have the use of speech in his insect form. But one of the truths that remain is that his cognitive abilities remain intact but this is not revealed to his family.
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Facing Problems by Adolescents in The Lost World by Michael Chabon Literature Essay
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Nathan's anger also makes him go out drinking and all he could think about was the divorce: ”all along, step by step they had dismantled their marriage...at once so angry and nostalgic; and alcohol seemed to be doing the job” (Chabon 437). Indeed, such issue as parental divorce “can be stressful for adolescents”. 
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Specifically Feminine Desire of Louise Labe Literature Term Paper
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Labe is best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets in which she played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony. Her elegies, with lyrics skilfully composed, were an answer to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. She was revered, maligned, acclaimed as well as brushed aside all at once.
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Gender in Gothic Fiction Literature Essay
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This essay discusses that Gothic literature during this era addressed people’s anxiety over the change in social and political structure. Gothic literature represented fears about what may possibly happen, what could possibly go wrong, and what might as well be lost by continuing along the course of the political, societal, and theological revolution.
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The Burgermeister's Daughter by Steven Ozment Literature Book Report/Review
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 You have, perhaps, never heard a discussion or sermon on the topic, “Men-their role in the society. The discussion is always about women. Men have, perhaps, no role! The arguments on giving equal rights to women have been going on unabated since time immemorial. How can one give equal rights to women? 
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Julia as the Only Point of Relief and Contrast against the Horror of the Orwells 1984 Literature Essay
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Julia in Orwell’s narrative represents the figure, which is capable of resettling human existence. In the 1984 society that flow is stagnant. Julia, representation of womanhood in the world has the capacity of opening the barriers against that flow and brings back the spontaneity of life, creativity and the essence of universal brotherhood. 
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Concepts of Fortune and Virtue in the Machiavellis Prince Literature Book Report/Review
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There is the other example of Agathocles that draws a clear demarcation between moral virtue and virtue as a skill. Machiavelli describes Agathocles as a man who “always kept a life of crime at every rank of his career” (Machiavelli 47). But the author asserts that all of his deeds had been accompanied by “virtue of spirit and body”.
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Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg Literature Book Report/Review
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In the modern world, popular literature has become the centre of focus in many of the important and energetic debates and the poems of Allen Ginsberg offer an effective example of popular literature or the requisition of popular literature into more elite literary forms. To comprehend popular literature, one needs to realise what popular means as well as what literature means.
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Analysis of Frankenstein by Shelly the Edition and Introduction by McGrath Literature Book Report/Review
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The monster is angry, is engulfed in self-pity, its inner life stands devastated. When one faces such grim experiences, one becomes cynical; any ghastly crime can happen through that individual.  Crime is committed in the abnormal state of the mind, where one acts at the spur of the moment, without rhyme or reason. The monster precisely acts thus.  
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Regionalism in Country of the Pointed Firs by Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett Literature Book Report/Review
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Jewett’s depiction of men cannot be described as callous, but she does not hold back from displaying their social ineptitude. The men in town, displaced by the advent of modernization, spend most of their time reminiscing about the past because they miss their active seafaring lives, and have nothing to move on to and because they are old.
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A Brief Background on Watchmen Literature Assignment
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According to the paper, The paperback edition of the novel would win the Hugo award and would appear on one of Time’s list of the 100 best English-language novels, the only graphic novel to achieve either honor.  The book is set in 1985, in an alternate history of the United States where the country was edging closer to a nuclear war with the SU.
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Metaphors: Constructing Meanings Literature Article
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The simple definition of metaphor states that it is a figure of speech, generally a phrase that is used to describe the meaning of a more real but unrelated word. In other words, metaphors can compare unrelated subjects without using comparative terms ‘like’ or ‘as’. Wikipedia gives a clear definition of metaphors - “Metaphor is a language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects.” 
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Female Roles in Othello Literature Essay
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Desdemona continues to be treated as property by her husband Othello, who makes the decision whether she will go to Cyprus, and when and with whom, without even consulting her. When viewed in conjunction with the sexual categorization and demands for obedience, this patriarchy seals the fate of women to that of slaves.
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Ideas Regarding Identity Literature Case Study
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The boys in the story were once young men dreaming of adventure and perhaps even glory as they risked their lives to save those of their fellow soldiers, but now they are simply trying to survive from one moment to the next, trying and failing to forget the weight of their burden as they attempt to redefine themselves based on their new knowledge not only of themselves.
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Sweet Potato Pie by Eugenia Collier Literature Admission/Application Essay
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  The mother and family work unbelievable hard for their children; the older children basically have to raise the younger ones because there is no one around.  One of the most striking characters in the story “Sweet Potato Pie,” is Charley, the oldest brother of the narrator. 
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Hamlet is Finally a Hero Literature Literature review
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Hamlet is perhaps more decisive as the play progresses, but his maturity is something that appears to be relative. He certainly appears more mature than Laertes, who is also depicted as avenging his father’s death, but in an entirely different situation that would be likely to earn much less empathy from the audience.
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The Hamon and The Beans Critique Literature Essay
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Located near the town is a fort named Fort Jones, and this setting as well the locations described in the story tie in with the author's hometown as well as the fort near his house that was used to keep soldiers while the Mexican American war was taking place and then the fort became a border post that housed soldiers (Saldívar, 2006).
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Central Themes of The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Literature Book Report/Review
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Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” begins with the benevolent and innocuous description of a nondescript village, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. The birds are singing and the townspeople are gathering for some unknown purpose. Meanwhile, the sun is shining and the sky is clear. For many of us, nothing could be better: a sense of small-town community on a beautiful summer morning.
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Plato and Derrida's Contribution to Literature Literature Essay
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Literature is the common uniting thread that has enabled the transmission of complex ideas on philosophy and justice. Plato’s work “The Republic” contains some of the most profound ideas about the constituents of a just society while Derrida’s work “Demuerre” offers big insights into writing as a factor influencing the transmission of ideas. 
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Stokers Dracula Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Dracula travels from Transylvania to London to find the young woman who is the double image of the love he lost centuries earlier. The novel is one of the most evocative and frightening of the period. It is especially adaptable to film and is the antecedent of dozens, if not hundreds, of spin-off films and novels.
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Discovering the Tragic Hero Literature Coursework
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To compare the tragic heroes of the ancients with those of the modern, it is possible to turn to Miller’s example of Willy Loman, who bears many of the same character traits and participates in the same direction of movement as Oedipus without the noble stature. “Willy Loman is clearly not the usual tragic hero; he is lower middle class and none too clever.
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Cultural Transformations in The Jungle Literature Book Report/Review
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Indeed the conflicts between the past cultural values of the Jurgis family and the circumstance-driven cultural transformations make the best part of the novel. The mainstream of transformations of culture in the novel lies in the thread of how the exuberant and exotic spirit of Lithuanian culture yields to the lethargy of the concrete jungle of an industrial society.
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Sophocles: Oedipus Rex Literature Book Report/Review
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 In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus is the central hero around which the whole play revolves. Even though he commits some of the most dreadful acts, yet there is no getting away from the fact that he is the one who saved the people of Thebes from ruin. Therefore, it is befitting to call him a hero, even though he had to pass through pain and devastation to achieve it.
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Shelleys Use of Masculine and Feminine Roles Literature Essay
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In addition, the theme of knowledge leading to destruction is probably coming from the influence of the Church. Women at their time are more religious than men, being intellectually limited in society, while men tend to be more scientific in approach. Thus, this book places a limitation on what is man’s domain, and what is God’s domain.
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Early Chapters of Genesis Literature Literature review
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The Bible was not written for scholars alone, however, but to meet the spiritual needs of all people. These passages from Genesis are often seen just as a description, perhaps wrong, of the creation process. However, if they are considered as being a consideration of the relationship between God and his creation and in particular with mankind, then a whole new dimension emerges.
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The Theme of Oppression and Repression by Tyrannical Bernarda Literature Essay
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The play “The House of Bernarda Alba” can be interpreted on versatile points of view. Lorca himself sees the play along with the trilogy of “Blood Wedding” and “Yerma” as the tragic life of Spanish Women. But the play has a universal appeal rather than its national implications. All of these three plays of the trilogy deal various aspects of Spanish women.
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The Character of Beatrice and Lady Macbeth by Shakespeare Literature Essay
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In the play, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as an ambitious woman, a woman desperate to gain power through her husband, desperate enough to resort to the evil deed of murder. The plunge into evil itself strips her of her feminine qualities and pushes her into the world of violence and aggressiveness that was the province of the males during the Elizabethan era.
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Relationships in Women in Love Novel Literature Term Paper
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The relationship between the two is described in very natural, sensual language: “Gerald glanced at him, and saw him, his suave, golden colored body with the black hair growing fine and freely, like tendrils, and his limbs like smooth plant-stems” (137). He was so healthy and well-made, why did he make one ashamed, why did he feel repelled? 
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The Return of the Native Critique Literature Book Report/Review
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The description of Egdon portrays the narrator’s point of view - a vast claustrophobically preventing the reader from attempting to provide changes. Edgon is, therefore, referred to as a static changeless place that encompasses time - time that narrates the only changes of the sun and seasons wherein humanity becomes history.
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The Theme of the Traitor and Hero by Borges Literature Book Report/Review
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Borges would have loved the internet. There he would have found a realization—in digital if not physical form—of the "The Library of Babel" with all of the knowledge of human civilization spread out in an endless array; but not quite all: the items that one wants most are hidden behind the tantalizing wall of Google Booksearch's snippet preview.
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Conrad's Heart of Darkness Literature Book Report/Review
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 Conrad leads the reader on a path of discovery so that he can reach similar conclusions on his own. One tool that Conrad uses to accomplish this is the use of various narrative devices. This has long been observed, and it has been suggested that the variation of Conrad's narrative technique from straight-forward discourse helps to destabilize the cultural assumptions that supported colonialism.
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The Civil War Literature Book Report/Review
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Rawley’s arguments regarding Bleeding Kansas are used as a basis from which to highlight the extent to which race has played a role in shaping American politics. Rawley’s book not only re-evaluates commonly accepted theory on Bleeding Kansas and the Civil War by highlighting the importance of race; it goes further than existing literature in this area by going beyond a mere narration of events.
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Treat Children with a Source of Information Literature Term Paper
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Children’s literature though is not considered serious stuff, but it is this literature that develops a child’s brain to think of right and wrong.  Not just is children’s literature a base for children in which later rests their morals and their thoughts but it is a powerful tool for children with severe and chronic diseases to overcome their weaknesses.
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The Representation of Nature in the Poems 'Spring' and The Prelude Literature Literature review
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The poem is to record experience from Words Worth’s past and testing the philosophical and psychological importance and relationship to the society and to nature’ Wordsworth himself declared as his autobiographical poem and also considered as a long lyric poem in English literature. 
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French Literature: Albert Camus Literature Term Paper
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In some ways, this reminds the reader of an individual who is too drugged out to care about his or her circumstances and can respond to reality only with cliché. Indeed, the void at the center of the man called Meursault, the lack of emotional dynamism or indeed emotional response at all, might call into question Camus’ philosophy. 
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Sin and Salvation in Hamlet Literature Research Paper
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The mainstay or theme around which the play revolves is the act of murder which is a cardinal sin and one committing such a horrific deed cannot hope for salvation. Looking at the play in the context of its
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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Literature Book Report/Review
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The author is also known for her close relationship with Charlotte Bronte’ and her works often closely resemble the writing style of Bronte’ sisters. In this particular instance, the author has brilliantly portrayed the burgeoning love saga of the protagonists against class differences during the industrial revolution.
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Summaries of Each Scene Acts I-V of the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Literature Essay
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Portia’s case against Shylock begins with the assertion that Shylock is within his legal rights in demanding that Antonio pay a pound of flesh. By doing this, she gains Shylock’s trust because she is the only person willing to see things the way he does, through the strict interpretation of the law. 
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Brother, Im Dying by Edwidge Danticat Literature Book Report/Review
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The story revolves around the life of two men close to the author – her father and her uncle. The book is a true to life story of two men’s lives and deaths, and of a daughter’s great love for both of them. Danticat narrates the story of starting a new life in a new country while anxious for the safety of those still in Haiti as the political situation worsens. 
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Mark Twain and a Common Message of the Importance of Independent Thinking Literature Essay
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To ‘mark twain’ is to sound the depths and deem them safe for passage, the term adopted by Clemens as his pen name in 1863” (Merriman, 2006). A humorist, a philosopher, a lecturer, an essayist and a writer of stories and poems, Twain infused his stories with a call to a higher understanding, urging his readers to plunge the depths of their understanding.
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John Dos Passoss Representation of Women in U.S.A. Trilogy Literature Essay
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The author states that one of the essential influences of these formal intricacies is to give out a sense of the infinite probabilities of the point of view, of character, of the chronicler, or spectator, of the past. Paradoxically, it appears that this feature of the U.S.A trilogy has been suppressed even by those who have commemorated it.
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