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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Literature Book Report/Review
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There is little action in the play and it is a comedy because of the dialogues written by Oscar Wilde. While reading the play, the absurdity of the situations is felt such as Gwendolen’s promptness in accepting Jack’s proposal, Cecily’s falling in love with Algernon before his actual appearance, and the attraction of the girls for the name, “Ernest
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Everyday Use by Alice Walker and Im Still Here by Langston Hughes Literature Book Report/Review
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The poem is quite short but it’s much more revealing. The speaker of the poem informs about the oppression that he has faced because of race. He says that he has faced many hardships in his life because of his being different in color. He suffers all kinds of difficulties in his life but he is still hopeful and recognizes his survival.
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A Rose for Emily and This Land Is Your Land Literature Book Report/Review
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While reading the story, the thing that first confused me a little was that- who is this ‘we’ narrating the story? I came to the conclusion that the narrator of the story might be the people living around Emily, that is, the public. The timeline of the story is also a bit puzzling. The plot of the story has a strangeness.
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Johnny Panic and The Bible of Dreams Literature Assignment
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Sylvia has, basically, tried to portray the fear nurturing in the heart of the narrator- fear of being led and controlled by foreign supremacy or, more specifically, by male chauvinism, and fear of not being able to fit in the typical society. This fear leads Sally to make up her own dreams and copy other people’s dreams too.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Literature Book Report/Review
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The paper observed is a near-future novel and grim in nature that displays the exaggerated trends in American life that were more prevalent during the closing quarter of the 1980s and early 90s. Fear of crime, the rise, and evolutions of gated communities, use of designer drugs, and fast-spreading of drug addiction, ignorance, and illiteracy are a few of the central issues dealt with in the novel.
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Luigi Pirandellos Six Characters in Search of An Author Literature Essay
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Pirandello and the director want to challenge the viewer’s sense of self and make a point about madness- that if the product of creativity is mad, then we ourselves must be mad, too.  A scene that specifically underlines this point stood out in my mind and continues to make light of the nuances of this famous work is the scene in the beginning, establishing the situation. 
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Thoughts of Former Times at Mian-Chi Literature Book Report/Review
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The social role of literary composition for Tang and Song poets was privileged. These poets spent time writing, not working in the fields. Generally many worked in royal houses. The fact that Su Shi can answer his brother in a poem about a past incident shows the favor of the social literary role of these poets.   
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Esoteric Taoism: Li Bai and Du Fu Literature Assignment
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Tonight if we should hear the willow-breaking song,who could help but long for the gardens of home?  This is a more realistic poem than the fantasy Li Bai is known for. Li Bai is known for fantastical poems that transcend earthly concerns. Since he was reportedly a drunk, some of these fanciful poems might have been written influence.
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Great Expectations: Motives of Mrs Joe and Estella towards Pip Literature Essay
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Mrs. Joe’s treatment of Pip is rather nasty and cruel, for we do not see a single moment where she has talked to Pip with love and care, the things Pip wants the most. She feels that after their parent’s death she was forced to raise and take care of Pip against her will. Her motive, therefore, is to show that she cares the least for Pip and that she never wanted to take the burden of him.
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Torquato Tasso Literature Assignment
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All the sites provided valuable information about the author, Torquato Tasso.  The sites provided great information on how the author achieved elite status in literature within his short span of life. The video presented on Youtube showed the scope of the composition and the talent shown by the author. It had the depth to be provided as a basis for so many variations for it.
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The Monk Who Sold the Ferrari by Robin Sharma Literature Book Report/Review
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The Monk who sold the Ferrari (Robin Sharma, 1999) is the book that made me realize the depth behind the saying by Mr. R.D. Cumming ‘a good book has no ending’. This amazing leadership guru enlightens about a step-by-step system that will build loyalty, trust, commitment, and the spirit within your organization by transforming lives and leadership.
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What Happens to Mathilde in The Diamond Necklace by Guy de Maupassant Literature Book Report/Review
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Summing up, one can see that daydreaming about a prosperous life may not help one to attain the same. Instead, it may lead one to suffer more. The pathetic story of Mathilde Loisel and her husband proves this fact. I like to read fiction because it helps me to unleash my imagination. When I watch a drama the scope of imagination is limited because I am attending a live show. 
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The Story of an Hour and Girl Literature Assignment
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My initial reaction to "Girl" was, "What is the purpose of this story?" My first reaction to "The Story of an Hour" was that it was a beautiful story. I did not like "Girl" because it did not have anything interesting in it and it seemed more like someone's "to do" list. I could not relate to the main character because they had no substance.
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A Rose for Emily and How to Date a Browngirl Literature Personal Statement
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Everyone thought her suitor had left her but the implication is that she killed him and kept his corpse with her. The story was very good and the ending was a surprise.       I also liked " How to Date a Brown girl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie" because it was funny. It was also sad because it pointed out the poverty that the narrator was in and how it affected him.
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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban Literature Book Report/Review
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In the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third installment to the series, this is especially highlighted particularly since Voldermort, for the first time, did not dominate much of the conflicts. Harry Potter, in The Prisoner of Azkaban, was growing up and he had to deal with the issues that confront his being a wizard and his life with his muggle family.
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The Rainmaker by John Grisham Literature Essay
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The insurance company had health insurance schemes in force but at the time of requirement, the insurance company declined to address any of the claims for one reason or the other. Such an incident led to the death of Donny Ray as the Great Benefit Life Insurance did not pay his family the sum assured of $ 200,000 that could have his bone marrow operated on and could save his life.
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The Casque of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, and A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Literature Essay
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The Casque of Amontillado tells the story of two friends, Montresor and Fortunato. Montresor leads Fortunato to his unfortunate death in the cellars of the Montresor manor. Montresor was once deeply offended by Fortunato for an unknown reason. Both murders are similar because Montresor and Emily both killed another man for their own selfishness and the murders were pre-meditated.
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To the Other Woman: Stop Deceiving Yourself and Get on with Your Life Literature Assignment
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According to Livingstone, these women take pride in the idea that they are acting as men’s rescuers from domestic and marital problems. For providing comfort and escape from the troubles at home or at the workplaces, they have seen themselves as better lovers than the wives themselves. However, Livingstone also pointed out what she perceived as the facts behind these women’s facades.
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Punishment to Fit the Crime: Dantes Contrapasso Literature Essay
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Longfellow, one of the translators of Dante’s Divina Commedia,  translated the word Contrapasso as Counterpoise (Dante, Longfellow and Pearl 2003), but perhaps Counter-Pace is a more accurate word made up by this student. It takes in the concept that when Dante’s characters reached Hell, they had to travel in a contrary direction to how they operated in life.
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Montaignes Constraints: A Renaissance View of the Noble Savage Literature Essay
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The way the ‘natives’ organize themselves is what he likes best: the way they have no formal ways of documenting and none of the modern trappings of contracts and laws. He reasons that because of this they have fewer disagreements. He admires their wooden tools and lack of metal. He likes their temperate ways, which he describes in a Utopian way, and their arrangements of longhouses and hammocks.
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The Raven by Robert DiYanni Literature Book Report/Review
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The narrator is seen initially in the story as someone who is studying as if trying to forget unpleasant thoughts by burying his head in books and tales of forgotten times.  He seemed to be a haunted man at the beginning of the poem, a man mourning the loss of his love, whom he never expected to see again. 
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Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Literature Book Report/Review
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While she has two friends there – Doreen and Betsy – she is unable to enjoy herself. She questions her existence and the meaning of the internship and her accomplishments. This line of thinking characterizes Esther throughout the majority of the novel. She has an encounter with a man that fails, and then later goes on a date with another man who attempts to rape her.
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Immense Hate That Is Filled within the Person Literature Assignment
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The wife in the story is doing everything possible for her to remain loyal and in hand with his needs and requirements. The wife is indeed a sign of love and trust which the husband has perhaps forgotten with the passage of time. The wife is being taken for granted and it is not due to any mistake of hers.  
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Popular Film and Television Comedy by Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik Literature Book Report/Review
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One of the important chapters of the book Popular Film and Television Comedy by Steve Neale and Frank Krutnik has been “Hollywood, comedy, and The Case of Silent Slapstick”, in which the authors place comedy within the general aesthetic and industrial establishment of classical -and pre-classical -Hollywood cinema.
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1984 by George Orwell Literature Essay
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To incorporate the autocratic party system in original life would be always disturbing. Every individual has the right and a space of his own. A similar kind of rule implemented holistically in society would be always disturbing. A similar fashion of life would also kill the diversity completely and this phenomenon is quite annoying.
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George Washington's Farewell Address Literature Essay
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Washington suggests that the US should avoid long-term military alliances with other nations, a principle which led him to issue the Proclamation of Neutrality during his Presidency as well as enacting the Neutrality Act of 1794.  But the political realities of today are the opposite of neutrality.
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Novels with the Theme of Dystopia Literature Essay
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The opposite of dystopia is a utopia which is a description of an imaginary ideal land. The term first evolved in the book of Thomas More in the year 1516. Utopia is a state where perfection in law, politics, and society is experienced. There are many works in literature where the theme of dystopia is very much intertwined with the plot of the novel.
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The Five Seasons of Pride and Prejudice by Sara Wingard Literature Dissertation
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The novel begins and ends with autumn wherein it is seen as a season of “...preparation and a foreshadowing of new life and growth“ (Wingard). In the novel, three autumns came to the Bennets. These were the arrivals of Mr. George Wickham, Mr. Charles Bingley with Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, and Rev. William Collins. 
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Politics and Structure in Harlem Renaissance Writing Literature Essay
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Christo has erected large yellow tapestries in California and Japan to urge harmony among humanity, and he put orange archways throughout all of Central Park to remind New Yorkers that there are other humans passing through the park and that every chance to interact with other people should be celebrated. 
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Rhetoric and Gender in Jane Austen's Persuasion Literature Outline
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What seems alarming, though, is the way in which even though the world was changing, the women were not changing, or even being allowed to change. Lady Russell, for instance, recognizes that the world was changing and that given the spending habits of the Eliot family, they had to move to a cheaper location to survive. 
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A New Interpretation of Peter Pan Literature Assignment
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The concern was Peter Pan’s visit to the nursery. Rakove approaches the book by analyzing characters categorically, for example, male characters, female and discuss Mr. and Mrs. Darlings a whole (Rakove, 2010). The story is about a young and innocent boy yet mischievous. Peter Pan is magical and teaches children how to fly and they escaped through the window heading to Neverland.
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Iron Man versus Batman Literature Assignment
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In a different environment, a man is likely to grow into a completely different person, following the factors surrounding him (Loprinzi 602). Ironman and Batman in their stories are perfect examples of man’s dual nature, and how their characters grow and change all through their lifetime. The circumstances around them mold them into the characters they are.
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How an Individual Felt After Discovering a Book Literature Assignment
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For Corliss, finding the book and eventually finding Harlan, might be the answer to finally get to understand herself, a quest that she has had for a while. Coincidentally, Harlan meeting Corliss will also help him with his identity issues. Interestingly, both of them do not necessarily know this, and once they meet, they get to find a lot about each other and most importantly themselves.
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Day of Doom by Michael Wigglesworth Literature Book Report/Review
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In his poem Day of Doom, Michael Wigglesworth, a Puritan church minister in New England describes the judgment day. Through the narration of the second coming of Christ and conversations between Him and different groups of sinners, Wigglesworth attempts to awaken his readers’ resolve to live in accordance with the biblical teachings.
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Books of the Bible Literature Assignment
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It is evidently clear from the discussion that Leviticus can be viewed as a handbook for priests and Levites because it contains duties and precepts as well as other important aspects of Godliness, such as atonement and holiness.  It is important to note that many principles found in the New Testament are mentioned in Leviticus.
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A Little Princess Critique Literature Essay
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By examining the stories written during a period such as the Victorian era, one can begin to learn more about the specific social and political issues that were experienced by the ‘normal’ people and discover how they were expected to behave. This is particularly true of works produced between roughly 1850 and 1910.
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Ghosts of the Confederacy Literature Book Report/Review
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This resulted in sectional reconciliation and an emerging social order. However, the public celebration of the war resulted in a different and conservative society in the South despite the ghosts of the Confederacy still haunted the New South. However, according to Foster, they did little to shape the behavior and ultimately trivialized its memory.
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Men's Role in Society Literature Research Paper
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You have, perhaps, never heard a symposium or discussion on the topic, “Men-their role in society!” The debate is always about women!  Men perhaps have no role! Men can as well do some of the jobs normally done by women! Aren’t the best chefs men? The never-ending talk of giving equal rights to women goes on unabated.
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18th Century Literature: The Rape of the Lock Written by Alexander Pope Literature Assignment
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Another concern that could be seen in the poem is Belinda’s narcissism, which essentially exposed and criticized the false moral standards imposed on women in the 18th century. As Pollak observed: "The woman is made to function as the sign not of her own subjectivity but of a male desire of which she is the object. 
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Small Island as Exploration of the Other Literature Essay
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This paper analyzes the book "Small Island" by Andrea Levy. The book attempts to tell the experience of Jamaican immigrants attempting to make a new start in war-torn, racist and still highly class-conscious England in the late 1940s. It focuses on the difficulties experienced by the characters as they attempt to simply live their lives.
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Comparison of Joe Keller of All My Sons & Willy Loman of Death of a Salesman Literature Essay
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The success dream is the embodiment of the American Dream and reveals the original spirit of the Americans.  Both Joe and Willy adhered to that dream. Their adherence to the importance of success is closely tied to their perceptions of fatherhood.  It is an attempt to portray themselves as the breadwinner in their respective families 
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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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The Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Diana Baumrind studied parenting styles and began to formulate her theories in the 1960s and 1970s, just around the time Ben Carson was growing up. If she had known about Mrs. Carson, she might have used her as an example of an authoritarian-authoritative parent.
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Death of a Salesman Written by Arthur Miller Literature Essay
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The pursuit of the American dream, which was considered to be based on financial prosperity and wealth, in the end, turned into a serious problem for the Lomans family. The thoughts and beliefs of Willy Loman such as:  “Be liked and you will never want.” and “Riding on a smile and a shoeshine,” and “ personality always wins the day.”  were common for contemporary American society of Loman.
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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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Tthe book Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King Literature Book Report/Review
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Work started on this Cathedral in 1296, yet the dome that had been proposed in the original drawings was considered impossible for human construction. Moreover, it was thus the greatest wonder and also a puzzle to all when in 1436, the dome was completed and its beauty was seen to be incomparable.
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Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen Literature Book Report/Review
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The author explains that she was to be treated for depression at the hospital. Initially, she was supposed to spend a few weeks at the hospital, but she ended up spending close two years at the facility. During her time at the facility, Kaysen received a variety of treatments including drugs and therapy.
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Exploring Human Issues through English Literature Literature Essay
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By carefully applying a number of literary techniques and communication strategies, authors have managed to convey sometimes very complex thoughts in very simple and understandable terms that appeal to more levels of understanding than mere intellect. Anything within the story can provide symbols or clues.
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Literature Literature review
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The author of the paper states that in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies the innocent respond to the apocalypse by hopelessly degenerating into abject crudeness and barbarity, thereby questioning the supposed nobility of human existence and the lofty achievements of human civilization.
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Comparing Cosmology of the Jinn in two Distinct Places Literature Research Paper
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The author states that the two stories plus the deeper insight of the notes give a clear insight of the origin of the Jinn. The stories of the City of the Brass and The Fisherman and the Jinn indicate that the Jinn existed from the time of Solomon. They were however held captive for disobedient. The jinn that exists today was rescued in different instances 
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