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  • Symbolic Language Of Myth
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    Book Review "Familiar Mysteries" Familiar Mysteries is a scientific and comprehensive study on mythology, its appearance, and significance in our lives. The author, Shirley Park Lowry, a former professor of English at the Los Angeles Valley College, teaches mythology to nonspecialists and is a respected authority on the subject. The author's purpose in writing this book is to provide the general reader with an interesting, historically linked, and scientifically based insight into the vast world...
  • Capote's In Cold Blood
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    Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was an easy to read; yet well written work. While I realize it is based on actual events, I agree with the term non-fiction literature because of, what I believe are obvious biases that Capote brings to the work. Unlike a historical work, In Cold Blood is filled with emotion and very descriptive detail instead of just the facts. In the opening paragraph of the book we read about Kansas, but from behind the eyes of Capote. He writes, ... hard blue skies and desert-cl...
  • Malaysia And Orang Asli
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    Malaysia and the "Original People " Neglecting aboriginal groups has been a common theme in the past when considering the advancement of developing countries. The United States had little to no regard for the Native Americans when developing a new nation. And now as Malaysia is a quickly developing country, we can see the effects of this development on its natives. Some of the world's leading anthropologists who have been studying the "original people" of Malaysia for twenty-five years, have suc...
  • Larry's Maze Of Life His Final Goal
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    All good authors use a variety of writing techniques to create unique and imaginative stories. Most often when an author takes a particular perspective it allows the reader a certain amount of insight. Another useful technique is flashbacks, which allow the reader to become more aware of the story line. A very effective method of writing is to use metaphors to create a sense of symbolism. Through the techniques of perspective, metaphors and flashbacks, Carol Shields develops plot, character and ...
  • Specific Story The Author
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    "To Build A Fire", by Jack London was a story about a man who's job is to ship logs in the springtime. The author uses the 8 aspects of fiction to reflect his point of view that it takes brains to survive. The characters in the story are used to keep the story going and help the author come across to his audience. The plot is the storyline in which the story it self takes place. The setting is the environment in which the story takes place. The suspense is when the author keeps information back ...
  • Reader The Main Lesson Of The Story
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    Analyzation encompasses the application of given criteria to a literary work to determine how efficiently that work employs the given criteria. In the analyzation of short stories, the reader uses a brief imaginative narrative unfolding a single incident and a chief character by means of a plot, the details so compresses and the whole treatment so organized, a single impression results. To expose that impression, the reader explores the workings of seven basic criteria. On particular criterion e...
  • Emotion In The Reader
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    Forgive and Forget Jack Turner begins his piece, The Abstract Wild: A Rant, with a powerful anecdote about a Jewish client who makes the decision to begin his journey ill-prepared rather than wear old Germany army pants. The speaker of this piece is a climbing guide and although he is annoyed by his client coming without the necessary equipment, he greatly respects his integrity. The remainder of the piece speaks of the many sins against humanity and nature, and our tendency to forgive and forge...
  • Poe Use Of Descriptive Details
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    What Goes Around Comes Around In his story "The Black Cat", Edgar Allan Poe dramatizes his experience with madness, and challenges the readers suspension of disbelief by using imagery in describing the plot and characters. Poe uses foreshadowing to describe the scenes of sanity versus insanity. He writes "for the most wild yet homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor illicit belief. Yet mad I am not- and surely do I not dream", alerts the reader about a forthcoming story th...
  • Passage Of Time As Omar Khayyam
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    The Rubaiyat: A Victorious Ride Into the Distance Sunset Omar Khayyam believes that every moment on earth is extremely precious and should be lived to the fullest. In his verses titled The Rubaiyat Khayyam presents evidence of the passage of life and the uncertainty of any existence after death in a hope to inspire a sense of higher value of life in the reader. The author uses vivid metaphors expressing the only things that are definite in life: the sun rising in the morning and the stars twinkl...
  • Kundera's Narrative Technique
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    Insight into Milan Kundera's narrative This essay is specifically based on the narrative technique used by Milan Kundera in his book The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It is mostly focused in a personal critic supported with comments and critics made by important and distinguished authors. To sum up, it is an essay which main point is directed to the description of Milan Kundera's narration as well as a personal opinion supported by critics of experts. The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a work...
  • Minnie Fosters Character
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    Susan Gla spells "A Jury of Her Peers" is an ethic drama that presents us with a mirror image of a society where men are considered superior to women in all actions. This drama take are reader, not on a murder mystery, but rather a strong human compassion of help for those in need. Author of this drama supports Minnie Fosters act of killing her husband, John Wright as a sign of standing up for herself. Even though killing someone in revenge of a dead bird seems to be meaningless, it has a much d...
  • Structure Of The Essay
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    Vital Sign sOne of the most interesting topics one can write about is a near death experience. There is something exciting and frightening about the idea of death and when a person writes about his / her experience it is usually one which grasps the readers attention and keeps the reader engaged in the story. Yet in this essay, Vital Signs, the author, Natalie Kus z, provides a unique perspective upon her near-death experience, recounting the atmosphere of the hospital and her own outlook at tha...
  • Importance Of Landscape In The Saga
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    In Hrafnkel's Saga, the use of landscape and setting took on a different purpose than it has in the other three epics we have read. Throughout the saga, the description of the landscape seemed to be more prevalent and noticeable to the modern reader. To the 13th c. reader, however, it would have been less noticeable. This is because it was a landscape which most would have known as their own. I believe this is in part why the author used such descriptions of common landscapes and scenes: in orde...
  • Aphra Behns Oroonoko
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    In Aphra Behns Oroonoko, the author expresses her views on a African American slave openly and passionately, which in the Seventeenth century was unsuited for a person, let alone a woman, to do. By establishing the story from a first person account there becomes a juxtaposition of both author and character. By doing so the reader is able to feel more passion and anguish towards Oroonoko rather than through some fictional fable. Throughout the story Behn is also taking a stand for womens freedom ...
  • 1999 Cyberpunk
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    Annotated Bibliography 1) Paul (Neo) Martin the editor of the website has written extensive work on cyberpunks, that he seeks to establish and support ongoing conversations about the emerging field, to further a community of cyberpunks. The author conveys his thesis by showcase various documents, works-in-progress, and on-line projects that he feels pertain to the current issues of cybernetics. Martin purpose is to call attention to purpose is to promote, support, research, study, and create cyb...
  • Readers Through The Authors Words
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    There are two separate types of preconceptions which can bring into a class of this nature. The first deals with the literature itself. In my case, preconceptions pertaining to African American literature are non-existent. The absence of knowledge pertaining to a specific subject prevents one from constructing any meaningful preconceptions. The second type of preconception deals with the African American culture. I, like any other human being, have formed certain prejudices and stereotypes towar...
  • Extract Marys Judgement On Captain Wentworths Reaction
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    The majority of this extract uses narrated interior monologue to register Anne Elliots impressions. This gives the reader the impression that they are looking at the occasion through Anne Elliots eyes. Jane Austen uses this perspective to great effect during this extract in order to manipulate the readers bias, by giving the reader an insight into her thoughts and feelings. The use of narrated interior monologue is apparent throughout the extract and phrases such as Anne felt an instant oppressi...
  • Lincoln's Own Writings
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    Lincoln warned the Southern States in his inaugural address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it". and in his address at Gettysburg, he said. ".. we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who st...
  • Readers A More Fulfilling Experience
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    Throughout time, great literature has given readers the opportunity to explore the world without ever leaving the comfort of their homes. Authors give us the ability to experience the thoughts and feelings of characters with many different backgrounds and lifestyles. Reading about far away people and places may sound difficult or rather boring to some, especially if they are not familiar with the subject; however, good authors have found ways to make reading more interesting by using elements th...
  • Author's Note A Reader
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    Reading as a Skill Any good writer knows about the impact that reading can have on his / her work, as well as that in order to be able to fully understand and digest a piece of literature, one should follow the basic guidelines of active reading, the type of reading where a reader subjects a writing to a critical analyze by using different types of reading techniques (Stubbs, Barnet, and Cain, 2). However, every reader, just like every writer, has his / her own style of reading that is composed ...

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