Word Count: 2166 The canonic classics of the Western tradition have only become such because they were susceptible to reproducibility in print. ... However, the definitions of the two are intertwined historically because the literary canon has taken on a similar nature to the biblical canon. The word originates from kanon' a Greek word meaning instrument of measure and has developed to connote a list of important authors and their works, concerned with sorting the "orthodox from the heretical- . ... It would not be possible or desirable to produce a list that simply contained a...

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This is a good idea in theory but what happens to such violent dramas as "Shindler's List" or "Saving Private Ryan" that will soon be used for educational purposes? ... (free speech doctrine) One of the most controversial 1st amendment issues on school campuses these days is the banning of literary works from classrooms. ...

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Similarly, Ernest Hemingway wrote countless literary classics. ... I could list a plethora of more authors. ... I could also make a list of very rebellious, very subversive, and very respected authors, because there are many. ...

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Slaughterhouse Five ranks number 29 on the American Library Association's list of banned or challenged books (Banned and Challenged Classics). ... I think the book has literary merit and can be used as a tool to better understand individuals who have lived through similar experiences as Billy. ... Works Cited Banned & Challenged Classics. ... . ...

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Slaughterhouse Five ranks number 29 on the American Library Association's list of banned or challenged books (Banned and Challenged Classics). ... I think the book has literary merit and can be used as a tool to better understand individuals who have lived through similar experiences as Billy. ... Works Cited Banned & Challenged Classics. ... . ...

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The city of London had seen its population double in the decades following 1563, to top 200,000 people for the first time, and a massive new middle class was influencing the economic, cultural, and literary development of the nation. The Renaissance Humanistic movement, spilling in from Europe, had ushered in a new era of interest in learning and the classics; and in the past half century, English writers and poets had, for the first time, begun to try to create literature in their native tongue that could stand up to the greatest works written in Latin, French, or Italian. ... And the "mode"...

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AN LESSONS Culture and Geography Culture What is culture? It is the essence of why people believe as they do and act as they do and give importance to things as they do. Elements of culture: values norms beliefs emotions relationships language and technology General Ch...

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The novel used such words as "capricious"; "coquette"; "tergiversation"; and "acquiesced", among others, which I included on my vocabulary list. ... It is good to read literary classics, however, Dickens Tale of Two Cities would not be one of my favorites....

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This work proved to be distinctly American because it establishes in literary form the first example of the fulfillment of the American Dream. ... The Autobiography defines a secular literary tradition that establishes the autobiography as a work that is meant to not only tell about a person's own life, but also to educate the reader in ways to better live their own life. ... Yet another way that this work is different from others is that it has parts that with a complete list in which one can achieve virtues, which has influenced millions of readers over the last two centuries. ......

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Slaughterhouse Five ranks number 29 on the American Library Association's list of banned or challenged books (Banned and Challenged Classics). ... I think the book has literary merit and can be used as a tool to better understand individuals who have lived through similar experiences as Billy. ...

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Memory was divided into four parts: natural (which consisted of technology and information about inan- imate and animate things), civil, ecclesiastical, and literary. ... In the section devoted to History, Jefferson relegated Bacon's major division of Ecclesiastical History to a subsection of Civil History and eliminated altogether the section reserved for literary matters. ... On the other hand, Jefferson expanded Bacon's Imagination section into a Fine Arts category that embraced not only literary works but also such decorative and fine arts as gardening, painting, architectu...

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"A Clockwork Orange stands as a great literary work, yet most copies weigh in in less then three hundred pages. ... Anthony Burgess has been labeled as one of the greatest literary geniuses of the twentieth century. ... He supplemented the income from his novels with literary reviews and essays for numerous newspapers and magazines. ... A Clockwork Orange had a very small list of characters. ...

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In Mark Twain, a pseudonym of Samuel Clemens, one of American literatures' most admired authors, whose works although numerously honored and have the distinction of being termed as classics, have been subjected to ridicule for their supposed vulgar content. However, Twain lived through his pen and his pen lived through him, it can be assumed, that concerning innovations throughout literary fiction, Mark Twain's impacts are indescribable because of the amount of innovative genius Twain has shared with the world through his pen. ... Through somewhat true fiction, Mark Twain became one ...

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The humanists of the Renaissance rediscovered the Latin and Greek classics (hence the "rebirth" or "renaissance" of the classical world), that humanist philosophy stressed the dignity of humanity, and that humanists shifted intellectual emphasis off of theology and logic to specifically human studies. ... The humanistic movement began during the early Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the writings of classical Greeks and Romans, which were not only models of literary style, but considered to be guides to the understanding of life. ... The list of his achievements is endless, al...

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This theme writes Leeb "is now a kind of literary legend, over a century old, and still going strong." After reading and rereading these great American classics, one question surfaced and resurfaced in my mind. ...

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During this period he wrote a number of works that are regarded as classics of communist theory. ... He was a correspondent of the New York Daily Tribune, edited by Horace Greeley, from 1852 to 1861, and in 1857 and 1858 he wrote a number of articles for the New American Cyclopedia, edited jointly by the American writer and editor Charles Anderson Dana and American journalist and literary critic George Ripley. ... The last eight years of his life were marked by an incessant struggle with physical ailments that impeded his political and literary labors. ...

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He read ancient medical classics, collected folk prescriptions and then, in combination with his own clinical experience, wrote the monumental medical work Treaties on Febrile and Other Diseases. ... He also classified herbs according to basic sources, listing seven (e.g., herbs, animals, stones, vegetables, etc.).It was also during this time that that paper was invented, that history was recorded, that the Chinese discovered Buddhism and the leaders trained in the teaching of Confucius (Anonymous, 2000). ...

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1. Introduction As the title of this chapter suggests, the discussion here will approach our experimental findings from three different perspectives. First we consider the implications of our work for L2 instruction and materials design. Then we discuss problems in the research and how they can be addressed. Finally, we propose a plan for investigating important questions raised by our experiments. ...

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