In John Knowles's novel, "A Separate Peace", characters undergo dramatic transformations. ... In the novel, a separate peace, Gene lives a structured life. ... In the novel, a separate peace, the character of Leper presents the human psyche of Super Ego. ... In the story, Leper considers Gene his best friend, as Ego comes to terms with Super Ego. ... In the novel, a separate peace, different characters prove these behaviors. ...

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It too had to start from the bottom of the chain, and work its way up to the greatness of today. ... These difficulties were because her husband traveled often due to responsibilities that took him away from home. ... By blessing his name she is not angry with him, and has a sense of peace regarding this situation due to her faith in God and her religion. ... She was separated from her husband, and kidnapped with her three fairly young children. ... In order to understand Mary Rowlandson, we must understand the reality of the hardships that she faced like carrying her dying daughter days bef...

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The church went from mostly Hebrew to mostly Gentile. ... The joining of the literary and scientific worldviews in Christ was the unique contribution of Medieval Christianity. ... Christians believed horrendous lies about the Jews and therefore continued to separate from anything Jewish. ... Wisdom in the Christian Community After the peace of the church, in the reign of Constantine, Christianity began to make converts amid the educated classes. ... A majority of citizens were of the literary/rhetorical tradition. ...

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Dualism is a fundamental theme in the 19th century gothic and it is one of the literary myths' produced by the desire of otherness' during that period. ... I considered important to begin by distinguishing the terms used in many texts by many different authors and which I even used in the introduction of this paper to refer to the subject in question. Particularly, when doing my research, I found out that some chose the word Doppelganger, others just Double or Split personality, and since the terms are not that identical, I felt the need for them to be defined at the outset. ... ...

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In analyzing these two works, there is the initial most obvious difference, which is the choice of literary form. ... Similarly, Welty's work "is most intriguing in terms of its ability to defy simple explanation" (Saunders, 1992, p. 62). These two pieces are told from separate points of view, however, individually, each strengthens their own piece by the view it is told from. ... While there is much to be learned from this character, we do not know much about him or her. ... Instead of complaining or letting this hinder her from continuing on, she recognize the trial and t...

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The first invasions came around the year of 2000 B.C. from the Indo-Europeans. ... This is because their literary works were not translated or preserved. ... So now Rome had two separate governments for the plebians and the patricians. ... I think that was a bad choice on Rome's part because that isolated them with all of the Mediterranean in terms or trade and commerce. ... These actions backfired and the Roman senate refused to negotiate peace terms as long as Pyrrhus remained in Italy. ...

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In "No Name Woman, Kingston often becomes caught up in her own fantasy world, in which she is separated from reality. ... The reader can see glimpses of this when she thinks: "Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? ... "No Name Woman" is a piece of literary work that illustrates the Chinese culture some sixty years ago. ... Kingston writes this book in part to show the reader that she has begun to f...

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The following are some examples of such suggestion, bearing in mind that the former words insinuate masculinity, and the latter words femininity: rational/emotional, active/passive, war/peace, objective/subjective, and independent/dependent. ... (taken from D'Amico and Beckman 8). ... It is of course somewhat difficult to negate the feminist perspective to International Relations, as International Relations, First World-to-First World or First World-to-Third World nations alike, has been marred by both physical and diplomatic conflict, commonly involving male-dominant (in terms of gov...

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The literary lenses I will use to demonstrate Morrison's intent will be based on Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye's various literary theories. ... I will begin by examining who the hero is in relation to us in terms of Fictive Modes, followed by applying Frye's lecture on Hero from Across the Sea to the narrator, and lastly, I will examine the underlining symbolism within Morrison's novel using Archetypal Imagery. ... In an ironic tragedy the hero feels excluded from a society he or she is trying to belong to. Pecola is a scapegoat victim as she is an outcast from her...

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The lyrics of "Deep River" refers to this statement: Oh, chillun Oh, don't you want to go, to that gospel feast That promised land, that land where all is peace? ... The terms she's, her, and nerve give the gospel train human attributes. Spirituals often reflect on stories told from the bible to show how God affected the slaves' everyday lives. ... Many families were lost and broken, caused by fathers and sons dying on the Middle Passage, or mother and daughters being sold to separate plantations. ... God planned it so that certain things in life are to be a lesson ...

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Later, in 1815 Byron married Annabella Millbank with whom he had a daughter but after a year they separated because of Byron's alleged incest with his half-sister, causing a scandal that forced Byron to leave England for Europe (Slovey and Haerens 67). ... Throughout his poetry he expresses his weaknesses and sexual sin; Byron suffers from self-guilt, self-hatred and banishment because of his incestual affair (Knight 208). ... It is frequently argued that Byron's "deep sense of the will's ineffectuality led him not only to his theme of the trapped man but also away from a d...

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The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to European political and military affairs. ... Hans Morgenthau produced a novel, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, by which the ideology of realism is explained. ... Morgenthau's second principle states that the main signpost that helps political realism to find its way through the landscape of international politics is the concept of interest defined in terms of...

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A major outcome from this era of reconstruction was the popularizing of the arts in Japan. However this outcome was a gradual one which emerged from the social and economic changes occurring at the time, which were the product of the rule of Tokugawa Ieyasu. ... In theory, shogunal powers derived from the emperor, and Edo rulers effected measures through the Kyoto imperial channels. ... And since they replied "No," they were thrown from above into this seething boiling water, and thus did these poor martyrs render their souls with great steadfastness to God (Nardo 93). ... Where Europe had mo...

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The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to European political and military affairs. ... Hans Morgenthau produced a novel, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, by which the ideology of realism is explained. ... Morgenthau's second principle states that the main signpost that helps political realism to find its way through the landscape of international politics is the concept of interest defined in terms o...

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"You want the activity of each separate man to have an aim, and love and family life always to coincide -- and that doesn't happen either. ... Oblonsky's aesthetic consciousness is devoid of the traditional ethical, religious and literary structures that man has created to understand and appreciate beauty. ... That Oblonsky survives so intact a storyline that leaves the lives of others shattered implies that Tolstoy does not derive moral responsibility and the power to judge from nature, that he shares with Immanuel Kant the belief that the phenomenal world is separate from man and...

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On the whole, Dicken's women are not well portrayed; but from Trollope to Thomas Hardy and Henry James, a desire to present fully rounded and complex female characters can be traced. ... It moves in a tragic circle from relative peace and harmony again. ... Here is an episode from the novel in which one of the narrators, Lockwood, 'dreams' of Cathy. ... Charlotte Bronte tried to back off the harsh criticism by saying that Victorian readers has 'certain vivid and fearful scenes banished sleep by night and disturbed peace by day'. The wickedness of Wuthering Heights app...

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His autobiography established in literary form, the first example of the fulfillment of the American Dream. ... The autobiography traces Franklin's rise in society from obscurity to significance. ... The foundation of Benjamin Franklin's values, virtues, and his solid work ethic begin from his humble beginnings and his family's ancestry. ... Ben showed signs of a keen intellect from an early age as evidenced by the diligence with which he copied sections from the Spectator and other works with the intent of learning how to write himself. ... The first was from a Mr. ...

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sidebar GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE From Richard III English dramatist William Shakespeare portrayed Richard III, king of England from 1483 to 1485, as bitter, deformed, and conniving. ... During this period England saw an outpouring of poetry and drama, led by Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe, that remains unsurpassed in English literary history (see English Literature). ... Recently, some scholars have been intrigued by a letter from 1581 from a prominent landowner, Alexander Hoghton, recommending a William Shakeshafte to Sir Thomas Hesketh. ... An unsubstantiate...

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Therefore, he has to borrow money from his good friend Charley to pay for repairs. ... Shortly after his boss, Howard, fires him from the firm, he talks to his boys and warns them that the woods are burning. ... The impact from losing his job forces Willy to realize his dreams are collapsing. ... Choudhuri further suggests that Willy "was selling himself to ensure personal fulfilment, and peace and happiness in the family" (as qtd. in Bloom 69). ...

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The European Community (in broad terms) established under this Treaty, created a particularly advantageous climate for economic prosperity of the parties to the Treaty. Soon other European nations joined the European Community to benefit from its provisions. ... In 1995 the provisions for the "Preparation of the Associated Countries of Central and Eastern Europe for Integration into the Internal Market of the Union- were laid down in a separate document. ... A wide scope of activities ranging from agriculture to employment and social affairs are governed by the EU institutions. ... It reflects...

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Abolitionists came from various types of backgrounds and many were Caucasian and women. ... Although some Quakers were slaveholders, members of that religious group were among the earliest to protest the African slave trade, the perpetual bondage of its captives, and the practice of separating enslaved family members by sale to different masters. ... African Americans yearned for immediate freedom from slavery and the ability to lead normal and free lives. ... Truth and Douglass did not allow the bigoted American society to deter them from their goals. ... African Americans believed from t...

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Today, James Joyce is celebrated as one of the great literary of the twentieth century. ... The second, which occurs when Stephen sleeps with the Dublin prostitute, is from innocence to debauchery. ... Finally, Stephen's greatest transformation is from near fanatical religiousness to a new devotion to art and beauty. ... That day, he learns from his sister that the family will be moving, once again for financial reasons. ... It is the difference that separates the true artist, Stephen, for the artist's friend, Cranly. ...

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These are the two terms coined by L. ... The roots of the terms can be traced back to the German philosopher Schleiemacher's argument that there are only two different methods of translation, "Either the translator leaves the author in peace, as much as possible, and moves the reader towards him; or he leaves the reader in peace, as much as possible, and moves the author towards him"(Venuti, 1995: 19-20). ... Most of the difficulties in translation stem from culturally idiosyncratic meanings. A text which only reflects the many concepts and literary canons of a particular isolated culture...

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Even though offering opposing ideas on the various aspects of earthly life, the two literary classics visibly share a common concern for the functions of society, and it is evident that Sinclair Lewis, in his satirical voice, actually viewed the work of Thoreau with the utmost respect. ... In his normal life he finds himself no longer content with himself and his family, so he goes out to find what he is missing, which turns out to be peace and quiet away from his family. ... To see if it was possible to separate from society completely, Thoreau sought separation, guided by hi...

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