For example Lillian is described as an "independent child," by Carol MacNichols in a "Dictionary of Literary Biography," (Contemporary Authors) this trait of Lillian's personality is portrayed in her story, " Run Away" which is in the book, " A writers reader". ... Lillian informed the House of Un-American Committee that she "had no intention of cutting her conscience to fit that year's fashion." ( Contemporary Authors) This just shows that Lillian was so independent that she did not need to change for anyone. Another example of Lillian's independence is when she sued her ...

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In this the author opens up by talking about her husband when she says, "John is practical in the extreme. ... John also throughout the story tries to confine the author, "I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia. ... The critiques of modern society made by these texts are very true of the contemporary society that we live in today. ... Alienation is very much so apart of the contemporary society that we live in today. On the other hand, both authors express that there could be a possibility to eliminate alienation by not doing what the people in their text did. ...

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Marx's ideal of human emancipation, Marx's critique of contemporary morality and religion. ... The author develops his argument by using the animal's ability to forget or "live unhistorically," as a demonstration of pursuing happiness by living in the present (Nietzsche, 34). ... Furthermore, the author may argue that monumental history should not be depicted by empirical analyses, but rather as a phenomenon that is critically dissected and evolved. ... Therefore, the population will no longer allow predetermined morality to govern and limit contemporary life. ... The ...

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These observations of Shakespeare's also put to shame the over the top ramblings of other authors odes of love to their women, the hidden meaning (purpose?) ... These similes give us an idea of what he is trying to put across, that his mistress has no where near the same beauty that nature possesses and also show us he is trying to mock the style of his contemporaries? ... Shakespeare's usage of figures of speech and detailed storytelling to put across the themes of his writing was one of the things that set him apart from his contemporaries. ...

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One common literary technique is the author's use of one or more of his characters as a "voice- to speak out his views on a certain subject. ... In each of these examples, the character chosen by the author comes across as a reasonable and respectable person, making the author's point of view seem just as reasonable and respectable. ... By placing the characters in adventures, the author demonstrates that through experience with real-world situations, the men trying to live by some outdated or far-fetched ideal soon learn the error in their reasoning and adapt themselves to t...

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In "Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politic of Radical Engagement," author Stephen Eric Bronner emphasizes the connection between the Enlightenment ideas and contemporary society and the need for modification in the way of presenting the Enlightenment ideas. ... By inserting his arguments into the critiques, Bronner points out the urgent need to reify the metaphysical concepts under a contemporary social context. ... To better understand the effect of Enlightenment ideas on contemporary society, Bronner contends that it is necessary to break down the metaphysical idea and vie...

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In order to achieve a comprehensive review, the author's point of view, author's use of sources, my opinion on the value of the book, and the opinion of a professional reviewer will be utilized adequately. ... Peterson's point of view is a descriptive insight that had never been seen before by historians and shows Jefferson as being a humorous and an uncannily witty individual. 2 The author's use of sources is a novel onto itself. ... Some of these pieces Peterson choose included works such as the Jefferson Papers, State Papers, and Contemporary Letters...

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The Speaker is certainly a contemporary of Helen as he/she states in line 17 that he/she wished to see her dead. ... First, it is obvious that he/she is not Helen's contemporary. This is evident since he is familiar with both the Greek and the Roman world and he looks back on the "Nicean barks of yore" (line 3) signifying that he is not a contemporary of Helen. ... Helen is described as white, which is sometimes perceived as a color for purity, but the reader soon finds that this white is a life-less pasty white, a white that is eventually compared to the whiteness of dead skin which th...

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Native American authors have shown this for a few years. Two of the more prominent Native American authors in the last twenty years are Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie. ... Erdrich in The Red Convertible and Alexie in This is What it Means to Say Phoenix Arizona each address issues of gender and cultural roles among contemporary Native American populations. Both authors indicate how the Native American of today has been forcibly separated from the land and thought of his ancestors and what a devastating effect this has had on Native American society. ... Some of her other works include That&...

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Susan Brownmiller is an author and a strongly opinionated feminist. She is the founder of Women Against Pornography and author of the book Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (1975) and several other books and essays. ... In its ruling, the court defined sexually offending material as containing "patently offensive," prurient interest," and "hard-core" contents and measured against "contemporary community standards." The contention, however, is on the "contemporary community standards." ... The author and feminists feel the judgment failed to expressly strictly define the boundary of what is...

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Often referred to as the Contemporary Period, the end of the Second World War until the present day represents the span of our last period of literature. Why it is difficult to come up with a list of qualities that accurately describe the Contemporary Period of American Literature may be because the population has grown so large, or because printing and computer desktop publishing is so common, the situation is more chaotic than ever before. ... In literature, especially, most schools no longer emphasize the traditional canon of works and authors, but are instead teaching the literature of ...

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He profusely quotes from ancient authors like Theocrats, Virgil, or Horace in support of his ideas and arguments. ... Aeschylus is his favorite author, whose tragedies he has transcribed a copy of with his own hand, which he carries around for more than thirty years. ... The devious ways of contemporary mankind are quite beyond his conception. ...

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"Brave New World" written by the English author Aldous Huxley, born in 1894, is the portrait of an "ideal" world far in the future where society is made up of castes and babies originate from test-tubes, rather than from the womb of their mothers. ... Huxley, however, knew how to criticise his contemporary world, the world of 1932, and what he thought might follow, in his novel BNW. The British author wisely used the future in order to attack the present and to foresee negative future aspects deriving from the present. ...

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Frankenstein (1817) by Mary Shelley and Les Fleurs du Mal (1957) by Charles Baudelaire can both be considered timeless in the eyes of contemporary society as they both discuss social issues that continue to be significant today. ... This shows that both authors have an appreciation and respect for women akin to the most common opinion of contemporary, developed society. ... As a result of this, it can be seen that both Shelley and Baudelaire discuss the contemporary issue of religion, however they both take different standpoints. Both Frankenstein and Les Fleurs du Mal can indeed be considere...

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José Martí was a Cuban poet, essayist and journalist, who became the symbol of Cuba's fight to get independence from Spain. He said "No man has any special right because he belongs to any specific race; just by saying the word man, we have already said all the rights." He was born in Havana...

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There are three examples of text on this cover, the authors name, the title and a phrase "Not all journeys have an ending", which may suggest the overall theme of the novel. The author's name and the title "The Ivory Trail" are in the middle ground, off centre and at diagonals to each other. ... The fact that the title of novel comes second to, or underneath the author's name suggests perhaps the author's narcissism, feeling he is better than the book. ... The book cover appears to be set in a modern era but the pictures of the sphinx and pyramid imply that perhaps although cont...

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In literature, many types of literary elements such as mood, setting, irony, symbolism, and theme are used to convey the author's ideas and visions. ... William Shakespeare unlike some authors makes the meaning behind his symbols very hard to find at times. ... - compellation of authors. ... As it was said by Jan Kott who wrote Shakespeare Our Contemporary, "the subject of the play is murder, and the prevalence of blood ensures that we all shall never forget the physical realities in metaphysical overtones". ( - "Readings On The Tragedies Of William Shakespeare", Greenhaven Pr...

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Aristotle, a formalist critic, claims that the author gives the work its true meaning, and that meaning is never-changing. ... All forms of poetry are imitation, and differentiate only by how the author presents them to the audience. ... When writing a story or drama, Aristotle strongly feels the author's first priority is to create a general outline. After completing the outline, the author merely needs to fill in the details. ... Aristotle's contemporaries believe tragic performances overshadow tragic content, and thus tragedy is unrefined. ...

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Different authors including Ciaran Carson have used a combination of the arts and add personal attributes. ... From using his unique method of combining words and music together made his writings become vivid depictions of historical and contemporary Northern Ireland. ...

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We see Frankenstein's contemporary counterparts now in groups like the Raelians and Clonaid, and are faced with the same ethical questions, and even potential for destruction through creation. ... In fact, if anything, the Enlightment has never really ceased, and we could almost consider ourselves contemporaries of Shelly in a sense. ... The various authors we have covered from Shelly's time, though, seemed to have the mindset that knowledge is a dangerous thing, making comments about education and its potential for social destruction in view of the French Revolution. ...

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Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville (Moby Dick), and Twain (Huckleberry Finn), to "contemporaries" such as Fitzgerald (cf. chapter VI: "Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes"), John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) and William Faulkner ("The Bear") (p.16). ... The author explains that his "special concern is to show how the pastoral ideal has been incorporated in a powerful metaphor of contradiction" (p.4). ... The same pattern can be found throughout the introductory chapter, culminates in the contemporary notion of "country vs. city" (p.10), and is best exem...

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Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Melville (Moby Dick), and Twain (Huckleberry Finn), to "contemporaries" such as Fitzgerald (cf. chapter VI: "Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes"), John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) and William Faulkner ("The Bear") (p.16). ... The author explains that his "special concern is to show how the pastoral ideal has been incorporated in a powerful metaphor of contradiction" (p.4). ... The same pattern can be found throughout the introductory chapter, culminates in the contemporary notion of "country vs. city" (p.10), and is best exem...

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Review From Marx Weber: essays in sociology, politics as a vocation' (396-450) Author Marx Weber, Hans h Gert (Originally a speech at Munich University, 1918, originally published in 1919.) ... I guess it's my turn to decide if this is the case, is there still any relevance of his work to today's contemporary society through this review. ... Asking what is generalizable and what is contextual about the work of earlier political scientists such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, or Montesquieu leads to asking the same questions about contemporary and personal work. ...

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William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897 and then moved to Oxford, Mississippi with his family at the age of 5. Most of the novels written by William Faulkner take place in the area in which he himself was born and raised. He renames Oxford and calls this plac...

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It would be difficult to try and clarify the meaning of this book - the author's meaning - but the superficial nature of its story certainly puts it in a category of post-modernist writing. ... The gray area then becomes how to differentiate classical writing that contains elements of self-reflexivity from post-modernist contemporary writing which aims to respond to social agenda. ... The color, the pattern, and the soul of his piece comes from "a self-reflexivity prompted by the author's awareness of the theory underlying the construction of fictional works" (Waugh 2). ... The ch...

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