Authors will portray their idea of courage through their writing. ... Tim O'Brien, the author of The Things They Carried, shows his idea with himself as an example. ... Tim O'Brien thinks that you should do what you believe in, even if others disagree, where Melville thinks you must face great odds. ... In each piece of literature, each author had their own idea of what courage was. ... Herman Melville believed that you must face great, even danger or death. ...

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I also like that everything that Goldilocks does is very innocent, she is a great character for children to portray, and easy for children to relate to as well. ... Overall evaluation of the play: This is a great play for children to perform. ... The troll's motivation to eat the biggest billy goat comes from the two smaller billy goats that cross the bridge and get him very excited about how "BIG" there older brother is, and what a great meal he would make. ... Overall evaluation of the play: This is a great play with a great moral. ... It has a great message and is fun for chi...

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The story takes place in Redding, Connecticut during the Revolutionary War, about 1776 to 1779. Although there is war and other events in the New York and Massachusetts area, the Meekers, the family the story focuses on, live in Redding. They own a tavern, which still stands today, in the story. ...

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In the short story "The Red Convertible" the author, Louise Enrich, uses a red convertible to symbolize the bond between the two main characters, Henry Jr. and Lyman. ... While Henry was away Lyman kept the red convertible in great shape, and informed Henry of its condition through letters. ... Authors tend to use symbols instead of just saying things flat out. Enrichs use of a red convertible to symbolize a changing relationship was a great idea. ...

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Brave New World The author of this great book Brave New World is Aldous Huxley. ... I believe that Aldous Huxley was one of the greatest authors of this generation. ... Bernard is full of many great ideas that usually scare Lenina. ... I believe that Aldous Huxley was one of the best authors of this generation for this book he wrote for all the reason I explained in the paragraphs above. ...

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Part I: The Author and His Preparations James Fenimore Cooper was born in 1789 in Burlington, NJ though raised in Cooperstown, NY. ... What he incorporates is great and probably general, but so far it has usually been beyond the full awareness of men. ... The author seemed to put his opinions into the mouth and actions of Hawkeye. ...

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But William Golding author of Lord of the Flies seems to have different meanings of a leader and three characters are good examples of his type of leader: Ralph, Jack, and Piggy. ... Does a leader have to be direct or straightforward or can a leader just be full of great ideas that have no voice to project them and turn these ideas into an actual thing. ... For instances, the colonies of Great Britain who had no voice until finally got fed up and declared war on there own people. ...

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The Relationship between Stories and Their Sources Most authors use some type of source when writing a story. ... Even great writers such as Shakespeare had a source in which their stories came from. ... A certain author may use a source to show different parallels between two stories or to show similarities between events or characters. ... Whatever the authors reason for picking a certain source it seems to give the story completion and significance. ... During the holiday, Atticus realizes how bad off his son is but still shows great love for him. ...

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To do this, it must convey a great deal of information in a short space of time. ... This author's style of writing is unique in that her work is comparable to the bible. ... Also, the ways this author describes snowdrifts are like that of snakes. ... To do this, it must convey a great deal of information in a short space of time. As a result, the short story usually leaves a great deal of its content open to interpretation and examination by the reader. ...

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The persona of the poem shows great admiration for autumn and praises all its aspects. ... The author concentrates on giving autumn a personal and unique touch to allow readers to be able to see all the wonders of autumn. ... This is seen when the author describes autumn as a "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness". ...

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Submitting to Symbolism Every great author posses the ability to create a novel deeply woven in symbolism and subliminal messages. ... An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest." ... Symbolism as such is one of the great examples of Conrad's intelligence Heart of Darkness overflows with symbolism and is by far one of the greatest novels of the twenty century. ...

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He has been great - Philo is almost making him out to have been god like. ... However, his speech also tells us that Antony is falling from greatness, by saying that he is becoming besotted with a woman - Cleopatra. ... Despite the fact that he seems to have power in every area in life, he demonstrates a great weakness in his love affair with Cleopatra that he gradually has prepared his own end. ... Thus we can appreciate Shakespeare one more time for he is the best author who can mix two or more genres in one play and never let them lose their characteristics. ...

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The only thing that is great about the baseball field is left field. ... Field of Dreams is a great film that takes Ray Kinsella on this great journey to find out more about himself and about his father. ... Then he was sent to go find Terrence Mann in Boston, a famous author from the 1970's, was provided to Ray as a friend to assist him on his journey. ...

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Throughout the play "Death of a Salesman" Arthur Miller portrays the American Dream and how Willy Lowman and his family are trying to achieve it. Willy has been trying to live the American Dream so long that he actually believes he has a chance at succeeding. All the lies he has told throughout hi...

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The next author to give me an insight on Italy was Dante". ... It is actually more like an autobiographical journey of life through its author, Dante Alighieri's eyes. ... Machiavelli readings gave a great view on how politics, war, and monarchies worked before the age of technology that I've grown accustom to. ... The authors gave me a view of the people while the lectures provided more of a visual picture of the country. ...

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Mirror Image Born on July 3, 1860, In Hartford Connecticut, although raised for most of her life in Rhode Island, author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an extraordinary yet complex person who was plagued by and over came many obstacles in her life. ... The inability of both the author and the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper to conform to society's norms or expectations caused each considerable grief, a grief that weighed heavily upon them, released in bouts of depression that would plague them for the rest of their lives. ... The lack of money forbade her from having much of a formal ...

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In Isaiah 7:14, the author writes, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Emmanuel." ... Jesus had a great mind and was a great teacher. ... While enduring this torture, Jesus was in a great amount of pain. ...

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"Parallels between Kafka's life and "The Metamorphosis"" Many authors reflect an aspect of their life in their novels, poems, or theatre. ... Gregor was a person that in a sense, was not satisfied on what he did, as he was aware that he was just working to pay his parents" debts and to send is sister to the Conservatory: "...should be sent next year to the Conservatory, regardless of the great expense involved which could surely be made up for in some other way.". ...

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Beauty; the unattainable possession Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of literature's greatest and also most well known American writer's of his time. Hawthorne's brilliant use of symbolism is shown greatly in his writings. Being a lonely child while living in Salem, Massachusetts Hawthorne devoted a l...

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After months and months of suspense, love has finally been discovered. Love was not discovered by anyone in the classroom. Two characters in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog- fell in love. It is such a romantic way to end the semester. Well, enough about school and on to the facts. In every sh...

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James wanted to perform Shakespeare's plays because they would allow him to achieve greatness as an actor by bringing out the best in Shakespeare. ... This magnificent, dismaying play is for Eugene O'Neill, the author, to forgive himself and family members for their past. ... I remember the frequent times my dad gave me the lecture on how I was an exceptional tennis player, and how I could achieve great things if I was dedicated and focused on success everyday. ...

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He is sent into the jungle with morals and truly believes in the ideals of imperialism; " I had immense plans I was on the threshold of great things.- (Conrad, 60) However, after looking inward upon his soul he realizes that it is dark and hollow. ... In fact, almost all of Africa was partitioned between Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Leopold's Congo. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Plot Overview Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. ... Analysis of Major Characters Marlow - Although Marlow appears in several of Conrad's other works, it is important not to view him as merely a surrogate for the author. ... To his cousin, he was a great musician; to the journalist, a brilliant politician and leader of men; to his fiancée, a great humanitarian and genius. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. ... We later finds out that Clara also has one great thing in common with Obi that she too studied abroad in England. ...

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• Grade Level: High School