"The Author to Her Book" The poem "The author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet is about a writer's relationship to his/her pieces. ... This could be carried even further when considering that I- the author of this commentary- am writing about an author writing about an author. ... In other words, This could be seen as a great feminist act considering the author of the poem is a female experiencing the restrictions put upon her in the context of the 17th Century male domineered world. ... Another aspect, which adds great ambivalence to the relationship between the author and her book,...

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People were not earning much money during The Great Depression. ... Political views also changed during the Great Depression. ... Shirley Temple, Will Rogers, and marie Dressler were few great performers during the Great Depression. ... The most popular authors were John Steinbeck, Thomas Wolfe, Wililliam Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway. ... The Great Depression has definitely left it's mark on America. ...

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As an English 101 student, I have found Everyone's An Author to be a very helpful resource when issues came about with writing. ... Everyone's An Author has been of great use to me and many other people that I know who use it. ... This book has many features that set it apart from other textbooks or make it a very great one to use. ... As a result of using Everyone's An Author to help me, I got a very good grade on the project. ... I had written plenty of narrative before but it was much more difficult to write a narrative about myself in great detail. ...

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"The Worst Hard Time – The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl" by Timothy Eagan, is the story of the people of the Dust Bowl. ... I believe that the author Timothy Eagan did a great job in explaining to me the reader the different issues that were involved in the Dust Bowls and he did a great job in explaining the different struggles of the people who lived in the region and who had to endure the dust storms and the bad effects that these storms played on the people not just from an economical standpoint but also from a sociological and psychologica...

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The Many Aspects of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, an author of many writings, uses his voice well, the most important tool an author has. ... The early life of Langston Hughes molded him into the author he has become. ... Langston Hughes entered the world of published authors early on in his career. ... According to the author, " On May 22, 1967 Hughes died after abdominal surgery. ... Like many great American authors, Hughes helped mold the history of this country with his writing ability. ...

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They were all great poets from Romanticism. ... Up to this point in the poem, it seems as if the author is trying to convey the message that change is bad and brings about sadness and gloom. ... Another great poem that speaks of sadness is John Keats" "Ode to a Grecian Urn." ... These three authors bring truth to this thought. ... The authors may have passed on, but their works will live on and be appreciated by many generations that follow. ...

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However, after finishing only a few pages of The Great Gatsby by F. ... The family later moved to Great Neck Long Island so that Fitzgerald could be nearer to Broadway. ... This was the basis for the family's move to France in 1924, where Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. ... The Great Gatsby gives the reader a dark and pessimistic view of the lives of its characters. ... Almost every successful piece of literature has themes and lessons that the author hopes the readers will obtain. ...

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In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the fact that the quality of de Vere's published earlier poetry likely before 1585 is vastly inferior to that of Shakespeare; the specific knowledge the plays and poems infer certain prominent people in the Queen's court connect with associated events; similarities in Shakespeare's writings parallel Oxford's life, and the need for a pseudonym by an author-courtier being Oxford to publish his...

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Alexander the Great was a lot like my sister, yet on a much grander scale of course. ... A great leader he was "thus his title; "Alexander the Great-, and yet how great can one be that is so extremely unstable? ... Yet he fits a great deal of the criterion required of the antichrist, especially in his charismatic persona. ... Consider all of the beautiful aspects of his character; he who adored learning (himself being taught by the great Aristotle), proving this attribute in the founding of his famous school in Alexandria. ... There would have been no Utopia or one world system, because p...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... While Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author's other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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The Roaring-twenties, characterized the 1920's in American cities such a New York and Chicago, the setting for the novel, The Great Gatsby and the movie, Chicago. ... Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, was going through a rough time when he wrote this book, which reflects who the corruption can taint your soul and beliefs and how you deal with certain facts of life. In his book, Nick Carraway is the narrator but also implies that he is the author of the book. ... In The Great Gatsby, Jay throws fantastically wild, extravagant parties for the soul purpose of meeting Daisy ...

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Theoretically, gender separates authors in no more of a respect than do the author's birthstone or favorite color. ... The variances of the two sexes exist predominantly anatomical: not in thought or greatness of writing. The prevalence of an androgynous mind, however will aptly aid in defining the greatness of writers to come. ... And an appeal to both genders is necessary for achieving literary greatness. ... Only through repeated exposure to great female authors will society drop its negation of the truth and come to impart deserved respect to all authors. ...

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The Great Gatsby portrays 1920's life. The novel's author, F. ... Daisy shows a great lack of moral character when she quickly involves herself in an affair with Gatsby. ... When one purposely intrudes on or withdraws from this bond, he or she shows a great deal of disregard, not only for his or her partner, but also for the laws of society and religion. These laws came into being ages ago, and when people begin to disobey them more frequently, it shows a great decline in moral values. ...

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It is said that Ben Curry would have been great at any "profession" he chose because he has great organizational skills. ... The "good guys" in this novel weren't necessarily so great because they were the toughest or the fastest, they were great because they were the smartest. ... The author was accurate in the historical setting that he provided in the novel. ... They were thought to have been so great because they bragged about every bank and train they had robbed thus they became widely known, and widely hunted! ... I found that the author was very knowledgeable on the subject and was...

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Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. ... Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene" through what he knew or indirectly experienced and discovered the disillusionment that "a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in man shaken", what's more, he depicted the postwar unprecedented boom of material re...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... While Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author's other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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The author grew up in North Carolina right between several of the NCAA's powerhouse teams. ... The author takes us back to a simpler time when he was but a young, pre teen boy. ... This is a great tactic employed by Williamson. ... This is great as the urges us to take action about the current financial state of college sports. ... This is a great call, as he has spent most of the article showing the reader how tough the conditions are for most of the students. ...

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Another strong point from the book would have to be the fact that the author went into great detail about Martin King's college years. ... (P.34) is a great example of how Martin felt. ... He writes them with such great description you wonder, how does he know all this? ... Most likely the author got his information for this part of the book from an African-American author, or he interviewed a relative of an African-American. ... In the preface of this book the author states that, " . . . ...

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This encounter lead him to visualize a great distinct physical image of her so he began to speak of this phenomenal attractiveness. ... In 1798 his great-uncle the fifth Baron Byron, died childless, and just after his tenth birthday Byron inherited his title. ... The author speaks of her fragile being. This shows that being frail can show enchantment and great lure. ... The author seeks his own innocence through her beauty; this is the author's definition of ideal woman. ...

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It all began with a wish, a wish for a great interference in the lives of colonists -- a wish for a new form of government, separation from Europe and great wealth. ... Although her predilections are admittedly "Old Whig" and "Bancroftian," the author's view is her own. ... She pays a great deal of attention to detail, which although historically irrelevant, does give the book flavor. ... Another thing that I liked was how the author took each part of the process into steps that took place in making the Constitution. ... Not just another book on the Constitution, Miracle at Philadelphia i...

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Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and he was one of the greatest American writer of the 20th century. ... He wrote many notable novels in his career, and one of them is Great Gatsby. ... He also served in the Great War. ... The Great Gatsby was a wonderful movie and a book. ... The Great Gatsby shows an example of how failure people can succeed. ...

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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a short story in which it could see reflected the influence of the author's life. ... Although the story is fictional, the setting, the characters and the context which are developed are a portrayal of the time and place in which the author grew up. ... Since there is a connection between "A Rose for Emily" story and the Author, the author's biography is going to be briefly reviewed in this work. ... Teresa Towner in her book "The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner" states that Faulkner's great grandfather, cal...

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The Great Gatsby is a perfect illustration of the destructive power of dreams. ... Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby. ... While Gatsby is the obvious embodiment of this theme, it is also illustrated through the author's other characters, namely Myrtle, George, Tom and Daisy. Myrtle Wilson's desire for upper class status rivals that of all other characters in The Great Gatsby. ... I agree that The Great Gatsby is a perfect example of the destructive power of dreams. ...

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However, authors do not actually discover these ideas, rather they synthesize them into works of art. Therefore, if these ideas are not readily known to the author, then he has nothing to write about. ... If this is not the case, Arnold says that the author's time would be better spent in preparing ideas for others, through a critical effort. ... So, should all writers simply become critics, hoping to create that great flurry of ideas? ... This turned their ideas into political beings and the writers seemed to have "had their source in a great movement of feeling, not in a great mo...

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In an excerpt from "Compassion in Buddhism without Beliefs," the author introduces us to the development of loving which the author rightly sees not just as a separate exercise but also as a means to developing mindfulness and loosening the grip of centeredness. ... If one wants that life awakening and to feel great, then we must extend our compassion to everybody. ... We should think that, "oh I am so great for helping this person." ... It was quite hard understanding what the author was trying to get at during the duration of this excerpt. ... I just didn't get what the author was ...

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