Contemporary Navajo singer Andrew Natonabah, for example speaks of how "the stories, the songs, and the prayers come together to form a literature," (Ruoff 2). ... However, author Longfellow wrote Hiawatha in 1855, which became particularly popular. ... A popular traditional character that is also found in contemporary Indian literature is that of the trickster. ... These usually include translated or interpreted works of many different Indian authors. ... In the 1920's the Native American authors started turning to the novel. ...

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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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Cannabis is not the only psychoactive drug pervading contemporary culture. ... While an all-too-brief glimpse of modern psychoactive drug use in the United States, this author hopes to illustrate the popularity and pervasiveness of the aforementioned drugs. ...

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A contemporary of Aristotle; his writings clearly state that if plants and vegetables are abundant there is no need to eat meat. ... The author suggests that in a perfect world, or the Garden of Eden, it is not necessary to eat meat. ... Many contemporary vegetarians today will not eat meat because of its inherent cruelty and immorality (2). ...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

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There, he first met Richard Wright (an African-American author whose strong protests against racial prejudice made him one of his generation's most important spokespersons) and began his first novel, In My Father's House. ... The contemporary significance of Blues for Mr. ...

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All the characteristics of this movement, specially the celebration of the individual, of the new creations and thinks, formed the most important author of the 19th century : WALT WHITMAN . ... In this and the other editions until the "Authors Edition" he didn't put his name on the title, but in the opposite the title page was a portrait of Whitman. ...

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Lestat is the hypothetical author of The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil.25 His fans, including Rice herself, are deeply fascinated by this "tall, fair-skinned man with a mass of blond hair."26 They dream of this intriguing vampire stealing into their room with a "graceful, almost feline quality to his movements,"27 moving closer, "his gray eyes [burning] with an incandescence,"28 and whispering to them some unknown truth that would explain the workings of the universe. Another famous author with a large cult following is Ste...

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