This is because much of Bradbury's literature has to do with illusory ideas. ... The firemen go to people's houses where there are reports of books and set the books and the people inside ablaze. ... The firefighters of the city use fire to destroy all books. ... An interesting thing to note about Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451's main theme of censorship has nothing to do with the plot of the story, but more to do with the editing of the book. ... Ray Bradbury has experienced or has realized many other circumstances having to do with censorship of his own literature as w...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Grade Level: High School

They ask the DeLillos and the Updikes and the Styrons, but they don't ask popular novelists."1 The above quote aptly illustrates the incredible bias that exists in academia today regarding popular literature. ... Popular literature is usually read for escapism. ... The main forces for good in King's books are always nice guys and girls with problems, just like us. ... His marketing department also presumably creates the taglines for his books. ... In a way, King's books are literary chewing gum, or as he himself says " the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries." ...

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By using the word 'mechanical' Raine is defining books as void or lacking of thought or emotion. ... Raines tenderness for the written word is apparent in his descriptive illustration of books, implying the pages are 'wings', connotes them as delicate, and though 'they cannot' fly, they allow us to soar. Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and h...

• Word Count: 1520
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• Grade Level: High School

By using the word 'mechanical' Raine is defining books as void or lacking of thought or emotion. ... Raines tenderness for the written word is apparent in his descriptive illustration of books, implying the pages are 'wings', connotes them as delicate, and though 'they cannot' fly, they allow us to soar. Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and h...

• Word Count: 1520
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• Grade Level: High School

Dave's purpose of writing these books was to tell the world, how he was treated like many other kids are treated in the families. ... One could say that A Child Called "It" is good literature if good literature is, in fact, supposed to illicit an emotional response from the reader. However, from a purely literary perspective, this book, the first of a trilogy about Pelzer's life, is not really "good" literature. ... Pelzer relies on "language that was developed from a child's viewpoint" he tells us in the author's notes, resulting in a straightforward "This happened, then t...

• Word Count: 1454
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• Grade Level: High School

One requirement stuck out most difficult to me and was most the most important, it was an essay, called your information literature essay, or just a typical research paper, without writing one you were not allowed to graduate. ... Stewart assigned a research paper about Western Civilization in the 16 hundreds, it was a chance for the whole class to get their Information Literature paper out of the way. ... I could use a past research paper from senior year and he could go in through the schools gradebook and have it count as the information literature paper. ... Checking out five books from ...

• Word Count: 1531
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Walt Whitman can be considered one of the greatest writers because of his great attributions to literature, one his different view of life and two his unique writing methods in which you can observe from many of his works. ... In several occasions with him being the editor of a newspaper he wrote and published good reviews and good notes anonymously to make himself look good. ... From the nineteenth century Literature Criticism one essay by Charles A. ... During this time he was not able to walk so most of the time was spent sitting in a chair close to the window of his apartment reading boo...

• Word Count: 1276
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Her books received many rewards and honors. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. Hinton enjoyed reading books as an adolescent, but was dismayed to find only a small segment of a teen-ager's life depicted in literature. ... A Saturday Review critic expressed a similar view, noting that The Outsider is "written with distinctive style by a teen-ager who is sensitive, honest and observant .""... Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. ...

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And the numerous amount of literature and plays he produced during each time period in his life. ... These works where "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note", a collection poems and "The Baptism" and "The Toilet", two early plays. In the PreFace to Twenty Volume Suicide Note" Amieri showed his sense of despair, alienation, and self - depreciation. ... During this transitional point in his life he wrote two books of serious fiction " The System of Dante's Hell", a novel, and "Tale", a collection of short stories. Baraka commented on the books in a interview with Kimberly Benst...

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Besides various marches, women wrote books and other types of literature to state the ignorance of women in society. For instance, "One the first feminist books was A Vindication of the Rights of Women written in 1762, by the British writer Mary Wollstonecraft. ... Crosby, who published a novel, The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families, affirms in her literature that, "intricate experiments by researchers say that children from affluent homes cared my mothers and nannies still displayed significant insecurity in their attachments."" ... I wanted to ...

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Orwell's Gripe Commenting on and criticizing literature is a common practice. Indeed there are entire books, classes and even careers dedicated to this very purpose. ... Arnold felt that the spread of education, an education which employed a fixed cannon, dedicated to literature that was established and recognized as great art, would lead to acceptably cultured masses. ... It is important to note that while Orwell takes shots at everyday language, political speeches, news publications, essays and pamphlets, but does not voice any grievances with fiction writing. ...

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It has not only become the milestone in the history of Asian American literature, but also become one indispensable part of American literature. ... It has not only become the milestone in the history of Asian American literature, but also become one indispensable part of American literature. ...

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In life things seem to "just happen," in literature all actions, interactions, speeches and observations are deliberate. ... Books written for enjoyment sometimes contain author's ideas; it is all in the intent. ... Almost all books show some form of this. ... Most of the greatest books ever written were written due to history. ... ON A SIDE NOTE NOT RELATING TO THE ESSAY but only to the topic DO NOT TAKE OFF !! ...

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A Room With A View Romanticism is one of the more popular styles of fine art and literature. ... A critical reader will note also that Forster uses Bloomsbury in A Room with a View (Forster 7). ... New York: Bantam Books, 1988. ... New York: Bantam Books, 1988. pg. vii-xx. ...

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(Literature: The British Edition p.8) Of these above-mentioned branches of the Indo-European family, two are of vital importance in the development of the English language, the Germanic and the Romance. ... (Literature: The British Edition p.8) The history of the English language can be traced back to the arrival of three West Germanic tribes to the British Isles during the 5th and 6th Century AD. ... (Lecture Notes N. ... (Literature: The British Edition p.8) Christian missionaries later brought over the Latin alphabet to Britain from Ireland and this is the alphabet that has remained as t...

• Word Count: 2103
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Having been an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous Lauren decided to attend her typical weekly meeting and spend the hour as though she were only an observer, taking note of the dynamics within the group. ... Upon entering there is a woman sitting at the front of the room with books, pamphlets and a basket. ... The author notes that there are many women with long-term sobriety, but the group encompasses women who have as little as two days sober, to women who have as much as thirty years sober. ... Throughout their literature Alcoholics Anonymous states, "There are no dues or fees for A.A. m...

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(p63) Also included are continuous descriptions of restaurant menus, audio technology and television and video units, each with their expense high-lighted (As Ellis notes through Bateman, Surface surface surface was all that anyone found meaning in. p375) It's a vacuous lifestyle that reflects the American Dream of equal opportunity and self-aggrandisement. ... Although both examples of modern American literature, it could be said that the novels are very anti-the-American-Dream, and serve the purpose of exposing the dark side through entertaining and satirical literature. ...

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Army, and went on the graduate from NYU with a degree in Literature (without having a high school diploma). ... Placing a teacher that has been brought up in Ireland with different values with students from the poor boroughs of New York forces the reader to take note of the differences in cultural capital. ... He is set on teaching Economic Citizenship but is sidetracked by the students" moans and groans over opening their books. ... Demanding that they take out their books evokes more moans throughout the classroom and the teacher knows this is a losing battle. ... For example, when the...

• Word Count: 1906
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This wilderness scout is the first of his kind in American literature and was seen nowhere before by the American readers. ... Indians of this time were looked upon as savages, "but Natty has taken unto himself the best of both civilization and so-called savagery" (Cliff Notes 11). ... Indiana Jones is a recent hero of America that has set new standards in both film and literature. ...

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As Da Ponte was Vienna's most popular libretto writer and as he was well-versed in literature, it was only natural that he should be chosen as text writer. ... That is why Mozart could state after the first night that somehow or other a few of the notes "had fallen under the desks-. ... Bars 5-15, the introductory fourth step of the Commendatore motif is followed by a dotted quarter-note rhythm, succeeded by a string motif marked by an ascending second. ... The closing group, containing a further subject, is rich in contrasts: 2 bars in forte, unisono which means showing determination,...

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They are the ones who need to note it must and they disregard it. ... Authors such as Flecknoe and Shadwell are like prostitutes who work for cash and their works do not contribute to the art of literature. ... Like a 'potent ale' is unable to produce an offspring, so do Flecknoe and Shadwell fail at producing good literature. ... It is not simply the co-existence of noble literature and scatology that create the surprise of wit, but the ...

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Rypma stood behind the podium at Kazoo Books. ... The machine creating high notes / [shed] never reach (24-25). ... This poem begins with her consideration of killing a spider scurrying over [her] notes / but cannot (1-2). ... Thus Rypma creatively notes her hatred for weaving and the loom. ...

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"The most general examinations of play are embedded in the exploration/play literature. ... He would constantly flick his pencil off of his desk, misplace his books and homework, and everyday he would receive a "blue note- which meant that their parents were informed of bad behavior. I witnessed this student receiving a blue note every single day I was there while a few others received them occasionally, and a few even received "pink notes- which reported good behavior. ...

• Word Count: 1912
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• Grade Level: High School

Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind'' (Mitchell). ... The narrator notes that while the men attend the funeral out of obligation, the women go primarily because no one has been inside her house for years, with many mysterious events happened through times ("A Rose for Emily-). ... He won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award and a Nobel Prize for Literature. ...

• Word Count: 1893
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Readers view texts in perspective, to enable them to understand the books they are reading. ... Feminist literary criticism views literature to see how the culture, economy, politics, and society in the text oppress women . ... We plead with her, send anonymous notes. ...

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