A piece of literature will be acknowledged with acceptation into a literary canon. ... This is not meant to devalue what effect taste has to do with literature and understanding literary movements. Rather, it means to take into consideration the bias that can occur when limiting the study of a work based on popular tastes. Quality from my perspective has to to with how the literary piece catches my attention. ... If not that, they contain a moral lesson that guides the reader into understanding what things one should avoid to prevent the themes of dystopian fiction to become the salty favorin...

• Word Count: 638
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This study centers on readers' responses to literary texts, and how crucial they are the creator of meaning (Tyson 169; Harker 29). ... These theories, along with the literary theorists behind them, are imperative to understand and recognize for their role as the foundation of this modern literary study. ... The text, as Rosenblatt says, "serves as a blueprint, a guide for selecting, rejecting, and ordering of what is being called forth " in the reader's mind. ... The next component of reader-response criticism is the Subjective Reader-Response Theory, guided by David Bleich's...

• Word Count: 1156
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Bringing together the works of Said, Loti, and many other important literary sources, I will look critically at the historical interaction between the West and ˜The Rest' and analyze key subtopics including but not limited to; geopolitical issues, bi-orientalism, how the views of the Orient have changed throughout time, multifaceted issues within The Orient, and why the West is so interested in The Orient. ... Educationally, the domination has been so complete for such an amount of time that Said goes as far as to say that even supposed outwardly objective Western texts and liter...

• Word Count: 4296
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Finally in 1594, the literary talents of Shakespeare were recognized in print. William's talents as an actor were noted by one of his literary and rival contemporaries, Ben Jonson in 1598. ... I used "The Beginner's Guide" document as a baseline to compare and contrast the respective document segmented viewpoints. ... It seems reasonable that Shakespeare understudied the earlier works of the 17th Earl of Oxford based upon Craig Huston's studies of word parallels in several authorship type debating documents also pointed out in this "Beginner's Guide to the Shakespeare Aut...

• Word Count: 1431
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this course of study, I am interested in various ways in which people learn, preferably through kinetics or in a physical manner. ... While exploring sources for my Literary Review, I came across two very different research materials Levstik's (Stephen J. ... In the chapter, Continuity and Change in Social Studies, in Handbook of Research on Social Studies Education, Thornton explains his research of continuity and change in teaching social studies. ... As far as my Literary Review, I find both articles interesting; however, there is not much of a connection. ... In this case it is ...

• Word Count: 1498
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this course of study, I am interested in various ways in which people learn, preferably through kinetics or in a physical manner. ... While exploring sources for my Literary Review, I came across two very different research materials Levstik's (Stephen J. ... In the chapter, Continuity and Change in Social Studies, in Handbook of Research on Social Studies Education, Thornton explains his research of continuity and change in teaching social studies. ... As far as my Literary Review, I find both articles interesting; however, there is not much of a connection. ... In this case it is ...

• Word Count: 1498
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This study discusses the varied cultural reactions in the United States and Sierra Leone created by the slave ship revolt in 1839. ... She studies the Amistad story to show us the historic and modern significance of the slave ship revolt and its following trials. ... " In the introduction the author guides us through her history of Sierra Leone and how she never really heard the story of the Amistad revolt, as she would have liked too. ... In "Remembering the Past," Iyunolu Osagie studies the Amistad story as a literary trope in African American prose, poetry, and drama, and as an histori...

• Word Count: 725
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Throughout history, literary have served to portray the human experience and the play Hamlet addresses the universal concerns that still resonate in a modern context. ... Mi Zhou articulates how Hamlet is an "exploration of fundamental human questions", which has expanded my study of Hamlet from a religious and social criticism, to a psychoanalytical and philosophical medium which responders can relate to. ... These discussions once again delve into the fundamental questions of life and Shakespeare has been able to explore this through Hamlet, creating a moral guide that is still r...

• Word Count: 1105
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The study in progress has actually grown out of my personal observations and interactions with my students inside and outside the classrooms. ... The current study that follows has actually grown out of my personal observations and interactions with my students inside and outside the classrooms and also out of my continual effort to find the middle ground to deal with these practical concerns. ... " My purpose is cash in on usefulness of the contact zone as a guiding pedagogical principle for teachers and students. ... The intended learning outcomes of the new teaching: A Study in Pract...

• Word Count: 2530
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The non-academic literary movements of aestheticism, pre-Raphaelitism, imagism and others appeared in succession, nurturing a whole race of prose writers, poets, dramatist and philosophers. These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. ... Eliot's study of the poetry of Dante, of the English writers John Webster and John Donne, and of the French symbolist Jules Laforgue, along with the influence of his new tutor-guide Bergson, helped the young poet to find his own style - unique, though close to that of th...

• Word Count: 1915
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She has created a style of writing that exists on both literary and religious grounds, and excels in doing justice to both. ... O'Connor's evident discontentment with society at the time has frequently been attributed to her Catholic religion, her studies in social science, and the fact that the lifestyles of the elite southern whites were diminishing. ... Her written thoughts on the subject disclose that she had devised a complete literary philosophy committed to blending the two into a distinctly fused energy to "prove the truth of the Faith." ... As for the excessive applicatio...

• Word Count: 1784
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Petrarch opted out of studying law in order to devote his life to literature. ... He considered himself a protector of the study of the humanities that Petrarch started. ... As a result, humanism was reflected in all types of literary works; rhetorical pieces, poetry, historical accounts, and even books on education and daily life. ... He was most well-known for his guide to courtly behavior, titled Il cortegiano (The Courtier). The guide was published in 1528 in Venice and outlines how a courtier should conduct oneself, in love, war, and his pursuit of education (Kekewich 167). ...

• Word Count: 2321
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Book banning has been a familiar part of the educational landscape in the twentieth century, and even such literary masterpieces as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice have not escaped the censor's wrath for their allegedly racist views. ... This literary revolution has reflected society's own loss of innocence (Day 362). ... Studies that exist rely on the counting of sex acts. ... In addition, parents were worthy gatekeepers and focused on their children's reading habits and maintained constant attention over the literary consumpt...

• Word Count: 2092
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

American Transcendentalism is a philosophical and literary movement which took place during the late 1820s and 1830s. ... Nature gives the alert man fresh images and metaphors for language, providing the man with discipline to devote himself to its study ultimate power: "one after another, his victorious thought comes up with and reduces all things, until all the world becomes, at last, only a realized will,.... the double of the man". ... He thought that one learns by studying the world around us. Books should be used to guide and inspire, not to be followed blindly. ...

• Word Count: 1093
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A textbook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. ... Textbooks are important aid guide to me as a teacher. ... The strategy behind this technique is to eliminate unsatisfactory textbooks at the stage of analysis so using a textbook can meet a learner's needs or expectations of having something concrete to work from and take home for further study. ... Marc and Kees (2009) anlyze the content of textbooks as well as the preferences at the expence of selection made by literary experts. ... According to Feryok (2008), previous studies have shown that teacher cognitions and pract...

• Word Count: 1475
• Approx Pages: 6
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I will draw information from the large body of Hemingway literary criticism, his fiction, and the authors own comments on the craft of writing. ... He absorbed the objective, fact-based writing style of the newspaper article and made it his own, applying the lessons from the Kansas City Star's style guide to all of his subsequent work. ...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
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Pham and Sarno describe, "If the upheaval in the music industry over the last decade is any guide, the closing of more bookstores and a decreasing demand for physical books will force authors and their publishers to find new ways to profit from their work.... If studies show earnings decline with inadequate reading comprehension, then e-book usage in our youth should equally decline to counter this trend. ... The overwhelming need to utilize the coolest and most robust gadgets has caused society to overlook the roots or foundation of literary art. ...

• Word Count: 1347
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Frazier's study led him to the significant of "Negro Business" and its impact on the black middle class. ... The motivation that guided the missionaries and philanthropists in their approach to educating the freedmen was the ideal of industrial education which included the training of labor workers. ... They maintained literary societies in which they could enjoy and foster their "culture....

• Word Count: 959
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Over the last decade, research has proven that technology enhanced literary developments such as reading comprehension and vocabulary development. Pearson Education concluded that "a wide range of digital tools enhance reading comprehension and vocabulary development by providing students access to word pronunciation, word meaning, contextual information, and comprehension scaffolds to guide an individual's reading" (O'Hara and Pritchard). ... Studies have also proven that today's students remember where to find information rather than the core information itself. ...

• Word Count: 1137
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The humanistic movement began during the early Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the writings of classical Greeks and Romans, which were not only models of literary style, but considered to be guides to the understanding of life. ... One of his greatest works, School of Athens, shows a humanistic influence of classical Greek and Roman models through depicting a group of Greek philosophers studying about a group of stone pillars. ...

• Word Count: 1908
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The humanists of the Renaissance rediscovered the Latin and Greek classics (hence the "rebirth" or "renaissance" of the classical world), that humanist philosophy stressed the dignity of humanity, and that humanists shifted intellectual emphasis off of theology and logic to specifically human studies. ... The humanistic movement began during the early Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the writings of classical Greeks and Romans, which were not only models of literary style, but considered to be guides to the understanding of life. ...

• Word Count: 1970
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When we choose to read a history book to study, we often do so with the assumption that the work has a certain authenticity or that it conveys the "truth" about a particular period. ... This should encourage readers to think critically about the literary texts. ...

• Word Count: 2408
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INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO THE PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC AND THE EUROPEAN UNION by Tendik Tynystanov TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . 2 The European Union........................................................" 3 About the PCA............................................................." 8 EU Relations with Kyrgyzstan ..........................................." 10 The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement....................." 11 PCA Institutio...

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Exploring Iris Murdoch's concept of the self The concept of identity emerged from studies of the Self. ... However, with the influence of literary works which explored the self, theories emerged on the Self being more complex than previously assumed, and traditional beliefs regarding the nature of the Self came into question. ...

• Word Count: 3367
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Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mormon. The context of this book, along with the literary passages from the bible became guidance for Mormons. ... They emphasized a personal and direct religious experience of Christ, which was acquired through both direct religious experience and the reading and studying of the Bible. ...

• Word Count: 3593
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate