When Hawthorne was four years old, his father, who was a sea captain (also named Nathaniel), died of yellow fever. His mother, Elizabeth Manning Hathorne, could not manage 3 young children on her own and moved the family to his uncle Manning's house where he spent the remainder of his youth. When Nathaniel was 9-years-old, he injured his foot and was unable to walk or attend school for a very long period. ... Hawthorne's novels and stories demonstrate many of these themes; however he is often considered to be more of a "Dark Romantic" due to the morbid style present through...

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Whites, being leery not to encourage freedom-based teachings of Christianity, provided a watered-down version that stayed true to the salvation message and passages encouraging the slave's docility, but avoided passages promoting freedom primarily found in the Old Testament. ... The content of these sermons was often consistent with themes from the Old Testament concentrating on deliverance, such as Moses and Joshua, which were the same stories that the white slaveholders wanted to shield from the minds of their slaves. Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in m...

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This famous, and lengthy, poem has several sections which all house different themes. ... Another of his poem collections, "Sea Drift", Whitman swings to transcendentalism the poems often-contained universal themes of separation and love. ... An appreciation for the opera contributed to Whitman's poetry not only in theme but also in rhythm. Critics and poets called it "thought-rhythm" and it was popular in Old Testament poetry. ... And you, sweet singers of old lands-Sopani! ...

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Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young with older love, unrequited romantic love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love/romance, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, and tragic love. ... The characters are usual for a romantic drama: a young man Noah Calhoun (main character), young woman Allison Hamilton (main character), strict parents Anne and John Hamilton, fiancé Lon Hammond Jr., girl on the side Martha Shaw (she wants to be on the first place, but there i...

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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man who from a young age had a love for literature, and later took a position in 1863 at Harvard (legallanguage.com, Paul Revere's Ride). ... Paul Revere arranged to have the signal in the Old North Church, if the British were coming by land he lit one lantern and if they were coming by sea he would light two lanterns (bostonteapartyship.com, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere). ... Paul Revere's Ride, Longfellow's poem, had a theme that was inspiring to the people around him who were in a struggling young nation (poets.org, Henry Wadsworth Lon...

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Survival The theme survival was used in both The Cabin Door And Epic Of Survival: Shackleton by they both had some sort of survival that occurred outside and had a lot to do with the surroundings. ... On her way down on the old Line Road to Stoney Brook she was very lonely and cold but managed to stay on the trail until she noticed that a bear was following her and it was getting dark and she started to loose her path on the trail but she manage to catch sight of a cabin roof and then she went to the cabin and got in there to get away from the bear but the bear ended up breaking off ...

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Conrad begins Marlow's journey into the heart of darkness on the Thames, on the yawl, "Nellie" with a short prologue, which contains subtle use of imagery and a brilliant suggestion of the atmosphere that prepares a reader for the prevailing themes of the novel. ... This is in reference to the way in which the reader comes to realize that it is the "white man's burden" that is truly dark and cruel. ... "White" is above all ivory, the beautiful luxury of civilized man, which is the root of all evil in the darkness. ... This is furthermore demonstrated through the following quotatio...

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The scenery of this island reflects the theme of savagery. Sophocles expresses this savagery with the opening image of "sea girt Lemnos1". Island of Lemnos which the sea cuts of Philoctetes off from the rest world forces him into savagery. ... The rocks, the savage sea, storms and rough winds encircle Philoctetes in his solitude struggling for survival. ... Philoctetes metaphorical death to his old heroic past and his literal death by him surviving on this harsh island are brought together through the idea of the cave. ...

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It was the brief, understated style of a newspaper man. ... Bernard Bereson summarized brilliantly what it is about Hemingway's prose that makes it so powerful when he provided a blurb for The Old Man and the Sea at Hemingway's prompting. (The Old Man and the Sea is) communicated in prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. ... (Fishkin 140-141) It was not just an attention to detail and a talent for brevity that Hemingway learned from his time as a newspaper man, it was an entire theory of literature. ...

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The composer's use of similes illustrates to us the unimaginable, horrific scenes of war in a way we might be able to fathom "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks". ... For example, it is displayed when Owen says, "Under a green sea, I saw him drowning" and "Blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs". ... Owen refers to the Latin phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" meaning it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country, as "the old lie" suggesting that Horace, the man who composed the saying over 2000 years a...

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Ernest Hemingway is one of the most recognized writers in literature and has received numerous prizes for his works such as the Nobel Prize for his astounding contribution to literature, the Pulitzer Prize for his world renowned book "The Old Man and the Sea" and the Award for Merit from Academy of Arts & Letters (Baker). ... In my opinion Hemingway was a man above them all. ... (Gurko) Ernest Hemingway is a very controversial writer due to the themes of violence, despair and emotional unrest found in his stories. ...

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A common catch phrase summarizes this idea with "behind every great man, is an even greater woman,"" meaning that in the social hierarchy where men reign supreme, the male platform is built upon the strength of the maternal, held thickly in the metaphorical womb. ... Magical realism blends fantasy and reality to explain the unexplainable, to heighten the real, and add an aura of allure, found in fables and myths, a theme Isabel Allende employs in later works, such as Paula, the story of her daughter that is purported inspired by and is woven with threads of the Greek myth of Persephone (tale...

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The fundamental tension in the novel is between those, like the inquisitor Bernardo Gui, Jorge de Burgos, Ubertino of Casale, or Adso in old age and that rare medieval-postmodern William who has abandoned his role of inquisitor, refusing to discriminate between martyr and heretic, for example. ...

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The history of the internet is much older and more involved than most of today's society can fathom. ... A classic example has been the use of Morse code for those traveling on the high seas to use as a form of communication. ...

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In a third-floor room at the Walsh Hall dormitory on the Boston College campus, two of my roommates scuffle over the right to wear an a American Flag. "A", a sophomore at BC, had the idea to wear the flag as a cape. Upon seeing "A" draped in the flag, fellow sophomore "N" demands that "A" return his flag so that he can wear it. "Of course I want to wear my flag; we got him!" yells "N". ...

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At the time, I did not know who Konishiki was, yet Aya's reaction indicated to me that sumo wrestlers must really enjoy popularity in Japan (why, otherwise, would a 19-year old Japanese girl so readily recognize the obese man on the back of a CD?). ... However, because sumo nowadays is performed so often and so consistently as a ritual embodying symbols that represent "old Japan," it is easily seen as a truly remarkable living legacy of the past. ... In identifying with such symbols, the Japanese are reaffirming their cultural identity, implicitly or explicitly assuming a unilinear inh...

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1. What factors discouraged an early unification of Italy and how were these overcome? Before the year of 1848, the Italian faced a lot of difficulties to urge the unification movement. Until, 1848, the situation had been changed and directly contributed to the unification movement. After 1815 Italy was once again a mere geographical expression. ...

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