He studied law in Bologna but in 1326 his father died and Petrarch returned to Avignon to take minor orders in the church and would devote much of his life in the service of the church. In 1327, he would meet his life long love Laura de Noves, (a Frenchwoman) who would give him inspiration for his sonnets in his collection written in Italian and entitled Rime in vite di Madonna Laura or Canzoniere (Songbook). ... An example of this is his Vita Solitaria (1480), which was translated in 1924 as Solitary Life. He also wrote many letters during his travels that are important historical descripti...

• Word Count: 645
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Slip into this man's shoes and wonder how it would feel to live a life such as his. ... In fact, Maya Angelou knows first hand what it feels like to be alone in life, living between homes though out her adolescence and getting to where she is in life on her own. ... This was a brilliantly timed as Angelou juxtaposes between "storm clouds" and the "reader's life" because at this point, Angelou has fully touched the readers with the accumulation of all her pain and experiences throughout her life. ... Nobody can live life alone. ... When asked about an autobiograph...

• Word Count: 1766
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Angelou's style of writing shows her honesty, feelings, and emotions about most of the experiences that she went through in her life, as well as the life of the people around her (Richard 84). ... It is easy for Angelou's readers to understand her work considering that she express her background and the events and activities that transpired during her time. ... According to an article by Danielle Dorky, as a writer, Maya Angelou acquired her inspiration from different authors who had written books and poems, which she used to read from her childhood (1). ... During the years when she...

• Word Count: 1524
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This has resulted in value judgement, particularly to the non-great-books. ... Finally this leads us to questions of the end of poetry itself, and its justification for existence, that is, why imitate at all and can we obtain knowledge and/or pleasure through it Both Plato and Aristotle, the foremost philosophers of their time, arrived at widely different answers to the questions above. ...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate