"While critics have debated whether or not the play is a tragedy, a piercing social commentary, an affirmation of the American spirit, or a depiction of the salesman's life, individuals around the world have been emotionally touched and intellectually challenged by the drama's poignant portrait of human beings just like themselves" (Brussat). ... A third review of the play "Death of a Salesman" was conducted by an anonymous author on the actual playwright. The author explains how that many people can interprit the play as a cynical critique of American culture, but says that it is ...

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His passion, not only for his own work, but for southern literature as well, is apparent in all the effort he put into the culture throughout the years, creating a legacy in which some call Foote "one of the most prolific and honored American playwrights of the twentieth century. ...

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Maya Angelou: Still I Rise Maya Angelo was quoted in an article in Essence: African American Politicians Interviews, as saying " The power that I have first comes directly from being a descendent of people whose powerful history makes me humble. I would like to think that if I had been born anything other than black and other than a black American women, that I had done something wrong in a former life and God was making me pay for it." ... In spite of a tragic beginning she has still managed to become a poet, a author, a historian, a actress, a playwright, a civil-rights activist, a produc...

• Word Count: 694
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• Grade Level: High School

Ray Bradbury has been on of the most influential and entertaining writers of his time period. He aided in making the Science Fiction genre respectable. Bradbury has also mastered many other fields. He has written fantasies, crime and mystery stories, supernatural tales, mainstream literature, and of...

• Word Count: 1033
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• Grade Level: High School