Nonetheless, when I was a young girl, my parents provided me with my first picture storybooks and journals, which I believe shaped my love for creative writing. ... I found that in high school, my writing was improved substantially from middle school since I started writing a daily blog because it generated positive feelings about writing, especially when it came to whipping up essays for my classes. ... If there is one thing that I wish my teachers would have assigned more of, it would have been more creative and personal narratives like this one. ... I feel that creative writing has had a h...

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Also you see that through their writing that they tend to feed off of certain period of time for inspiration or topic. ... He seems to refer back top Europe and the Americans seem to be a little glorified in his writing. ... Washington Irving decided to take a more creative approach to the description of the American people, being the first American writer to write about America his writing made somewhat of an impact in literature. ... Two different writing styles, two different writers one topic of interest, one goal in mind, and two completely different way of achieving this goal. ...

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"The first fifty years of our colonial existence coincided with a period of singular barrenness in England, so far as creative literature was concerned. ... People started writing down their experiences and would try to get them out to general public. ... A bookstore will not only provide a place for people to gain knowledge or exercise their creative thoughts but can also serve as a place for career opportunities. ...

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The competition with the Soviets gave an added boost to the technological and scientific revolution; and American universities expanded immensely as centers for defense research, for the education of a vast new public, and as employers of creative writers and as arbiters of taste. ... In letting a rural black woman with little education tell a story that affirms the value of her heritage, Walker articulates what has since become two central themes in her writing: the importance of the quilt in her work and the creation of African American Southern women as subjects in their own right. ...

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The writing of American history has passed through four stages: the providential, the rationalist, the nationalist, and the professional. ... Also writing this type of history was Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts and Cotton Mather. ... Their writing was more refined and allusive than the studiously plain prose of their Puritan predecessors. ...

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The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). ...

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Gender inequality and harassment in the workplace are issues significantly garnering attention from lawmakers and transgender activists worldwide. Kyla Bender-Baird's book, "Transgender Employment Experiences: Gender Perceptions and the Law," is an insightful compilation of the transgender commun...

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And I think the creativity of writing a poem, story or musical comes exactly from this state of mind. To invent something new or just the feeling of being part of something special makes the lives of people like Aaron Douglas or Langston Hughes so interesting and creative. ... And for this reason they chose a very easy understanding writing and direct style. ...

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