As Patterson said, "While literature necessarily arises from a historical matrix, it can never be adequately understood in terms of that origin, no matter how carefully the scholar seeks to reconstruct it"(Patterson, p 9). When it comes to interpreting the history of South Asia, one must look into literary as well as historical texts in order to see the big picture. ... Even in the Dharmashastras (Law Books), a literary source, there are biased views due to the Brahman authors. ... Literary texts give information regarding to history, such as geographical clues and cultural traditions. The R...

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In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. ... This topic is a sensitive one, but it becomes a lot more understandable when one can really hear what Donnell is trying to say using the literary devices that he does. ... Sure, Alexander does a wonderful job expressing cool as it applies to him and his ancestors, but in terms of defining it for all humanity, he is incomplete. If one was to use his terms of defining cool for all peoples everywhere (not just on a pur...

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The struggles that Claire faces with divorce and being neglected in terms of affection is something that many teenagers (especially those teenagers that fall in the middle-upper class ranges) face in their own lives. ... Cultural and feminist literary lenses can be used to analyze John Hughes The Breakfast Club to better understand different aspects of the film....

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