Some of Vonnegut's short stories reflected on his life as a young adult, as well. most of his short stories and essays are now collected into one book called, "Welcome to the Monkey House". ... Since then, Vonnegut has gone on to write many more novels and a countless amount of short stories. ... Since then three other movies have come out based on Kurt Vonnegut's novels and several short tv programs have been dedicated to his short stories. ... This affected many things in "Slaughter House Five" along with other short stories that he wrote. ... He expresses his thoughts on life...

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During this time Carver wrote many short stories that reflected his sense of hopeless at the time. ... In the story "Will You Be Quiet Please?," alcohol is used as an excuse for a wives unfaithfulness (Short 53). ... The first story however is left undecided with a vague and open ending like many of his earlier stories. ... The boy dies, but the parents are followed over a few hours and the story ends with a peaceful conversation and the idea that they will survive and probably be stronger because of it (Short 93-121). ...

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L"Amour wrote more than one hundred books, including eighty-six novels, fourteen short story collections and one nonfiction-a chronicle of life on the American frontier. ... L"Amour has also published hundreds of stories in at least eighty magazines in the United States abroad. ... His first short story sales concerned the West Indies, football, rodeo, and a few westerns. ... In all, forty-five L"Amour novels or short stories have been made into feature films or television movies (New York Times). ... Among his first published books were some volumes of poetry and stories about the Far Ea...

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More then any other talk I can call to mind, it is alive with the rhythms and idioms, the pauses and suspensions and innuendoes and short hands of living speech." ... His stories are not to be easily read and understood. ... Hemingway was a firm believer in keeping writing "short and to the point." ... In The Sun Also Rises the story ends having gone nowhere. ... The story his told with grace and excellence. ...

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Freelance writers get paid only if a publisher buys their work they write both fiction and nonfiction books, poems, less commonly dramas, screenplays and short stories as well as magazine and newspaper articles. ... In most magazines nonfiction articles greatly outnumber poems and short stories nonfiction material ranges from a few hundred words to book length; long articles may be serialized (published in installments or parts) in a magazine. ... Freelancers also sell fiction it includes short stories; adventures, mysteries, romances, science fiction and western...

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"THE LADY OR THE TIGER" Introduction: The short story "The Lady, or The Tiger" is written by, "Frank R. ... This story was one of the most well liked stories of its time. ... This story was based in the court of "Akbar the great" one of India's greatest kings. ... Depending upon their mood the story can take a sharp turn as well. ... The story might be a fiction, but the theme is a reality. ...

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One particular way that he did this was using short sentences that make the writing easier for readers to understand. ... For example, in the story "The End of Something," Hemingway uses the moon, a common word with a simple denotation, to add depth to the story. ... This is illustrated in the story "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II.... Elliot," Hemingway does not just bluntly state what really is going on in the story. ... One quote from the story states, "Mrs. ...

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Percy's essay has many conflicting stories and it can be difficult to step back and intake what Percy really means by these stories. ... Percy's does not construct a single meaning to all of the stories and he leaves the reader with many questions. ... The short story about the tourist who leaves the beaten track and goes his own way shows how complicated Percy's stories are. ... Percy spends no time to explain the terminology he was just writing about and quickly goes on to another topic and story. The story about the tourist going of the beaten track is there to explain a tour...

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Whitman's father Walter Whitman was a carpenter who married Louisa Van Velsor at the age of twenty-seven and brought her into a two story house, in Long Island, that he build. ... During his early years Whitman attended normal school for 6 short years because at the young age of eleven he decided to drop out and become a clerk in a law office. ... Having experienced war, riots, and lack of communication between his father Whitman began to write short stories and poems expressing his emotions. ...

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Kate Chopin's The Awakening, is a memorable story of one woman's quest for self happiness and strength. ... Her first attempts at writing were brief sketches for a local newspaper which were short descriptions of her life in Louisiana. ... The Awakening is best described as a story of a sensual, determined woman who insists on her independence. ... By the end of the story, one sees that Edna is a very perceptive and strong person. ... The story does not have a rather joyful and uplifting ending though. ...

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During his middle school years, he got himself involved into writing and he was suggested to submit his stories for publication. ... Soon enough, the first two short stories that he wrote were published in the UTSA literacy magazine. ... As he had stopped writing stories and started to write lyrics, it has also shown that he had not stop practicing his creativity in writing. ... He would even give tips in writing good stories to those who have the intention to become a writer. ... Until there were no more stories to tell, Haley asked for his father to create new stories with adding his own c...

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Even though Hemingway deserves to be noted as a man who opened critics' eyes to new ways of writing while incorporating his unique writing style and personal adventures into each of his stories, the work of Fitzgerald will never be forgotten. ... He captured the idea of the great American Dream and the idea of true love and his audience went crazy for his stories. ... He had no writer's block and was producing stories faster than most. Soon after being in Paris, he continued to publish short stories, poems, and novels (Guion). ...

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They are at all different stages of the writing process -- finishing a story, starting a new story, editing, illustrating, etc. ... The teacher continues to write their story... The might say something like, "When I was reading my piece aloud, I noticed that I used some short, choppy sentences. ... Teachers will continue a story on day two that they have modeled for the class, by letting the class know that there are a lot more things that could have told/written about in the story. ... Teachers will take out the story from the day before, reread it to the class, and add on to the story by ...

• Word Count: 1940
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However I realized the topic of the story is rather sarcastic when I finished it. In reality Pip's bright future which he dreams of is broken into the pieces at the end of the story. ... Owing to the simple expression he used in the book, I could understand the story. ... Moreover, during in his short life Dickens not only wrote lots of works but almost every book has become classical works. ... Among the wrinkles in his face strange stories are hidden. ...

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However, Paulsen did not die and lived to write about the incident in his book, The Madonna Stories (1988). ... He slowly graduated to writing realistic fiction and books with shorter titles. ... He then wrote books of all different types of genres, including plays, magazine articles, short stories, and non-fiction and fiction novels. ... Many of Paulsen's novels are also based on stories that his grandmother told him when he was little. ...

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It was in 1948 that Baldwin received his first publication of one of his short stories (Als 140). ... His most famous novel, Got Tell It on the Mountain published in 1953, is an unusual depiction of a coming-of-age story of a fourteen year old boy, John Grimes. The story involves John's aunt, mother, stepfather, and biological father. ...

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Rafferty is capable of seducing the reader with his descriptions of the story: "A fascinating creature-a monster of mythic proportions, bellowing and thrashing and belching fire right to the end" (131) or again in the passage: "And his gestures have a kind of savage abruptness, an aura of impatience that charges every moment with the threat of brutality. ... This keeps the reader focused on the text and provides realism, enabling us to have a first hand experience and be direct witnesses of the story in order to make our own conclusions about it. ... Rafferty is also a master ...

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Literature links all lives together across the globe simply through a story. This story is about pain, love, family; it's the idea that people can express themselves though black ink on paper. ... Those stories have influenced my idea of a future husband. ... I knew then that I was thankful for a short name because I had a hard time writing it! ...

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He has noticed that his reading has become more skimming, and it "has taken on a 'staccato' quality, reflecting the way he quickly scans short passages from many sources online" (Carr). ... In Socrates' time, the sage philosopher stated that the act of writing stories down instead of just telling them was going to change the way people used their minds. ... In a Ted Talk lecture, Wesch tells the story of Seymour Papert, cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, who predicted years ago that in the future people would have their very own "knowledge machi...

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Lola Ridge was a poet and champion of the working class. Born by Rose Emily and Joseph Henry on December 12, 1873, in Dublin, Ireland. When Lola was twenty-one she married Peter Webster. Peter was a gold mine manager. Lola's marriage failed so she moved to Sydney, New South Wales. She enrolled in Tr...

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Dear Chris L-----, I am writing you to submit my completed version of Assignment #2, "Vision of Revision." Upon reviewing my most recent work, I've become aware of several areas which I believe I should improve. From content. to writing style, to mechanics, one can observe several areas that can...

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"Well, OK, it seems to always fall on me to tell the truth and, hey, I don't mind. It's not nearly as bad a job as some people think- (Giovanni, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles). Nikki Yolande Giovanni is one of America's most recent poets who gained fame as a writer during the 1060s. Nikki Giovanni, ...

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A Room of Many Thoughts One of the first things to notice about A Room of One's Own is that it is not a typical lecture. It rambles and flows back and forth, in and out. It is more narrative than Logic. It breaks many of the conventions of a formal address. Why does Virginia Woolf choose to...

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"Being There" offers us a story of a man, who did not have any experience from life other than from the Television Programs he has watched. ... Because he did not speak much and said short but logical explanations about gardens, everybody though he is smart, educated and valuable person. ...

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A whole new three story brick building with high ceilings and hallways that looked identical every corner you turned. ... With a short pause the once buzzing theater went silent, a man in a gray suit with a green tie walks up to the microphone in the middle of the stage, with the other unfamiliar three people standing at his side. ...

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