He describes these days as in terms of innocence and indolence. ... In opening the poem in this way, Hughes is declaring Cubism to be a style representative of the elite, white classes. ... By referencing this style of art and then pointing out this incredible disparity, he is stressing the dual identity of the African American. ... The style that Hughes is using is both a symbol of the power structure and a rejection of it. ... This novel is a fictionalized autobiography, about the coming of age of a young black man in small town Kansas at the start of the twentieth century. ...

• Word Count: 2547
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Due to the notion of where beauty lies that was implanted in her mind at such a young age she is obsessed with the need to achieve this beauty and longs to obtain blue eyes as it occurs to Pecola that "if her eyes were different, that is to say, beautiful, she herself would be different" (46). ... After being unable to process and accept the fact that her father raped her, she receives her wish of blue eyes in a disturbing form; Pecola encounters the spiritualist Soaphead Church, a self-proclaimed "Reader, Adviser, and Interpreter of Dreams" who finds pleasure in hating others a...

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We witness the child is ignorant of the sorrows of death as she wept for what began' Thus a loss of innocence. ... The use of the oxymoron ancient innocence' and quote near breaking point' indicates how fragile and dependent the father has become. ... Strong Imagery such as ripening of fruit' not only symbolizes the ripening of time and old age but the fact this change is viewed as positive. ... Through juxtaposing the two sections and style change is evident. ... In the short story sky high by Hannah Robert' we experience two contrasting periods of a women'...

• Word Count: 2540
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The people of the counterculture were young college age men and women. ... With the growth of the counterculture these students dropped out of school and out of the mainstream United States society to join this alternative style of living. ... Hippies promoted a different bright colored clothing, sex, drugs, rock music, and independent free style of living. ... The leader of the organization Allen Cohen said, " Without confirmation we wanted to create a celebration of innocence. ... An estimated 450,000 young people showed up to "witness an unprecedented rock music extravaganza,"...

• Word Count: 3652
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Plath's use of imagery and the style in her poems have intrigued the thoughts of many critics. ... Plath's unique style is interpreted by Caroline King Barnard Hall in "Sylvia Plath, Revised- as being child-like. ... The style of "Daddy- has consistent end rhyme and rhythmic regularity from beginning to end. ... She's talking about her father and saying how his innocence separated him from everyone else, including her husband. ... At twenty years of age she tried to commit suicide to be with her father, since she couldn't find anyone as trustworthy as him. ...

• Word Count: 2858
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• Grade Level: High School

The Walden book review praises Kozol on his style and storytelling. ... He uses the children brilliantly because their innocence allows them to remain pure and hopeful even though they are in a slum area with little hope for a bright future. ... Also people will feel sympathy toward the youths because of they are innocence. ... (Kozol 101) However, Kozol then reveals that Guliani soon cancels 11,000 jobs for children of their ages, as well as afterschool programs in which children would be safe while families work. ...

• Word Count: 4415
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• Grade Level: High School

Some of his traits are typical of a child his age, for example his concern about leaving his mother to start school. However, in other ways, Antonio is unlike children his age. ... After he witnesses Lupito's death, Antonio becomes worried with sin, punishment, and the loss of innocence. ... Ultima's style of teaching implies that she is more interested in helping Antonio develop into an independent person than in teaching him any particular moral outlook on life. ...

• Word Count: 3136
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His poetry encountered great critical interest for its "employment of satire and verbal digression, its presentation of the individual versus society, and its treatment of guilt and innocence" (Safier, 528). Byron considered Alexander Pope--an important satirist in the Age of Reason--as a model for him and his writing, thus influencing his own satirical style. ... At the age of 21, Byron was given a seat at the House of Lords and went to sessions for that year (Slovey and Haerens 67). ...

• Word Count: 2505
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During the 18th and 19th century, the age at which a child should be held responsible for his or her actions was debated for centuries. "No child under the age of discretion should be punished for any crime- (Blackstone, 1899, p. 1230). The period of childhood, was divided further into two categories: aetas pueritia proxima, which were ages 7 to 10 ½ and aetas pubertati proxima, which were ages 10 ½ to 14. ... Delinquent children fro 10 ½ to 14 years of age were punishable only if the prosecution could prove intent, and persons 14 to 25 could receive capital and other punishments as re...

• Word Count: 2997
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The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... Instead of a single unified poetic diction, different styles coexist more frequently. ... His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer o...

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He actually glows in most of his photograph's we are supposed to believe he's the hero of the age" It is possible that Warhol chose to appropriate the Kennedy image because it had been used so much. ... His style and elegance swung many voters into believing he would make a good president. ...

• Word Count: 3620
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Sir Gawain Analysis Sir Gawain and the Green Knight contains many themes. Some of these themes are more obvious than others. Love, lust, loyalty, deceit, trust, courage, virtue, and righteousness are most of the themes within the poem. There are some more that are hidden within the concepts of...

• Word Count: 2582
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According to Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, the producers "[...] changed [Pocahontas'] age, her body, and gave her a motive for her actions that boils down to going gaga over the first white man she sees-. ...

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The poem shows the uniqueness of life and the power that is possess, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees". ... "The spire cranes" is a very fantastical poem with the fantasy style birds coming to life. ...

• Word Count: 2553
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• Grade Level: High School

Chapter 1: Introduction While PSY's viral sensation Gangnam Style may have opened the floodgates of K-pop to mainstream consciousness worldwide, it is not indicative of the phenomenon itself by any means. ... Gangnam Style was the first, and possibly last, time that a South Korean popular artist has had such widespread success based on purely a combination of elements beyond their record label's control. ... "Gangnam Style was not normal. ... This is not the case with mass media, and the K-pop industry, as it generates song productions, stylings and choreography based on what ...

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For me personally it was amazing how a man, basically, of my age (Welles was only 24 when he started to work on Citizen Kane) could produce such an exclusive and outstanding masterpiece. ... Throughout the film, Welles lets the viewer think for himself - the style is full of verve and inventiveness, the narrative strategy is subliminal. ... His parents divorced at age 6, his mother died at age 9, his father was a drunk and died when Orson was 15. ...

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There is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fictional ingredients-setting, character, style, and plot-seeks and maintains a delicate balance. ...

• Word Count: 4675
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fictional ingredients-setting, character, style, and plot-seeks and maintains a delicate balance. ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Different authors use various figures of speech to present their characters in plays or poems. For actors, figures of speech usually help to determine the most prominent traits of characters. The first part one of this paper analyzes the character of Doctor Faustus who is the protagonist of Marlowe...

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By the Middle Ages many thousands of people were traveling to visit shrines all over Europe and the near East, in search of spiritual or physical benefits. ... The main lines of the style of English sanctity were clear: kings who were martyred and women who renounced their high-born stations to embrace chastity and the monastic life. ...

• Word Count: 4695
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In the first month of the war, half a million men were recruited, while by February 1916, 2,631,000 men had volunteered for active service, while conscription, begun by the Derby scheme, placing all men aged 18-41 on a call-up list, led to only a further 2,339,000 being conscripted. ... Indeed, the attacks on the Somme, and many other dismal affairs like it, Passchendaele for example, may well have not been possible, bar such unscrupulous recruitment practices, many of the enlisting Sergeants allowing underage enlistment, "smiling they wrote his lie: aged 19 years", (Disabled) sending five di...

• Word Count: 6124
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

LMU Munchen - Institut fur englische Philologie - Sommersemester 2002 OS/HS: Australian Cinema Seminarleiter: Prof. Dr. Graham Huggan Autor: M. Endres, Connollystr.3, D 80809 Munchen Abgabetermin: 31.08.2002 Seminararbeit Australian national cinema 1970-2000: A window to the chancing face of Australian national identity and self image Contents 1. National cinema - an introduction S. 04 - 06 1.1 "The Hollywoodisation- phenomenon S. 03 - 04 1.2 Australian national cinema S. 04 1.3 S. 05 - 06 2. ...

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He began schooling at age six at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding school in Wahpeton ND (Matthiessen, 45). ... Peltier moved back to Turtle Mountain at age 13. ... They questioned two Indians who would not divulge their names and spotted a military style bunker near the ranch. ...

• Word Count: 3908
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At the opening of the Lord of the Flies, a plane, transporting a group of boys from England is attacked and crashes in the jungle. Two boys, Ralph and Piggy, meet and make their way to the beach. Upon their arrival, they discover a conch shell near the water. Using the shell as a trumpet, Ralph s...

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Although he tried to write a novel as early as age twelve, his parents urged him to study the natural sciences. ... Golding employs a relatively straightforward writing style in Lord of the Flies, one that avoids highly poetic language, lengthy description, and philosophical interludes. ...

• Word Count: 11237
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• Grade Level: High School