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A Brief History Of The Blues

Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although ...

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The Albanian Virgin

ALICE MUNRO�S IN OPEN SECRETS EXEMPLIES HER CHARACTERISTIC APPROACH To try to trace Alice Munro�s narrative techniques to any particular development in the short story would be difficult. This could be because it is simply written from careful observations as are many of her other short ...

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The Life And Work Of Ronald Dahl

September 13, 1916, was the day Harald and Sofie Dahl, two Norwegian immigrants living in Wales, had their first son, a boy they named Roald. Even before birth Roald was supposed to be endowed with great sense of beauty, courtesy of his father. Harald Dahl, a thriving ship broker in Cardiff, ...

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Stephen King: The King Of Terror

Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a ...

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Stephen King

�If you have an imagination, let it run free.� Stephen Edwin King is one of today�s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to ...

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The Future Of The Race

The title of Gates and West’s book evokes nineteenth and early twentieth-century works: Martin Delayn’s Past, Present and Future of the Negro Race (1854), William Hannibal Thomas’s The American Negro:What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become (1901)…….. Within ...

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Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut as an author has defied the normal norms of storytelling and has been very successful at it. The use of fragmentation in has been a weapon he has used to good effect. It starts of as being confusing and chaotic but as it goes on you come to terms with it understanding it ...

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Just Whom Is Edmund Gosse�s Father And Son Written For?

? ? Is it for the Father, or for the Son, or, as Edmund Gosse tells us, for the public, so they can have a record of life in a rigidly religious family? Edmund begins his book by telling you that it is a historical record, an important chronicle that is to be used, basically as a reference for ...

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A River Runs Through It By Nor

Norman Mclean�s A River Runs Through It explores many feelings and experiences of one �turn of the century� family in Missoula, Montana. In both the movie, directed by Robert Redford, and the original work of fiction we follow the Mcleans through their joys and sorrows. However, the names of the ...

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Nisei Daughter

�Even with all the mental anguish and struggle, an elemental instinct bound us to this soil. Here we were born; here we wanted to live. We had tasted of its freedom and learned of its brave hopes for democracy. It was too late, much too late for us to turn back.� (Sone 124). This statement is ...

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Stephen King, Bio

Stephen Edwin King is one of today’s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a ...

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Impact of African American Female Writers

A growing number of black female artists and writers emerged throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction eras before finally bursting into the mainstream of American culture in the 1920s, with the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance. After playing a significant role in both the civil rights movement ...

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

Introduction to Shakespeare's Sonnets A sonnet is a 14-line poem that rhymes in a particular pattern. In Shakespeare's sonnets, the rhyme pattern is abab cdcd efef gg, with the final couplet used to summarize the previous 12 lines or present a surprise ending. The rhythmic pattern of the sonnets ...

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1984

George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, a British writer with political conscience. He was born in India but educated in England at Eton College. He served the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. In sick health, he returned to Europe to live in poverty as a struggling ...

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�Masque Of The Red Death�vs.�Fall Of The House Of Usher�: A Glimpse Into The Life Of Poe

Edgar Allen Poe was a great author. He wrote many great short stories and literary works. In his writings, he used a variety of literary elements. It is key in a great author to use these elements in the way he did. Edgar also had a very interesting and troubled life. In comparing Edgar Allen ...

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Henry James

Post-Civil War American Literature saw a transition from the prominence of romance to the development of realism. In the late 1800\'s, the United States was experiencing swift growth and change as a result of a changing economy, society, and culture because of an influx in the number of ...

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Haroun And The Sea Of Stories

In Rushdie's book, Haroun is the son of Rashid Khalifa, a famous story-teller, who loses his powers of story-telling when his wife leaves him for Mr. Sengupta, a town clerk who hates fictional stories. Haroun accompanies his father to the beautiful Dull Lake which closely resembles the Dal Lake in ...

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Literature - A Mirror Of Socie

The literature of a country is affected and influenced by how the people of that country live. This paper will prove that The French Revolution greatly influenced 19th Century French Romanticism. First, the cultural values of the revolution will be identified. Then, the different aspects of ...

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Heroes

"I Venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime!" Daniel Webster defines: *Hero: �� one renowned for exceptional courage and fortitude; a champion; an idol A thesaurus goes a little further when it says: ...

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Stephen Sondheim

was born on 22 March 1930, the son of a wealthy New York dress manufacturer. But, when his parents divorced, his mother moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania and young Stephen found himself in the right place at the right time. A neighbour of his mother\'s, Oscar Hammerstein II, was working on a ...

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