The Puritans were practical, intensely committed, and convinced of the rightness of their purpose. ... This new writing influence can be found in the works of William Bradford, who wrote OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION, and Anne Bradstreet, author of HERE FOLLOW SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE, JULY 10, 1666. ... Influenced writers of this time include Washington Irving, author of RIP VAN WINKLE; Edgar Allan Poe, author of many masterpieces, such as THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, ELDORADO, ANNABEL LEE, TO HELEN, and THE RAVEN; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, author of the famous MO...

• Word Count: 774
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bender-Baird's writing aims to expose these gender injustices to the public eye and hopes that in due time, would reach a meaningful concurrence for political officials to consider. ... The author's sensitivity about the definition of terms regarding transgenders entails her meaning precision and phraseological consistency. ... Although the purpose of the book was clearly stated, which is to provide a wider picture of reality that is happening in a transgender's workplace and subsequent scrutiny of constitutional legislations pertaining to transgender employment protections, ...

• Word Count: 1525
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

According to Thomas Paine, the author of Common Sense, each man has his natural rights including his innate right to liberty whereby no established institution or nation can alter, let alone counter. ... This document, one of the many, resulted in the writing and passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, which expanded freedom to erase the boundaries of race. These political ideologists illustrate how America moved from its chaotic and nave birth to its grasp on some vague sort of identity whereby liberty has been at its closest to being fully defined according to each author. ... Whether ...

• Word Count: 1973
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Upton Sinclair, author of the book The Jungle, narrates the actual realities of American life during this time, through the eyes of an immigrant family from Lithuania. Sinclair with intentions of writing the book solely for the purpose of promoting socialistic ideology ended up writing a novel that alarmed the public and forced our government into taking action. ... This however was not Sinclair's main intentions of writing the book. ...

• Word Count: 953
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

There was not much leisure time for sitting around and writing. One author commented that his ink had a tendency to freeze while still in the vial. ... She was acclaimed because she used her skills as a housewife proved so formidable that despite capture by the Natives she was kept alive for that purpose. ... Also during this time the standards of living were becoming increasingly high and as a result reading and writing could be given more priority. 26 newspapers sprouted up during this time along with many influential essays by writers like Alexander Pope and John Dryden .The Great Awak...

• Word Count: 1091
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In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... The great commentaries of Julius Caesar were more like inspired reporting than pure history writing, and the personal element in them was strong. ... The biographical or semibiographical accounts of knightly deeds in the Crusades gave r...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. ... Africans were brought to America solely for the purpose of bolstering the wealth of their white masters. ...

• Word Count: 2312
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

Purpose of the research: I have chosen this book The jungle by Upton Sinclair because I think that working class people of the 1990's..still live in a capitalistic jungle. ... Primary Author's Biography Upton Sinclair, the most famous of the Americanmuckraker? ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social themes. ... The book became famous and made Sinclair a good deal of money, but the socialist ideals that the author intended as the cure for the ills of capitalism were not r...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Abstract: The traditional way of teaching reading affects the students' reading ability. This paper analyses its disadvantages and gives some suggestions and measures from different aspects. They are vocabulary, reading habits, reading skills, outside reading and also the psychology of the current s...

• Word Count: 3965
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School