... gone surgeon. While the narrator does not give a direct explanation of the symbolism of the eyes watching over the ashes valley, the most pervasive interpretation giving to it by many readers and literature scholars, is that it is the eyes of God looking at the moral decay of the 1920's- the returning generation of Americans who had returned from fighting in World War I had experienced ... such a carnage and the misery of human nature and life. They were disillusioned and came to question the ... alter their past and personal defining identities; they share elements of childhood povert...

• Word Count: 7760
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... life, it shouldn't be an accepted part of high school life, and it isn't. It is against school rules to utter and write profane words, which means they are not suitable in a school setting. So, considering these regulations, how is it suitable to read them on every page of a seemingly high school - appropriate work of literature? This book contradicts school policy. Furthermore, since it ... is part of the curriculum, students are urged to read it; if just one student gets into something they didn't bargain for when reading "damn" on ... to read in a school setting. In conclusion, alth...

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... faced with the same type of decision; on the surface he faces a choice between his American fiancée and his European boyfriend, but ultimately, like Baldwin, he must grapple with being alienated by the culture that produced him" (104). Baldwin offers recurring thematic elements that address the complexities ... which pervade both his culture and his life, being shunned from that which you are a part of. While "Sonny's Blues," was published nine years later, in a collection of short stories titled Going to Meet the Man ... as a young man, the story is not auto-biographical. It does howev...

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... writing, and his first two novels were notorious successes. In August 1847 Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of the Chief Justice of Massachusetts, and began a new book,  Mardi, which would be published in 1849. The novel was another Polynesian adventure, but its fantastical elements and jarring juxtaposition of styles made it a critical and commercial disappointment. The successes, "Redburn" (1849) and "White-Jacket," (1850) returned ... most renowned novel, "Moby-Dick." Although now heralded as a landmark work in American literature, the novel received little acclaim upon i...

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... eloping, she comments that they can't behave like people in novels'. At the same time, Newland's passion for literature does seem to imply that he is getting some of his notions as to how people should behave from his reading; perhaps the contrast between his somewhat sterile engagement and ... with greater and greater affection on Ellen - who, ironically, is more of a real person' than most of the other, stereotypical, characters. Later, when Newland discusses the prospect of divorce with Ellen, we see further examples of irony in the elements which attract them to each other. Ellen wa...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Philippines, and under his command, opposition figures including Benigno Aquino, journalists, student and labor activists, and criminal elements were arrested by military figures. An estimated total of about 30,000 detainees were kept at military compounds run by the army and the Philippine Constabulary. Weapons were confiscated and "private armies" connected with prominent politicians and other ... 's work futile. It is an attempt to brainwash the people of the Philippines, to alienate them from anything and everything that may open their minds to things unrelated to the Marcos regime....

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• Grade Level: High School

... legendary Shakespeare to the great Simon, for centuries playwrights have filled the lives of readers and theater goers with entertainment. Drama is a versatile genre of literature which has withstood the test of time. However, according to McMahan, Day, and Funk, "drama is not as flexible as other forms of literature." (p.602) "A writer of fiction can take as much time as needed to inform the reader about ... audience's interest immediately, and to maintain that interest throughout the play. In addition to structure, a well written play will include inserts of humor, action, and literar...

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• Grade Level: High School

... support. Ralph Waldo Emerson ranks as a leading figure in the thought and literature of American civilization. He was an essayist, critic, poet, orator, and popular philosopher. He brought together elements from the past and shaped them into literature that had an important effect on later American writing. He influenced the work of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, ... and Robert Frost. Emerson's essays are a series of loosely related impressions, maxims, proverbs, and parables. He has been ... , his first wife, Ellen, died in 1831 and his...

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• Grade Level: High School

... black" (from the third stanza) to create a picture in the reader's mind. Using this as an image helps to have a better understanding of the complexity of the problem that the speaker is facing. The allegorical "way" has been chosen; a self has been forever made, but it is only by ... not pass this way again. When the traveler comes to the fork in the road, he wishes he could travel both. Within the current theories of our physical world, this is a non- possibility (unless he has a split personality). The traveler realizes this and immediately rejects the idea. In ... and that this choi...

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... melody and harmony. He explains: I do not believe a composition can be significant without the basic elements of rhythm, melody, and harmony in their proportion You have composers who don't have a sense of what it means to create a harmonic idiom You're aware of what contemporary vocabulary consists of, but you must find how to use it in a way that will allow you to create ... that his styles and techniques are not Black, but individually his as an American composer. Walker may still be considered a Black composer by many, but his use of traditional Black American elements fused with me...

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• Grade Level: High School

... violent. David Baldwin was an unforgiving man with a terrible temper, who eventually ended up being committed to a psychiatric hospital. In the middle of all the chaos in him home, James Baldwin discovered an appetite for literature (Als 139). When he was fourteen, he joined the Baptist ministry which was, more than likely, against his will. Growing up in Harlem ... influenced differently. James Baldwin's influences varied. Growing up during the Harlem Renaissance, James Baldwin was aware of his surroundings. The Harlem Renaissance was an era that experienced the flowering of African-Amer...

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... Associations views, and therefore wrote only that which he felt could lift the coffin lid off his people. DuBois gave the white conservative elements of the NAACP fits because of his scathing commentaries. World War I had dramatic affects on the lives of Black folks. Firstly, the Armed Forces refused Black inductees, but finally relinquished and put the "colored folks" in subservient roles. Secondly ... by Fauset and others. It is difficult to define and chart DuBois's intellectual evolution on the question of the role of Black art. At the beginning of the Renaissance, DuBois, scholar Gar...

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... in Kansas during the quiet years before World War 1. Where he learned the blues and spirituals, he would later use this to put the musical elements into his poetry and fiction. Langston was an only child and when he went to school he was the only black student. As a Black in ... with his mother and her husband. The search for employment made his mother and stepfather, Homer Clark, to move many times. Hughes moved between the households of his grandmother, his mother and other close family members. He wrote an essay, which describes that slept in "Ten Thousand Beds."" Hughes finally settl...

• Word Count: 534
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• Grade Level: High School

... who he married in 1946. Through it all, Ernest continued to write. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. But by the late 1950s Ernest was not well. In 1959, he and Mary moved to Ketchum, Idaho and purchased a house. ... of abstraction and simplification beyond painting and sculpture to architecture and graphic and industrial design. Mondrian's essays on abstract art were published in the periodical De Stijl. In July 1919, he returned to Paris; there he exhibited with De Stijl in 1923, but withdrew from the group after van Doesburg reintroduced diag...

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... Unitarianclergyman. Demonstrating a strong interest in poetry and art from an early age, Cummings enjoyed the full support and encouragement of his parents. He attended Harvard from 1911 to 1915, studying literature and writing daily. He eventually joined the editorial board of the Harvard Monthly, a college literary magazine, where he worked with his close friends S. Foster Damon and John Dos Passos ... dissertation, "The New Art." In this paper, Cummings extolled modernism as practiced by Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and Pablo Picasso. He also began incorporating elements o...

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... artists associated with this movement worked in a very individual style, they were linked by the desire to find a new means of artistic expression. Rather than including recognizable objects in their work, they used the elements of painting itself - color, line, shape, brushstrokes, texture, and light - to express emotions. Their influences included prehistoric cave paintings, Native American, pre-Columbian, Mexican, and African art, along ... , movement, strength, power, fear - it is all there. Pollock's technique was not just a means to an end. It was an end in itself. "I have no fears...

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... social issues involving the African-American experience. Issues explored in his various plays range from interracial marriage to segregation and discrimination in the Army. Walter Kerr briefly describes the intentions of Fuller's plays: [ ] Fuller explores human relationships, particularly between blacks and whites, in what many critics find realistic, unbiased, and poignant terms. He's not tendentious: the work isn't agitprop ... sergeant's tortured life and type fact that maybe Fuller should have not used a segregated army instead make it set after integration. Fuller briefly discusse...

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... they are not asked to show proof of resident status. One-third of Haitian Immigrants fall in this category; most of them start their lives that way. Haitian culture fuses African, French, and West Indian elements. Formerly a social divider, the Creole language is now being used in attempts to define a national culture. The language is used in literature, drama, music, dance, and some governmental ... functions. Haitian works of art are enjoying increasing worldwide recognition. Section III: The Interview Vanessa Joseph, Friend, March 3, 2003, Conference Call ... I am not ready to call ...

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... the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison and palace and reverberation Of thunder of spring over distant mountains. 322-27 The passage starts out with an allusion to John 18:3, which describes the soldiers who ... Staffan Bergsten sums it up best by saying, "While the European Christian tradition forms the core of Eliot's vast reading and learning, there is among the more peripheral material one sphere of thought and literature that deserves special attention in the context: Indian philosophy" (60). Eliot, being a scholar in .....

• Word Count: 2650
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• Grade Level: High School