... a time as a domestic, and later as a writer. Her first works were published pseudononymously (A.M. Barnard and others). Many of her stories were gory "potboilers" featuring strong, self-sufficient women. Civil War Interlude Louisa May Alcott served as a nurse during the Civil War, but upon contracting typhoid was sent home. She never completely recovered. Hospital Sketches, a collection of letters she wrote during the ... ...

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... smoke is an emanation from a natural process but originally ignited by man. "The Sluggish Smoke- serves as a teaching lesson, using the smoke as guiding force for the human imagination to ascend from the phenomenal realm. In the poem "Light-Winged- smoke also is a tool for humans to strive to unite with a spiritual realm, but also provides a moral on the limitations of ... ...

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... minimum of food and still live a healthy life. In contrast, George F. Babbitt lives upon the same luxuries of food that Thoreau has denounced as unnecessary. Because of his persistence to ascend up the social ladder, he can only eat the finest and most refined delicacies. Lewis looks to satire the American upper-class society's tendency to eat the best of foods ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School