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- 1641: A. A. Milne
- ... all sons. Milne was the youngest and often wished he had a sister. At the school he attended, Henley House, he had teachers that included H. G. Wells, who undoubtedly helped ignite his flame for writing. (The Oxford Companion to English Literature) As you can see, he was exposed to writing influence even from an early age. In 1915, Milne went into the army and left his job as editor of Punch magazine. When he returned, his friend, Owen Seaman told him that they had replaced him with someone they all liked more. At first, this disappointed Milne, but soon he realized that he was an avid writer. He preferred writing plays and maintaining his own schedule. (Second Plays) He liked the intricacy of writing plays and seeing them performed. He wrote tons of plays and got much critical acclaim, but his first big hit ...
- 1642: Aeneus Emotional Rollercoaster
- Many scholars criticize the -Aeneid as being an interpretation of the Odyssey and Iliad through the eyes a Roman writer. Although similar events occur accompanied by familiar characters, Virgil does not utilize the same writing style of Homer. Virgil's writing represents a more sophisticated art of writing reflective of the time period. Aeneus' character does not share the same features of the Odysseus. Aeneus lacks the wits and leadership that Odysseus had. Aeneus molding into a leader occurred over the span ...
- 1643: Realism
- ... War was just beginning around 1865. When it concluded, World War I was just initiating. Just as America was changing rapidly, Realism was quickly replacing the literary movement called “Romanticisim”, which was optomistic and sentimental writing. Extreme improvements in transporation, including railroads and places helped to construct Realism into a popular writing style. Realism is a form of writing that stated the truth by giving us graphic details and using “local characters”. Although Naturalism and Regionalism were constructed from the same Realism, they each had different goals. Naturalism felt writing was a way ...
- 1644: Ralph Waldo
- ... wife influenced Emerson. He also inspired many Transcendentalists like Thoreau. Emerson didn’t win any major awards, but he did win the love and appreciation of his readers. Literary Information Emerson wrote many genres of writing including poetry and sermons, but his best writing is found in his essays. Even though he is noted for his essays, he was also a strong force in poetry. Emerson was known for presenting ideas in an expressive style. He wrote about numerous ... it was visiting England, the Transcendental Movement or if it was abolishing slavery. He didn’t receive much fame during his lifetime, but after he passed away in1882, he was remembered for all of his writing, not just one good essay. "Emerson was the most important figure during the Romantic Period" (Myerson 3). He left his mark on writing, especially the Romantic Period. Bibliography "Emerson, Ralph Waldo." Microsoft Encarta. CD- ...
- 1645: Teenage Love
- ... cope with ending a relationship, there are also unhealthy ways that some of us are drawn to do. In trying to cope with a breakup, during the loneliness phase, many use manipulative methods to require personal power (the freedom of choice and movement). Some of these manipulative methods are by going through the ex’s best friend and playing detective (is he seeing anyone? is she still upset?), threatening incapacitation’s ... down) - your ex doesn’t believe these, you don’t believe these, so don’ t say them. - and finally, by threatening revenge like, showing up with another girl at a party, physical violence, etc. A personal example of this is a friend who we’ll call Christine. When school started, Christine was dating Tom who eventually left her to date their mutual friend, Megan. Christine was extremely upset and she told ... t know what to do. Teens must realize that no matter how bad things seem, everyone goes through it and everyone gets over it. All of the above methods are completely wrong ways to regain personal power. When attempting to let go, one should break contact and avoid hanging around places where you know he or she will be. You should accept that it’s over, stop asking why, realize ...
- 1646: Plus (computer Program)
- ... in C++ [2]. It isn't meant as a complete language tutorial. More information of a tutorial nature is available from the WWW page: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/Sather At the time of this writing, the only compiler implementing the 1.1 language specification is available from ICSI. It is freely available, includes source for class libraries and the compiler, and compiles into ANSI C. This compiler has been ported ... which it appears access to it. An attribute or shared may instead be declared readonly to allow only the class in which it appears to modify it. Accessor routines are automatically defined for reading or writing attributes, shareds, and constants. The set of non-private methods in a class defines the interface of the corresponding type. Method definitions consist of statements; for their construction expressions are used. There are special literal ... of the language. There is ''syntactic sugar'' (page 116) for standard infix mathematical symbols such as '+' and '^' as calls to otherwise ordinary routines with names 'plus' and 'pow'. 'a+b' is just another way of writing 'a.plus(b)'. Similarly, 'a[i]' translates to 'a.aget(i)' when used in an expression. An assignment 'a[i] := expr' translates into 'a.aset(i,expr)'. 1.5.4 Separation of Subtyping and ...
- 1647: Contrasting Poets Lawrence and Shapiro in Their Views of Nature
- ... are D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Dylan Thomas, and H.G. Wells. D.H. Lawrence views on nature are more humanistic, rather than natural. He loves individuality and "inner self" (Magill, 1686). His writing were pure because of his adolescent puritan environment (Becker, 5). D.H. Lawrence, although in the twentieth century, is a die-hard romantic (Albright, 1). To Lawrence, nature was an item of beauty and creativity ... the world was flat" and "faltered at each brilliant entity - drawn like a prize from a magician's hat (Magill, 2542). He was more interested in social meaning rather than nature (Stepanchev, 485). He bean writing on the philosophy that "everything we are taught is false" (Spears, 487). "Karl Shapiro's poems are fresh and young and rash and live: their hard clear outlines, their flat bold colours create a world ... ideas. Shapiro cared more of social issues rather than the quest for a meaning of nature. In conclusion, even though two poets are in the same century, they may not have the same views and writing techniques. One major idea of conflict within century poets is the concept of nature. Many poets are either before or behind their own time. Karl Shapiro wrote as a twentieth century poet, while D. ...
- 1648: Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... which ended with Huck s adoption by Widow Douglas. But it is so much more. Into this book the world called his masterpiece, Mark Twain put his prime purpose, one that branched in all his writing: a plea for humanity, for the end of caste, and of its cruelties (Allen 260). Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835. During his childhood he lived in Hannibal, Missouri, a Mississippi river port that was to become a large influence on his future writing. It was Twain s nature to write about where he lived, and his nature to criticize it if he felt it necessary. As far his structure, Kaplan said, In plotting a book his structural sense ... from incident to incident with a grace their creator could never achieve in manipulating an artificial plot (Kaplan 16). His best friend of forty years William D. Howells, has this to say about Twain s writing. So far as I know, Mr. Clemens is the first writer to use in extended writing the fashion we all use in thinking, and to set down the thing that comes into his mind ...
- 1649: Grapes Of Wrath 4
- ... it in New York so he moved back and became an author. Style: John Steinbeck s style is to write about something that he knows first hand. He likes to have all the details before writing his stories. Prior to writing The Grapes of Wrath, he caught up with some migrants from Oklahoma and rode with them on their journey to California. His style in The Grapes of Wrath is to have a chapter with dialogue ... classic, this would most likely fall under the genre of drama. Notes: As you read The Grapes of Wrath you must take into consideration that Steinbeck has traveled with Oklahoma migrants so that he is writing from experience. However, because he wants to get sympathy for migrants he may exaggerate conditions a little. Steinbeck uses a lot of symbolism in his writing. He starts with a turtle symbolizing the Joad ...
- 1650: Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and His Life
- ... Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway was brought up in a somewhat conservative household by his parents who pushed the value of politeness and religion. It wasn't until he began English classes in school that his writing talent began to shine. After he graduated from high school Hemingway turned his back on university and he decided to move to Kansas City. It was there where he got his first job as a writer. He was a reporter for the Kansas City Star. The Star was the first to introduce to him the news writing format which demands brief, to the point sentences and the smooth flowing of ideas. It seems that Hemingway adapted this style to his fiction writng. Hemingway demonstrates this talent in a short story called "A ... him. He began living at home again but refused to get a job, even when his mother ordered him to. Soon she kicked him out and he moved to Chicago. Here he made a living writing for the Toronto Star and working as a sparring partner for boxers. While he was in Chicago he met his first wife, the young and innocent Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. Soon the young couple were ...
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