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- 2801: Biographical Influences in The Great Gatsby
- ... after two cups of black coffee. I really worked hard as hell last winter-but it was all trash and it nearly broke my heart as well as my iron constitution." The book Fitzgerald is writing about is The Great Gatsby, and the trash is the eleven stories and articles he wrote during the winter to make a payoff all the debts he suffered due to his horrible downfall in The ... This can also be seen in Zelda's affair. Zelda just wants to make her husband jealous. Zelda has an affair to try and get her husband's mind on her rather than on his writing. Also, Daisy and Zelda, make the men that have shown a great deal of interest in them achieve financial accomplishments before they will commit to them. In real life Zelda fell in love with Fitzgerald ...
- 2802: The Enlightenment Writers
- ... politically which would lead to self betterment. Enlightenment writers and pre-Enlightenment writers were similar in the way that they tried to convey reason and learning. They differed of the premise of the techniques of writing. The pre-Enlightenment writers were mostly made up of the educated class of clergy and the upper class, who would afford to go to school. The clergy wrote mainly for the purposes of the church, such as transcribing books or writing works on God or religion. The upper-class writers would be of the nobility, so they would usually write for aesthetic purposes or to write essays to impress their peers. Many great ideas were presented ...
- 2803: The Emergence Of On-line Tradi
- ... funds as it did before internet became an everyday household word. Now, much attention surrounds on-line investing in the brokerage industry. On-line investing has only recently begun to expand at astronomical rates. As personal computers become nearly an essential part of life, consumers are beginning to manage their portfolios on-line. Full-service brokerages may now be facing competition from their cyberspace counterparts as these Internet firms expand into ... to the lower prices, the quantity demanded of stock trading increased, as investors became more active traders. As more consumers started investing, more efficient ways were developed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the personal computer industry opened consumers to a whole new world. As a result of advancements within the computer industry, consumers have become much more proficient and comfortable with their use of this new technology. The use ...
- 2804: Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Encyclopedia Extract
- ... of her time. The oldest of twelve children in an upper middle-class family, she received no formal education, but a desire for knowledge enabled her to learn eight languages on her own. She began writing poetry as a child, and by the time she reached adulthood she had published four immensely popular volumes of verse. Though a longtime illness made her something of a recluse, Barrett was able to meet ... in Italy as her doctors had advised, she and Browning married secretly there (Shilstone, 1996, p.656). In 1849, their son was born, whom they nicknamed Pen. Elizabeth Barrett Browning used many different emotions when writing her poetry. In the collection, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1849), Elizabeth let the love for her husband speak. The whole collection is forty-four poems written to Robert Browning. Aurora Leigh (1857) is yet another ...
- 2805: The Life of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... last. Poe's stories, poems, and criticism in the magazine, The Southern Literary Messenger soon attracted attention, and he looked for wider opportunities, not a good choice. From 1837 to 1839 he tried free-lance writing in New York City and Philadelphia but earned very little. Again he tried editing. His work was praised, but he was still paid little. His efforts to organize his own magazine were unsuccessful. For the next two years he turned again to free-lance writing. For one of the most well-known and talented writers of our time, Poe had to struggle for any kind of monetary reconcilement for his genius works. The papers he worked for gained many readers ...
- 2806: Emerson
- ... examination. They believed that they could understand themselves better if they study nature and their surroundings. Transcendentalists also believed in an "Over-Soul" where all forms of being are united spiritually. Emerson's lectures and writing were based on this philosophy. (Hirsh) Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1803. His father, Reverend William Emerson, was a Unitarian minister at the famous First Church in Boston. His ... it became the unofficial statement of the Transcendentalists' beliefs. A little after this, a discussion group with Emerson as its leader was formed. It became known as the "Transcendental Club." He edited a magazine about writing and philosophy that they published which was called "The Dial." The first series of "Essays" was published on March 20, 1841. This book included "Self-Reliance" and "The Over-Soul." A second series of "Essays ...
- 2807: The Narrative Structure
- ... doing this. You could project into the future or return to the time of the audience or go to a past time known to the audience or come back to the present time of the writing basically They lived happily ever after! There may also be more that one of these methods. 3. Treatment The treatment tells the full story, but not yet in fully crystallized scenes. Just as the motion ... completes the task of expression in terms of scenes. The sequence of scenes should be examined with regard to variation, change and contrast. If the story has been developed carefully up to this point, the writing of the screenplay is no radical departure from the previous stages, but merely a final crystallization of the material.
- 2808: Emerson And Thoreau
- ... Thoreau s ideas were simply taken from Emerson s, in fact, some critics call Thoreau Emerson s miror. And although their philosophies greatly reflected one another, they differed in many ways as well. Emerson s writing focused on nonconformity and individuality. In his essay "Self-Reliance," he wrote, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," and, "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist." Emerson ... and Independence from society are all things that Emerson wrote on frequently. Thoreau, while focusing on matters of the self in many of his essays, tended to have more of a political overtone to his writing. In Civil Disobedience , Thoreau s most famous social protest, He explains that it is our civil right to disagree with laws. He believed that people must be free to act according to their own idea ...
- 2809: Emily Dickinson 6
- ... home so she wouldn't have to face the religious environment, and her parents asked her to come home. Emily began to write poems at an early age. She had several inspirations in her poem writing. Emily Bronte was a poet, and after her brother's death she stayed home until her death. Bronte's book became a big success after her death. Emily Dickinson life was similar to hers. Ralph ... reason so few were published was because her poetry was ahead of its time. Emily's poems were different from what the people were used to at this time. She had a great talent for writing poems, but it was not acknowledge until after her death. Emily took her last breath on May fifteenth, eighteen hundred eighty- six. She died of a kidney dysfunction. Her sister, Lavinia, found some of her ...
- 2810: Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach An
- ... Romantic emphases upon self, emotion, and imagination with Neoclassical ones upon the public role of art and a corollary responsibility of the artist. New types of poetry were surfacing, scholars at Oxford and Cambridge began writing in lyrics, narratives, verse, dramas, epics, and prose. In 1857 Matthew Arnold was offered a position, which he accepted and held until 1867, as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Arnold became the first professor to ... land destroying his home and him being helpless to its destruction. These descriptions add "the eternal note of sadness" to the poem. In the second part of the poem, Arnold uses the same method of writing, however he speaks of human history to further support the mood of the "Sea of Faith" and its "eternal sadness". Arnold writes of Sophocles, a Greek dramatist, hearing the "eternal sadness" on "the Aegean" with ...
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