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- 251: Writing Styles of Herman Melville and Edgar Allen Poe
- ... of the unprecedented styles used by Poe and Melville are now widely considered the norm in writing quality literature. One example of this is the single-effect theory first seen in Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher," in which Poe places strict emphasis on word choice in order to correlate each word with the grim appearance of Roderick Usher's house. Nowadays, this is ... and Billy Budd, where we are introduced to several fascinating character that add to the excitement and energy of the story. Both Poe's single-effect theory and Melville's exceptional character development in the short stories, "The Cask of Amontillado," and "Bartelby the Scrivener," written by Poe and Melville respectively. This paper will not only compare the plot and structure of these two stories, but will also argue that these ...
- 252: The Book Of Sand
- Jorge Luis Borges is a famous Spanish author, known best for his short stories. In this paper, I will discuss several short stories written by Mr. Borges, what influenced him in his writings, and a brief history of his place of origin, Argentina. Borges' The Book of Sand is the story of a man who is ...
- 253: Symbols in Poe's Writing
- ... find a job. Eventually he found refuge with his aunt, Mrs. Clemm in Baltimore. There he decided to seek employment and make a living by writing. With failure in writing poems, Poe turned to writing short stories. Poe competed in a short story contest in 1831. Poe did not win the contest so he started on an ambitious project. Poe decided to plan a series of tales, but he could not find a publisher for these ...
- 254: The Book Of Sand By Jorge Luis
- Jorge Luis Borges is a famous Spanish author, known best for his short stories. In this paper, I will discuss several short stories written by Mr. Borges, what influenced him in his writings, and a brief history of his place of origin, Argentina. Borges' The Book of Sand is the story of a man who is ...
- 255: Tennessee Williams
- ... two plays a year since that time. On February 4, 1983, Tennessee Williams died in New York City. Throughout Williams' lifetime he has put forth more than twenty- five full-length plays, more than forty short plays, a dozen produced (and unproduced) screenplays and an opera libretto. These have been translated into at least twenty-seven languages, including Tamil, Welsh, Marathi and Hindi. In addition, there are two novels, a novella, more than sixty short stories, more than one hundred poems, an autobiography, a published volume of letters, introductions to plays and books by others, and occasional pieces and reviews. PLAYS Baby Doll & Tiger Tail Camino Real Cat on a ...
- 256: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ... insightful social critics. In his classic novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald blatantly criticized the immorality, materialism, and hedonism which characterized the lifestyles of America’s bourgeois during the nineteen-twenties. Collectively, Fitzgerald’s novels and short stories provide some of the best insight into the lifestyles of the rich during America’s most prosperous era, while simultaneously examining major literary themes such as disillusionment, coming of age, and the corruption of the ... was often characterized by recklessly drunken behavior. In order to maintain this lifestyle, Fitzgerald was forced to put aside working on novels, and focus his creative efforts on penning lucrative, but by no means extraordinary, short stories. Throughout their marriage, Zelda put constant economic, as well as, emotional strains on Fitzgerald. She encouraged his short story writing, as well as his drinking, and was continually swaying his focus from writing ...
- 257: Hemingway's Soldier's Home: Hemingway's Personal Experiences
- Hemingway's Soldier's Home: Hemingway's Personal Experiences In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Soldier’s Home,” Hemingway’s personal experiences from the war are evident. Hemingway’s life and the life of the main character, Krebs, are very similar. When Hemingway is describing Krebs life it is ... describing his own life. Krebs was a soldier in the war and Hemingway was and ambulance driver. Hemingway did and saw many things during the war that changed him after the war was over. The short story “Soldier’s Home” is more like a biography of that time in Hemingway’s life than it is a short story. After graduation from high school, Ernest Hemingway joined the war in 1918. He was unable to be a soldier because he had bad vision in his left eye, so instead he became an ...
- 258: Naturalism in "The Open Boat"
- Naturalism in "The Open Boat" Stephen Crane was a great writer who wrote many great stories about naturalism. Naturalism is when characters in the story are controlled by the forces of nature. One of Crane's greatest writings on naturalism, is the short story, "The Open Boat." In "The Open Boat," the theme of the story is that man has no control over his destinies and that nature controls everything. Naturalist themes prevail in Stephen Crane's, "The ... Red Badge of Courage. Even though Stephen Crane never truly experienced a battle or war he wrote, The Red Badge of Courage as if he has. Themes of naturalism greatly prevail in Stephen Crane's short story "The Open Boat." The first aspect in Stephen Crane's, "The Open Boat," is realism. In the story, Crane as the correspondent has great significance in that the correspondent in the story is ...
- 259: James Joyce
- ... selecting James Joyce's Ulysses as the best novel of the twentieth century, Time magazine affirmed Joyce's lasting legacy in the realm of English literature. James Joyce (1882-1941), the twentieth century Irish novelist, short story writer and poet is a major literary figure of the twentieth-century. Regarded as "the most international of writers in EnglishˇK[with] a global reputation (Attridge, pix), Joyce's stature in literature stems ... In 1902, Joyce graduated from University College and went to live in exile in Europe unable to tolerate the narrow-mindedness of his native country. Ironically, Ireland and Irish people become the subject of his short stories and novels. The two central preoccupations of his work are a sense of betrayal. Ireland, dominated both political and economically by Britain and religiously by the Catholic Church caused Joyce to regard them as " ...
- 260: Hackers
- ... in cooperation to perform their acts. The organization and purposes of these groups are examined, as well as their relationship to the CU as a whole. However, because only limited numbers of individuals join these short-lived associations, it is concluded that the CU is organized as colleagues. Those who do join "work groups" display the characteristics of peers, but most CU activity takes place at a fairly low level of ... CU participants are invited to submit articles to the editors, who release a new issue when a sufficient number (about nine) of acceptable pieces have been gathered. Phrack also features a lengthy "World News" with stories about hackers who have been apprehended and interviews with various members of the underground. As of this writing twenty-seven issues of Phrack, have been published. Phreakers/Hackers Underground Network (P/Hun): Like Phrack, P ... image of computer hackers, and thus all members of the computer underground, is burdened with value-laden assumptions about their psychological makeup, and focuses almost entirely upon the morality of their actions. Additionally, since media stories are taken from the accounts of police blotters, security personnel, and hackers who have been caught, each of whom have different perspectives and 20 definitions of their own, the media definition, if not inherently ...
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