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- 261: Edgar Allan Poe Biography
- Edgar Allan Poe, known as "the father of short stories, " has written many short stories. A few examples are " The Cask of Amontillado, " " The Tell-Tale Heart, " and " The Fall of the House of Usher. " Poe is known all over the world for his eerie, spine-tingling tales ...
- 262: Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne: Romantic Style of Writing
- ... Like many authors of the seventeenth century Poe and Hawthorne stretched Realism beyond the edge of reality thereby developing a style of writing which today is commonly refer to as Romanticism. The use of the short story format in both "The Black Cat" and "Young Goodman Brown" evokes an allegorical use of the English language to stun their readers from reality into non-reality. Edgar Allen Poe was born in 1809 ... complete dissolution between father and son. Poe spent one year at the University of Virginia, then served two years as an enlisted man in the army . Poe also attended West Point Military Academy for a short time, after his Army stint. Poe grew very fond of writing and published his first book of poetry in 1827 at the age of sixteen. Poe is considered one of the first nineteenth century writers to establish aesthetic principles regarding short fiction stories as a high art, and one of the forefathers in the Romantic Movement. Poe stressed the idea of a well developed imagination through the identification of the characters, and the use of ...
- 263: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... passages conveying nonnarrative material, usually of a technical nature, such as the chapter about whales; and the more purely ornamental passages, such as the tale of the Tally-Ho, which can stand by themselves as short stories of merit. The work is invested with Ishmael's sense of profound wonder at his story, but nonetheless conveys full awareness that Ahab's quest can have but one end. And so it proves to ... one man and forces him to pursue a course of action which leads ultimately to his death as well as the deaths of his companions. There is a great deal of imagination involved in these stories and the creativity is highly apparent. There is an expression of belief in the supernatural, as the author strives to create the image of a humongous beast in the mind of the reader. There ...
- 264: How To Produce A High School Newspaper
- ... experienced enough? Can I just forget about this and go home? The first day of class was the most nerve wracking and scariest day I have ever had to experience during the course of my short-lived newspaper career. Coordinating a high school newspaper staff and creating a newspaper every three weeks is a lot of fun, but on the other hand, it involves a lot frustration. Much goes into producing ... meet. During their meeting, they discuss the last issue and the problems that arose. Then, they organize the calendar for the next issue. Organization and timing are the keys to producing a newspaper in a short amount of time. The newspaper production class was only one class period, so the majority of the work had to be done during the staffs free time.. After the editor-in-chief and advisor ... the reporters responsibility to investigate whether or not anything new is happening, so when the editor-in-chief asks for a beat report, the reporter must be prepared to give one. Finally, all the stories are assigned. This entire step usually takes one day. The next step is the first deadline. First deadline is three days after the stories are assigned and all first drafts of the stories must ...
- 265: The Dubliners: Summary
- The Dubliners: Summary The book , The Dubliners by James Joyce, is a series of short stories that together unfold different stories of life and death . The first three stories, The Sisters, An Encounter, and Araby are said to be about the moments of growth and of realizations of the boy-narrators. The three of them, ...
- 266: A Lesson From Oliver
- ... attempts to sound up-beat and positive while clinging bravely to the concept that somewhere beyond the walls of his solitary confinement someone is actually listening and/or cares about what he's babbling. In short, he performs each day only for - as it were - an "audience- in-theory". But now here was I, young and naive and in the same room with Jack Coffey on the air, a live audience ... we subscribed. Proofreading, he'd instructed, was the next and most essential part of the process, as the machine would often jam momentarily when no one was looking: an unsprung trap for embarrassment. Completely separate stories - for instance, the Ayatollah Khomeni's latest burning of Americans in effigy and Prime Minister Clark's promise for aid in fighting brush-fires in the U.S. midwest - could appear as part of the ... material. To me the weight of this task seemed entirely disproportionate. Writing your own copy I learned was painstaking work. How was it that I should be able to rip concise, well- written, ready-made stories about wars, famines and heroic deeds of international consequence from the telex in a matter of seconds while the details of Thistle's annual Horticultural Exhibition would take me over three hours to compile ...
- 267: Dubliners
- Dubliners is considered a champion among books written in the English language. James Joyce's characterization of not only the people in the stories, but of Dublin itself, demonstrates his great ability as an author. Dubliners is not a book with a normal story line, a plot, and a definite climax and resolution. Instead, it is more of a ... Irish history, and more specifically, Charles Stewart Parnell. He is a figure alluded to in this and other books by Joyce. He has been referred to as the "uncrowned king of Ireland." The series of short stories included in Dubliners depict a broken morale in and around the city of Dublin. The early 1900's marked a time of disheartened spirits not only in Dublin but all of Ireland. England still ...
- 268: Funny Short Story
- The Scourge Of The Galaxy The pretty researcher walked up to the shack where he supposedly lived. Wendy had heard many stories about the scourge, but she had never seen him for herself. He was a local legend, and she had decided to do her thesis on this obese male. She knocked on the cheap wood door ...
- 269: The Pedestrian
- ... doing things that are different. Most people who are different suffer through many punishments that are not very fair. People who are different consider themselves as normal and find nothing wrong with themselves. In the short stories The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, The Enemy by Pearl Buck, and The Bully by Gregory Clark, being different is a key issue. Many people, societies, and countries consider some people different because of what they believe in or their appearance or their life-style. For being different, these people suffered very harsh and unfair consequences. Certain societies view people as different because of their life-style. In the short story The Pedestrian, Leonard Mead lives in a society in which being different could symbolize craziness and insanity. This is a society that is very strict and it believes in unity. Only people who ...
- 270: Area 51 - Short
- ... is reported that in order to avoid spy plane and satellite reconnaissance, most activities and experiments have been conducted underground. It is the experiments above ground, mainly test flights, that help to perpetuate the UFO stories.(Leiby Richard p.a1) In early 1947, officials at the Roswell Army Air Field collected the remains of what they initially reported to be a wrecked "Flying Disc." That predd release was quickly revised to ...
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