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- 351: John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
- John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man "I never wrote two books alike", once said John Steinbeck (Shaw, 10). That may be true, but I think that he wrote many of his novels and short stories based on many of the same views. He often focused on social problems, like the “ haves” verses the "have nots", and made the reader want to encourage the underdog. Steinbeck's back ground and concern ... man made him one of the best writers for human rights. John Steinbeck was born in Salians, California and spent most of his life there or around Salians, because of that he often modeled his stories and the characters around the land he loved and the experiences he encountered. He lived in Salians until 1919, when he left for Stanford University, he only enrolled in the courses that pleased him - ...
- 352: Arthurian Legend
- King Arthur and the knights of the round table belong to a long line of books and stories of the Arthurian legend. Merlin, Lancelot, The lady of the lake, King Arthur, and Excaliber are all very important in the Arthurian legend. In this essay we will talk about King Arthur, the knights of ... should be made without the help of others. That’s what Merlin is trying to teach Wart, leadership. That’s also what Merlin teaches King Arthur. That’s why Merlin is so important to the stories of King Arthur. He teaches him how to lead and be a great king. There has been a lot of material written about the legendary King Arthur and although he has been a popular figure ... elements added included the round table, courtly love and the love affair between Lancelot and Gwynevere, which ends up ruining Lancelot. In 1205 A.D. Layamon wrote the first English version of the King Arthur stories with a British perspective. Another version of the story was Morte Arthur. This version was centered around fighting and action destroying many of the characters parts, like Lancelot for instance. Perhaps the most widely ...
- 353: Approach To Edgar Allen Poe’s Writings
- ... a step father who did not love him, or he dictated his values so much that it warped Poe’s impressionable mind. But the product of Edgar Allen Poe’s mind is printed in his short stories and poems. Edgar Allen Poe’s stories have similar motifs and composition that would suggest suppressed emotions from life experiences and are being let out through his writings. Three main motifs that can be related back to his life are the ...
- 354: Canterbury Tales: Who is the Narrator?
- ... the pilgrimage, to "reherce as ny as evere he kan Everich a word" (1), would be a difficult promise to keep if he hadn't been taking notes the whole journey and writing up the stories to be read later. Perhaps the promise to produce a perfect copy is just hyperbole. What isn't hyperbole, however, is his caution before the Miller's Tale. He acknowledges that his audience might not ... gives no clue to what he does in real life; beggars and kings alike could be pilgrims. So we know the narrator not by his vocation, but by his avocations: writer and pilgrim. Why not short-circuit this elaborate search for textual clues as to what the narrator does, and just equate him with Chaucer? After all, the narrator and Chaucer are both literate, so they belong to a relatively small ... him to(2). Squires (the rank Chaucer eventually achieved) might execute these same housekeeping duties, taste the King's food to test for poison, or entertain royalty, nobility and visitors by singing, harping, and telling stories(2). A government official's job sometimes overlapped with that of the courtier, and also depended upon literacy -- either an instant familiarity with Italian and French literature (to which he could refer in elaborate ...
- 355: The House on Mango Street, The Benedictine Rule
- ... on Mango Street, and The Rule of St. Benedict in English, one notices a common writing style that both works share. In both works, information is being narrated to the reader on a personal level. Stories or rules are told to the reader as if the reader is to follow or participate. The House on Mango Street is the story of a young woman named Esperanza Cordero. Esperanza lives in the ... and achieve past the expectations set forth by her environment. The writing style used in The House on Mango Street is a very indirect way of narrative. The author presents to the reader many different stories, stories that if taken at face value could be see as details alone. These stories are short narratives that describe a character in the life of Esperanza, or tell of an action that took place. ...
- 356: Charles Dickens
- ... his later years, which was mostly due to the fact of being poor. Dickens, however, brought himself financial success in his later years. Charles Dickens wrote all kinds of literary works in the form of short stories and novels. He also had many great classics. Dickens is thought by many to be the greatest English novelist ever to have written a book. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7 ... monthly writings, The Pickwick Papers, which brought his name to be commonplace in English households. After many writings, and ten children, in 1854, Catherin and Charles Dickens separated, and Charles continued to write novels and stories. On June 9, 1870, he died of a stroke half way through writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Dickens wrote a total of 20 novels, and many other nonfiction books, his first being Sketches ...
- 357: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... is trusted to report the net effect of these transactions to a central agent, who keeps track of the net "market capital" that has been split along this question. On the specified date, and a short wait after a public announcement, the judges are given an agreed-upon judging-fee in order to study the question and render their verdict. Verdicts assign a percentage of validity to each of the possible ... too little capital in the market to support the required judging fee? John and Mary's market only has $10 in it, and with a 10% max-judging-fee, only $1 is available for judging, short of the $5 a meteorologist judge might require. In this case we can hold an "audit lottery" [Pol]. {footnote: This name is suggested by the way an auditor might randomly select expense reports for more ... idea is likely to inspire something interesting, then bet on that. These questions will be harder to judge though. WHAT IF THE FINE PRINT DIFFERS FROM THE SUMMARY? Verbose claims would probably be described by short summary sentences or phrases in price lists, offers, etc. As with contracts and political ballot initiatives, there are problems when a deceptive title differs from the fine print. In extreme cases people might sue ...
- 358: Masochism in Edgar Allen Poe
- Masochism in Edgar Allen Poe In this report, I will be discussing the theme of masochism in Edgar Allen Poes short stories. The stories I will be discussing are the Black cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Masque of the Red Death. But first the word Masochist is a person who continually engages in self destructive behavior. ...
- 359: William Faulkner 2
- William Faulkner William Faulkner is one of America s most talked about writers and his work should be included in any literary canon for several reasons. After reading a few of his short stories, it becomes clear that Faulkner s works have uniqueness to them. One of the qualities that make William Faulkner s writings different is his close connection with the South. Gwendolyn Charbnier states, Besides the sociological ... led him to create a fictional Mississippi county named Yoknapatawpha, which includes every detail from square mileage of the county to the break down of the county population by race. Faulkner s work also includes stories from the past and present. David Minter says, His works take us into regions and spaces we can never directly know, and also back in the time to worlds lost before we were born ( ...
- 360: By The Waters Of Babylon
- BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON PLANET OF THE APES COMPARITIVE ESSAY The short story by the waters of Babylon and the movie planet of the apes were both futuristic stories. They also both showed the evil sides of today s man and the chaos and mass destruction that we are capable of accomplishing. They portrayed today s man as selfish, violent, and full of hate ... past civilization. The main people in charge keep knowledge from the public so they do not know the evils that they are capable of as to protect them from making the same mistake. In both stories our present civilization had destroyed the earth, as we now know it and had killed most of the humans. The cause of these catastrophes in both stories was suspected to be from nuclear war. ...
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