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    Foreign Literature

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    Foreign literature Point of Sales System I had been putting off changing from my trusty old cash register to a computerized point of sale system‚ as I was intimidated and daunted by the task. I kept telling myself‚ changing to a new system would not really benefit my business that much‚ and in any event‚ I don’t have the time. A friend of mine‚ who had gone through the process a year earlier‚ was kind enough to sit down with me and share how he had handled the changeover process‚ and some of the

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    Importance of Literature

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    Importance of literature Literature reminds us of stories‚ epics‚ sacred scriptures and classical works of the ancient and modern times. Literature is defined as the body of written works of a language‚ period or culture‚ produced by scholars and researchers‚ specialized in a given field. Why is literature important? Let us see. As stated in the quotation by C.S. Lewis‚ literature not only describes reality but also adds to it. Yes‚ literature is not merely a depiction of reality; it is rather

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    Power of Literature

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    How the Power of Literature Has Affected My Life - Value of Literature Alex Sidorov English 101 Alex Sidorov Thompson English 101 May 27‚ 2009 How the Power of Literature Has Affected My Life - Value of Literature If you asked me how much I valued literature a few months ago‚ I would have probably laughed it off and proclaimed it has no value because it does not affect me. What kind of value could literature possibly have? It is just books. Random characters dealing with their random problems

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    Modernist Literature

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    The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered‚ stable and inherently meaningful worldview of the nineteenth century could not‚ wrote T.S. Eliot‚ accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic

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    The Purpose of Literature

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    I believe that the purpose of literature is to educate‚ inform‚ entertain and give the author a chance to express them self. I know that when I read‚ it helps me to escape my own world sometimes and go somewhere else fun and exciting. I think that some literature is just meant to be entertaining while other literature can educate or inform also. I believe that older literature can be very educating and entertaining. It teaches me about the different writing styles and a hint of what life used

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    Studying Literature

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    1993) (1992)] The study of literature "is the place—there is no other in most schools—the place wherein the chief matters of concern are particulars of humanness—individual human feeling‚ human response‚ and human time‚ as these can be known through the written expression (at many literary levels) of men living and dead‚ and as they can be discovered by student writers seeking through words to name and compose and grasp their own experience. English [that is‚ literature] in sum is about my distinctness

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    exposed to literature in the most stripped down form: picture books and simple texts that are mainly for the sole purpose of teaching the alphabet etc. Although these are not nearly as complex as an 800-page sci-fi novel‚ it is the first step that many take towards the literary world. Progressively‚ as people grow older‚ they explore other genres of books‚ ones that propel them towards curiosity of the subject‚ and the overall book. Reading and being given the keys to the literature world prepares

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    Why Literature

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    Why Literature? The premature obituary of the book. By Mario Vargas Llosa It has often happened to me‚ at book fairs or in bookstores‚ that a gentleman approaches me and asks me for a signature. "It is for my wife‚ my young daughter‚ or my mother‚" he explains. "She is a great reader and loves literature." Immediately I ask: "And what about you? Don’t you like to read?" The answer is almost always the same: "Of course I like to read‚ but I am a very busy person." I have heard this explanation

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    Importance of Literature

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    WHY READING LITERATURE IS/IS NOT IMPORTANT? A Personal Definition of Literature There are a lot of things that come to mind when a person hears the word literature. Usually‚ one thinks of a book‚ story‚ classical work or some variation of the aforementioned but to ask someone to define the term literature‚ proves to be a much trickier task. Many are stumped when asked this question. People often answer by giving examples of literary works but fail to actually give an encompassing definition

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    Feminism in Literature

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    Feminism in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House Feminism‚ if anything‚ has appeared majorly in the literature spectrum through all decades and forms. Feminism is the political‚ cultural‚ or economic movement aimed at establishing equality and protection for all women. No matter the time period or place feminism has always been a popular literary topic that has made a few works quite notorious‚ including Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

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