3 October 2012 Oscar Wilde‚ Victorian or Anti-Victorian? Oscar Wilde was a writer during the end of the Victorian era. This is one of the reasons that it is difficult‚ and still debated‚ whether he was a Victorian writer or not. His private life was far from the puritanical image of the Victorian era. The Victorian age was full of rigid sensibilities‚ while the anti-Victorian movement veered in the complete opposite direction. The anti-Victorians were much more adventurous with sex. There
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Oscar Wilde And His Fairy Tales I. Introduction Wilde‚ Oscar (Fingal O’Flahertie Wills) (b. Oct. 16‚ 1854‚ Dublin‚ Ire ?d. Nov. 30‚ 1900‚ Paris‚ Fr.) Irish wit‚ poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1899). He was a spokesman for Aestheticism‚ the late19th-century movement in England that advocated art for art’s sake. However‚ Oscar Wilde’s takeoff of his enterprise and‚ his shaping of his characteristic
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Literature was booming in the 1920s‚ with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald at the forefront of writing books‚ and Gertrude Stein as a poet‚ novelist and playwright. Many new up and coming literary geniuses were arising in the 1920s. This time period brought about a period of lively culture with people having lavish parties; it also brought new technologies and a mass-consumption economy. But let’s focus on Ernest Hemingway‚ who was certainly a jack of all trades‚ writing many books and serving
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In his preface‚ Oscar Wild dare to say that art is quite useless. "What do you mean art is useless?" was the first thing that came in my mind‚ "but art has so much meaning: it elevates our awareness of things‚ questions everything‚ contextualizes and re-contextualizes ideas‚ sharpens our appreciation for beauty‚ thought‚ and skill‚ it can define cultures‚ and is able to capture the essence and spirit of the time in which it’s made". It doesn’t have only meaning but it is useful too. It is useful
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Kaitlyn Alfman January 08‚ 2013 Research Project Notes Ernest Miller Hemingway Born on July 21st‚ 1899 in Oak Park‚ Illinois Died on July 2nd‚ 1961. Ernest Hemingway was found dead of a shotgun wound in the head at his home on July 2‚ 1961. His wife‚ Mary‚ said that he had killed himself accidentally while cleaning the weapon. American author and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Raised in suburb of Chicago. Spent most of his time in Northern Michigan
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Julio Yanes 10/31/13 Period. 4 A.M.D.G. Ernest Hemingway "Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another". Ernest Hemingway believed that a life is not lived without taking chances. Hemingway participated in many risky and sketchy things. He played football‚ which back then was played with leather helmets‚ he also hunted big game which was one of his favorite hobbies. Throughout his life‚ masculinity and the ability
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Paragraph #1: Introduction Hook - Ernest Hemingway is experiencing the inferiority of women‚racism against others‚ and the suicide of a depressed father. Explain the story - A boy named Nick is with his father and the father ends up helping an indian woman give birth while most don’t care about the woman in pain. The father of the newborn can’t stand to listen to his crying wife so he ends up committing suicide. This helps Nick mature at a young age. Thesis - Coming of age is the moment a person
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individual who qualifies to accept the Nobel Prize? I think of someone who is intelligent‚ dedicated to his or her work‚ and someone who has made a breakthrough that has changed the world. Out of all of the six scientist that have been nominated‚ I believe Ernest Rutherford deserves this award. According to “Chemheritage‚” “Rutherford studied at Canterbury College‚ and the University of New Zealand before moving to England in 1895 for postgraduate study at Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge
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The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel written by Irish writer‚ Oscar Wilde. The main character‚ rich and beautiful Dorian Gray‚ owns his portrait‚ which instead of him becomes older and where are traces of sin and mistakes. While Gray becomes uncontrollable and ruthless‚ his appearance stays youthful and flawless. At the end‚ in his despair‚ Gray destroys the picture and himself. The novel gives us a very good lesson – we can do whatever we want
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TRIPLE ENTRY JOURNAL: “The Killers” The short story “The Killers” written by Ernest Hemingway begins as two rude men walk into a lunchroom and start taunting George‚ the man running the place and Nick Adams‚ a young man sitting at the other end of the counter. Finishing their supper‚ the men reveal that they are planning to murder Ole Anderson‚ a big Swede‚ former heavyweight prizefighter‚ who often ate at that lunchroom. After 7:00 pm‚ they stop waiting for the man to enter the scene; it was
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