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    Literature in English

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    Batch: 2012-2015 Course Code: 50121212 Course Name: Projects I Roll #808 Assignment #A 126 Ancient Literature The Epic of Gilgamesh Introduction The Epic of Gilgamesh‚ an epic poem from Mesopotamia‚ is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five independent Sumerian poems about ’Bilgamesh’ (Sumerian for Gilgamesh)‚ king of Uruk. Four of these were used as source

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    Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score at day 4 included baseline score‚ percentage of time spent at less than 30° on study day 1‚ and score on the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II‚ explaining 81% of the variability (F=7.31‚ P=.003). Literature Search 3 • Conclusions Subjects spent the majority of the time at backrest elevations less than 30°. Only the combination of early‚ low backrest elevation and severity of illness affected the incidence of ventilator-associated

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    Literature Timeline

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    LITERATURE TIMELINE Date | Literary Period | Authors/Works | 800-400 BC | This period was dominated by Homer and other Greek tragedians | The Iliad and The Odyssey by HomerOedipus the King by SophoclesMedea by Euripedes  | 250 BC - AD 150 | Writers of the Roman Empire are most noted in this time period |  Famous authors from this period: Virgil‚ Horace‚ and Ovid  | 450-1066  | Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period |  Beowulf   The rise of haiku poetry       Tale of Genji by Japanese writer Murasaki

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    GENERAL TYPES OF LITERATURE Literature can generally be divided into two types: prose and poetry. Prose consists of those written within the common flow of conversation in sentences and paragraphs‚ while poetry refers to those expressions in verse‚ with measure and rhyme‚ line and stanza and has a more melodious tone. I. Prose There are many types of prose. These include novels‚ biographies‚ short stories‚ contemporary dramas‚ legends‚ fables‚ essays‚ anecdotes‚ news and speeches. 1

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    literature review

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    Writing a Literature Review A literature review… • Provides an overview and a critical evaluation of a body of literature relating to a research topic or a research problem. • Analyzes a body of literature in order to classify it by themes or categories‚ rather than simply discussing individual works one after another. • Presents the research and ideas of the field rather than each individual work or author by itself. A literature review often forms part of a larger research

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    Love in Literature

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    Love in Literature We live in a complex world‚ where love and logic do not always exist cohesively‚ however‚ literature often brings these two elements together. Authors sometimes use the concept of love as a theme for their work‚ logically‚ and methodically using it as a tool in their writing. The different forms of love are often used by authors as a catalyst for positive character development. In this essay‚ works by different authors will be used to demonstrate some of the forms of love used

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    69 Indian English Children’s Literature: The Context of Salman Rushdie‚ Ruskin Bond and Arup Kumar Dutta Rizia Begum Laskar M.D.K. Girls’ College‚ Assam‚ India Abstract: Indian English children’s literature as a distinct branch of literature struggled to find its footing in India. The struggle is interconnected to the problem of the English language itself and the dominance of western children’s literature in India. At the same time‚ the publishing scenario plays a significant role

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    Review of Literature Sarah Shipley Review of Literature Health promotion is defined by the World Health organization as the process of enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve‚ their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions. Health promotion is a whole body and mind approach instead of looking at one specific problem or fix. Health

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    Absurd Literature

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    Theater of the Absurd Theater of the Absurd came about as a reaction to World War II. It took the basis of existential philosophy and combined it with dramatic elements to create a style of theatre which presented a world which can not be logically explained‚ life is in one word‚ ABSURD! Needless to say‚ this genre of theatre took quite some time to catch on because it used techniques that seemed to be illogical to the theatre world. The plots often deviated from the more traditional episodic

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    Poems of Literature

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    Poems of Literature The poem “Lonely Hearts” by Wendy Cope is a little too dramatic in my opinion. In the poem‚ she writes about a man who is seeking for someone to love and that will love him back because he is lonely. In the poem the lines “Executive in search of something new—Perhaps bisexual woman‚ arty‚ young‚ Do you live North London? Is it you?” (7-9) informed me that this guy is so desperate to find somebody that he would settle with pretty much anyone that came along. I believe that no

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