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    Shelby Oglesby Question one. Chapters five of ’ how to read literature like a professor’ tells us that ; nothing is original‚ that everything is taken from something that has previously been told of a or wrote about. The road by Cormac McCarthy abides by this. When i was in the eight grade I read The Picture of Dorian Grey‚ When i was in the ninth grade i read The Twilight Saga‚ and last week i read Fifty Shades of Grey. All three of the listed books are derived from one another ‚ in all three

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    attributions and attitudes. Identity is who we are‚ what made us become‚ well‚ us. It is whom we were raised with‚ the culture we learned‚ the customs we followed‚ the roles that were imposed on us. All of the little things in life‚ no matter how miniscule‚ helped shape our identity. In the show Game of Thrones‚ written by George R.R Martin‚ there is a character by the name of Daenerys Targaryen. Her father was king of the Seven kingdoms of Westeros until he was murdered. Her whole family was slaughtered

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    first major works of England‚ Beowul <br>introduced British Literature. The epic tells the adventures of a courageous hero named Beowulf. This renowned poem functions as a building block to British literature. Beowulf‚ serving as a prologue to British literature‚ introduced many new concept <br>that has been built upon and altered throughout the centuries; Two of these concepts include the rhythm and the fact that history and literature correspond. <br> <br>The rhythm of Beowulf‚ from the Anglo-Saxon

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    Gerald M. Zinampan II-5 (Marketing) HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Long time before the Spaniards and other foreigners landed onPhilippine shores‚ our forefathers already had their own literature stamped in the history of our race. Our ancient literature shows our customs and traditions in everyday life as traced in our folk stories‚ old plays and short stories our ancient ancestors also had their own alphabet which was different from that brought by the Spaniards. The first alphabet used by our ancestors

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    How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (Notes) Introduction: “How’d He Do That?”  Part of reading is: o Knowing conventions o Recognizing conventions o Anticipating results  When a person introduces a topic‚ then digresses onto other topics it doesn’t matter what examples‚ as soon as you see a couple of them you recognize a pattern. o You know the author is coming back with an application of those examples to the main topic.  Conventions in stories/novels: o

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    How To Read Literature Like A Professor” By: Thomas C. Foster 1) “Always" and "never" are not words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing‚ as soon as something seems to always be true‚ some wise guy will come along and write something to prove that it’s not.” pg.8 2) "there’s no such thing as a wholly original work of literature" pg.20   3) "myth is a body of story that matters" pg.39 4) “The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.” pg.7 5) “Here’s the problem with

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    or class of literature. Major forms of literature The major forms of Literature are: * Novel * Poem * Drama * Short story * Novella Various forms of literature are written in and further categorized by genre. Sometimes forms are used interchangeably to define genre. However‚ a form‚ e.g.‚ a novel or a poem‚ can itself be written in any genre. Genre is a label that characterizes elements a reader can expect in a work of literature. The major forms of literature can be written

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    LITERATURE A large part of a nursing career involves both verbal and non-verbal transmission of information especially to the pre – operative patients in order to lessen their anxiety prior to procedure. When considering this idea of nursing and communication there is what we called therapeutic communication in nursing. This involves the human element of appropriate emotions in the nursing arena. Therapeutic communication in nursing reinforces the nurse client relationship. It makes the nurse appear

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    Do the media shape identity? Discuss The media has a very influential power over people within society. As a collective we are constantly internalising a large influx of media all around as. This sort of media includes television‚ magazines‚ the internet‚ television and social media. Particularly in this postmodern era we are more than ever internalising media and its information because of its normalisation and use of it in everyday life (Gaunlett‚ 2008) . The media is a production of consumerism;

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    Ecocriticism is the study of literature and environment from an interdisciplinary point of view where all sciences come together to analyze the environment and brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation. Ecocriticism was officially heralded by the publication of two seminal works‚[citation needed] both published in the mid-1990s: The Ecocriticism Reader‚ edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm‚ and The Environmental Imagination‚ by Lawrence Buell

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