Jefferson 4. James Madison 5. James Monroe 6. John Quincy Adams 7. Andrew 8. Martin Jackson Van Buren 9. William 10. John Henry Harrison West Wing Week 07/18/14 or‚ "Where Are You Going to Go Build Your Widgets?" Tyler 11. James K. Polk 12. Zachary 13. Millard Taylor Fillmore 14. Franklin 15. James Pierce Buchanan 16. Abraham Lincoln 17. Andrew Johnson 18. Ulysses S. Grant 19. Rutherford 20. James B. Hayes
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Notable work(s) The Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying Light in August Absalom‚ Absalom! A Rose for Emily Notable award(s) Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1955‚ 1963 Spouse(s) Estelle Oldham (1929–1962) Signature William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner‚ September 25‚ 1897 – July 6‚ 1962)‚ also known as Will Faulkner‚ was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford‚ Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of written media‚ including novels‚ short
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Jose A. Melendrez Dr. Colson English 101A June 14‚ 2013 The Girl on the Strand What is beauty? That kind of beauty that touches one’s heart and soul and brings happiness and many other emotions to one’s spirit. In James Joyce’s novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”‚ the girl on the strand portrays this ethereal beauty. I claim that the girl on the strand signifies beauty because Joyce describes the girl as a strange seabird and a monument to mortal beauty. Although the girl on
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States. Carhenge is constructed of vintage American automobiles‚ that are all painted gray to resemble stones. It consists of 39 automobiles arranged in a circle measuring about 95 feet in diameter. The creator used cars that were of the 1950’s and 1960’s era because he saw that they had a monolithic structure that resembled the stones of Stonehenge. Some of the cars are buried around 5 foot deep so that they are standing vertically. The arches have been formed by welding some of the automobiles
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Implying that there is no hope for existence‚ the speaker of “Alone with Everybody” embraces existential nihilism with his declaration of impossibility through the use of absolute diction and metaphors epistrophe‚ and asyndeton. Morosely‚ the speaker uses absolute diction coupled with the bleak metaphor‚ “flesh‚” to describe the human experience‚ lamenting that‚ “nobody finds the one… flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh” (Bukowski). Employing the use of the metaphor‚
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Newgate novel From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Most drew their inspiration from the Newgate Calendar‚ a biography of famous criminals published at various times during the late 18th and early 19th centuries‚ but usually rearranged or embellished the original tale for melodramatic
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From the beginning of the first novels written by Ian Fleming‚ he is said to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century‚ because of his contribution to literature and film by creating great novels and creating on of the most well known names in films. The adventure began in the early fifties when Ian Lancaster Fleming created the story Casino Royale on his Jamaican property called Goldeneye.1 Fleming transformed popular detective and spy/espionage from the dark‚ through the eye
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epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters. The epistolary form can add greater realism to a story‚ because it mimics the workings of real life The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell (1594–1666) with "Familiar Letters"‚ who writes of prison‚ foreign adventure‚ and the love of women. There are two theories on the genesis of the epistolary novel. The first claims that the genre originated from novels with inserted
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K.C Alayon English IV – Sr. Richard Blanco Dissecting a Novel Twilight A Novel by Stephenie Meyer ------------------------------------------------- I. Character/Characterization *Main Characters * Isabella Swan Isabella‚ who prefers to be called Bella‚ is a 17-year-old girl. She leaves Phoenix‚ Arizona to live with her father in Forks‚ Washington so her mother can travel with her new husband. She meets Edward Cullen in Forks High School and is immediately attracted to him. She later
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War Protests and Modern Music The 1960s were years of war and social unrest in the United States due to the Vietnam War. It was also a time of rebellion‚ free love and radicalism. Musicians and the counterculture they created became a catalyst of opposition to the Vietnam War. With a war similar in diplomatic motivation and unbalanced power engrossing the United States again‚ modern musicians are faced with the same dilemmas and opportunities of musicians in the Vietnam era. The problem facing
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