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    Blake‚ Burke‚ and the Revolution(s) William Blake was a man born in an era of revolutions. Born in 1757‚ Blake lived through both the American War of Independence and the French Revolution‚ not to mention the rich intellectual smorgasbord and the harsh ruling class backlash that happened throughout the Blake was appalled by the condition of his fellow man‚ at home and abroad‚ and‚ as a Romantic poet and a spiritual enthusiast‚ he turned to poetry to convey his concerns‚ opinions‚ and prophesies

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    To what extent was Pitt’s repressive policy the main reason for his success in resisting the radical challenge to 1801? The growing threat of revolution by English radicals being influenced by Irish rebels and the French Revolution was the main thing William Pitt the younger was faced with during his time as Prime Minister. To deal with this‚ he reinforced a repressive policy of tough legislation strengthened through propaganda.It was not only these actions taken that managed to quell the revolutionaries

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    The fable “The Rabbits Who Cause All the Trouble” written by James Thurber is very deceiving in ways that the rabbits and wolves were given unique personality traits that are not usually associated with these animals. For example the wolves being scared of other animals and feared‚ their ability to lie to other animals to create a hatred for rabbits and their ways of being very clever are very unusual for these animals. The rabbits were also quite deceiving in that they had a desire to run away

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    James Joyce‚ William C Williams‚ Jamaica Kincaid‚ and Frank O’Connor are the four authors of the short stories I read. James Joyce wrote “Araby”‚ which is a story about a little boy who has a crush on his friend’s older sister and he figures out that she has manipulated him. William C. Williams wrote “The Use of Force”‚ which was about a doctor who paid a visit to a younger girl who was sick and he has to battle her in order to find out what’s wrong with her. Jamaica Kincaid is the author of “Girl”

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    James Fenimore Cooper’s Leathertocking Tales : 19th century American Frontier Literature. 1/ General overview: The frontier romance is an imaginative form of literature giving shape and meaning to the American experience. It portrays the ambivalent drama of the frontier hero‘s encounter with the natural world and the feeling inspired by the American frontier spirit. The Leatherstocking Tales are also about the narrative exploration of historical episodes. American Romance with Cooper is about

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    The Last of the Mohicans The book Last of the Mohicans is based on a novel by James Fenimore Cooper‚ and revolves around a clan of Native Americans called the Mohicans. The main characters are Hawkeye‚ his adopted father Chingachgook‚ and his adopted brother Uncas. Chingachgook‚ and his son Uncas‚ are the last of the Mohican tribe or blood line. The movie is also based on these three characters. The era that both stories take place in is the 18th century during the seven years war between

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    through motives  Pentad (tool for understanding motives) Motive: Linguistic Product of Rhetorical Action Created a Grammar of Motives (“grammar” meaning rules‚ principles‚ elements‚ structure and/or book) Motives are viewed by Burke in terms of internal sources of action; but rather in terms of how language and terms are used to make actions understandable. Guilt as Motive: guilt is an “all-purpose word for any feeling of tension within a person—anxiety‚ embarrassment‚ self-hatred

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    How Does James Seek To Disturb and Involve The Reader In The Turn Of The Screw? The Turn of the Screw‚ written by author Henry James‚ although defying many gothic conventions remains one of the most suspenseful and sinister tales of the Victorian Era. The novella’s enthralling nature effectively seeks to disturb and involve readers and this is made evident through James’s successful use of a variety of structural and literary techniques to create and prolong suspense and ambiguity. James first

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    The brief but complex stories of "Araby" by James Joyce and‚ "A&P by John Updike focuses on character traits rather than on plot to reveal the ironies that inherent self deception. The theme for both Sammy from "A&P" and the narrator from "Araby" is the transition from childhood to adulthood‚ a process that everyone experiences in one’s own way and time. The transformation that both characters make from children to adults includes unrealistic expectations of women‚ focusing upon one girl in particular

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    Edmund Burke is not one that often figures in the history of philosophy. This is a curious fate for a writer of genius who was also the author of a book entitled A Philosophical Enquiry. Besides the Enquiry‚ Burke’s writings and some of his verbalizations contain vigorously philosophical elements—philosophical both in our contemporary sense and in the eighteenth century sense‚ especially ‘philosophical’ history. These elements play a fundamental role within his work‚ and avail us to understand why

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