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    Magical Realism

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    celebrated example of magic realism is Gabriel García Márquez ’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1971)‚ an extraordinary blend of realism‚ myth‚ comedy‚ and history‚ rendered in lush‚ poetic language. Other sources of magic realism are the stories of Jorge Luis Borges‚ Mario Vargas Llosa‚ and Julio Cortazar. The technique is artfully represented in European literature by Milan Kundera ’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). In American literature‚ magic realism‚ evident earlier in the stories of Bernard

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    Young Goodman Brown 19

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    The Consequences of Puritan Depravity and Distrust as Historical Context for Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown" Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require constant self-examination to see that they are sinners and unworthy of God’s Grace. Because man had broken the Covenant of Works when Adam had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge‚ God offered a new covenant to Abraham’s people which held that election to Heaven was merely a possibility. In the Puritan religion‚ believers

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    Gnosticism‚ idealism‚ and materialism are Philosophical concepts and beliefs that are recurring in Jorge L. Borges collection of short stories in Labyrinths. Idealism is the perception of reality depends upon the mind rather than external objects. Materialism a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter. Gnosticism the thought and practice especially of various cults of late

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    ENGLISH-A CLASS XI Full Marks – 100 1. Prose – 20 marks 2. Verse – 20 marks Textual Grammar – 16 marks 1. Essay writing [350-400 words] – 12 marks 2. Rhetoric – 12 marks 3. Project – 20 marks Prose and Poetry – (40 m/40P) Prose 1. One of these Days-Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2. The Sunder-bans Inheritance- Bittu Sehgal 3. Making Writing Simple- J.B. Priestley 4. Through the Tunnel- Dorris Lessing Poetry 1. Stolen Boat – William Wordsworth 2. You who never arrived – Rainer Maria Rilke 3. Snake- D H Lawrence

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    incentive in others. Albeit its Latin origin‚ several regions have taken the word and altered it to fit the culture and society. The biblical tradition maintains that when an object has been made holy‚ it should be given to the gods. Hence revealing the word ’s foundation: sacer meaning "holy" and facere meaning "to make". As a result‚ humans must then surrender one object for another (Shipley 308) when performing a sacrifice. Forfeiting an item from one’s possessions symbolizes thanks for God

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    Postmodernism in Literature

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    Postmodern literature The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature. It is both a continuation of the experimentation championed by writers of the modernist period (relying heavily‚ for example‚ on fragmentation‚ paradox‚ questionable narrators‚ etc.) and a reaction against Enlightenment ideas implicit in Modernist literature. Postmodern literature‚ like postmodernism as a whole‚ is difficult to define and there is little agreement on the

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    Revolutionary War Analysis

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    General Videla could no longer control his allies: even under the patriotism that fell upon Argentina when it won the World Cup in 1978‚ Jorge Videla still had to put down hard-line rebellions around the country. Dissent soon reached a point where moderates and Argentina’s middle class began to rebel with its long-standing extremists. In light of their lost children and husbands‚ a group

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    Tha Arabian Nights

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    eroticism and homosexuality‚ added tales from the dictation of a Lebanese friend‚ and perhaps invented the two best-known and seemingly most "Arabian" tales of all: "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves". Warner quotes Jorge Luis Borges (a guiding spirit in her book) approving this belle infidèleapproach to translation. "I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something

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    Loov

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    forgetting the beautiful landscapes‚ delicious food and strong and stable economy. Project Desciription * Monday‚ April 22: Assemblage Members: Rodriguez Cruz Luis Edder Pérez Aboytes Alejandro Zanabria Martinez Jorge Alberto Lezama Gomez Diogenes Ivan Silva Aguilar Itzel Abigail Leader: Zanabria Martinez Jorge Alberto We are going to create and assemble the stand that we need for Tuesday and present most of the things that we have of Austria. We are going to use the tables

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    Block Essay

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    River and Sheila Mant‚” have many similarities. “Catch the Moon” is written by Judith Ortiz Cofer and is about Luis‚ a juvenile delinquent. Luis fights with his anger after his mothers death and usually finds himself in trouble. In “The Bass the River and Sheila Mant‚” the author‚ W.D. Wetherell‚ the narrator finds himself having to choose between his real love and an illusion of love. Luis struggles to find ways to deal with his mothers death‚ so like so many teens‚ starts getting into trouble with

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