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    Eveline

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    In the story “Eveline” by James Joyce‚ a young teenage girl‚ Eveline‚ has the opportunity to leave her “trapped” life and start a new journey with the man of her dreams‚ Frank. As Eveline sat at the window reconciling all of her memories‚ her thoughts of her abusive father leave her to ponder the prospect of leaving and freeing herself from her life to reside in Buenos Aires with her lover. As she reviews her decision to stay with her abusive father or embark on a new‚ free life‚ Eveline faces the

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    Truth Essay Miles Dijan October 8‚ 2013 Block 2 Day 2 The writer Oscar Wilde once said that “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Wilde claims that truth is hardly wholesome and unadulterated‚ but rather tainted‚ or polluted. Wilde also states how truth is never straightforward and effortless. Truth could come with questions‚ ambiguous feelings‚ and abstract thoughts. Three pieces of literature exemplify Oscar Wilde’s quote about truth. In The “Allegory of the Cave”

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    Looking For Alaska

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    Niki Hultquist John Green’s Looking for Alaska Green‚ John. Looking for Alaska. Penguin Print Inc.‚ 2005. Print Miles “Pudge” Halter’s life is nothing out of the ordinary. Although Pudge is comfortable with “ordinary” he is willing spice up his life by leaving his current life behind. In search of a “Great Perhaps”‚ Pudge decides to attend Culver Creek Boarding School where his life is turned upside down. Pudge allows himself to try new things and put himself in danger to find a Great Perhaps

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    Women In Fan Fiction

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    Fan fiction is something has been around as long as people have been telling stories. Ancient people would retell old stories or explore minor characters’ roles‚ which are both things people still do today. But there seems to be an unwritten rule between writer and audience that each should respect the other. In other words‚ authors shouldn’t ridicule their readers‚ and fans shouldn’t belittle the author. When either side breaks this mutual respect‚ we begin to see problems in a work of art. One

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    Hero "That history should have imitated history was already sufficiently astonishing; that history should imitate literature is inconceivable. . . ." Plot Summary & Historical Background: Settings - The Narrative is set in Ireland in 1824. However Borges is only using this as an example. He says " The action takes place in a oppressed and tenacious country: Poland‚ Ireland‚ The Venetian Republic‚ some South American or Balkan state". This universalises the story of Kilpatrick and the experience of

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    Faulkner‚ James Joyce‚ and Robert Frost (Johnson 217). It is not surprising that these creative writers‚ along with Jorge Luis Borges‚ were intrigued by this theory. Humans

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    The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and The Dead by James Joyce can both be viewed as their authors’ views of sociology. The stories’ protagonists‚ Gregor and Gabriel‚ are both men of authority within their families‚ but experience events and circumstances that change their perspectives of the world around them. Both Franz Kafka and James Joyce employ the third-person point of view to describe and relay the situations of Gregor and Gabriel effectively. In The Metamorphosis‚ Kafka uses the third

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    Portrayal of Justice in Death and the Maiden and the Name of the Rose Extended Essay Subject: Literature/English Word Count: 3451 Hyde Park Academy Session: May‚ 2014 Candidate: Tia-Bryanna Balentine Candidate Number: fd1007 (001194-0009) Abstract “If justice comes from the people you fight against how can you get justice?” (Matuz). This is a question that has been long asked by citizens of the world and even some began to write about this topic in their novels. Umberto Eco and

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    The Prince

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    Summary of the happy prince by Oscar wilde? Its a beautiful story of an immortal prince ‚who by his good deeds won the heart of hundreds of people in his town.he was the "happy prince"‚whose happiness was always dedicated for serving the needy poor people in some way or the other.but as we all know that heaven’s door calls the good one first ‚so prince died. but people made his statue with heavy gold stones and jewels in his loving memory. one day a swallow(a little bird)came over the town

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    Lost

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    Essay anthologies are one of the perennials of American publishing‚ old and new titles shoaling into bookstores by the tens of thousands every year … the catch being that most are put forward not as essay anthologies‚ but as “composition readers‚” created to encourage undergraduates to take an interest in the shapeliness of their own prose. Their covers and editorial apparatuses gesture wildly at being up-to-date‚ but the contents—descriptive‚ narrative‚ and argumentative essays‚ as represented by

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