For as long as I can remember‚ water lilies have always been a sign of peacefulness to me. This is one of the reasons I have always been drawn to Claude Monet’s Bridge over the Water-lily Pond (1905). The green hues in this piece bring me a feeling of happiness. The Bridge over the Water-lily Pond has a sense of calmness and tranquility. There exists such expression and emotions from the impasto in this piece as well. The foreground is filled with beautiful water lilies floating atop a peaceful
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characters‚ Boo Radley and Tom Robinson‚ for which the community of Maycomb had long labeled and ridiculed for either their color or peculiar behavior patterns. Lee writes this novel about personal experiences she has growing up. Harper Lee is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the brilliantly written To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee uses symbolism and foreshadowing to demonstrate courage is doing the right thing regardless of the outcome. To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Dear Pulitzer Judging Board‚ The book‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker was superior. This book should have received the Pulitzer Prize because it contains some of the best elements‚ in which this book very unique. Some of the key elements that were featured is by the book being written in letters and or diary form by the protagonist‚ Celie‚ herself. Another key element of The Color Purple was Alice Walker’s way of connecting with the audience showing strong emotions and the struggles that Celie
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Anybody who is currently involved in the world of literature or literary achievements cannot possibly escape hearing the name "Rita Dove." In October of 1993‚ Ms. Dove’s poem Lady Freedom Among Us was published in a limited edition by Janus Press and became the 4 millionth piece collected by the University of Virginia Libraries. In 1994‚ she read the same poem at the Capitol building to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Capitol and the restoration of the Freedom Statue‚ which adorns the
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In 1993 Eli Lilly‚ one of the leading pharmaceutical firms in the USA‚ started a joint venture in India with the leading Indian company Ranbaxy. The decision was dictated by the conditions of the US market and opportunities of the Indian market. Costlier manufacturing practices due to strict governmental control‚ soaring prices in 1990s‚ invasion of cheap generics to the USA market as opposed to low costs in India and new regulations that opened Indian market to foreign investments (up to 51%)
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ALICE WALKER Alice Walker was an activist and feminist because she protested for the right of blacks to vote in Georgia and Mississippi. She was against racism and also sexism. On March 8th 2003‚ 5‚000 protestors and Alice Walker marched from Malcolm X Park to the White House for women to have the same human rights as men. She also made an activist group with 60 other female activists in order to persuade Israel and Egypt to open their borders in Gaza. She wrote and supported various civil rights
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literary analysis of the book Beloved by Toni Morrison‚ the audience will analyze plot structure‚ character development‚ background information‚ and the various themes included in the book. Toni Morrison has won many awards for her book such as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction‚ the American Book Awards‚ and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award all of which were awarded to him in 1988. The book Beloved takes place in 1873 in Cincinnati‚ Ohio where Sethe‚ a former slave‚ lives with her daughter‚ Denver‚ and
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful‚ winning the Pulitzer Prize‚ and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author’s observations of her family and neighbors‚ as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936‚ when she was 10 years old. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor‚ despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator’s
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novel shows the unfair treatment that blacks received throughout the supposed justice system which during the 1960’s was also occurring. Although it was her only novel published Harper Lee created a huge success which is why it received the 1960 Pulitzer Prize and was made into a movie which won three academy awards and is still one of the top Novels of American literatures. William Styron based his novel on the slave rebellion led by the black slave Nat Turner in 1831. William Styron Provides readers
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Wilson emerged in the 1980s as a significant voice in American theater. His dramas‚ for which he has variously received such coveted prizes as the Tony Award‚ the New York Drama Critics Circle Award‚ and the Pulitzer Prize‚ are part of a planned play-cycle devoted to the story of black American experience in the twentieth century. "I’m taking each decade and looking at one of the most important questions that blacks confronted in that decade and writing a play about it‚" Wilson explains. "Put them
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