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    "Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality." --Patricia Waugh‚ Metafiction: The Theory and Practice  of Self-Conscious Fiction.New York: Methuen‚ 1984. In many respects‚ Tim O ’Brien ’s The Things They Carried concerns the relationship between fiction and the narrator. In this novel‚ O ’Brien himself is the main character--he

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    Outsiders once said: “That ’s why people don ’t ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease‚ and from what I ’ve heard‚ a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks” (141). This quote says that Ponyboy and his gang of Greasers were judged as being trouble and bad people whereas the Socials (a high

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    integration and authority. It is interdisciplinary by its very nature but also because the debate is so old. Most of the great ideas with which economic‚ social and political philosophy are concerned were formulated long before the borders of the present-day academic disciplines were ever laid down. The course is made up of 20 2-hour meetings. The first half of this course (taught by Professor Reisman) will be concerned mainly with the founding fathers of political economy. The second half (taught by

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    416) Sofia was different she had her own way of living and did not agreed with her father. She ran away from her house and since then her relationship with her father was not good. Her father did not forgive her for what she did. “And yet‚ she of all the daughters‚ did not want to be the absent one because for the first time since she’d run off with her husband six years ago‚ she and her

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    Literary Analysis of Oedipus

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    taken away from this play is the notions of you cannot control your fate‚ that ignorance is bliss‚ and there ironies. The play of Oedipus the King is about a man who cannot escape fate‚ and lives out of all the prophecies. He was sent to be killed at birth‚ when his parents were told that one day Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother. However‚ the servant who was in put in charge of killing Oedipus would not carry out the King Laius’s command to kill Oedipus‚ but instead sent him to

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    Literary Analysis: The Last Song “Life…was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery‚ in the end there is confirmation‚ but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile” (Sparks 391). The novel The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks has a deep meaning and a life lesson to it that relates a lot in today’s society‚ says most people who have read the book in the past. This novel is a long journey made up of family problems. Ronnie‚ the teenage daughter

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    illnesses that run in her family. On June 20‚ 2001‚ between her husband leaving for work and her mother-in-law arriving‚ she drowned all five of her children. After she killed her children‚ Andrea Yates killed her children; she called the police and asked them to come to her house. After she called the police‚ Andrea Yates called her husband and told him she killed all five of their children. During Andrea Yates case‚ psychiatrist testified that Andrea Yates suffered from schizophrenia and postpartum

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    short story as a naturalist visualization of the devastating effects that wars and battles had on the soldiers which fought in them. The short story “Chickamauga” is defined as naturalist literature because of the author’s employment of specific literary techniques which define naturalism‚ such as the way the author gradually darkens the mood of the storyline as it progresses‚ the amount of description and attention paid to grisly and macabre details that shed wars in a whole new light‚ as well as

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    acting on our values described in these pages a ttempts to build on that same principle. Rather than taking a preaching stance wherein we might try to coun- ter temptations with all the moral reasons why we should behave ethically‚ or taking a persuasive stance wherein we might counter those same temptations with all the prac- tical arguments for ethical behavior‚ the approach here is to take an enabling stance. We try to identify both the times when we already want to act in accordance with our

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    August‚ 2013 Summer Assignments 2013 Word count: 313 words “Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Analysis” Close reading informs a writer writing by revealing something new each time we read them. The process of close reading develop an understanding of a text that is based first on the words themselves. The skill called “close reading” is a fundamental for interpreting literature. Reading closely means creating a deep understanding and a precise interpretation of a literary passage that is

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