In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short story‚ “The Five Orange Pips”‚ Sherlock Homes and his sidekick Watson prove the mystery behind the deaths of the Openshaw male family members. Holmes is presented details within the story that lead John Openshaw to believe his family is cursed. However‚ through logical reasoning Holmes and Watson reveal the mysteries to the Openshaw family deaths. The narrator introduces the reader to a gentleman named John Openshaw‚ who fears that his family has a mysterious death
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biological parents as he was adopted. When he was 18 he joined the Marines and was shipped off to Vietnam. While there he was in charge of the men and controlled the radio. During the end of the war he was sprayed with a chemical called agent orange. Agent orange was used to kill trees so that the other group couldn’t hide in the trees. Unfortunately‚ my grandfather ended up getting sprayed which would
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LITERARY CRITICISM LITERATURE • What is literature? Literate/ literacy - able to read/write Origin- from Latin “litteratura” (letter) • literature with the small ‘l’ Literature - piece of writing/printed information on a particular subject • literature with the big ‘L’ Literature - pieces of writing that are valued as works of art eg. Novels‚ plays‚ poems (contrast to technical books/ scientific/ academic writings) • Literary - connected with literature
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through the well characterized protagonist. Here I will try to analyse the function of figures of speech on characterizing an unreliable narrator in the text Love is a Fallacy. Figures of speech can best demonstrate the artistic charm and effect of literary works. They can also do good to the characterization of a particular
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"The most insistent and vigorous historicism through most of the twentieth century has been Marxism‚ based on the work of Karl Marx (1818-1883)" (Marxist Criticism"). Even though this critical theory has been proved to be flawed‚ this theory is quite helpful when used to "interpret the failure of Marxist regimes" (Tyson 49). Some of the fundamental premises include the idea that how an economy functions is the base of every society‚ that all human events and productions have specific material/historical
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Marxist Literary Criticism Karl Marx was a German philosopher‚ economist and sociologist as well as a political revolutionary. He‚ with the aid of Friedrech Engels‚ published theCommunist Manifesto in 1848. In the manifesto‚ Marx identified three social classes in his theory: The Aristocracy which refers to the small number of land owners who have control over the economy of the country‚ the Bourgeois class which refers to the high class people who have control over the industrial sites and factories
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ART CRITICISM PAPER "The Grafin von Schonfeld with her Daughter" by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-LeBrun In the University Of Arizona Museum Of Art‚ the Pfeiffer Gallery is displaying many art pieces of oil on canvas paintings. These paintings are mostly portraits of people‚ both famous and not. They are painted by a variety of artists of European decent and American decent between the mid 1700’s and the early 1900’s. The painting by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun caught my eye and drew me in to look
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Solidad Reyes’ view on Literary History‚ Literary Theory and Literary Criticism In an attempt to solve different problems and issues in Literary Studies such as the effects of major trends to modern Philippine Literature‚ role of the audience and critics in studying text‚ three areas of literary study was explained‚ literary history‚ literary theory and literary criticism and their integration to Philippine Literature. Each area was explained based on their individual roles or impacts in the study
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The Dream of the Rood c. Eighth Century Old English poem. The Dream of the Rood has been heralded by scholars as the finest expression of the Crucifixion theme in Old English poetry. Though it focuses on a motif common in Old English poetry‚ The Dream of the Rood is unique in describing it from the viewpoint of the Cross and within the context of a dream vision. The poem thus becomes a philosophical one‚ and‚ as John V. Fleming has asserted‚ "the vehicle of an ascetical-theological doctrine which
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the President and Vice President of the United States every four years. The President and Vice President are not elected directly by the voters. Instead‚ they are elected by "electors" who are chosen by popular vote on a state-by-state basis. Criticisms of the electoral college- 1- statistical advantage to the small states 2- people only campaign in the big states 3- you can win popular vote but lose the electoral vote 4- it’s a win or take all system 5- gives the appearance of land slides
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