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    of being under a lot of pressure‚ having a huge burden on your shoulders. Everyone handles and thinks of stress differently in many ways with different kinds of remedies and solutions. Some people tend to let the stress get to them and can get very emotional about it. Others can handle it very well and stay calm and work well with it. All in all‚ everyone has different ways of dealing with stress‚ including Pat Tillman from Where Men Win Glory and Charlie from The Perks of Being a Wallflower‚ in

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    In Dennis Bloomfield’s literary criticism‚ he dissects Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights by finding a common theme‚ and explaining how they develop the plot of the story. He proposes sickness and death as themes that develop the plot‚ and the meaning and reason why they would be included in a story. Death is a concept that is fairly simple to understand‚ however Bloomfield not only mentions physical sicknesses of the characters‚ but mental ones aswell. Death causes a physical and emotional imbalance

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    DEFINITION OF POSTCOLONIAL CRITICISM A type of cultural criticism‚ postcolonial criticism usually involves the analysis of literary texts produced in countries and cultures that have come under the control of European colonial powers at some point in their history. Alternatively‚ it can refer to the analysis of texts written about colonized places by writers hailing from the colonizing culture. In Orientalism (1978)‚ Edward Said‚ a pioneer of postcolonial criticism and studies‚ focused on the way

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    Literary Criticism What comes to your mind when you hear the word “criticism”? Nowadays‚ most people look at criticism as something negative and personally‚ it has a negative connotation to me. Multimedia (for example‚ television‚ radio‚ etc.) has often depicted criticism as an antagonist. On reality TV shows‚ say‚ a singing competition‚ there is usually a panel of judges who criticize the contestants ’ performances particularly focusing on its fine points and flaws (more on the latter) and the

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    types of Literary Criticisms? * New Criticism / Formalism - This type of criticism concerns itself with the parts of a text and how the parts fit together to make a whole. Because of this‚ it does not bring in any information outside of the text: biography of the author‚ historical or literary allusions‚ mythological patterns‚ or the psychoanalytical traits of the characters (except those traits specifically described in the text.) * Archetypical or Mythic – This type of criticism looks at

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    BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM Biographical criticism begins with the simple but central insight that literature is written by actual people and that understanding an author’s life can help readers more thoroughly comprehend the work. Anyone who reads the biography of a writer quickly sees how much an author’s experience shapes—both directly and indirectly—what he or she creates. Reading that biography will also change (and usually deepen) our response to the work. Sometimes even knowing a single important

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    Good morning/afternoon classmates. For this assignment‚ I have decided to mainly focus on the social side of diversity rather than the cultural side. So how does the book Looking for Alibrandi compare to my chosen text‚ the movie The Perks of being a Wallflower. Well both these texts are oddly alike. They are both about young teenagers struggling to fit into society. Looking for Alibrandi‚ written by Melina Marchetta‚ is about a 17 yr. old girl‚ Josephine Alibrandi or Josie‚ studying in her

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    Introduction The Hope for the Flowers of Trina Paulus started when Stripe was born. He saw other crawlers who were climbing a tree for them to reach the top. It was climb or be climbed. Stripe chose to climb and not mind other crawlers. He was very persistent to reach the top. He stepped on them and continued this single –minded approach. One day‚ he met a caterpillar named Yellow. They immediately fell in love with each other. Yellow encouraged him to just go down and not continue the climb. He

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    begins with 15 year old boy named Charlie writing letters to an unknown recipient about his life. He discusses how he is beginning high school and his fear of it because his only friend‚ Michael‚ committed suicide the year before. Charlie is a wallflower and he is befriended by a senior named Patrick. Patrick is gay and is dating a football player secretly. Patrick introduces Charlie to Sam‚ Patrick’s step-sister. Charlie is attracted to Sam‚ but says nothing for a while. He is absorbed into their

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    "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils"[2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802‚ in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth’s own account)‚[3] it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes‚ and a revised versionwas published in 1815.[4] It is written in six-line stanzas with an ababcc rhyme scheme‚ like the Venus

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