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    Essays: Indian English Drama

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    American paper 6 Design I found a dimpled spider‚ fat and white‚ On a white heal-all‚ holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth -- Assorted characters of death and blight Mixed ready to begin the morning right‚ Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth -- A snow-drop spider‚ a flower like a froth‚ And dead wings carried like a paper kite. What had that flower to do with being white‚ The wayside blue and innocent heal-all? What brought the kindred spider to that height

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    Fiction

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    Elements of Fiction 1. Settings * Place and time where the story takes place * It sets the mood of the story 2. Characters * Elements that move in the story *Classifications of Characters* * Protagonist – good guys * Antagonist – bad guys * Round – complex‚ many sided * Flat – one to two traits only * Static – sake sort of person from the beginning till the end * Dynamic/developing – undergoes permanent change * Major – main roles * Minor – supporting

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    Kennedy Doctrine

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    International Problems May 16‚ 2013 Professor Mark A. Stallo‚ Ph.D. During John F. Kennedy’s presidency the United States was seriously concerned with stopping the spread of communism throughout the world and there where hot spots that sparked the Kennedy administrations attention. Containment was the United States foreign policy doctrine that proclaimed that the Soviet Union needed to be contained to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world. This containment policy meant that the United

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    Literature

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    in addition to his mother tongue. Victor got a little education in a small school. At the age of eleven‚ Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris‚ where he got a little education in a small and where he also became infatuated with books and literature. By the time he was fifteen‚ he had already submitted one poem to a contest sponsored by the prestigious French Academy. There he learnt much from an old soldier‚ General Lahorie‚ who‚ obnoxious to Napoleon for the share he had taken in Moreau’s

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    medieval drama

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    Medieval Drama Jugglers‚ folk- plays‚ pageants: The beginning of the Middle Ages started by the fall of the Roman Empire. The corrupt Roman drama had come to an end‚ and the actors became some disreputable jugglers and inferior minstrels who wandered all over the country. The performances of these social outcasts were crude and immoral. However‚ they continued for centuries‚ because they were the only source for dramatic spectacle. Other sources of amusement too can be found in the country

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    Elizabethan Drama

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    Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama From Elizabethan Drama. Janet Spens. London: Metheun & Co. Of the three types of plays recognized in the Shakespeare First Folio -- Comedies‚ Histories‚ and Tragedies -- the last has been the most discussed annd is clearest in outline. 1. Tragedy must end in some tremendous catastrophe involving in Elizabethan practice the death of the principal character. 2. The catastrophe must not be the result of mere accident‚ but must be brought about by some essential

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    Dana Giona Words Analysis

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    heart.” In the poem “words” by Dana Giona‚ words are not sufficient enough to describe the world’s unique and stunning views. Humans use words every day‚ but it still is not enough to describe the world. Dana Giona claims that‚ “The world does not need words‚” illuminating the fact that the world can and is speaking for itself. The speaker also describes that‚ “Even calling it a kiss betrays the fluster of hands of hands glancing the skin or gripping a shoulder.” Dana is comparing words to the way

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    Modernist literature is noticeably different as it is a movement away from the apparent objectivity provided by the fixed narrative points of view‚ omniscient third-person narration and obvious moral positions. Virginia Woolf‚ a modernist writer‚ wrote Modern Fiction in which she claims that the traditionalist novelists like H. G. Wells‚ Arnold Bennett and Galsworthy are ‘materialists’. Materialist are writers who believed that the great force that impacts an individual is the environment. On the

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    Poetry

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    "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me‚ I know that is poetry" (Emily Dickinson). Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. Poetry is the style of writing which sometimes has a unclear or secret theme. Poetry is often used to express or describe personal feeling or emotions. Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden- Robert Hayden is the speaker in this poem. He talks as the son to the father. This poem talks about the love of son to the father‚ who

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    A Definition Of Poetry What is poetry? The question "What is poetry" used to be easier to answer. If it rhymed and had a regular meter (a type of rhythm)‚ it probably was a poem. As they say‚  "If it walks like a duck‚ quacks like a duck‚ looks like a duck‚ it must be a duck.” These days‚ not all poems rhyme or fit into standard forms. And if you look for a response to the question‚ "What is poetry?" you ’ll find lots of musings

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