journey as an English: Literature major has almost come to a close so quickly. My path has been a smooth and enjoyable one‚ and it is with great sadness that I begin to gather up the ends of my literary education. I know that I will continue to grow and develop as a critical reader/thinker throughout my lifetime‚ but I will sorrowfully miss the educational structure that has shaped my literary understanding for the last three years. I consider my greatest strengths as a literature major to be
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In order to read significant pieces of literature from the past‚ we almost always need it to be translated from the original language. We often see a lot translations of popular text‚ for example there are countless translations of Dante’s Inferno that are widely available. How can we be sure that the translation we are reading is the closest to the original text? The simple answer is: we don’t know. Unless one is equipped with the ability to read medieval Tuscan Italian then the reader isn’t getting
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the previous generation used to be‚ Fishman’s evidences are more up-to-date. According to a recent Sun editorial‚ “activism has transformed from sensationalized 1960s tear-gas rallies to online petitions and Internet discussion boards” (Fishman 73). Not only Fishman‚ but also the reality tells that the time has changed. News can be spread worldwide in seconds through the Internet‚ and it can easily gather “Generation Q”‚ written by Thomas L. Friedman‚ and “The Generation of Generation Q”‚ written
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in that small company of anthologies that become landmarks or points of departure‚ like Ron Silliman’s In the American Tree or Jerome Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred. In neat postmodern fashion‚ it has now been followed by its precursor. The Lost Origins of the Essay excavates the literary history of several continents to demonstrate that the “next” essay‚ in all its idiosyncratic divagations‚ has always already been among us. The first text‚ “The List of Ziusudra‚” dates from 2700 BC. The
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As a writer I can say four years of learning English literature in high school‚ did not give me a clear perception over any of the stuff I had to prepare for when taking my first English literature writing course‚ when I say this I mean I was clueless going into my second semester of college when I signed up for the course I was confident at the start of the class then begin to realize my weaknesses and my strong abilities as a writer towards the end of the semester. Critically I will analyze previous
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Love is a common theme in most literature‚ as either an underlying theme or as the stimulus for the story‚ as it is an emotion that has great power and is also universally understood. The writers we have studied have written about love in its many forms‚ from the cerebral to the visceral and they have used this complex emotion to propel their stories and their sonnets. As we progress forward in time we see a distinct change in the freedom writers had as they addressed this theme and a change in the
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This generation is the iPhone generation‚ the Twitter generation‚ the Instagram generation‚ a generation focus around a single word – instant. What makes this generation so instant is its ability to adapt and excel in technology. Instant uploads‚ instant texts‚ instant responses. It is common knowledge that the majority of this generation has their own cell phone. It is common knowledge that the majority of this generation has access to Internet. How often does this generation look up from their
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yard wearing a straw hat and digging in the dirt. My love for planting runs deep‚ the happiness and feeling of accomplishment you get when you notice your tree is growing‚ or your flowers are blooming. The yard is truly my happy place where I can get lost for hours and show others my taste of design. Last but not least is prayer‚ something that is so very dear to my heart and every aspect of my life. Prayer takes place at all times throughout the day‚ but in my spare time I could spend hours. There’s
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Bluffing- Gail Helgason By P. Baburaj‚ Senior Lecturer‚ Dept. of English‚ Sherubtse college‚ Bhutan Author of: Language and writing‚ DSB Publication Thimphu Communicative English‚ P. K. Books‚ Calicut A perception on Literary Criticism‚ P.K. Books‚ Calicut Flashback: A term which is probably from the cinema and which is now also used to describe any scene or episode in a play‚novel‚ story or poem which is inserted to show events that happened in an earlier time. It is frequently used
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Hannah Bunker Mr. La Plante AP® English Language and Composition Fourth Hour 24 January 2017 Extended Response I: Reading with a Critical Eye Books are precious pieces that improve one’s knowledge and help define one’s personality by relating themselves to characters within the text. As Vladimir Nabokov said in Good Readers and Good Writers “The reader should identify himself or herself with the hero or heroine.”(Nabokov‚ 973) I always believed that by reading a book you become
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