What is Literature? According to wiki.answers.com‚ literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. The term is most commonly used to refer to words of the creative imagination including works of poetry‚ drama‚ fiction and non-fiction. But in today’s society‚ there is a lot of question of what is literature and what is not literature. Literature evolves as society does and comes in all shapes‚ sizes‚ and forms. May it be a novel‚ poetry‚ or even graffiti on a building‚ society
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the writer organizes the concepts and ideas. – Text Structure 2. What should be your primary concern when reading literature? – Recognize the differences and similarities in real life experience 3. Literature leads us to ________ the life of man‚ society‚ culture‚ and tradition. – understand 4. How does literature affect you as readers? – Molds man as a total human being 5. In literature you can witness different emotions and struggles of life – True 6. A poem that expresses the emotions‚ feelings
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Literature and Time "What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age" --- Peter Brodie What the quote above is saying is that literature is left within the time that it was written. So when one reads a piece of literature‚ they read about more than just what the author writes. They also may learn what kind of person the author is‚ or when the author lived. Literature gives readers insight as to what life was like around a certain time period. This can be seen
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"The Philippine Literature now a days" The diversity and richness of Philippine literature evolved side by side with the country’s history. Long before the Spaniards and other foreigners landed or set foot on Philippine shores‚ our forefathers already had their own literature stamped in the history of our race. Our ancient literature shows our customs and traditions in everyday life as traced in our folk stories‚ old plays and short stories. Our ancestors also had their own alphabet which was
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When crime features in literature‚ there are often many ways it is dealt with. In “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes‚ Mrs.Jones was almost robbed by a boy named Roger. Instead of calling the cops Mrs.Jones took the boy home to her house‚ washed‚ fed and gave him money to buy the sneakers that he had wanted to steal the money for. In contrast‚ in Roald Dahl’s “Lambs to the Slaughter”‚ Mary kills her husband‚ Patrick Maloney‚ after he told her he is going to leave her. After killing her husband‚
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Student Number: S2880936 Name: Wan-Pin Wang Title: Assignment 1-Literature review- why people not participate in physical activity? People are less willing to participate in physical activities after they get married. The most common three reasons that why married men not participate in physical activities are: time‚ motivation‚ and age. “Married people are often older and have more responsibility for children and other factors; it could be these responsibilities which are curtailing their activity
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LITERATURE REVIEW- COMPARATIVE ICICI & SBI 1. This article depicts a comparative study on the personal banking services of ICICI Bank and SBI. The advantage of one scheme over another is studied and reasons for why one should choose a particular scheme is also given. Various schemes offered by both the banks were studied and data was gathered which also highlighted the risk areas of all the schemes are carefully looked at. Source: http://www.scribd.com/doc/28674754/sbi-icici 2. This article
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Fantasy Literature and Fantastic Language ENG 290 Rachel De Luise University of Phoenix For the assignment I am to choose one poem and one work of fantasy from two different cultural traditions. Choosing the fantasy was easy‚ but choosing the poem was a little difficult for me. For the poem‚ I chose “High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee‚ Jr. The poem was listed in our textbook as a sonnet. A sonnet is a very old form of poetry‚ having gained prominence during the Renaissance period
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS 9 ISBN 17-253-3313Sb -2 11 1 111 90000 ol 2 336 69 Chinese Literature‚ Ancient and Classical by Andre Levy translated by William H. Nienhauser‚ Jr. Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington‚ Indiana 47404-3797 USA www.indiana.edu/–iupress Telephone orders 800 842 6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e mail iuporder@indiana.edu - 2000
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What is Literature? What is literature? Nowadays‚ literature seems to be slowly depleting. Much of this generation’s youth are what we now call‚ illiterate. The advancements of technologies gradually helped the adolescents to become lazier. For example‚ text messaging. I know text messaging is a fun and easy way to communicate with your friends‚ but the amount of laziness teenagers put into it is completely ridicule. Spelling “u” instead of “you” is one example. Another example--by far is the
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