Symposium Symposium‚ by Plato‚ contains information regarding the author’s life‚ provenance‚ genre‚ language‚ and intended audience. Plato was born in 429 BCE into one of the richest and most politically active families in Athens‚ Greece. When he was a young adult‚ he learned from the great Athenian philosopher Socrates‚ and later used Socrates as the main character of many of his dialogues. After Socrates death‚ Plato traveled to Megara‚ Cyrene‚ Italy‚ Sicily‚ Egypt‚ and Syracuse‚ spreading his
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Katherine Anne Porter is most commonly known for her elaborate and complex short stories that resonated with different people in different ways. From Flowering Judas to That Tree‚ Porter’s message remains constant and her stories often draw to the same conclusion regarding a failure on the part of man. Characterized by her inventive use of symbolism in her short stories‚ Katherine Anne Porter manages to weave intricate tales that explore the misguided nature of the human psyche and thus analyze
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The movie Robin Hood is about a highly skilled archer‚ named Robin Longstride‚ who fought alongside King Richard the Lionheart during the Crusade. Unforunately‚ King Richard died in the battle outside of France’s Chalus Castle and his younger brother‚ Prince John was forced upon the throne. King John quickly took charge‚ dealt with the Magna Carta‚ and ordered harsh new taxes among the nearby towns and these taxes are to be collected by Sir Godfrey. Secretly have been working with the French army
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Percival Everett put a 70 page novella called My Pafology into the middle of his novel‚ Erasure‚ in order to criticize the authors‚ audience‚ and industry of African-American novels. He uses the form of meta-fiction‚ and tells the story from the perspective of the novel’s protagonist‚ an author named Thelonious “Monk” Ellison. From the beginning‚ Monk makes it clear that society is mistaken in its identification of “black life” by telling the reader how much he doesn’t fit in. “While in college
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Brindsley Miller is at odds with everyone in his living room. While all of his guests‚ intended and accidental‚ attempt to illuminate their condition both figuratively and literally‚ Brindsley desperately endeavors to thwart them to increasingly comedic effect. In Peter Shaffer’s one-act farce‚ Black Comedy‚ first performed in 1965‚ he amusingly juxtaposes light and dark in order to underscore the play’s central treatment of lies and deceit. Simultaneously its most distinctive and challenging feature
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In Dance of the Tiger‚ Björn Kurtén presents the fictional lives of three hominin groups living during the extinction of Neanderthals. (K) Set in geographical Scandinavia (D)‚ the plot takes place near the end of the Pleistocene epoch after migrations of anatomically modern humans enter northern Europe. Attributes of each group’s culture formed the mode by which the catastrophic event took place. Kurtén concludes his tale by resolving the biological legacy of Neanderthals as genetic fragments
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In her novel O Pioneers!‚ Willa Cather‚ a well-known American author‚ depicts her experiences throughout her life living in the great state of Nebraska. O Pioneers! grew out of her familiarity with the communities of settlers‚ conversations with the immigrant farmers from different places‚ and the simple being of her living on the prairies herself. In 1913‚ after years of editing and writing short stories and poems‚ she wrote and became famous for her novel about the West‚ O Pioneers! At the time
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Most of the information about the history and the origins of the Delphic Oracle comes from the work of Parke and Wormell‚ which is considered to be the most representative on this field; this does not mean that work of other scholars is not being presented. To begin with‚ according to an ancient myth‚ one day Zeus wanted to determine the exact centre of the earth. So‚ he released two eagles from opposite ends of the world. The place where the two eagles would meet would be the centre of the earth
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Schuyler’s Monster is a story about the many struggles of a family dealing with a nonverbal child. Schuyler’s father‚ Robert‚ allows the reader to become immersed into their lives‚ giving the reader a glimpse into the confusion‚ frustrations‚ and happiness that encompasses their lives. At first we meet a happy couple that anxiously prepares and waits for the arrival of their first child. Robert describes the many emotions they’re faced with while they’re waiting‚ when she’s being born‚ and when
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In her ethnographic novel‚ Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala‚ Victoria Sanford studied the Guatemalan government genocide of the Maya villages and communities from the late 1970’s to the early 1990’s. She gives accounts of her research through stories‚ forensic data from the exhumation of a clandestine cemetery‚ testimonies of survivors‚ interviews with members of the Guatemalan government and military and conclusions analyzed from data collected. The books main topic is to uncover
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