and largely during the 1920s and 1930s‚ Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works‚ A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962)‚ won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[2] In 1998‚ the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom‚ Absalom! (1936) is often included
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Modern Cars We ask ourselves every time we see heavy traffic‚ is there no variance anymore amongst car models? In the old days‚ as a matter of fact only five ore ten years ago every single car brand seemed to have it’s own personality‚ today they look more like a cluster of copycats. What went wrong? One reason is that the automotive industry has certain trends it has to follow‚ just like fashion designers and musical composers. In times of recession and decreasing sales there is less room to take
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The modern homesteader‚ although trying to live a traditional agrarian lifestyle‚ embraces certain technology that aids in their goal to be more self sufficient. Their selective use of modern conveniences reflects the value placed on technology. These values are often connected to their ideology of voluntary simplicity and their views of technology’s connection to capitalism. (Housel‚ 2006‚ p.85). Technology commonly found on the homestead is most often associated with power. Most homesteaders
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The Modern Warfare The modern man has created a paramilitary world in which a new form of culture has emerged. In James William Gibson’s essay Warrior Dreams‚ he discusses the idea of an energized culture whose main objective is to fit the “warrior” persona. The appearance of this warrior persona “revealed that at some deep‚ unconscious level….the images and tales from the mythic world of warriors and wars still shape men’s fantasies about who they are as men” (633). Men create an image in which
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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 other hand‚ a modernist writer emphasises on impressionism and subjectivity in writing and how opinions are formed‚ rather than on what is perceived. She also wrote in Modern Fiction her famous quote “Examine for a
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When we were children‚ the weekends were the best days of the week that most children looked forward to. That was the time when all the house cleaning took place from the top of the house to the bottom of the house. That means we had to clean all over. But it was also exciting because once it was over‚ we got to go outside and play with our friends. During the week it was always business. The routine went a lot like this: Monday through Friday we got up‚ readied ourselves for school‚ attended
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UNIVERSITY OF TARTU DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE THE CONTEMPORARY SHREW: AN ANALYSIS OF TWO MODERNISED FILM APPROPRIATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE ’S THE TAMING OF THE SHREW BA thesis LIIS KAASIK SUPERVISOR: LECT. RAILI PÕLDSAAR TARTU 2008 ABSTRACT The aim of the thesis is to analyse how the contemporary context and genre conventions have affected the representation of different characters and the plot in two modernized film versions of The Taming of the Shrew‚ ShakespeaRe-Told
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From Old to Modern Peru Latin America’s wars for independence during the 1800s weakened its connection with Spain through political affairs that changed after years of an unbalanced economy and unstable rule. While Latin America was negatively impacted by the violence and instability‚ it went through its own Industrial Revolution which gave Latin America the power and reputation it needed to be one of the world’s main producers for raw materials. In many Latin American countries‚ racial discrimination
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Definition and usage The invention of the printing press made it possible for scientists and politicians to communicate their ideas with ease‚ leading to the Age of Enlightenment; an example of technology as a cultural force. The use of the term technology has changed significantly over the last 200 years. Before the 20th century‚ the term was uncommon in English‚ and usually referred to the description or study of the useful arts.[1] The term was often connected to technical education‚ as in
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Modern Architecture and the Modern City- Barbican‚ London Chamberlin‚ Powel and Bon had very little experience being architects‚ after giving up teaching at Kingston University‚ they formed a partnership to tackle the challenge of the Barbican project. Between 1954 and 1968 Chamberlin‚ Powel and Bon (CP & B) created four finished plans which was later modified to a further fifth plan. However with the complexity of the scheme seven official plans were drawn up over this time. With each plan
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