“Araby”I watched my master’s face pass from amiability to sternness; he hoped I was not beginning to idle. I could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which‚ now that it stood between me and my desire‚ seemed to me child’s play‚ ugly monotonous child’s play. (See Important Quotations Explained) SummaryThe narrator‚ an unnamed boy‚ describes the North Dublin street on which his house is located. He thinks about the priest who died in the
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils"[2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802‚ in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth’s own account)‚[3] it was first published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes‚ and a revised versionwas published in 1815.[4] It is written in six-line stanzas with an ababcc rhyme scheme‚ like the Venus
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Linguistics professor and best-selling author‚ Deborah Tannen explains how “The Argument Culture” wants us to accept that by creating conflict is the best way of getting things done with an adversarial disposition. An essay taken from her book‚ The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue (1988)‚ Tannen expresses her views on having adversarial dialogue between two sides has weakened communication in our society. Although‚ we live in a society where we are free to express our conflicts
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occurs‚ the voice loses its origin‚ the author enters his own death‚ writing begins. Nevertheless‚ the feeling about this phenomenon has been variable; in primitive societies‚ narrative is never undertaken by a person‚ but by a mediator‚ shaman or speaker‚ whose "performance" may be admired (that is‚ his mastery of the narrative code)‚ but not his "genius" The author is a modern figure‚ produced no doubt by our society insofar as‚ at the end of the middle ages‚ with English empiricism‚ French rationalism
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Do The Right Thing is a fictional narrative that surrounds an Italian restaurant in the middle of a black neighborhood. Do The Right Thing does something that no other film was able to do‚ which is‚ “… present the aspects of the culture - language‚ dress‚ attitude‚ music - in a realistic context…” (Donalson 23). Donalson was correct - this film didn’t just serve to depict the random lives of a community‚ but rather the political and racial tension their community (and‚ I imagine‚ the rest of the
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Running Head: THE MAN WITH NO NAME CRITICAL ANALYSIS 1 THE MAN WITH NO NAME CRITICAL ANALYSIS 9 The Man with No Name Critical Analysis Caroline Sonbay University of Michigan - Flint The Man with No Name Critical Analysis To think of the American western or traditional western‚ brings visions of the good guy the cowboy who saves the day and the rides away or the sheriff who protects the town and gets the lady. Those were the simpler scenes when it is easy to differentiate between
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Manfred Jahn Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative Full reference: Jahn‚ Manfred. 2005. Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative. English Department‚ University of Cologne. Version: 1.8. New in this version: Some modified definitions in N1; set of analytical question in N1.33; recent narratological literature (N2.1); hypothetical focalization and empty centers (N3.2.5); story grammars (N4.5); revised references and bibliography. Date: 28 May 2005 This page: http://www.uni-koeln
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’reflection’ of the world‚ Victor Shklovsky and his Formalist followers saw it as a linguistic dislocation. or a ’making strange’. In the period of Czech Formalism. Jan Mukarovsky further refined this notion in terms of foregrounding. In their studies of narrative‚ the Formalists also clarified the distinction between plot (sjazet) and story (fabula). Apart from Shklovsky and his associate Boris Eikhenbaum‚ the most prominent of the Russian Formalists was Roman Jakobson‚ who was active both in Moscow and in
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Planet Pandora‚ where human exploits the land and oppresses the native. This study explores in what way the idea of orientalism is represented and how both narrative and non-narrative aspects of the film helped in delivering that representation. Indeed‚ to explore the focus of analysis‚ the study will be completed by applying orientalism criticism proposed by Edward Said. Thereby‚ this research will be a qualitative research where the data is taken from the film Avatar‚ library research‚ journals‚
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A STUDENT’S GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS Accumulation: The enumeration of words (attributes) having a similar meaning. ”The process is wasteful‚ dangerous‚ messy‚ and sometimes tragic.” Acronym: A single word‚ formed from the initial letters of other words (NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Act: The act is the major division of a drama/play‚ often divided further into scenes. Acting time: The acting time is the time from the beginning to the end of an episode or episodes in a fictional
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