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    Every year on National Coming Out Day‚ LGBTQ+ individuals come together to celebrate our proudly declared identities. But what are we really celebrating? In “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”‚ Judith Butler explores what it really means to come out and claim an identity. Although Butler acknowledges the importance of coming out for purposes of personal affirmation and community organization‚ she is ultimately skeptical in the coming out process because it means conforming to the discourses of

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    Tristram Shandy: An Anti-Novel Laurence Sterne’s novel‚ The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy‚ Gentleman‚ was published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1766. The text is suggested to be the autobiography of Tristram Shandy‚ as the title proposes‚ but the most of the events of the book occur even before Tristram is born. In fact the event of Tristram’s birth‚ which is first introduced in the very first chapter does not finally occur until Volume IV. The novel largely concerns itself with events

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    The novel "The outsiders" by S.E Hinton is about a young Greaser name Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is part of a gang‚ called the Greasers. He and his gang are bullied all the time by a gang called Socs- the rich white folks. The Socs hate the greasers‚ the reason why they pick on Ponyboy a lot. Ponyboy’s brother has also been hurt by the Socs pretty bad‚ worst. One day Ponyboy walked back home as the rich kids were following him and yelled things to him. They entered into a alley just to pulverize him

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    Slavery in a Novel Are you a human? Do you believe in human rights and equality? Well‚ some of the characters in the book Nightjohn didn’t believe in equality. They believed in punishing anybody who did not look like them. Even though the slaves might have done something differently than they would have done it‚ slavery should not have been a problem. During this book‚ there were multiple themes that represented that fact‚ including leadership‚ bravery‚ and prejudice. These themes were fully responsible

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    Transcendentalism was an intellectual movement founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson. There are three cornerstones of the Transcendentalist belief which are * Human senses are limited; they convey knowledge of the physical world‚ but deeper truths can be grasped only through intuition. * The observation of nature illuminates the nature of human beings. * God‚ nature‚ and humanity are united in a shared universal soul. (pg. 387 under Literary Analysis) Our human senses are limited to what we have in

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    the same religion‚ same ethnicity‚ or even the same hair color are subject to stereotypes. “The Myth of the Latin Woman” embodies what it is to be a Hispanic woman in America trying to find and embrace her identity while defying stereotypes. Author Judith Ortiz Cofer uses a personal narrative essay to tell the story of the life of a Hispanic girl trying to assimilate herself while still holding on to her culture and traditions. By analyzing the different parts of this essay such as the narration mode

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    The First World War spawned a great variety of war novels and memoirs. German novels such as All Quiet on the Western Front and British memoirs by Robert Graves‚ Siegfried Sassoon‚ and Edmund Blunden helped to create a mythology of "disillusionment." I will survey several German and British memoirs in this essay‚ making comparisons between them with a view to drawing some conclusions as to how German and British soldiers sustained morale. Ernst Jünger’s The Storm of Steel is a unique and interesting

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    Is Thérèse Raquin a Naturalist novel? Émile Zola is often considered the chief literary theorist of the Naturalist movement and so one would assume that his creative offspring‚ including the novel Thérèse Raquin‚ would display the traits of the genre. Zola may be responsible for many of the conventions that one would associate with Naturalism and so naturally you could extend this logic to argue that his work defines the genre. To the modern reader‚ Thérèse Raquin appears anything but naturalistic

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    University of Perpetual Help System Dalta Alabang-Zapote Road‚ Pamplona III‚ Las Piñas City Dedication of Jose Rizal’s Novels: Noli Me Tangere And El Filibusterismo Submitted to: Mr. Mason (Professor in Life and Works of Rizal) Submitted by: Rosemarie R. Lubay Noli Me tangere "In the annals of human adversity‚ there is etched a cancer‚ of a breed so malignant that the least contact exacerbates it and stirs in it the sharpest of pains.  And thus‚ many

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    Exsanguination Dawn The River How does Judith Beveridge use setting to convey meaning? Wolf Notes‚ an anthology of Judith Beveridge’s‚ transcends the literal meaning of its writing through the emphasis placed on scenery. Beveridge formulates her poems on the concept of specific and detailed settings‚ conveying reason and meaning in a way that cannot be done otherwise. Several of her poems particularly sponsor this idea: Dawn‚ quite simply is a observation of nature‚ hence uses nature to express

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