Reality of Sharks Reflection By:Brette An This Found Literature Project is a prose about sharks. In today’s world‚ sharks are depicted as deadly predators that attack humans and helpless animals. The stereotypes of sharks frequently attacking people are false. Ironically‚ humans kill more sharks then sharks do. Although sharks inflict major damage ranging from missing limbs to death‚ these shark attacks rarely occur. In contrast‚ people kill 100 million sharks yearly. In reality‚ sharks need
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THE personal history of Aphra Behn‚ the first Englishwoman to earn her livelihood by authorship‚ is unusually interesting but very difficult to unravel and relate. In dealing with her biography writers at different periods have rushed headlong to extremes‚ and we now find that the pendulum has swung to its fullest stretch. On the one hand‚ we have prefixed to a collection of the Histories and Novels‚ published in 1696‚ ’The Life of Mrs. Behn written by one of the Fair Sex’‚ a frequently reprinted
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A novella is a narrative work of prose fiction somewhat longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. A common length is about 50 to 100 pages‚ or around 20‚000 to 40‚000 words. The extra length is generally used for more character development than is possible in a short story‚ but without the much greater character and plot development of a novel. ------------------------------------------------- Novella From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the literary form. For
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The Renaissance This Presentation * is divided into two sections (Pt. 1 & Pt. 2); each dealing with a poet who represents the English Renaissance (late 15th C. to early 17th C.) * introduces the Renaissance era (cultural and literary aspects). * presents a discussion of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 & Donne’s “The Good Morrow” and “Death Be Not Proud”. English Renaissance ( 1485-1625) The Renaissance Originated in Italy (14th C.) influences: Greece & Roman Cultures
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is a work of art. Admittedly it is hard to read about so many deaths in the same way over and over again‚ and see the same pain‚ the same agony and despair‚ without the distraction of pretty words‚ in a plain novel. Putting this intense story in prose doesn’t nearly do it the justice it deserves. Although this tale is interesting enough‚ being put into epic form seems to put everything in its place. Reading The Iliad as an epic poem brings life to the dull moments‚ brings life to the empty pages
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In Franz Kafka’s "A Hunger Artist‚" the author speaks about his method of writing; his affliction that mirrors that of a person who fasts. Throughout his prose‚ he tells the story of a man who-- while others in his time flaunt their skills in living and in cheating death-- has mastered the art of dying. In his own time‚ Kafka was never famous for his writing. In 1922‚ around the time he retired from a Czechoslovakia insurance company for which he was a lawyer‚ he wrote "A Hunger Artist." He had
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Anthology of the 1930s‚ p.179‚ Doubleday‚ 1974.]. Asimov’s warning puts an eloquent exclamation point to the point concerning adjective misuse. Both novices and experienced writers face this quandary‚ and simply put‚ meaningless adjectives deaden the prose. The following example helps answer the question of why unnecessary adjectives stifle text. One error highlighting writer’s
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Prose refers to that system as “...a process intended to produce a product‚” the product being the children. Products‚ not kids who need most of all to be taught how to act as decent people‚ but commodities moving down an assembly line of classrooms. If Prose thinks we should focus on diction then we should really focus on how she refers to kids as “it” when she says‚ “What sort
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the story‚ was expected to know everything about domestic survival‚ she was considered the teacher for the girl in the story. she was offering advice but at the same time she was scolding the girl for her promiscuity. there is no structure to this prose poem‚ I think the author did this on purpose to show that the narrator had a lot of information to give her daughter.this story seems as if it was in the past. the mother seems to have high expectations for the daughter‚ but does not feel as if she
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Arabic literature Main article: Arabic literature Main article: Literature of Morocco Ibn Tufail (Abubacer) and Ibn al-Nafis were pioneers of the philosophical novel. Ibn Tufail wrote the first fictional Arabic novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (Philosophus Autodidactus) as a response to al-Ghazali ’s The Incoherence of the Philosophers‚ and then Ibn al-Nafis also wrote a novel Theologus Autodidactus as a response to Ibn Tufail ’s Philosophus Autodidactus. Both of these narratives had protagonists(Hayy in Philosophus
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