1. Biography of Ernest Miller Hemingway "Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it‚ never really care for anything else thereafter. You will meet them doing various things with resolve‚ but their interest rarely holds because after the other thing ordinary life is as flat as the taste of wine when the taste buds have been burned off your tongue." (’On the Blue Water’ in Esquire‚ April 1936) A legendary novelist‚ short-story
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Kaitlyn Alfman January 08‚ 2013 Research Project Notes Ernest Miller Hemingway Born on July 21st‚ 1899 in Oak Park‚ Illinois Died on July 2nd‚ 1961. Ernest Hemingway was found dead of a shotgun wound in the head at his home on July 2‚ 1961. His wife‚ Mary‚ said that he had killed himself accidentally while cleaning the weapon. American author and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Raised in suburb of Chicago. Spent most of his time in Northern Michigan
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Paragraph #1: Introduction Hook - Ernest Hemingway is experiencing the inferiority of women‚racism against others‚ and the suicide of a depressed father. Explain the story - A boy named Nick is with his father and the father ends up helping an indian woman give birth while most don’t care about the woman in pain. The father of the newborn can’t stand to listen to his crying wife so he ends up committing suicide. This helps Nick mature at a young age. Thesis - Coming of age is the moment a person
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Level 1: After the first couple of days at Ernest Manning i feel that one aspect of the culture there is academic excellence. All around the school there are trophy cases displaying excellence in a variety of subjects. Upon entering the classroom it’s easy to notice the numerous pictures displaying students winning local and international events (such as the International FIRST Robotics Competition) posted by proud teachers. It’s quite clear that the school has gone to great lengths to ensure students
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Ernest Gellner’s thesis in his book Nations and Nationalism is that economic change requires cultural homogeneity‚ and that the demand for cultural homogeneity‚ and the state apparatus to provide it‚ is what drives nationalism. Ernest Gellner was a philosopher and a social anthropologist. He was once referred to as a “one-man crusade for critical rationalism”. He produced many works that have prompted deep thought. His first book Words and Things‚ A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy
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powerful writer lies in her ability to write literature in which any passage can be set apart from its context and still express the qualities of the whole. When this occurs‚ the integrated profundity of the entire work is a sign of true artistry. Ernest Hemingway‚ an author of the Lost Generation‚ was one such writer who mastered the art of investing simple sentence structure with layers of complex meaning. Hemingway‚ who was a journalist in the earlier years of his writing career‚ was known for
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In his article‚”Clash of Certainties‚ Old and New: For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Inner War of Ernest Hemingway” reveals Hemingway’s own transformation from an nonpolitical and anti-war view to one of a anti-fascist supporter‚ during the Spanish Civil War. The article states that Hemingway was always attracted to war zones‚ but his views remained anti-war. Hemingway believed writers jobs were to write‚ not form opinions‚ and not to be involved in the affairs of politics. During the Spanish Civil
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finger foods and zealous matches of badminton‚ however‚ in the midst of it all lied a strict code of manners that anyone who was anyone was expected to follow. Victorian Era mannerisms were beyond extraordinary and Oscar Wilde‚ the author of The Importance of Being Earnest‚ realised this and despised them. Throughout the story‚ Oscar likes to “poke fun” at the outrageous customs of the Victorian Era. To accomplish this feat‚ Oscar uses satire to ridicule the appalling customs and opinions of the Victorian
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the period (late-Victorian). Wilde was being satirical and paradoxical in his play to show the hypocrisy and entertain the viewers in a play that is still being repeated till today. It is a witty and amusing comedy which conveys real life everyday themes such as real love as opposed to selfish love‚ religion‚ marriage‚ being truthful and country life as opposed to city life. Richard Foster‚ author of “Wilde as Parodist: A Second Look at The Importance of Being Earnest”‚ published in October 1956‚ writes
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In researching the ideas and themes behind Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest‚ I stumbled upon numerous questions and underlying themes which I plan to dissect thoroughly in the following body of this paper treating each question individually and in an abstract manner. The questions I encountered ranged from the incestual tendencies of Lady Bracknell in relation to the gothic genre to Wilde’s use of food as a weapon and a means of demonstrating one’s power. Before diving into the
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