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    Moral is an important part of a book or any media‚ it plays a vital role in a person’s learning and thinking. The book “Peak”‚ by Roland Smith tells a story about a young boy is climbing Mount Everest. It has numerous morals throughout the pages. The adventure of Peak is more than a climber summiting Mt.Everest. It included many other elements‚ love‚ family‚ politics‚ hope‚ and many more‚ which made the book special. Following the Peak’s path‚ is another and another surprise along with morals.

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    Comparing Authors William Shakespeare and W.H. Auden are widely known for their great poems. Shakespeare’s “My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” is a love unlike any poem from the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare does not use false comparisons to describe his lover like most love poem do‚ which is refreshing. W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” is another love poem that is little gloomier. However it shows how much death can affect an individual’s life. Together Shakespeare and Auden use similar and

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    The life of Edgar Allan Poe‚ as the lives of many other authors‚ was filled with tragedies that all influenced his writings. From the very beginning of his writing career‚ he loved writing poems for the loves of his life. Later‚ when he reached adulthood and realized the harsh realities of life‚ his writing became darker and more disturbing‚ perhaps due to his excessive alcohol intake. His horror stories remain some of the scariest stories ever written‚ and‚ because of this‚ some have speculated

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    An analysis evaluates what a piece of writing is trying to do. In order to do that‚ you will have to decide what the author is trying to say and who they are trying to persuade to agree with them. In addition‚ you will need to examine the social and cultural context and point in time when the piece of writing was produced. Finally‚ you will need to explain how well the author fulfilled their purpose. What sort of an Analysis Essay are you being asked to write? Share in the comments about your

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    Credits to the Author

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    Francisco‚ Hanah Joy R June 27‚ 2013 AB—Psychology ------------------------------------------------- Psychological Testing I. Brief History of Psychological Testing * 2200 B.C. Chinese begin civil service examinations. * A.D.1862 Wilhelm Wundt uses a calibrated pendulum to measure the “speed of thought.” * 1884 Francis Galton administers the first test battery to thousands of citizens at the International Health Exhibit. * 1890 James McKeen Cattell uses the term mental test

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    How to: Advise for a Budding Author It is any authors dream to be published. They have written their work‚ and think that it is the best they can do. However‚ when it comes time for them to publish what they have done‚ many authors find that publishers do not print everything that comes across their desks. Most of what an author tries to get into print is rejected‚ especially new authors. This group has an even more difficult time getting work laid out onto paper because they as writers are unknown

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    Although The Poem of The Cid was written during the Spanish crusades‚ The Cid could not be further from the heroic crusader ideal‚ as established‚ for example‚ in The Song of Roland. Roland was so passionate‚ so convinced of the rightness of his beliefs that he was willing to demonstrate all of his heroic qualities in the pursuit of achieving martyrdom as posthumous evidence of his devotion and courage. Charlemagne and God himself bless Roland’s mission to kill as many heathens as he can. The Cid

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    Maya Angelou Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4‚ 1928‚ in St. Louis‚ Missouri (poets.org). Maya Angelou later changed her name to promote her writing. Maya- represents the childhood name her brother Bailey gave her and Angelou is a variation of her married last name. At the age of three her parents sent her and her younger brother Bailey to live with their paternal grandmother in Stamps‚ Arkansas. When she was seven years old she moved to Chicago to live with her mother and encountered

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    Coleridge: A Supernatural Author All literary freedom started with two men. These two are known all around the world. One of them was literally a genius because of his approach to literature but his real reputation comes from his ability to break chains of conservative customs and to create a new movement. The other one was actually more eccentric than the founding father of a new movement and era which is called Romanticism. I underlined the word eccentric because he believed an idea which had

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    Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones to George Frederic Jones and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander in New York City on January 24‚ 1862. She belonged to an aristocratic New York family with ancestry dating back three centuries. As a daughter of society‚ her role was to learn the mannerisms and rituals expected of well-bred young women in those days. Later she would rebel against this role but as a child she was schooled at home and had the privilege of use of her father’s extensive library. She

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