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    It is altogether true that Tan is preoccupied with themes of belonging‚ alienation and individuality. Both texts describe the landscape and characters in ways which represent these ideas. They use the landscape of an urban‚ industrialised town to show us how belonging‚ alienation and individuality can happen in different ways. They focus on characters as allegorical figures to show how belonging‚ alienation and individuality are evident in the actions of people. The texts’ central message is that

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    became desensitized to human emotion and existed in a state of limbo. Broken into only five stanzas‚ Eliot manages to capture the spirit of an age in “The Hollow Men.” Immediately in the epigraph‚ Eliot makes a direct reference (from Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) to “Mistah Kurtz‚” a man who realizes the emptiness and futility of his life on his deathbed. By using contrasting diction and imagery‚ Eliot carries this sentiment of emptiness throughout the first stanza. The first stanza begins with “we

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    of the most treasured books of the modern era. Shelley portrays various themes through the characters of the novel that not only provide a gripping read‚ but also a look on how life is today. With the use of the Creature‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ and Robert Walton‚ Shelley brought each of these themes to life on the pages. The risk of seeking knowledge‚ the pains of alienation‚ and the fervor of revenge are the three main themes that I caught in Frankenstein. To begin‚ Shelley portrays the risk of

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    Literature 12-FEB-2013 Things Fall Apart Feeling unwanted is a universal human experience. It makes for a great theme for literature since it can reach a broad spectrum of people. Alienation is a terrible experience for people. They lose their since of belonging in doing so they lose their identity that they have built up and become lost in a place that was once their home. Although alienation is a traumatic experience for anyone to go though‚ it also provides an enriching experience for the reader to

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    The T-Distribution and T-Test “In probability and statistics‚ Student ’s t-distribution (or simply the t-distribution) is a continuous probability distribution that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small” (Narasimhan ‚ 1996). Similar to the normal distribution‚ the t-distribution is symmetric and bell-shaped‚ but has heavier tails‚ meaning that it is more likely to produce values far from its mean. This makes the t-distribution

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    "A" for Alienation Alienation is a common theme in all writing; however‚ in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ never has alienation been so vividly accounted. The Scarlet Letter is a story about Hester Prynne‚ a woman who commits adultery against her husband named Roger Chillingworth‚ with the local reverend named Arthur Dimmesdale; the result is a strange child named Pearl. The plot thickens as the mistress and the reverend strive to keep their sin a secret‚ and as Chillingworth appears

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    Alienation in Brecht ’s "Mother Courage" In Bertolt Brecht ’s "Mother Courage"‚ alienation becomes the primary mover behind the characters that illustrate injustice in a capitalist world. While the plot revolves around war and its effects particularly on human beings‚ the concept of alienation continues to be evident in every aspect of the play. War is alienation. The effects of war‚ in whatever perspective one looks at‚ produce devastating results- destruction of man‚ nature‚ and morality

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    What is T. S. Eliot’s View on Historical Sense in "Tradition and the Individual Talent."? Eliot writes about "historical sense" in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." He writes that the historical sense "involves a perception‚ not only of the pastness of the past‚ but of its presence" and it is "a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and the temporal together‚ is what makes a writer traditional." In this essay‚ Eliot does not describe "traditional" as old-fashioned

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    Thomas Stearns Eliot & Why He Writes Poetry 6 The Poem That Made His Name 8 Understanding Poetry 9 The Qualities of Poetry 10 Poetry 12 Line by Line Analysis of “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” 14 The Speaker 24 Setting 25 Characters 26 Themes 27 CHAPTER III: CONCLUSION Conclusion Recommendation REFERENCES RESEARCH OUTLINE Thesis Statement: Thorough Analysis of the poem; The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot‚ by studying

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    About The Poet: Goodbye Party For Miss Pushpa T. S. was written by Nissim Ezekiel‚ one of India’s foremost Indo-Anglian poets. He was born in 1924 and was educated in Mumbai and London. He produced several volumes of verse and plays and was an art critic. Ezekiel died in 2004 at the age of 79. Most of Ezekiel’s poetry is for adults‚ as it is serious and quite difficult to understand. In this poem‚ however‚ Ezekiel uses simple Indian’ English. Here he is making gentle fun of the people who

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