difference on how they will climb up the social scale in life. In the classic novel House of Mirth‚ by Edith Wharton and Call it Sleep‚ by Henry Roth the main characters experience totally different upbringings into society. While Lily Bart is brought up into a high class society‚ David is born into an immigrant family in a part of the city‚ which has similar people as his own country. The two characters in the novels both have different and some similar views on how to climb up on the social scale
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An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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2011 A Summary of "Sleep Debt and Mortgaged Mind." William Dement and Christopher Vaughn in “Sleep Debt and the Mortgaged Mind‚” relates sleep debt to a loan. The authors tried to stress the importance of understanding the serious if not fatal consequences of sleep deprivation. We must not only learn to recognize the dangers of sleep debt‚ but how we should manage it as well. The Authors in this well written article went into details of how we should pay back or sleep debt‚ and learn from tragic
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.Foxfire Foxfire is a page turning novel about a newly formed girl’s gang in the 1950’s. This story is written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ published by Penguin Group‚ and has 316 pages. This is a vivid novel and is a great read. On a rating scale of one to five‚ I would defiantly say this is a five! It gives amazing details that makes you believe you are in the 50’s watching these rebellious girls making their own rules and doing as they please. Margaret Ann Sadovsky‚ called ‘Legs’ by her
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Sleep: How important is it? There are many topics that are related to health and wellness making it hard to complete an observation on a single one. After much thought‚ the topic that interested me most was sleep. As humans‚ sleep is essential to our well-being. It is required in order for us to function. A human will die after 11 days of no sleep. The importance of sleep can never be stressed enough. With our hectic life styles‚ one does not really pay attention to how much sleep they get. Most
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Fiction There is one particular feature that sets the novel apart from any other literary genre. Literature has the ability to transport you into a world that is a product of individual imagination yet the realism expressed in the novel serves as a tool or road that leads to the emerging of conceived images. It is a time travel that has the ability to restore any period of growth in society and humanity in general. Many times we refer to the novel when deciphering morality and lifestyles of earlier
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Big Brother’s Influence In the novel Big Brother plays the role of not only a leader but the controller. He is not like a president that people view as a political leader that has ideas to help the country‚ but more like a leader who controls everything you do‚ when you do it‚ and how it should be done. Whether or not the citizens realize what Big Brother really controls and how much power he actually possesses doesn’t change the fact that his main role is the controller. Big Brother himself may
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ITL –NOVEL SELECTED TYPES Romantic – This form of novel goes beyond ordinary experience and social predicaments into make-believe. Something new is being searched for in an alternative world beyond familiar circumstances so that the novel’s purpose is a moral or ideal issue. Nevertheless‚ the transportation to some idealized world‚ or going on a somewhat fantastic journey‚ can lead to disappointment‚ and its moral outcome. The characters’ ideals can be crushed. The fantastical journey can be a big
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Newgate novel From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Most drew their inspiration from the Newgate Calendar‚ a biography of famous criminals published at various times during the late 18th and early 19th centuries‚ but usually rearranged or embellished the original tale for melodramatic
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The Victorian Novel: main characteristics First of all in the Victorian Age the dominating literary form was the novel. It was in fact easier to be read and understood by simple people‚ its plot was more interesting than any other literary forms‚ the main protagonists of the novel were the same people who read it so that they felt deeply involved in the adventure told‚ the writer and his readers shared the same opinions‚ values and ideals because they belonged to the same middle class‚ the setting
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