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    Love is a fickle thing. Likewise‚ the portrayal of such a feeling in literature and media can be just as dynamic. Some pieces of literature represent love as a part of life in the sense that one does not live without experiencing love. On the other hand though‚ love is just as often made a mockery of; it’s depicted as a useless feeling that only distracts people from logic and rational thinking. In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ a play by Oscar Wilde set in Victorian England‚ love is mocked which

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    Samantha Soto Gilchrist AP English IV 28 October 2012 The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde that can be viewed as a satire on the moral compass of people living in the Victorian era. The moral standards of the time held the ideas of sincerity and honesty on a high pedestal. To be Earnest would most likely fall between the two ideals; the first definition of the word earnest is “Serious in intention‚ purpose‚ or effort” and this can be a trait

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    Primary sources: Birth Legend of Sargon‚ Sargon‚ King of Battle Secondary sources: Kramer‚ Samuel Noah. 1963. The Sumerians: Their History‚ Culture‚ and Character. The University of Chicago Press; Chicagpo. Leick‚ Gwendolyn. 2001. Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City. Penguin Books; New York Topic 2 Reasons for and examples of poor leadership • Examine the Legend of Naram-sin and how he was a disastrous leader and caused the downfall of his civilization. Look

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    which you analyze the use of literary elements in one of the assigned poems listed: “America” (Claude McKay); “We Wear the Mask” (Paul Laurence Dunbar); “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” (Langston Hughes); “Mirror” (Sylvia Plath); “The Bean Eaters” (Gwendolyn Brooks); “To The Mercy Killers” (Dudley Randall); “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (Dylan Thomas). Your purpose is to explicate (interpret) and analyze (examine) one poem‚ defending your interpretive claim (a clear‚ concise‚ debatable‚

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    Literary Terms in “The Bean Eaters” Did you know Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American‚ male or female‚ to win the Pulitzer Prize (eNotes.com)? Brooks was born on June 7‚ 1917 and began to have an interest in poem early in her life. Her first poem was published at the age of thirteen in the American Childhood Magazine in 1930. Today she is known for having more than twenty books of poems published like “The Children Coming Home” (“Gwendolyn Brooks‚”PoetsPath.com). In many of Brooks’s poems

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    | | | |Gwendolyn Hatcher | [pic]    Hi Gwendolyn‚ Thank you for sharing your work with the KU Writing Center! I hope you will find my feedback helpful‚ not just for this project but also for others to come. To make sure you can read

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    wealth than their personality. This debases the sanctity of marriage by putting emphasis on social advancement rather than on holy matrimony. It also locks a person within the confines of his or her social class. For example‚ in Act One when Gwendolyn tells Jack that she is absolutely in love with

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    by building the climax. The two places clash when Algernon decides to come visit Jack in the country posing as Ernest. He then proposes to Cecily‚ Jack’s niece‚ under the name Ernest. This creates a problem when Gwendolyn also comes to see Jack thinking his name is Ernest as well. Gwendolyn and Cecily both think that they are engaged to a man named Ernest. This ultimately unravels Jack’s alter ego. Without the

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    “Maud Martha” Bonnie Holloway By Gwendolyn Brooks p.2  Gwendolyn Brooks’ intense passage from her novel “Maud Martha” emphasizes the impact change can have through difficult situations. Maud Martha‚ mama and Helen wait on their front porch for Papa to come home with news of whether they are capable to keep their house. Papa then comes home with information that they will not lose

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    Michael Murray Mrs. Kennedy English III AP 20 March 2016 Biography John Steinbeck decided to become a writer at the age of fifteen years old and did not let anyone stand in his way. Steinbeck is now considered to be one of the best American authors of all time. John Ernst Steinbeck‚ Jr. was born on February 27‚ 1902‚ to John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck in Salinas‚ California. Steinbeck’s father worked as an accountant and his mother worked as a schoolteacher to provide for the family. Steinbeck

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