ENGLISH LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT 1 POEM ANALYSIS REASON FOR CHOOSING THIS POEM I choose this poem ‘if’ by Rudyard Kipling because when I read this poem it reminds me of when I was a little girl how it was difficult to grow up. This poem brings back memories. Back in that time‚ my family wasn’t a well-to-do family. It makes me remember how hard it is to do things on my own and it took me a very long time to be independent and start to mature. It also make me think how much farther
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actress Marilyn Miller. So began Norma Jeane’s career as Marilyn Monroe. She was dismissed as a contract player after two films‚ and then rehired in 1948. Her first serious acting job came in 1950 when she had a small but serious role in "The Asphalt Jungle" and received favorable reviews. Marilyn had just bought her first home at 12305 fifth Helena Drive in
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“If” by Rudyard Kipling Born to a British family‚ Joseph Rudyard Kipling‚ author of the Jungle Books‚ was born on December 30‚ 1865 in Bombay‚ India. The feeling of abandonment and confusion after his pampered life as a colonial influenced Kipling’s work. Kipling wrote the poem‚ “If”‚ that can be found online at http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm‚ a Carpe Diem poem meaning seize the day‚ which suggests and gives warning about what one may encounter in life and what they can
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Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in Bombay‚ in the Bombay Presidency of British India‚ and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for his works of fiction‚ including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi")‚ Kim (a tale of adventure)‚ many short stories‚ including "The Man Who Would Be King"; and his poems‚ including Mandalay‚ Gunga Din‚ The White Man’s Burden and If. He is regarded as
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Manliness Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in India where he spent his early childhood before his family returned to England. He is most famous for his prose writing. The Jungle Book has had lasting popularity‚ both as a story and in film adaptations. Kipling travelled widely and wrote travel articles as well as poetry. In 1907 he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and the youngest writer to receive it. Kipling composed the poem in 1909 while living in
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The Jungle book is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were published in the year 1894. The jungle book contains seven short stories‚ the first three about Mowgli‚ while the remaining four focus on different protagonist. Summary On the night of a big hunt‚ Father Wolf and Mother Wolf discover a man’s cub in the bushes‚ abandoned and naked. Mother Wolf immediately decides she will raise him as one of her own cubs. Shere Khan the tiger believes the child
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a member of the immigrant group. Rudkis had received a job as shoveler of guts at Durham‚ a fictional meat-packing firm based on the real Armour & Co. ("Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle"). Through Rudkis‚ Sinclair gained the opportunity to reveal his findings on the corruption of Packingtown. Appeal to Reason published The Jungle as a serial‚ putting out one chapter per week beginning in late February 1905 (Cherny). Almost immediately sales boomed‚ reaching 175‚000 copies sold per issue. Hoping to reach
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books have had serious effects on American viewpoints. Examples of books that have changed American society are Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ The Jungle‚ The Grapes of Wrath. The Jungle exposed the cruel treatment of labors and how poorly food was produced by the large food producers. A movie that updates us on the current state of the food industry is Food Inc. Comparing The Jungle and Food Inc. will help show the progression of the food industry throughout the past century and show if the food industry has become
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Significance of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. As any animal part of a dense‚ shrubby surrounding‚ it may be difficult to find food or merely survive. In Upton Sinclairs’ novel‚ The Jungle‚ he expresses the idea of a jungle⎯Social Darwinism‚ fending for yourself‚ and working together. Using these ideas‚ he resembles the life of Jurgis and his family who faces these struggles in order to attempt to achieve the American dream. The Jungle metaphorically paints a picture of the economic situation and
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Kaylie Lewis APUSH Turning Points in American history 3rd 1-4-16 Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. Cambridge‚ MA: R. Bentley‚ 1971. Print. Upton Sinclair had a very successful life which gave him many qualifications for all the books he has written. When he first thought of the idea for “The Jungle” he decided that he should go undercover for seven weeks inside of an actual meatpacking plant in Chicago‚ in order to get all the information he would need to accurately write his novel. He was also well
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