Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe‚ born in Boston‚ Massachusetts on January 19‚ 1809‚ was a great American short-story writer‚ poet‚ critic‚ and editor. Poe’s tales of horror and mystery brought alive the modern detective story‚ and the essence of his tales of horror is incomparable in American fiction. His poem‚ The Raven (1845)‚ is one of the best-known poems in literature.****cite Beginning with his short stories and poems‚ Edgar Allan Poe gained admiration of readers throughout the globe. Poe
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William Shakespeare is an unforgettable literary figure and it is not exaggeration if we say that literature is nothing without him. All the writing of Shakespeare deal with love‚ life and death and these universal themes get beautiful touch by him. His tragedies reflect that he had extraordinary knowledge of human psychology. Therefore‚ his characters have become memorable in the field of literature. Shakespeare has explored poetry and tragedy but it is tragedy that brought fame for him. Even his
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The Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibition is a showcase of artworks that have been stolen and destroyed by Nazi’s at the time. These works of art were known to be “degenerate” according to Adolf Hitler; because it was far different than the classical artworks that had more meaning and made more sense rather than abstract modern art. Originally the art show was put on in order to shame the artists and expose the German’s to the unacceptable artwork. The Exhibition was presented to “demonstrate that modernist
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their poems and works that many of us today have analyzed and even criticized. During this time‚ several poets were kind of actively involved in a literary movement known as Romanticism and they were William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ John Keats‚ Samuel Coleridge and other famous poets in his time. William Blake as one of the members of the movement can be considered as a very radical poet during that time for he was somehow preoccupied with the issues of liberalism‚ radicalism and also nationalism
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Who is Wanda Jean Allen? Wanda Jean Allen was the second born of her eight siblings‚ born in Oklahoma on August 17‚ 1959. Wanda’s father left home after her last sibling was born and her mother was an alcoholic. In an unbalanced family structure‚ they all lived in public housing with the help of public assistance. At an early age Wanda Jean Allen went through two situations that later shifted her mental state. First‚ at the age of twelve Allen was struck by a truck and knocked unconscious for hours
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The Life‚ Times‚ Works and Biography of William Shakespeare Quotes - Plays - Sonnets - Pictures - Timeline- Facts - Biography - Poems - Bubonic Plague - Globe Biography - Dictionary - Elizabethan Theater - Identity Problem - Biography - Black Death - Stratford The World of William Shakespeare and details of his biography have fascinated people for centuries. The questions and mysteries which surround William Shakespeare the Great Stratford playwright and his biography‚ life‚ times and works
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Williams syndrome also recognized as Williams-Beuren syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by a deletion of more than twenty five genes from chromosome 7. Although Williams syndrome is often non-hereditary‚ the chances of the syndrome being passed on if an individual with Williams syndrome has a child are fifty percent. Individuals born with Williams syndrome often possess distinctive facial features which make the syndrome easily recognized. These features include wide spaces between their teeth
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Wordsworth’s Use of Literary Devices Related to Nature William Wordsworth’s frequent references to nature in his poetry shows that he paid close attention to the details of the physical environment around him. His poetry relates to nature by focusing primarily on the relationship between inner life with the outer world. William Wordsworth uses literary devices such as personification‚ similes‚ and the impressions nature makes on him to show the importance of the relationship that man should have
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The True Side of William Carlos Williams This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold William Carlos Williams’ poem‚ This is Just to Say‚ is a cleverly written poem apologizing for eating someone’s plums. Because of the way the note is written‚ it seems as if the recipient of this note is possibly a girlfriend. He tries to tell her that he is very
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Sunita Williams (born September 19‚ 1965) is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut.[1] She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travelers. She was born in Euclid‚ Ohio to Dr. Deepak Pandya and Bonnie Pandya. Her parents now reside in Falmouth‚ Massachusetts. Deepak Pandya is a famous neuroanatomist. Williams’ roots on her father’s side go
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