10011 USA www.sparknotes.com Context Mark twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in the town of Florida‚ Missouri‚ in 1835. When he was four years old‚ his family moved to Hannibal‚ a town on the Mississippi River much like the towns depicted in his two most famous novels‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Clemens spent his young life in a fairly affluent family that owned a number of household slaves. The death of Clemens’s father in 1847‚ however‚ left
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A Tale of Two Cities By: Charles Dickens (In the year 1775‚ King George III sat on the throne of England‚ preoccupied with his rebellious colonies in America. Across a narrow neck of water to the east‚ Louis XVI reigned in France‚ not very much bothered by anything except seeing to his own comforts.) On a cold and foggy night in late November‚ Mr. Jarvis Lorry was headed out of London bound for Paris‚ via Dover‚ on a matter of business. In the darkness of the coach‚ as he and the other passengers
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During the most brutal war of the United States‚ women took the field in ways never imagined. In the historical fiction novel Two Girls of Gettysburg‚ Rosanna finds herself amidst the chaos on the battlefield‚ putting the needs of injured soldiers above her own. Rosanna was never the girl to get dirty‚ for what would the girls at the academy she attended think? However‚ as the needs of her country call her husband to fight‚ she follows her spouse where it was thought no girl should go. She‚ along
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“A Tale of Two High Jumpers” is an excerpt from The Sports Gene by David Epstein. It talks about two high jumpers Donald Thomas and Stefan Holm‚ one had a twenty year love with high jumping the other one got lucky. Both men were excellent high jumpers. Outliers is an excerpt from “The 10‚000-Hour Rule by Malcolm Gladwell. It talks about studies done on individuals which ones become professional and why they become professional. Also how the amount of practice was different from the professionals
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The film‚ "Two Nations of Black America" compares the black community in 1967 to how it was in 1997. Henry Louis Gates‚ Jr. explains the widening gap between the upper and lower classes of black America while analyzing just how we could concurrently have the greatest black middle class and greatest black underclass in the history of the United States. As black success continues to have growth‚ Gates highlights how that positive trend is counteracted by deepening black despair. Many years after
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Children are seen as young‚ directionless‚ and inexperienced‚ so people conclude that they should always have adult supervision. However‚ it is not that simple for some parents to provide their children with adult supervision. In the article “a Tale of Two Summer Parents” by Belinda Luscombe‚ she explains how 2 different mothers in separate financial situations handle their children. Although a child would lack the parental guidance needed‚ some parents’ simply cannot get their children looked after while
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Q. PLOT Vs CHARACTER In Tragedy In his immortal creation Poetics Aristotle mentions six formative elements of tragedy --- ‘Plot’‚ ‘Character’‚ ‘Thought’‚ ‘Diction’‚ ‘Spectacle’ and ‘Song’. And among them ‘plot’ gets the prior attention and importance. Aristotle claims ‘plot’ to be the soul of tragedy. In his view character as secondary to the plot. He in his book Poetics opines “Plot is the fundamental thing‚ the soul of tragedy‚ whereas
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Beauty and The Beast is one of the most beloved movies of all time‚ but with so many people watching it you are bound to find mistakes and plot holes. The 1991 animated Beauty and The Beast is known for having quite a few plot holes‚ but thankfully the new 2017 live action film has answered most of our questions about the movie. Have you ever had questions while watching Beauty and The Beast like “ Where are Beast’s parents?””How old is the prince once the spell is broken?”‚ and “ If Belle is the
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In part 7‚ the aim is to arrange and length of the play. Most important and the first thing in Tragedy is proper structure of the Plot. Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is complete in it and whole of a certain magnitude. A whole has beginning‚ middle and end. A well-construed plot must neither begin nor end randomly. Plot cannot either begin or end at any point. A beautiful object that is certain living organism or any whole composed of parts must not only present a certain order in its
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Plot: "Twelve Angry Men" is an interesting and exciting jury-room confrontation in which an "open and shut case" becomes strenuous as twelve strangers scuffle for answers. The trial involves a nineteen-year-old boy‚ who is suspect of killing his father in a late-night altercation with an extraordinary knife. His fate now lies in the hands of 12 jurors‚ each with his own determination to solve the case and reveal the truth. As the session takes its course‚ evidence becomes scrutinised‚ tempers rise
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