William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) was an American educator‚ literary critic and author. He served as a professor of English at Yale University from 1901 to 1933. His works include Advance of the English Novel and Essays on Modern Dramatists. On April 6‚ 1933‚ he delivered this speech during a radio broadcast. His reverence for books was not shared by everyone‚ especially those in Nazi Germany. On May 10‚ 1933‚ the Nazis had staged an event unseen since the Middle Ages as young German students from
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How Frank Survived Poverty is something that many of us will never have to face. I never could have survived growing up the way Frank McCourt did with the constant dampness of things‚ an alcoholic father‚ religion shoved down my throat and family members dying left and right. It makes you wonder how he and his family did it. Was it that he was happy with what he had or was it more than that? Frank may not have had many materialistic items or a very good father but he did many things that helped
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Elizabeth Carter‚ poet‚ writer‚ and translator‚ was born at Deal in Kent on 16 December 1717. She was the first child of Revd Nicolas Carter‚ preacher at Canterbury Cathedral‚ and his first wife‚ Margaret‚ daughter and heiress of Richard Swayne of Bere Regis‚ inheriting a fortune of £15‚000 which according to Montagu Pennington‚ she lost it in the South Sea Bubble. Elizabeth’s mother died when she was ten years old. In the seventeenth century members of the Carter family were active in the parliamentary
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LETRAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS CURSO: LETRAS INGLÊS-MANHÃ DISCIPLINA: ENGLISH LITERATURE I PROFESSOR: JEOVÁ MENDONÇA ALUNAS: CINTHYA DE MEDEIROS OLIVEIRA-11126098 Essay for the short story ‘Eveline’ by James Joyce: a comparative analysis between Angela (The Legacy by Virginia Woolf) and Eveline. The short story begins with a young girl about 19 years old watching by the window of her house the evening invade the avenue. Her name is Eveline. She was reminiscing about her life. She remembered that
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Angela’s Ashes Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 Chapter one begins with the Frank McCourt looking back on his childhood that he refers to as a miserable Irish Catholic childhood. He begins with summering how his parents Malachy and Angela met in Brooklyn‚ New York. Both were decents from Ireland. From the start it is clear Malachy McCourt is a troubled man with just getting out jail for hijacking a car and also is suffering with alcoholism. Chapter one focuses on reminding the reader how serious
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able to meet basic needs leads the characters to result to desperate measures‚ such incidents as stopping Frank McCourt’s education and taking a job to support the family. Frank is forced to take the job mostly because his father is an alcoholic and uses all the money to buy beer instead of feeding his family. Frank describes this pattern of drinking away the money by saying " when dad comes home with the drink smell there is no money and Mom screams at him till the twins cry"(42). This situation lasts
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Coach Carter 1. Coach Carter shows many qualities of different styles of leader ship throughout the movie. At the start when Ken first sees the basketball team he takes an autocratic style of coaching them. An autocratic coaching is where the coach has complete power over the team. Team members have little opportunity to put forward ideas or make suggestions. The benefit of this approach of leadership by Coach Carter is that it was incredibly efficient and his decisions are made quickly and
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Penelope In Homer’s poem‚ The Odyssey‚ the protagonist’s mother is faced with a serious problem. Penelope‚ the mother of Telemachus‚ was left at home with her son when her husband‚ Odysseus‚ went off to fight in war. The war is long over and the two await the potential homecoming of Odysseus‚ whose whereabouts are unknown. The lack of a father figure in the oikos‚ or home‚ causes a group of suitors to come and try and win over Penelope’s hand in marriage. Penelope‚ however‚ refuses to marry until
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Department of education Salvador Fuentes Valentín High School Base-Ramey ‘’Coach Carter’’ Yelaine López Blas Mrs: G. Mendez English 11 11-3 Part 1. Answer the following question. Write complete sentences. 1. Where does most of the story take place? In the streets and in the field school. 2. Who was the hardest student to deal with? Why? Timo Cruz because it was lack of discipline‚ wanted to do things his way and had no respect for anyone. 3. What kind of social problems
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Style is the novelist’s choice of words and phrases‚ and how the novelist arranges these words and phrases in sentences and paragraphs. Style allows the author to shape how the reader experiences the work. For example‚ one writer may use simple words and straightforward sentences‚ while another may use difficult vocabulary and elaborate sentence structures. Even if the themes of both works are similar‚ the differences in the authors’ styles make the experiences of reading the two works distinct.
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