NAME- English Literature - 1 Q.1 Write a long note on the personal life‚ works‚ settings and themes‚ characters and style (such as surprise endings and love for humanity) of O’Henry. Answer: - William Sidney Porter was born 11 September‚ 1862 in Greensboro‚ North Carolina‚ to physician Algernon Sidney Porter (1825-1888) and Mary Jane Virginia Swaim (1833-1865). The two brothers of William were Shirley Worth (1860) and David Weir (1865) who both died in early childhood. Mary was a graduate of Greensboro
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A brief history of English literature This study guide is intended for GCE Advanced and Advanced Supplementary (A2 and AS) level students in the UK‚ who are taking exams or modules in English literature. It should be most useful right at the start of the course‚ or later as a resource for exercises in revision‚ and to help you reflect on value judgements in literary criticism. It may also be suitable for university students and the general reader who is interested in the history of literature. This
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Grading Summary These are the automatically computed results of your exam. Grades for essay questions‚ and comments from your instructor‚ are in the "Details" section below. Date Taken: 12/17/2014 Time Spent: 4 h ‚ 13 min ‚ 05 secs Points Received: 285 / 300 (95%) Question Type: # Of Questions: # Correct: Essay 6 N/A Grade Details - All Questions Page: 1 2 Question 1. Question : (TCO A‚ C) Jim worked for AAA Job Shop‚ Inc. for over 30 years. Two months before Jim retired‚ the head
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Drama In the 1580s Philip Sidney complained that English playwrights were ignoring the principles of drama; he meant the classical principles exemplified by the tragedies of Seneca and the comedies of Plautus‚ Ben Jonson published his own plays in a grandiose format‚ and with a title (The Works of Benjamin Jonson)‚ that invited comparison with the editions of these same dramatists. The prologue to the first play in this collection‚ Every Man In His Humour*‚ announces that its author ’hath
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A: In British literature‚ monsters are used as a tool for what the people of the Middle Ages believed they were supposed to do and created these monsters to be portrayed as something “bad” towards humanity. All of the monsters mentioned do share a few common characteristics of what they were supposed to do in British literature. To start‚ the monsters all inhabit some space outside of the realm of human civilization because they cannot or don’t want to be a part of the human world due to how different
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relationships and way of being‚ Feminism because of Emily’s independent position‚ and Marxism because of the social roles imposed on Emily by the townspeople throughout her life. Insanity ran in Emily’s family‚ just as with her great aunt Old Lady Wyatt‚ but more than just family history
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Honors History DBQ World War 1 World War 1 or ‘The Great War’ was a conflict between the central and allied powers in 1914-1918. It took place mainly in Europe and Italy but was later expanded into France‚ Germany‚ and the South of Turkey. The causes of World War 1 are still debatable today. However‚ some points of the War are more important to note than others. Likewise‚ not only did the Serbians assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ but the development of militarism also proves to be a main
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been dead for ten years‚ and she was pretending he was alive. The author states that Emily’s being weird may appear throughout her whole family‚ and that being strange may have been passed on to her. Akers statement that Emily’s great-aunt‚ Old lady Wyatt‚ was crazy proves just that. Akers blamed Emily’s weirdness on her father. He stated that because her father would not let her date‚ she rebelled after he was dead by choosing a man out of her social class. She then would not let Homer leave‚ and did
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Underground Railroad‚ William Still‚ was born in Burlington County‚ New Jersey on October 7‚ 1821. He was a an African-American abolitionist‚ conductor on the Underground Railroad‚ writer‚ historian and civil rights activist. His parents‚ Levin Steel and Sidney Steel‚ parents to four children when they became runaway slaves were fortunate enough to be able to escape from slavery. Unfortunately‚ the Steel family was unable to escape slavery together. Levin‚ Still’s father escaped slavery in Maryland and was
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Listening Station label in 1998. The songs that I will use for my discussion are: “You Can Depend on Me” a tune written by Charles Carpenter‚ Louis Dunlap and Earl Hines. “Mama Don’t Allow It” by Sammy Cahn and Charles Davenport. “Petite Fleur” by Sidney Bechet.
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