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The Poetic Practice of Alexander Pope: The Authoritative Voice of Reason and the Expulsion of Pride of Man

Document abstract : «Alexander Pope was a poet greatly concerned with perception: his perception of God and his fellow man, and how he was perceived by others, both personally and as an artist. Despite his physical maladies, he saw himself as a great poet, destined for...»

Synopsis abstract : «Alexander Pope was a poet greatly concerned with perception.. The term ?true taste? seems somewhat ambiguous.. Pope has no qualms about matching every insult given to him with a cutting remark in return.. Instead of demanding why perfection was not...»

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The Rhetoric of the Personal and Pictorial: Portrayal of the Self and the Abstract in Young, Gray, and Collins

Document abstract : «Following the ethical and didactic works popular in the early eighteenth century, which offered a view of Man as an imperfect but scientific being in search of meaning in a universe created by a perfect God, a crop of poets emerged who wrote instead...»

Synopsis abstract : «Suvir Kaul described the poetic climate in which these poets arose.. Young's Night Thoughts are quite literally poems.. Just a few years after Young's publications of the Night Thoughts, Thomas Gray wrote and published his ?Elegy Written in a...»

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Mingled Voices: The Communication between the Contrary Natures of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience

Document abstract : «In his "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, books of children's poems" written and illustrated by himself, William Blake explores human perception and the contemporary social milieu, focusing on the transience of opinion and the variability...»

Synopsis abstract : «Following the emerging tradition of writing individually disseminated by poets.. His poems tend to revolve around a few key themes and symbols which focus these lessons for the reader. . This narrator is not so accepting of his fate.. The account of...»

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Cyrano de Bergerac hubris and hamartias

Document abstract : «He has no mortal enemies; his only adversary is death and even then, defeat inevitable, he surrenders gracefully. There is yet forgiveness in his eyes as he is stripped of all dignity. He has nothing to lose except his pride and life; his pride he...»

Synopsis abstract : «He has no mortal enemies.. Cyrano is a man of great integrity.. Cyrano does not have anything to sacrifice.. Tragic flaw Cyrano possesses is he is unable to forgive.. Cyrano has the greatest tragic flaw of all: he gives, but never receives...»

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Into the Darkness: Marlow's Discovery of the Relationship between Darkness and Civilization

Document abstract : «In his novel Heart of Darkness, published in 1902, Joseph Conrad explores the deepest reaches of the African continent, and at the same time, the innermost secrets of human nature. The novel is narrated mostly by Marlow, a seaman known for his...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. If these men are pilgrims at all, their god is the 'flabby devil'. Mr. Kurtz: The most perfect example of this loss of civilization. Marlow's meeting with Kurtz. His loss of civilized behavior . His sins and the darkness within his...»

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Fruitless Labor : Love and Marriage in Joyce's Dubliners

Document abstract : «In his first novel, a collection of short stories meant to express the paralytic nature of turn-of-the-century Dublin, James Joyce establishes an image of the Irish urban center as a degenerate bed of unhappiness, deprivation, depression, and...»

Synopsis abstract : «Dubliners expresses an evolution of love which progresses from innocent infatuation.. One reason why Dublin's emotional life is so stunted - adults are already too scarred from youthful encounters.. The development of romance in Dubliners.. The idea...»

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Coleridge and the Poetic Imagination:The Link Between True Life and True Poetry

Document abstract : «There is no single theme that pervades every one of Coleridge's many poems, but a body of motifs relating to familial relationships and friendship imbue both his conversation poems, such as Frost at Midnight and The Eolian Harp, and his "mystery"...»

Synopsis abstract : «Coleridge explored idealized familial relationships in Frost at Midnight.. Born in 1772, the youngest of Reverend John Coleridge's ten children.. Coleridge analyzes the Lyrical Ballads, his collaborative effort with Wordsworth.. Coleridge attempts...»

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Moral Philosophy: A Smorgasbord of Moral Philosophers

Document abstract : «"Aristotle, the man with a Grecian plan" Aristotle along with many of the other ancient Grecian philosophers are considered to have given birth to rational thought and its integration into philosophy, so it is no surprise that Aristotle's work...»

Synopsis abstract : «Aristotle, the man with a Grecian plan.. But how exactly does one flourish? . There is a difficulty with living Aristotle's life of contemplation.. The thought component of virtue revolves around what Aristotle describes as the Doctrine of the...»

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Jo Shapcott's Mad Cow

Document abstract : «Jo Shapcott is considered to be a contemporary British poet with traits of a Desperado poet. I explore the literal and figurative meaning of the cow in some of her Mad Cow poems as well as the issues that have influenced the usage of this persona. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Abstract.. Introduction.. Critical Perspective.. Interpretations of the Mad Cow.. Analysis of Selected Poems.. The Mad Cow in Love.. The Mad Cow Talks Back.. The Mad Cow Tries to Write the Good Poem.. Overview of the Selected Poe...»

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Humor as a Mask for Anguish in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Document abstract : «As the quote from The New York Times points out on the back cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou's novel is "Simultaneously touching and comic." Through language, choice of detail, and the story itself, Angelou introduces humor and...»

Synopsis abstract : «One source of anguish that Maya tries to tickle with humor is her position as an African American.. Maya's grandmother (Momma) is at the center of another African American-white encounter.. Another source of anguish for Maya is her looks.. Maya's...»

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Empire of the Sun by James Graham Ballard

Document abstract : «Jim, an eleven year old boy, and his parents are living in a wealthy European area in Shanghai during World War II. The novel begins the evening before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Most of the European families had already been evacuated from...»

Synopsis abstract : «Everywhere in the city people were watching movie reels of the war. . Behind Dr. Lockwood's estate was the Hungjao airfield where the Chinese faught the Japanese in 1937 trying to keep them from reaching Shanghai. . Jim woke up in his room on the...»

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Women, Prison and Crime

Document abstract : «This book examines female institutions and the treatment of women inmates in the past and today. It focuses on why women are incarcerated, the different programs in prison available to them, crimes women commit, incarceration and crime rates...»

Synopsis abstract : «There are three distinct differences between male and female prisons. . Prisons are more like cottages.. There are five categories of programs in women's prisons.. Like men, women who have little stake in society often resort to criminal behavior....»

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Take that Baudrillard: The absurdity of narrative and the possibility of meaning in Candide

Document abstract : «Voltaire has been said to have been mocking Leibniz's popular theory that "whatever is, is right," (Pope, l.294) in Candide. While that is true, it only scratches the surface. The more significant fact is that the language and logic with which...»

Synopsis abstract : «Leibniz's theory is exhibited as ridiculous and indigestible from the get-go.. El Dorado offers the concession; it is as perfect as could be.. Jean Baudrillard and his concept of the ?murder of the real? .. the reader finds that the disproof of...»

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The lady of Shalott" by William Holman Hunt

Document abstract : «To begin, the referenced version of Hunt's The Lady of Shalott holds a history and meaning unparalleled to most paintings. Most significantly, this was the final painting completed by Hunt before passing away in 1910 (Stilo, par. 2). The finished...»

Synopsis abstract : «The painting was officially finished in 1892.. The unique form of the poem was not the only element of The Lady of Shalott that was discussed in Punch.. Signs of the female recoil start to become apparent.. With such modern, radical ideas of...»

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Portrayals of traditional and contemporary views on marriage in Postwar Vietnam through modern Vietnamese literature

Document abstract : «Marriage is a historically worldwide phenomenon. However, different times and cultures hold distinct views towards marriage. What constitutes a traditional or untraditional marriage varies greatly from culture to culture and even from time to time...»

Synopsis abstract : «Establishing traditional and contemporary Vietnamese perceptions.. Traditional marriages in Vietnam are rapidly declining. . The discrepancy between the data collected in the statistics and the information gathered in interviews.. The mother's...»

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Neoclassicism

Document abstract : «During the late eighteenth century, significant changes in the arts promulgated the development of, what has since become known, as the period of a neoclassicism. The period has become such an important part of art and architectural history that any...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The Neoclassical Movement.. How Neoclassicism Shaped the Interiors of the Day.. Neoclassical Architecture.. Neoclassical Art.. Conclusion.....»

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History and spirituality of the book of common prayer

Document abstract : «Introduction The Book of Common Prayer is the universal title given to a number of prayer books in the Church of England and used all throughout the Anglican Communion. The very first volume, that came out in 1549, in the reign of Edward VI, was...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. Matrimony.. Marriage Ceremony in the 1928 and 1979 Editions.. Declaration of Consent in History.....»

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A child's sex and age as predictors of the total time spent engaging in sex-specific toy play

Document abstract : «This naturalistic observational study examined the effect of a child's sex and age with regard to how long comparatively that child is likely to engage in the three established categories of sex-specific toy play: male sex-specific toy play, female...»

Synopsis abstract : «Abstract.. Method.. Materials.. Procedure.. Results.. Discussion.....»

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Unifying mankind through asexuality and abstraction

Document abstract : «The unprecedented bloodshed, terror, and violence that blanketed Europe during World War I left the people at the War's end saddened and detached, and the world, "chaotic and fragmented" (Tepper, p.79). Over ten million people had died, had been...»

Synopsis abstract : «Abstraction in The Waste Land.. Eliot achieved abstraction through the medium of asexuality.. Asexuality allowed him to disconnect from the notions of fertility and birth.. For Eliot, Teiresias symbolized the unification of the two sexes.. The...»

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Facing adversity : Women and religion in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"

Document abstract : «Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" is one of the most well known novels in contemporary literature. This book places the author among the top literary canon of American writers. Since its first publication in 1982, the novel continuously gains both...»

Synopsis abstract : «Alice Walker initially introduces readers to Celie.. After Celie's mother dies, her father gives her away in marriage.. Celie begins to liberate herself from the dogmatic and deeply embedded images of religion.. Celie can now see past the rigid...»

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Literature's ladder

Document abstract : «Each age of British Literature- from Romanticism to Post-Modernism, can be seen as a rung on a ladder that ushered in the next age. As each age instigates, encourages, and nourishes change and progress, a new age is ushered in. And just as one can...»

Synopsis abstract : «Romanticism was an extremely important catalyst to change. . Following Romanticism, there is Realism. . Modern writers wrote about the inner, psychological aspects of humankind.. Modern novelist Virginia Woolf also brought us a new method of...»

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Mind control and nineteen eighty-four and brave new world.

Document abstract : «Dystopia is, "an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror." (Dictionary) In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, we are introduced to...»

Synopsis abstract : «Nineteen Eighty-four, as a totalitarian dystopia, explored the insidious mind control methods of Big Brother. . In Brave New World, while mind control was as important as it was in Nineteen Eighty-four.. Drugs are also a useful controlling tool in...»

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Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" and Elie Wiesel's "Night": A literary analysis and comparison of Holocaust literature

Document abstract : «The Holocaust of the 1940s is one of the most abominable periods in world history. Approximately eleven million Jews lost their lives during World War II due to Nazi genocidal policy enforced by Adolf Hitler. Jews were beaten to death, starved,...»

Synopsis abstract : «Ruth Wood (2007) explains that the reading of Anne Frank's diary.. Elie Wiesel also writes passages that are shocking for readers.. Daniel R. Schwarz (1998) discusses the ethical reading techniques.. There are many similarities between Anne Frank's...»

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Edgar Allan Poe: The relationship between symbolic imagery and the human psyche in "Metzengerstein" and "A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains"

Document abstract : «Edgar Allan Poe is one of the best known authors in American literature. John Kehoe (1997) discusses Poe's life in his brief biographical article "Edgar Allan Poe." Kehoe explains that Poe is considered to be one of the major literary figures of...»

Synopsis abstract : «History, Narrative, and Authority.. Barbarese - 'Character becomes a densely configured allegorical shape'.. The use of a physical object to allegorize a character's psyche.. Conclusion.....»

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The path to freedom

Document abstract : «This book as a whole does not tell a story; that is, the trace of events and the overall course of Irish independence don't go from beginning to end and tell. Rather, each chapter depicts a significant time period in the history of Ireland that...»

Synopsis abstract : «Summary/examination.. Advance and use our liberties.. The proof of success.. Four historic years.. Collapse of the terror.. Partition Act's failure.. Why Britain sought Irish peace.. Distinctive culture.. Freedom within our grasp...»

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Analyzing the Amplesso: The philosophy of lovemaking in Calvino's Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore

Document abstract : «Italo Calvino's Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore is usually acclaimed on grounds of its experimentation with narrativity. More specifically, Calvino weaves the beginnings of ten different pseudo-novels into a larger plotline involving the...»

Synopsis abstract : «Calvino's narrator - distinguishing between the objective end and the possible subjective end.. The narrator describes the climax of the amplesso.. According to the narrator, one is able to posit a kind of direction or order in the behaviors of the...»

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The ethics of Merton: Non-violence and its connection with the sacred

Document abstract : «Nonviolence is both a form of theory and the commitment to a lifestyle which adheres to this theory. Although there are different perceptions of the importance of direct action, nonviolence is mostly defined by its attitude of understanding and...»

Synopsis abstract : «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.. The duty of a righteous man.. Emptiness makes us the vehicle of a greater understanding. . Religion is bound up in the dogmas which can be used as tools of power and division.. How do you enforce nonviolence?...»

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Moral philosophy on God, rationality, and the death of both

Document abstract : «Right off the get go one can see these two philosopher's thoughts on morality appose one another, but their differences goes far beyond a petty disagreement over morality. The nature of their conflict goes much deeper, past a simple debate over what...»

Synopsis abstract : «Understanding Kant's notions of morality.. The problem plaguing Kant.. The first imperative is a test of universality. . The second categorical imperative is the principle of treating each rational agent as an ends not a means.. The third...»

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Sir Thomas Browne: The cosmography of himself

Document abstract : «There is an adventurer who discovers more that is truly surprising, than the one who penetrates jungles, crosses deserts, and keeps the company of caravans; for all 'Africa, and her prodigies' cannot have an effect on the placid, unplumbed nature,...»

Synopsis abstract : «Any philosophical, or even truly reflective, writer, must partake somewhat of this introspection. . We can reconstruct, to some degree, the progress of Browne's introspection.. The life and spirit of all our actions, is resurrection.. This...»

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Human catharsis in war

Document abstract : «Do you ever look at something for so long it doesn't make sense anymore? Have you ever been stuck in a moment that was your entire life? Cheated death, but regretted it afterwards? Looked at the man standing next to you and thought, "Who will die...»

Synopsis abstract : «When people make mistakes, why do they say, 'I'm only human'? . Living through war is like hunger. . There is a paradox between the words 'powerless' and 'kill'.. Soldiers suppress their humanity.. The psychological state of a soldier.. Soldiers...»

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