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“Our Town” History of This Play
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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) wrote 'Our Town' in 1938 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the same year. Wilder's play is a deceptively simple yet powerful work of dramatic literature. The set consists of only two tables, three chairs at each, and two trellises. ...
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INDIANS AND COLONISTS
Indians and Colonists
Indians and Colonists
Indian-colonists relations
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The ancient Indians were used to dwell in the region of Jamestown. They had mixed feelings of arrival of English people there in 1607. Their first expression was hostility which was on the basis of their initial experience with Spanish peoples with the ...
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Discovering Sex by David Halberstam
Discovering Sex by David Halberstam
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The great article “Discovering Sex” is penned down by David Halberstam, which defines a story of the men and women who created the sexual landscape in the 1950s that still inhabits in modern times. David greatly portrays his research in a story ...
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LITERATURE
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight”
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight”
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Writing about love is quite love because it is filled with contrasting emotions such as joys, miseries, pleasure and pain. These varying emotions ...
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The play a raisin in the sun
The play that "changed American theatre forever," according to The New York Times, started with a few short lines from a long poem (May: 19).
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Langston Hughes wrote the poem, and Lorraine ...
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Literary Analysis
Literary Analysis
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In The Lake Of The Woods is a story about obsessive love, paranoia, infidelity and insecurity. The story is about a man named John Wade who suffers from multiple personality problems. John's problems seem to worsen after he unwillingly participates in the Vietnam War and volunteers as a ...
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Modern poetry
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Modernist poetry often is difficult for students to analyze and understand. A primary reason students feel a bit disoriented when reading a modernist poem is that the speaker himself is uncertain about his or her own ontological bearings. Indeed, the speaker of modernist poems characteristically wrestles with the fundamental ...
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GRAPES OF WRATH
Communication Issues in the Grapes Of Wrath
Communication Issues in the Grapes Of Wrath
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Though most Americans are aware of the Great Depression of 1929, which may well be "the most serious problem facing our free enterprise economic system,"( ) few know of the many Americans who lost their homes, ...
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Prose Dinner
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The following play is written assuming that the two well known authors Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway combine for a dinner. Their conversation would be quite interesting as both of these authors believe in different themes for their writings; Mark Twain is known for his humor, while Ernest Hemingway ...
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The Last Christian
The Last Christian
The author of “The Last Christian” has written the book (a novel) in a futurist era. It is about the emergence of a valiant and unique world after 75 years. However, at the time when this book was published, the author predicted thrilling fiction ...