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THE SCARLET LETTER
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”
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Hester Prynne was a beautiful woman living among the Puritans of Boston in 1650's. Hester faces a number of obstacles as she tries to re-establish herself in the restrictive Puritan community. The town has labeled her a sinner, so she must ...
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
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Jonathan Edwards was born on October 5, 1703. He entered Yale University in 1716. At Yale he discovered the work of English philosopher John Locke (has nothing to do with the series "Lost"), Concerning Human Understanding, which led to their own philosophical thought, ...
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Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience on the Groups Who Used Passive Resistance to Reach Their Goals
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) was the trend transcendentalist of the Puritan origin. He was one of the most proclaimed writer, poet and philosopher and the author of Walden and Civil Disobedience. He was ...
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Concept of Evil
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The study is related to the concept of evil which is observed in the human behavior. This has been defined in two different ways by the Old Testament and psychoanalysis. In the view of the Old Testament, evil is presented as the primary struggle for the human being; ...
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Byronic Heroes- Frankenstein & Manfred
Byronic Hero
A grand, charismatic, yet ambiguous male, the Byronic hero, is a child of the Renaissance love of adventure. The quasi-satanic type dates back to the Greek Prometheus, a suffering god, and to the wandering Jew, and became a pervasive outsider in world art, dance, ...
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LITERATURE
A Soldier's Home-U.S soldiers returning
A Soldier's Home-U.S soldiers returning
Soldier's Home originally published in the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers in 1925. "Soldier's Home" is a classic early Ernest Hemingway story for at least three reasons. First, the author powerfully evokes the post-World War I malaise experienced by many returning ...
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CAPITALISM LOVE STORY AND NICKELS & DIMES
Capitalism love story and Nickels & Dimes
Capitalism love story and Nickels & Dimes
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Nickel and Dimed was the result of Ehrenreich's undercover experiment and her subsequent observations. The impassioned book has sold more than 1 million copies and was a best seller for nearly two ...
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Campbell's Pattern of the Hero
The epic of Gilgamesh is a wonderful piece of literature portraying the main character, Gilgamesh, as a strong powerful leader who is two-thirds God and stronger than any other King alive. He was truly a hero showing skill, intelligence, valor, reverence, and a respect for death. ...
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THE MODELS
The Models of Boyhood
The Models of Boyhood
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The nineteenth publication of works such as Little Women written by Louisa May Alcott and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson are considered, to have been quite specifically aimed at gendered markets. Little Women, depicting life centring around a domestic, family ...
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AIRFRAME
Catastrophic Flights: Airframe by Michael Crichton
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Catastrophic Flights: Airframe by Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton, who leads the very prosperous life of a bad writer, keeps searching for scientific terminology on which to build formulaic bestsellers. Most recently, casting his eyes heavenward, he did not, as Wolfe always did, muse ...