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Thoreau and Civil Disobedience
Thoreau and Civil Disobedience
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"All men recognize the right of revolution, that is to say the right to refuse loyalty and allegiance to the government and the right to resist when its tyranny and its inefficiency are great and unendurable." In 1846, the American writer Henry David Thoreau ...
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Islam and Modernism
Islam and Modernism
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The debate on Islam with respect to modernity is a long standing one and has been explored countless times. After the fateful World Trade Centre bombings, Islamic principles and t heir ability to co-exist with Western civilization came into light and because a serious issue ...
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LITERATURE
Conduct of Understanding
Conduct of Understanding
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“In this we may see the reason why some men of study and thought that reason right and are lovers of truth do make no great advances in their discoveries of it. Error and truth are uncertainly blended in their minds; their decisions are lame ...
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LEISURE CONCEPT
Leisure Concept (The Dark Side of Leisure)
Leisure Concept (The Dark Side of Leisure)
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Transvestism and Cross dressing are the two terms which are highly related and of growing concern of modern times. Both the expressions are becoming fashionable in the modern societies, but such concept has its foundations from centuries. ...
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Journal Assignment #1: The Middle Ages Unit
Beowulf
"Beowulf" is an Anglo-Saxon epic heroic poem, which takes place in Scandinavia to the deportation of Angles in Britain. With its 3,182 verses, it represents the single most important preserved work of Anglo-Saxon language. The society described in the poem emphasizes honor, courage and ...
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Literature Review
Literature Review
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In this paper, two short but very famous stories are analyzed, compared and contrasted. The first story is “The Birth-Mark”, which is a short romantic story written in 1843 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Like many of his stories, this one is also related to sexual relations and psychological impact. ...
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Araby
Araby
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James Joyce's collection “Dubliners” consists of fifteen short stories, which portrays the life in Dublin, Ireland, in twentieth century. “Araby” is told from the perspective of a boy, who was just at the verge of adolescent. This story is about the awakening of that boy to the real world, ...
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BOOK REVIEW
Book Review: whoops! why everybody owes everyone and no one can pay by John Lanchester
Book Review: whoops! why everybody owes everyone and no one can pay by John Lanchester
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The book whoops! Why everybody owes everyone and no one can pay written by the John Lanchester, a popular British novelist ...
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BECKETT AND AESTHETIC
Beckett and Aesthetic Narrative Silence
Beckett and Aesthetic Narrative Silence
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Samuel Barclay was a playwright, novelist, critic and an Irish poet; one of the most important representatives of experimentalism literary century within the Anglo-Saxon modernism (Pilling 1997). He was also a key figure for theater of the absurd and, ...
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Japanese Literature
Japanese Literature
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Japan is a society of rich culture and tradition stemming from her age-old heritage of culture and generations being passed down from generation to generation. Japanese literature is regarded as one of the major literatures of the world, comparable to English literature, in age, richness and volume. The ...