...The term 'literary writing' calls to mind works by writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, or Wordsworth; definitive examples of all that the term implies. We instinctively associate the term with characteristics such as artistic merit, creative genius, and the expression of mankind's noblest qualities. In this essay I will explore some of the characteristics of this kind of writing. Literary works are primarily distinguishable from other pieces of writing by their creative, or artistic intent. A piece of literature differs from a specialised treatises on astronomy, political economy, philosophy, or even history, in part because it appeals, not to a particular class of readers only, but to men and women; and in part because, while the object of the treatise is simply to impart knowledge, one ideal end of the piece of literature, whether it also imparts knowledge or not, is to yield aesthetic satisfaction by the manner of which it handles its theme. [1] The writer of this passage emphasises the distinction between writing of didactic purpose and literary writing which has that other, aesthetic, dimension. In fundamental terms literature is 'an expression of life through the medium of language' [2], but language used more profoundly than when used simply to convey information. The following two extracts, for example, both describing one partner's response to marital problems, are different in both their form and their intent: Many critics date the crumbling of their...
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...RAY DOUGLAS BRADBURY He was an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Although the genre of many of Ray Bradbury’s stories is fiction, he rejected being categorized as a science fiction author, claiming that the only story he has ever written that is a science fiction story is Fahrenheit 451. BIOGRAPHY Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. He enjoyed a relatively idyllic childhood in Waukegan, which he later incorporated into several semi-autobiographical novels and short stories. Bradbury's life revolved around magic, magicians, circuses, and other such fantasies. He decided to become a writer at about age 12 or 13. He later said that he made this decision to "live forever" through his fiction. His first official pay as a writer came for contributing a joke to George Burns's Burns & Allen Show. In 1937, he became a member of the Los Angeles Science Fiction League, whose help enabled him to publish four issues of his own science-fiction fan magazine, or "fanzine," Futuria Fantasia. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. His formal education ended there because they had no money to send him to college due to the Depression. However, he became a "student of life," selling newspapers on L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942. He published his first short story in a fan magazine in 1938. Bradbury says that he learned to write by recalling his own experiences. Many...
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...However, this is not how he learns to read. He learns to read by making friends with the little white boys on the streets who would teach him. In exchange, he would provide them with bread. That is only the beginning of his journey. He starts reading all types of books and eventually learns about the abolition movement and why he was a slave, which infuriates him and also makes me feel hopeless. Eventually, his next mission is to learn to write, he learns to write by tricking the white neighborhood kids into writing competitions and obtaining the letters necessary to write. He would also use the book of his young master when he was not home and copy down the letters, thus leading him to the accomplishment of learning to read and write all on his own will and doing. In Sherman Alexie's essay, he goes straight to the point that he learned to read through Superman comic books. He doesn't know quite what the words say on the page, but he infers through the picture and this is how he learns to read. Alexie was a young boy living on an Indian Spokane reservation with lower standards of...
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...o DeaD Dayfthe v2 Wed., NoNOV 2 | 6 - 9 pm FREE | Downtown near the Free Riverside Metropolitan Museum Hosted by Schedule of Events November - December 2011 Dia De los Muertos Celebration nd Aztec Dancing | Traditional Altars & Music | Children’s Activities | Food | Dance by Ballet Folklórico de Riverside | Catrinas and Calacas | Handmade Mexican Items for Sale | Community Altar (Bring a copy of a loved one’s photo) Still Accepting Altars! Sign-up to have your own altar at the event! Please visit the event page on the Museum’s website for more information. The Riverside Metropolitan Museum, a department of the City of Riverside, is the steward of the public trust of artifacts, archives, and historic sites owned by the City of Riverside. The RMM is responsible for three historic sites: National Historic Landmark Harada House, and the National Register listed Museum and Victorian House Museum Heritage House. Riverside Metropolitan Museum Ballet Folkórico de Riverside Victorian Christmas Sunday, December 11 | 11 - 4 pm Heritage House & Gardens | Free Step back in time and experience the spirit of a traditional Victorian Christmas as one would have seen in the 1890s. This family-friendly celebration features Father Christmas; a unique range of musical entertainment which includes caroling, authoharps, dulcimers, bagpipes, and a barbershop quartet; home-baked sweets; and hot-mulled cider. Open House Riverside Metropolitan Museum 3580 Mission Inn Ave. Riverside...
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...is through nonfiction novels. A nonfiction novel is a narrative, of book-length, that unfolds actual events and actual people written in the style of a novel (“Nonfiction Novel”). This style of a novel implies that the book being spoken of can be looked at as art as well as fact (Sharlet). In the mid 1960’s, a nonfiction novel journey began, beginning with the narrative journalistic qualities of Truman Capote, continuing with the story telling of such authors as Norman Mailer, and then continues to stay constant throughout present day literature with works like Katherine Boo’s display of immersion journalism. Truman Capote is said to have invented this new genre in 1966 with, what some call his finest work, the book In Cold Blood (“Truman Capote”). In Cold Blood details the 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, his wife, and two of their children (Wikipedia). Even before the murderers were captured, Capote decided to travel to Kansas and write about the quadruple crime (Wikipedia). This nonfiction novel represents the genre well, primarily because it was based on approximately six years of research, including interviews with the neighbors and friends of the victims and even the two captured murderers (“Nonfiction...
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...Solar Empires, and the Realms Beyond. REALMS OF GOLD SERIES FOLLOW the adventures of FOUR ETERNAL HEROES through INFINITE WORLDS, in the greatest INTERACTIVE experience ever forged. Realms of Gold I: Tomb of Destiny (1983) Realms of Gold II: War in the Realms (1984) Realms of Gold III: Restoration (1987) Realms of Gold IV: Foundation’s Edge (1990) Realms of Gold V: Aquator’s Realm (1993) Realms of Gold Worlds of Intrigue: High Society (1993) Realms of Gold VI: Far Latitudes (1994) Realms of Gold VII: Winter’s Crown (1998) Realms of Gold RPG, 1st Edition Rules (1999) Realms of Gold remains Black Art's seminal contribution to the medium. Begun in 1983 as a high school class project, the series extended from the earliest, crudest text adventures to state-of-the-art 3D and sprawled across multiple genres and at least four revolutions in graphics technology. It starred four heroes—a warrior, a wizard, a princess, and a half-elven thief—and chronicled their improbably extended lives spent exploring, warring, marrying and betraying through two war-torn ages of the world. Sadly, the projected end of the long campaign, mapped out by Simon in his junior year of high school, was never reached. CLANDESTINE SERIES As the Cold War spy Nick Prendergast, match wits with the spymaster KAROLY in the thrilling world of CLANDESTINE!...
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...whose work is usually known for being rooted in realism with some dark undertones. What makes Robert frost’s works seem so dark? In this paper I will analyze his poetry, which may provides the answer to what made Robert frost one of the greatest, yet darkest poets in the 20th century. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, nine years after the end of the civil war. After the death of his father in 1885, the family moved to New England, where Robert would grow up spend the rest of his life. He was not a good student, but he took easily to writing. In high school, he graduated as Co-valedictorian with his future wife, Elinor Miriam White. After high school, Frost attended Dartmouth college and held many different odd jobs before he becoming a teacher. Most of Robert frost’s poetry was based in his native New England. He was a realist, which meant that most or all of his poems dealt within the real world. He was more of a traditional writer, although most of his poems are free verse. His poems focused on how or what man was thinking. Much of his poetry included features of the New England landscape. This type of writing was carefully tied together to create not only the surface of the poem, but to also allude to the deeper meaning of his poetry. His longing of the consequence of choice is what gave his poems their unique touch and understanding. Throughout his life Robert Frost dealt with depression and suicidal tendencies. Much of this is displayed through a variety of his...
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...spiritual interest, normally organized religion reduced in influence in the late nineteenth century and was replaced by personal spiritual, moral, or theoretical beliefs. Literature developed as the creative standard that best expressed the social, economic, and logical concerns of the day, moving away from the issues and styles associated with Romanticism earlier in the century. Although in literature romantic elements in the Elizabeth and dramas, the English literary romanticism from the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads shows romanticism in a different light than other stories. Wordsworth stated his belief that poetry results from "the natural overflow of powerful feelings," and pressed for the use of natural everyday expression in literary works. Coleridge emphasized, the importance of the poet's thoughts and discounted devotion to personal literary rules. William Blake was maybe the most outstanding of the English romantics. His poems and paintings are blissful, creative, and heavily descriptive, indicating the unworldly reality fundamental the physical reality. Romanticism stresses on self-expression and individual uniqueness that does not lend itself to detailed meaning. Romantics believed that men and women must be guided by warm emotions rather than the cold intangible rules and customs established by society. In People in realism, was guided by rules and the natural law not lead by emotions and feelings. The late-nineteenth-century writers moved...
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...Lakes Civilization. Neighboring native Indian tribes on all sides my civilization is subject to constant war in the southern region and consistent peaceful trade in the northern region. The war in the southern region is due to southern tribes trying to take back their land that the G.L.C took from, them thousands of years ago. The peace in the north is due to the harsh weather conditions. It is too cold to fight and better to have peaceful trade between the G.L.C and tribes than more war. GOVERNMENT: The organized government inside the G.L.C is a single emperor. The decision to have one emperor came from the article about the Shang Dynasty. I only wanted there to be one emperor because I felt that it would be a more effective and stronger type of government than a bunch of people. Ultimately, I felt it would just save time. The emperor inside the G.L.C is connected to the religion of the G.L.C. The emperor often regarded as the summo ente. The summo ente is often a male but can at times be female and their rule lasts their entire lives. The emperor is highest level of government in the G.L.C. They are truly a person to be feared. The way the people of the G.L.C follow every word of the Odium Cupiditas can be frightening at times. Under him are nine senators that control the armies and certain territories inside the G.L.C. It is these senators duties to create peace or conduct war with the native tribes that border the G.L.C. Next to the position of senator there is the position...
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...Lizbeth Gerena Final Project- My Writing Portfolio English Comp. 101 Prof. Cody June 27, 2015 I have decided to enter writing assignments 1, 2, and 5 into my writing portfolio as a part of my final project. I chose these three specific essays because each essay relates to me in a unique way regarding my life experiences. I feel that I capture my audience’s attention in such a personal way that they desire to hear more. My personal writing comes from a vantage point about a particular subject in an expressive aim. The content of my writings are equipped for people who are more advanced in life; compared to those who haven’t had experience to support a family, finances, or particular employment. My writings apply to the expressive aim of writing and have comparable lacks. In my future writing processes, I plan to sum up my essays with less redundancy and more content. I learned to touch on the major points of my writings without presenting new information into my conclusions. While reviewing my essays, I realized that I continued to repeat the same errors but made the effort to not double speak when creating my words and thoughts. Given the corrections, I was able to make improvements to my writings so that they will have a continuous, but steady flow avoiding lessening the value of the subject at hand. Throughout the review process of my writing assignment 1, I was able to learn how to conduct APA Style within in my essays...
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...States is, because of the experiences and traditions that have taught it attitudes sharply at variance with some of the standard American beliefs: ● The sense of failure, which comes from being the only group of Americans who have known military defeat, military occupation, and seemingly unconquerable poverty; ● The sense of guilt, which comes from having been a part of America’s classic symbol of injustice, the enslavement and then the segregation of the Negro; and ● The sense of frustration, which comes from the consistent inadequacy of the means at hand to wrestle with the problems to be faced, whether they be poverty, racial intolerance, or the preservation of an historical past rich in tradition. In the years after the Civil War, the Southerner attempted to deny these things by the simple, but ultimately ineffectual, process of ignoring them. The Southern local colour writers concentrated on the quaint, the eccentric, and the remote; and the creators of the “plantation tradition” idealised the past. Against this sentimental view the first two voices that were strongly raised were those of Ellen Glasgow and James Branch Cabell, Virginians who in their differing ways defined the patterns which 20th-century Southern fiction was to take when it became serious and fell into the hands of that group of writers of talent who have practised it in that century. In other words, when this group of talented young writers in the 1920’s and 30’s addressed themselves to the representation...
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...Biography of Nick Joaquín (1917-2004) Posted on September 15, 2010 by Pepe Nicomedes "Nick" Joaquín This is the best biography of Nick that I’ve encountered so far… The 1996 Ramón Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts BIOGRAPHY of Nick Joaquín Resil B. Mojares He was the greatest Filipino writer of his generation. Over six decades and a half, he produced a body of work unmatched in richness and range by any of his contemporaries. Living a life wholly devoted to the craft of conjuring a world through words, he was the writer’s writer. In the passion with which he embraced his country’s manifold being, he was his people’s writer as well. Nick Joaquín was born in the old district of Pacò in Manila, Philippines, on September 15, 1917, the feast day of Saint Nicomedes, a protomartyr of Rome, after whom he took his baptismal name. He was born to a home deeply Catholic, educated, and prosperous. His father, Leocadio Joaquín, was a person of some prominence. Leocadio was a procurador (attorney) in the Court of First Instance of Laguna, where he met and married his first wife, at the time of the Philippine Revolution. He shortly joined the insurrection, had the rank of colonel, and was wounded in action. When the hostilities ceased and the country came under American rule, he built a successful practice in law. Around 1906, after the death of his first wife, he married Salomé Márquez, Nick’s mother. A friend of General Emilio Aguinaldo, Leocadio...
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...Imagination Paper July 16, 2012 By Leeanne Reichert ENG/340 Creative Writing – Erich Sysak University of Phoenix “Apocalypse” By Francis Danby created in the 18th century An individual’s creativity and artistic talents express how one may feel about something or perceive the world around them. Many pieces of visual art and writings can evoke certain emotions in individuals that can create some sort of connection on a personal level. Our imaginations can run wild and take us to other realms or new worlds just by what we see or read. The piece of artwork that I find rather fascinating is a visual piece called the “Apocalypse” from the Romantic era (18th century), created by James Francis Danby. I will discuss the images within the painting as well as the language, occurrences, culture, purpose, reasoning, and my own personal response to this piece. The story that comes to mind when I first see the painting “Apocalypse” is the story revealed in the book of Revelations from the Bible. The image of the angel unveiling the mysteries of the seven seals and the revelation of Jesus Christ to “John” is the vision that I think of when looking at this painting. The painting portrays a very heavy feeling of gloom and torment as if something has already occurred. The dialogue that the painting seems to represent is one of a violent, yet religious tone. One can sense the angel’s prophesying of the coming evilness, anguish, and struggles, as well as the tones of having faith...
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...|Coursework Assistance: Essay Suggestions |[pic] | |Birdsong | | | |PERSONAL INFORMED INTERPRETATION | | | |Students who decide to write this type of essay should be aware of what is meant by the term ‘personal informed | |interpretation’. Think of this phrase as three separate words: | | | |‘Personal’ - What does the novel mean to you? How does it make you feel? This does not have to be a positive feeling - just | |because someone you know loves this novel above all others, does not mean that you have to! However, do not just write your | |essay in the form of a ‘rant’ - your reasons, whether you love or loathe the novel, must be reasoned and reasonable, but | |above all, personal. | | ...
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...burnsy@tcc.fl.edu Session: Fall 2015 Course Description: American Experience I (3) FA SP SU Prerequisites: Documented exemption, appropriate placement scores or completion of developmental education reading and writing. AMH 1041 examines the historical experiences and events that have shaped America's social and economic development in order to foster a better understanding of America's culturally diverse society. Prerequisite(s): satisfactory completion of Developmental Writing II (ENC0025 ) and Developmental Reading II (REA0017 ), or appropriate placement scores. Examines the historical experiences and events that shaped America’s social and economic development, in order to foster a better understanding of America’s culturally diverse society. Lecture: 3 hours. Close Close Prerequisite(s): satisfactory completion of Developmental Writing II (ENC0025 ) and Developmental Reading II (REA0017 ), or appropriate placement scores. Examines the historical experiences and events that shaped America’s social and economic development, in order to foster a better understanding of America’s culturally diverse society. Lecture: 3 hours. Close Close Prerequisite(s): satisfactory completion of Developmental Writing II (ENC0025 ) and Developmental Reading II (REA0017 ), or appropriate placement scores. Examines the historical experiences and events that shaped America’s social and economic development, in order to foster a better understanding of America’s...
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