Any piece of literature whither it be a famous play from Shakespeare or a research paper from a random college student has a purpose. Some purposes are to entertain, express themselves, educate, or in the case of "Politically Incorrect? Or Master Strategists? Try Both" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; it was to persuade. However, Abdul-Jabbar tried to hide his attempt to persuade people as an article that was supposed to seem informative and educational on the surface. To gather credibility for a series of
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Letter Essay I have been reading a series of books called the Secret Series and the author is Pseudonymous Bosch. This book is a fictional story about two young kids, one named Cassandra but for short she likes to be called Cass. The other is named Max Ernest. Each of them has their own unique types of personalities. First, I'm going to talk about Cass. She is a very smart girl, who has an unhealthy obsession with survivalist objects. At all times, she has a backpack filled from top to bottom with
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Memoir Writing If I could share one memory with any person, I would share the memory of seeing my older brother’s first improvisational comedy show. I didn’t know it at the time, but this memory would change me as a person and shape my personality forever. I would share this memory with my older brother, since he was in the show and I would want to show him the impact the memory had on me. I would share this memory with him by writing a story about it, since I like to write down my thoughts rather
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Throughout the year we've learned different literary and rhetorical devices. These devices have assisted my ideas and enriched my writing. Since the beginning of the year, my writing has progressed tremendously, from the different types of genres we have been taught to write. In my essays, I have added a few devices, but from all of these, imagery has been one of my favorite to use. I selected a piece of writing where I used several imagery examples. In the “Death Forest”, one of my writings, I included
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Thoughts in Solitude Thomas Merton was a French American author, who was born in January 31, 1915 at Prades in France. Before Merton was born, Owen Merton and Ruth Jenkins met in Paris while studying art. After when Thomas Merton was born at Prades, they decided to move to America because of World War I. They settled at the Jenkins’ family house from Long Island, Douglaston and moved to Flushing, New York. In 1918, his younger brother, Jean Paul, was born. In 1921, Merton’s mother passed away due
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Jorge Luis Borges once said, “Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book in which does not contain its counter book is considered incomplete.” This saying best applies to the book and movie, To Kill a Mockingbird. Being almost a different story, both, the movie and book, contrast on many different levels
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In Our Stars” meet with the traditions of old to become a classic, a great work of literature? “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London a great piece of American literature is still read today. “The Call of the Wild”, is just one example of a historical classic work of American literature which has stood the test of time because it contained the elements recognized not only by publishers but by the public. Literature went through specific periods that changed the way author’s presented their poetry
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Having written many sonnets and political pieces in his lifetime, John Milton was an influential writer. John was born in 1608 to a middle-class Protestant family and died in 1674. Because of his middle-class family, Milton had private tutors and “attended one of the finest schools in the land, St. Paul’s” (Greenblatt 768). He also went on to attend Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1625; he graduated in 1629 and was later made Masters of Arts. However, he “came to believe more and more strongly that
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This book appealed to me particularly because of its beautiful cover. I love novels with a Victorian setting and the pier on the cover reminded me immediately of Brighton. I had never read anything about the bathing habits of de rich Victorians, so this seemed the ideal book! You do not get to know very much about the bathing itself. You follow Marnie and you see how she gradually gets obsessed by a rich guy, Noah de Clevedon. They meet each other on the beach where is mother is about to bathe
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acquired various jobs such as a assistant cook, launderer and a busboy. In November 1926 his first poetry book, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. Knopf, then four years later his first novel, Not Without Laughter won the Harmon gold medal for Literature. Throughout his life Hughes wrote novels, short stories, plays and poetry, some of his biggest influences include Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman. Although Hughes
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