Course Number and Title: American Literature 1 Number of Credits: 3 Instructor Name: Sos Bagramyan Email Address: sbagramyan@aua.am Telephone Number: 51 27 69 Office Location: Paramaz Avedisian Building, 132W Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 8am-9am Term/Year: Spring 2015 ENGL 120 – American Literature 1 This survey course introduces students to American literature from the beginning of European contact to the present, focusing on major authors and different literary genres. It examines
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Thomas Huffstutler Pd. 2 More Than A Feeling I have seldomly studied a topic that has informed me of myself or has connected with me easier than Swedish. My heritage is more than just something about me. It is part of who I am. It is this part of me that yearns to know more about my roots and where my ancestors came from. This fascination is what drove me to learn Swedish and to become involved in the strong Swedish community in Minnesota. I first realized that being Swedish was an integral
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Authors often base their stories on their own life experiences and beliefs. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there are many references to Samuel Clemens’s life, tying in how Clemens felt about the everyday issues of his time with the journey and trials of a boy and a slave. Throughout the story, he expresses his views on racism, morality, society, and his own adventures. Samuel Clemens grew up in Missouri, a slave state at the time, and experienced first- hand how slavery worked
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often romanticized dream and the reality of life for some people living in America can become nightmarish. The conflict that builds within the presence of that gap is a topic that is both explored and critiqued in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses. Both novels feature young protagonists that “head west” in hopes of discovering some type of romanticized “otherness” that may exist in a world outside of their own. In a well-crafted essay, explore how
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Mark Twain’s life. On Nov. 30, 1835, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who is also known by Mark Twain, was born in the small town in Florida. He is the sixth child in his family. His parents are John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. A few years after his birth, in 1839, he and his family moved 35 miles east to the town of Hannibal. Twain’s father was a judge, and he built a two-story frame house at 206 Hill Street in 1844. As a youngster, Twain was kept indoors because of his poor health. By age
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In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Milkman allows the origin of his name to coincide with his own personal value and identity for an unfortunately long duration of the story. He is so curious for most of his life about his name that he subconsciously adds too much value to the origin of it, leading to his growing distress and dissatisfaction with his family and even somewhat himself. Had Milkman liked the story/background of his name, he would of held its meaning high on a totem pole, yet since
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Joan Didion and Dave Barry are both excellent writers with full command of the English language. However, they differ in both their purpose and styles when writing. In her essay “John Wayne: A Love Story” Didion writes, “As it happened I did not grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues…they have never been John Wayne…” Didion’s purpose in writing the aforementioned section was to express the distinction between other
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because it shows how Huck's morality had changed. When Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson saying that Mr.Phelps has Jim, he thinks about him and says, “laid the paper down and set there thinking how good it was all this happened so’’. This is important because it shows how much Huck cares about Jim, it shows that Huck is glad that he helped Jim runaway, it shows that he does not want Jim to be a slave anymore. Another important part is when Huck says, “ I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery
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In his book Turn of the Screw, Henry James shows that an inattentive upper class is blinded by their own prejudice towards the lower class causes a chain of corruption. Quint corrupts Jessel, who then becomes a social outcast and it is implied that she loses her baby while Quint remains unaffected. Quint is the person with the lowest status in the novel and he succeeds in creating Jessel a social outcast and causing much suffering. Jessel was a “lady,” while Quint was “dreadfully below,” in terms
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In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, the title of the second part and phrase used by the protagonist Montag “The Sieve and the Sand” symbolizes the way the society in the novel limits thought and individuality, by removing opportunities for the people to process information. First of all, we can conclude that this is the significance of the symbol because of the constant invasion of thought by external distractions in their community. Montag attempts to read the Bible along his way to Faber’s, however
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