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One Of The First West Wing
1,907 words
In AD 64, Nero set fire to the city of Rome. The
exact reasons he did it are not fully known. It is
thought that he partly did for poetic or artistic
purposes, or for the purpose of clearing away a
city that had currently dissatisfied him. In its
place however he did rebuild a better Rome, for
the most part that is. A large portion, and
arguably too large of a portion, was expropriated
for the use of his own residence to be called the
Domus Aurea. This is translated: The Golden House,
and so, th...
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One Of The First West Wing
1,612 words
In AD 64, Nero set fire to the city of Rome. The
exact reasons he did it are not fully known. It is
thought that he partly did for poetic or artistic
purposes, or for the purpose of clearing away a
city that had currently dissatisfied him. In its
place however he did rebuild a better Rome, for
the most part that is. A large portion, and
arguably too large of a portion, was expropriated
for the use of his own residence to be called the
Domus Aurea. This is translated: The Golden House,
and so, th...
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Masque Of The Red Death Prince Prospero
833 words
Justin Hill The Masque of the Red Death In Edgar
Allen Poe? s story? The Masque of the Red Death? ,
he uses symbolism of the rooms, time, and the red
death to portray his theme that no one can escape
death. The masque was held in Prince Prospero? s
imperial suite that consisted of seven different
and symbolic rooms. The fact that there where
seven rooms was symbolic in itself. Many believe
that the world was created in seven days. It was
also said that there are seven stages in a person?
s life....
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Truman Capote American Literature
2,688 words
American literature in the thirties and forties,
was dominated by social consciousness. The
preferred fiction was sociological prose, much of
it naturalistic. Thus, when Other Voices, Other
Rooms was published soon after World War II, it
was criticized as being out of the main stream.
Within a decade, however, as other young writers
gained renown, it became apparent that Truman
Capotes novel was a piece in a new pattern of
fiction, one that was described by terms such as
narcissistic, grotesque,...
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