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Trends In Contemporary British Poetry
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... he poets to lay emphasis on feeling rather
than style or technique. Many of Patten's poems
deal with the themes of ageing and mortality. In
Staring at the Crowd he says, 'I saw the skeleton
in everyone'. He reflects that 'Grinning Jack'
(the skeleton, symbolizing death) lurks inside
everyone, waiting for its moment to conquer the
flesh and shed its outer covering. He points out,
in a mildly ironical way, that we go through life
preoccupied with our mundane existences, and our
plans for the f...
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Gun Ownership Benjamin Franklin
771 words
Gun Control One of our founding fathers, Benjamin
Franklin, once stated: Those who would give up
essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. This
applies to contemporary Americans in very direct
way, even though that media try to convince us
that this statement had lost its actuality,
because of the realities of 21 st century.
Therefore, the issue of gun control has much
broader applications than the pushers of left-wing
agenda would like us to bel...
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Fast Food Part 1
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Fast Food Nation "Eric Schlosser's book on the
economy and strategies of the fast-food business
should be read by anyone who likes to take their
children to fast-food restaurants. I shall
certainly never do that again. He employs a long,
cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of
detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (... ) Fast
Food Nation is witness to the rigour and
seriousness of the best American journalism,
readable, reliable and extremely carefully done. "
- Adam Nicolson, Daily Tel...
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Single Mothers Developed Countries
516 words
By the end of twentieth century, contemporary
society imposed on most mothers primary
responsibility for children and their development.
Simultaneously, this particular trend became very
controversial regarding single mothers in the
light of detrimental effects of poverty and
welfare stigma on them. Having experienced similar
problems of being a modern single mother, I
certainly need more flexibility at the workplace
and school, but am not as likely to get it as
other workers or students. The ma...
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Comparing Frankenstein With A Modern Horror Movie
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Comparing Frankenstein with a modern horror movie
Being initially developed as a ghost-story, Mary
Shelleys Frankenstein included numerous issues
varying from authors interpretations of the
scientific and social theories to the description
of general culture of the time. The story of
Frankenstein was told by means of letters, and in
the form of three narratives one inside the other,
which attached to the story a certain degree of
distancing. The logical result of the narrative
distancing is a mu...
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Head Of The Family Franz Kafka
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Social aspects in novella The Metamorphosis by
Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924) was the
author of only three unfinished novels and several
stories but he remains one of the most significant
writers of the twentieth century. The works of
Franz Kafka have considerably influenced the great
number of writers, artists and cinematographers.
For many years critics have been trying to analyze
Kafka's works through different philosophical
approaches, but Kafka was not a philosopher, he
was a common ...
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Fight Club Community In The Times Of Violence
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Fight Club: Community in the Times of Violence
There are a lot of movies made in the twentieth
century which have good storylines and also
contain a social message. In the regard, Fight
Club is perhaps second only to A Clockwork Orange.
The plot is an intricate web that links many
issues facing contemporary society, and one of the
most significant problems it looks at is violence.
This paper is an analysis of the movie, which is
based on a book by Chris Palahniuk, in terms of
its approach to vio...
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Cultural Activities In Puerto Rico
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Cultural Activities in Puerto Rico In her book
Sponsored Identities, Arlene M. Davila discusses
the dynamics of cultural politics in Puerto Rican
society. She examines how culture and cultural
nationalism have been used to promote consumer
goods and political viewpoints. Arlene Davila
asserts that cultural nationalism has been used by
corporate advertisers to promote consumer goods
(Davila 1997: 7). Similarly, the parana has been
used as an advertising tool. Images related to the
parana are bein...
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Mary Rowlandson Nineteenth Century
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Women in the American Society During the history
of American society women had very insignificant
role in the community. They openly were
discriminated and very usually harassed and this
attitude was defended by law. The development of
the society influenced the development and change
of womens consciousness and education. Women
re-evaluated their position in the society and
feminism movement started the fight for liberation
of womens rights. This work discusses two works
that portray the gradua...
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Critical Point Of View Gun Ownership
951 words
Pro Gun Control Being constantly changing and
evolving, contemporary society becomes vulnerable
to issues of technological, cultural and societal
progress. From the critical point of view,
although guns have been a part of our rural
culture for hundreds of years, their increasingly
horrific misuse by individuals, including
children, children seems to be a more recent
phenomenon. Recognition that gun misuse is only a
symptom is crucial to our society finding
solutions to the increasing violence w...
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Issue Of Racism In Huckleberry Finn
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Issue Of Racism In Huckleberry Finn Twain's
language, his use of the American vernacular, is
what makes him a great writer. He was the first to
show his countrymen that the vulgar coinage of
American speech carried as much beauty, elegance
and meaning as any of the English models used by
his predecessors. Many blame Twain for racist
remarks and usage of racist vocabulary in the
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Chadwick-Joshua
offers a spirited and often eloquent defense of
Huckleberry Finn. Even ...
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Adam Phillips Mr Phillips Equals
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Caring, but little sharingEqualsAdam Phillips 160
pp, Faber Adam Phillips, the psychotherapist and
editor of writers including Lamb, Pater and Burke,
is also considered by many to be a grand master of
the essay form. One of the finest prose stylists
at work in the language, according to John
Banville. In a passage quoted on the jacket of
Equals, his new book, the Observer critic Gaby
Wood compares him to Kafka, Benjamin, and Kundera,
and credits him with single-handedly continuing
the tradition ...
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Catcher In The Rye Quot And Quot
886 words
The passage of adolescence has long served as the
central theme for many novels, but The Catcher in
the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, has captured the
energy of this period of life by dramatizing
Holden Caulfields somewhat obscene language and
emotional reactions. The Catcher in the Rye deals
with an intelligent yet confused teenage boy
struggling to see the genuineness in society.
During his experiences, Holden tends to use easy,
natural, but controversial language to help get
his point across in an ...
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Nine Teen Twenty Swing Era Music
367 words
During the nine-teen twenty's and thirties the
music scene wasa's popular as ever. There was the
Jazz Era during the twenties and the Swing Era
during the thirties. Merging into the early
twenties a type of improvised music, called
Dixieland Jazz was being recorded. Famous artists
including Louis Armstrong and Kid Ory were very
popular tothe people. This music was a hit till
nine-teen twenty three. Jazz musical the popular
music during this decade. Than during the
nine-teen thirties many types o...
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Female Body Hard Core
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Susan Brownmillerss essay Lets Put Pornography
Back in the Closet, is an well-argued essay.
However, adult material is protected by the First
Amendment, which protects the freedoms of speech
and press. Beginning in the first paragraph, she
tries to get the readers sympathy by showing that
she is not against the First Amendment. She begins
her essay by, Free speech is one of the great
foundations on which our democracy rests. So
starting with her introduction she gets the
readers sympathy. She in...
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Babe Ruth Contemporary American
536 words
receives Michael Bertin, FENCES by August Wilson.
(From: Berney, Contemporary American Dramatists,
1994 s. v. ) First Publication: 1986. First
Production: 1985. As he runs from his home in the
American South, Troy Mason, the son of a black
sharecropper, is borne north by the great
migration of his people searching for the promised
land. Unskilled and unwanted, he searches the
streets of distant cities until the day he kills a
man to stay alive. He learns how to play baseball
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr Vonnegut Kurt
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Kurt Vonnegut's War Experiences And Its Effects
Kurt Vonnegut's War Experiences And Its Effects On
The Barnhouse Effect Kurt Vonnegut's War
Experiences how it contributes to my understanding
of the Barnhouse Effect Kurt Vonnegut's war
experiences had a great impact on his life, which
greatly contributes to the readers understanding
of the Barnhouse Effect. His war experiences are
reflected quite vividly through his writing of the
Barnhouse Effect. This short story reflects the
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End Of The Cold War Multi Purpose
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The latter half of the twentieth century has been
dominated by the Cold War and the actions and
events surrounding it. During this period
different alliances and treaties were formed and
many of these were institutionalized. One such
alliance was the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO). This organization was set up
by the Northern Atlantic Western Powers to combat
the Eastern Soviet threat. Today however NATO
still exists and plays an active role in
international relations. The question as...
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Years Of Age Native Speakers
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Language Ethnicity and Language Ethnicity is an
important yet highly imprecise concept in
contemporary Mexico. Students of Mexican society,
as well as Mexicans themselves, identify two broad
ethnic groups based on cultural rather than racial
differences: mestizos and Indians. Each group has
a distinct cultural viewpoint and perceives itself
as different from the other. At the same time,
however, group allegiances may change, making
measurement of ethnic composition problematic at
best. Originall...
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One Hundred Years Hundred Years Of Solitude
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Last rites for magic realism For just over a
generation, magic realism has been the default
position of the worlds new fiction, the modish
literary style to which aspiring novelists in
English, Czech, German, French or Spanish, of
course, would resort in the perpetual struggle to
make an ordinary narrative seem extraordinary. In
the name of magic realism, a novels protagonist
could be 199, fictional characters could sprout
wings and become angels, ghosts could hold
dialogues with the living, cor...
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