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    William Faulkner’s novella “The Bear” from his collection of works‚ Go Down Moses‚ is a symbolic exploration of the relationship between man and nature in the eyes of a young boy. The heart of the issue‚ the warped idea of the ownership of land‚ is revealed thought the clash of man and nature in a wild chase that ends only in blood and death. The prey is nature itself‚ represented by a bear‚ while the hunters are men‚ full of greed and destructive possessiveness‚ pursuing that which they do not

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    August Rush : Plot This is a story of a music prodigy. Lyla is a renowned and beautiful cellist and Louis is a guitar player and vocalist at a club. Lyla and Louis fall in love once they meet each other following the music. Since they have different lives‚ they have to separate without seeing each other again. However‚ Lyla has had their baby - Evan‚ a prodigy born to music. Lyla has an accident and bears the baby but Lyla’s father gives the baby to an orphanage without telling her‚ for fear of

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    15 August

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    ===THIS IS MY SPEECH FOR YOU================= The midnight of August 15‚ 1947 is memorable for every Indian on earth‚ as it is the time‚ when India gained independence from the stranglehold of the mighty British. The otherwise suppressed tri-colored flag of India was given its due respect‚ when it was hoisted in the midnight on the Independence Day. Since then‚ the red-letter day is celebrated with pomp and gaiety‚ across the length and breadth of India. Cultural programs and flag-hoisting ceremonies

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    August Macke

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    Case Study – August Macke August Macke was an artist born in Germany on the 3rd of January‚ 1887 and became a leading member of the expressionist movement‚ Der Blaue Reiter‚ before the movement ended due to the dispersion of members in the First World War. He himself was drafted into the German army and was inevitably was killed in action on the 26th of September 1914‚ only at the age of 27. August Macke was an expressionist painter‚ who would present the world solely from a subjective perspective

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    August Wilson‚ born Fredrick August Kittel Jr.‚ was one of the most prominent and influential American playwrights of all time. Raised as a native of Pittsburgh‚ Wilson allowed the world around him to directly inspire his work. As a result the Pittsburgh cycle‚ a ten play arrangement‚ was written to showcase each decade during the twentieth century. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone‚ set in 1911‚ is the second installment of the cycle. The Joe Turner character took on several personifications in African

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    William Faulkner’s Style of Writing By:Dixie 4th period William Faulkner was born on September 25‚ 1897 in New Albany‚ Mississippi‚ into a declining but prominent north Mississippi family. Five Years after his birth‚ 1902‚ his family and he moved to Oxford‚ Mississippi. The next year‚ Faulkner started school just to quit his last year of high school in 1915. (Brinkmeyer 331) He had to be a admitted into collage as a special student. He was admitted to the University of Mississippi only because

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    McCarthy vs Faulkner Though Cormac McCarthy’s All The Pretty Horses and William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished are completely different‚ their style and plot techniques share more similarities than differences. All The Pretty Horses and The Unvanquished both depict the importance of honor in a persons life‚ whether it be honor through vengeance‚ honoring family‚ or honoring the tradition of woman‚ these two novels teach that honor can create a stronger person. Vengeance plays an important role

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    03/01/13 August Wilson’s Fences is a play set in 1957‚ about a man named Troy Maxon‚ who lives his life through societal expectations. He has a family that he destroys by having an affair and getting his mistress pregnant. In August Wilson’s Fences‚ the character who is most bound by societal expectations is Troy. Troy is most bound by societal expectations because he couldn’t live out his dream of becoming a star baseball player because of his past. He refuses to believe that society has changed

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    intriguing‚ yet confidential debate about slavery and racial discrimination against minorities. Nobel prize winner and literary merit William Faulkner‚ was a preeminent American author who examined and presented such archetype through his southern style genre and works‚ A Rose for Emily‚ The Sound and the Fury and Absalom‚ Absalom. Connected to his work‚ William Faulkner is heralded today to be one of the greatest southern-interpreted writers in American history. His brilliant description of the racial battle

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    love interest. The author uses his unique style of writing to develop many themes throughout the the story. Faulkner uses the power of death‚ isolation‚ and tradition versus change as the main themes in the story. The power of death is a theme that lingers all throughout the story. It begins at the start of the story when Faulkner described Emily’s death. Emily‚ a fixture in the community‚ gives into death slowly. Faulkner compares her to a drowned woman‚ a bloated and pale figure left too long in

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