of history • Modernist intelligentsia sees decay and a growing alienation of the individual. • The machinery of modern society is perceived as impersonal‚ capitalist‚ and antagonistic to the artistic impulse. • The Modernist Period in English literature was first and foremost a visceral (proceeding from instinct rather than from reasoned thinking) reaction against the Victorian culture and aesthetic‚ which had prevailed for most of the nineteenth century. • They could foresee that world events
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SUMMARY ’Shabine’ is the story of Justene‚ a mixed race woman who is constantly mocked for being poor‚ of mixed heritage‚ and presumably promiscuous. She was taunted with the words jamette and shabine (half white‚ or of mixed heritage) on the streets. The story opens with the narrator explaining that she had a fiery temper‚ which she unleashed on her tormentors when provoked. Her two sons‚ Gold and Silver‚ were subjected to similar taunts‚ with Silver reacting in the same way as his mother‚ while
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was the first “young-adult” book I’d ever read‚ and it transported me to a new and thrilling world; one with winged children‚ bloodthirsty wolf-hybrids‚ and action scenes upon action scenes. It was the first time of many that I would completely
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Journal 1 Hearing that I had to read The Taming of the Shew‚ I was not enthusiastic at all. I read the play previously in my eighth grade literature class‚ years ago‚ and I have not been a Shakespeare fan since then. Also‚ if I had the power to ban Shakespeare from any educational curriculum‚ then I probably would. I believe that Shakespeare belongs in a History class or a class just on Shakespeare‚ for its dated‚ old‚ and not quite fit for many modern English learners like myself. However‚ since it is
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WHAT EVERY BODY IS SAYI N G An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People JOE NAVARRO FBI Special Agent (Ret.) with Marvin Karlins‚ Ph.D. To my grandmother‚ Adelina‚ whose withered hands lovingly molded a child into a man. —J O E N AVA R R O To my wife‚ Edyth‚ who has blessed me with her love and taught me what it means to be a caring human being. —MARVIN KARLINS CONTENTS Foreword: I See What You’re Thinking Acknowledgments ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX Mastering the Secrets
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It has been a long time since I learned to read and write. I grew up in a small town middle of nowhere in Brazil‚ and I lived in a coffee farm until I was 12 years old. My parents were very simple and uneducated‚ who lived life to work. I started school at 1st grade level (no kindergarten that time) when I was 6 years old. I don’t remember if I knew any reading or numbers‚ I think I didn’t know anything about reading and writing. I learned all that in the school. I remember that I learned the alphabet
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Shylfings and Beowulf becomes king of the Geats Middle English. Circa 1100 A.D. Literature: chivalric romances Canterbury Tales by: Geoffrey Chaucer Represented an emerging “middle class‚” late medieval‚ wrote so it was accessable to middle class. Characters: Knight=heroic figure‚ traveled a lot‚ undefeated‚ BUT‚ not a great horse and stained clothes=sir bullshit? Squire=son of knight‚ musical and stylish‚ likes staying up all night with ladies Yeoman=well equipped hunter/forester Nun-Prioress=Madame
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Although I don’t remember exactly how I learned to read‚ I guess it sort of came to me as a little child when my parents used to read me prayers and stories from the Bible. In middle school‚ reading was essential in getting a good grade for English with the "Accelerated Reader" system being implemented at our school. Basically‚ it was a online program where you would be able to take tests on books once you have read them‚ and each book had a certain amount of points based on its difficulty and length
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How to Read a Roman Portrait SHELDON NODELMAN from E. D’Ambra‚ ed.‚ Roman Art in Context. NY: Prentice Hall. 1993 pp. 10‐20 Like all works of art. the portrait is a system of signs; it is often an ideogram of “public’ meanings condensed into the image of a human face. Roman portrait sculpture from the Republic through the late Empire-the second century BCE. to the sixth CE -constitutes what is surely the most remarkable body of portrait art ever created. Its shifting montage of abstractions from
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Being the second youngest in my family out of five children‚ you would think that reading would be easy for me growing up. But learning how to read was a challenge. It was something that I never thought I would be able to do without a lot of help from my father. Being brought up with my father‚ a single parent we had our ups and downs. My father was a very hard working man. He tried his hardest to take of five children. Besides having a job that required him to work long hours he made sure we
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