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    Sexuality and religion are to things that sometimes do not go well together‚ like peanut butter and onions. It is a contrast of what feels good and what feels right. As the Catholic church says‚ “If it feels good‚ stop it.” Both sexuality and religion are dominant themes in Madame Bovary by Flaubert and A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by Joyce. It is also the theme of contrast between sexuality and religion that dominates‚ more in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man than Madame Bovary.

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    Importance of Literature What makes literature so important in our lives? How does it influence society? "Literature adds to reality‚ it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect‚ it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." - C.S. Lewis‚ a British scholar and novelist. This adage is perhaps the most appropriate description of the importance of literature in our lives. Literature reminds us

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    Joe Patterson Com 200 Masterson December 11‚ 2006 The Importance of Poetry in Literature “Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper‚ unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being‚ to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.” ’ T.S. Eliot Poetry‚ just as in other literature contributes a major role in the development of many aspects of life. The utilization of poets and poetry can serve for many different

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    The importance and extent of involvement of religion and/or spirituality in fostering unity within a complex society is best demonstrated throughout early ancient history. From Hammurabi’s Babylon to the ascetic Buddhism of India‚ religion has always played a key role in the development of cultural unity and tradition. In 18th century B.C.‚ king of Babylon‚ Hammurabi improved his kingdoms unity with a code of law purportedly handed down to him from the gods themselves. Hammurabi used this sacred

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    Textual Reading Guide for Module 1 ________________________________________ The Literature of Early America p. 1-5 1. The first Europeans to establish settlements on this continent did not call it America until the 18th century. What did these early settlers call it? The New World 2. The colonies that became the United States were - for the most part - inhabited by individuals from which European country? England 3. How much is known of the perspectives of the native inhabitants of this continent

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    Ibn-Sina:Tehran. (1959) Dashti‚ Ali‚ Naghsi-Az-Hafez. Ibn-Sina:Tehran. (1957) Enyclopaedia Americana. Grolier Incorporated: Danbury‚ Connecticut. (1998) Encyclopaedia Britanica. William Benton Publisher: Chicago‚ London‚ Toronto. (1974) Fennell‚ S. Asian literature as tool for cultural identity creation in Europe‚ Goethe’s Hafez. Asia Europe Journal‚ 3‚ 229-246. (2005) Goethe‚ Selected Verse‚ by David Luke‚ Penguin Series. (1964) Goethe‚ Divan-Sharqi‚ translated by Shuja-Ud-Din Shafa. Ibn-Sina:Tehran (1964)

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    Working with Literature What should I be reading and what do I do with it all? O’Leary‚ Z. (2004) The Essential Guide to Doing Research. London: Sage Chapter Six 1 The Importance of Working with Literature Working with literature is an essential part of the research process that:    generates ideas helps form significant questions is instrumental in the process of research design O’Leary‚ Z. (2004) The Essential Guide to Doing Research. London: Sage Chapter Six 2 Working

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    Edwin Arlington Robinson- father/mother/ 2 brothers died. Love of life married brother. Never Married. Wanted to be poet since age 11 and chose to live in poverty. Wrote traditional poems. Old-fashioned but deals with modern problems. Philosophy: Behind “the peaceful and genteel communities of small-town America” lies a substrata of failure‚ “loneliness‚ and terror.” Conflict with light and dark with the individual. Major Works; The Children of the Night‚ The Man Against the Sky‚ and The Man Who

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    By the early nineteenth century‚ civil rights agitators like Maria W. Stewart felt no compunction in affirming God’s investment in both the eternal and the earthy redemption of black people. Echoing‚ perhaps even alluding to‚ Wheatley’s famous quatrain (‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land‚/Taught my benighted soul to understand/That there’s a God‚ that there’s a Savior too;/Once I redemption neither sought or knew./Some view our sable race with scornful eye‚/“There color is a diabolic die.”/Remember

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    Literature adds to reality‚ it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect‚ it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become… C. S. Lewis In this ever developing world‚ education particularly literature education plays as a fundamental necessity for each and every one of us in order to constantly be abreast and equipped with wider range of knowledge regarding the aspects of life and have the access to other

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