*Review of Related *Literature Foreign Over the years‚ more enhancements were made to the cash registers until the early 1970s‚ when the first computer-driven cash registers were introduced. The first computer-driven cash registers were basically a mainframe computer packaged as a store controller that could control certain registers. These point of sale systems were the first to commercially utilize client-server technology‚ peer-to-peer communications‚ Local Area Network (LAN) backups
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WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATURE? AN OVERVIEW When the English preacher and writer Sidney Smith asked in 1820‚ “In the four quarters of the globe‚ who reads an American book?” little did he suspect that less than two hundred years later the answer in literate quarters would be “just about everyone.” Indeed‚ just a few years after Smith posed his inflammatory question‚ the American writer Samuel Knapp would begin to assemble one of the first histories of American literature as part of a lecture series
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The Relevance of Shakespeare English literature icon William Shakespeare even after being deceased for over 400 years‚ still is relevant to our society and culture. How does this icon of English literature continually remain a firm fascination in the minds of modern day society? Despite departing this earth nearly 400 years ago‚ William Shakespeare’s legacy of written works (including 37 plays!) ensure his relevance to society‚ past and present never wanes. The timelessness of Shakespeare’s
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TWO ASPECTS OF LITERARY STUDY. Such a study of Literature as that for which the present book is designed includes two purposes‚ contributing to a common end. In the first place (I)‚ the student must gain some general knowledge of the conditions out of which English literature has come into being‚ as a whole and during its successive periods‚ that is of the external facts of one sort or another without which it cannot be understood. This means chiefly (1) tracing in a general way‚ from period to period
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Chapter 1 What is Literature? A. What is Literature? Generally speaking‚ “literature” is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works‚ but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination‚ including works of poetry‚ drama‚ fiction‚ and nonfiction. Literature represents a people‚ culture‚ tradition and language. It shares great experiences. Through Literature‚ we can learn about poems‚ stories‚ and plays. When we discuss about
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English Literature Students should study English Literature because literature is part of our cultural heritage‚ literary works can be entertaining‚ beautiful‚ funny‚ or tragic. They can convey profundity of thought‚ for instance like 《Macbeth》shows that the destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints. Each literature has a themes that the author wants to show. Also students learn a lot of history and culture from the English literature. It takes them to new places
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APPRECIATION What is literature? a. Definition and functions of literature. b.Forms of literature (Oral and written with specific examples). c.The genre / branches of literature prose‚ drama and poetry with examples 3.ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE a. Synopsis – theme(s) plot‚ setting b. Synopsis continued Character‚ characterization‚ (human and animal). c.Language – 1st person narrator‚ 3rd person omniscient Narrator Or the Eye of God 4.GENRES / BRANCHES OF LITERATURE CONTINUATION
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INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE Course Description: This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of literary study and analysis. Students will be introduced to the fundamental elements of poetry‚ drama‚ and fiction; basic literary terminology; and strategies for analyzing texts based on close reading. Students will also practice writing short literary analysis. Course Objectives • Develop your basic understanding on what literature and its
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Glossary of Terms for the Analysis of Literature ACROSTIC - Usually verse arranged in such a way as to present names or phrases or sentences when certain letters selected according to an orderly sequence are brought together to form an alphabet‚ a name (often that of the author‚ a patron‚ or a loved one)‚ or some other concealed message. AESTHETICS – Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty‚ especially the arts; the theory of art or of artistic tastes
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Postmodernism in English literature. 1. Postmodernism in the English literature of the last decades of the 20th century. 2. John Fowles’s novels as an example of postmodern writing. In the 1960s the cultural layers changed and grew confused; the emergence of the mass media and the technological revolution changed the nature of culture and publishing. Here started the era of postmodernism‚ manifesting the philosophical‚ cultural‚ and political instability of the contemporary world‚ and the difficulty
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