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    Robert Renfroe‚ better known as Bob Riley once said‚ “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed”. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Johnny Cade is a 16-year-old Greaser with long and greasy ebony hair covering his forehead. He has dark pusillanimous eyes and a scar that runs from his forehead to his cheekbone. Johnny is portrayed as an abused boy who was emotionally and physically traumatized‚ but throughout the novel‚ it is revealed that he is a

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    Current critical debate discusses contemporary poetry in terms of the Pound‚ Stevens or Williams’ era‚ forgetting T. S. Eliot‚ the poet who presided over the literary scenario for almost half a century. Eliot’s bookishness‚ political conservatism and religious leanings‚ together with the Modernist cultivation of an erudite‚ culturally charged idiom‚ have constituted a serious source of critical discontent. For the adepts of Marxist hermeneutics‚ his work came to represent “a privileged‚ closed‚ authoritative

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    Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a travelogue of sorts‚ due to the blurred lines between fiction and non-fiction‚ which deeply explores the status of the American Dream during the early 70’s‚ specifically 1971. Thompson states this purpose within the first three chapters of the book in the line‚ “Because I want you to know that we’re on our way to Las Vegas to find the American Dream.” (F&L pg 6) Although Thompson states in the beginning of the book that‚ “Our trip was different

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    “I felt like the moon‚ the stars‚ and all the planets had fallen on me.” Harry S. Truman‚ our thirty-third president of the United States‚ spoke this on April 12‚ 1945. This was a significant day in which two major things happened; President Franklin D. Roosevelt died unexpectedly‚ and Harry S. Truman was sworn in as president. Henry L. Stimson‚ Roosevelt’s secretary of war‚ who later became Truman’s‚ reintroduced the proposal of the Manhattan Project and its person in charge‚ Major General Leslie

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    The Value of Education In the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot and the essay by Mukharji‚ “A visit to Europe”‚ the theme of value of education is expressed in different aspects‚ while still holding certain similarities in the way that it is viewed by the characters in each piece of work. Although Eliot’s poem can be summarized as an educated man surveying his time and whether he should make an advance towards a woman‚ there are some random mentions of the importance of

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    A New Identity Culture manifests in the way someone lives his or her life; what he or she believes. In other words‚ someone’s identity is shaped by the culture that he or she comes from. Accordingly‚ uprooting someone from his or her own country- culture- and throwing him or her into another one‚ could lead to a state of frustration and pain resulted from the clash of values that attacks him or her entity and social status. Such impacts of the cultural encounter are revealed in the short story

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    People often struggle with making decisions. In the poem " The Love Song of J.Alfred"byT.S. Eliot‚ Prufrock" is a very indecisive man‚ which leads to depression and loneliness‚ showing that not making decisions leads to emptiness. Eliot shows this through tone and imagery. The use of tone express the indecisiveness of Prufrock. As the poem shows‚ Prufrock is often not sure if he should ask questions or not. One example of this is when Prufrock says‚ "Do a I dare?" (38). Prufrock is questioning

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    Johnny and Dally: Similar yet Different How can people with such different personalities and ways of life have so much in common with one another? It seems nearly impossible for something to occur like that. Although‚ In S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders two characters‚ Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston‚ are alike in some ways‚ but are also different in other ways. Johnny and Dallas are alike because they both have neglectful and abusive parents who do not care about them‚ and they care about each other

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    In The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock‚ T.S. Elliot employs both pessimistic and mundane descriptions to portray the feeling of alienation and dysfunction facing many city dwellers at the beginning of the twentieth century. This style of writing was in direct opposition to the optimism and happy outlook popular to the previous Victorian Era. Modernism and the development of a city culture brought with it feelings of losing ones self‚ and many writers began to question the previous ideas of a society

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    Dooney & Bourke was allowed registration of “a pebble grained texture” in combination with some other features‚ as a trademark for its leather handbags‚ but only after showing that these features combined to serve a trademark function. Further‚ Crown Royal’s iconic purple velvet pouch‚ not technically having a tactile feature‚ has been promoted heavily in the United States for decades. In 2006‚ brand owner Diageo registered the visual appearance of the Crown Royal bag having replete gold stitching

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