Student’s name:_______________________________ Shift:__________ Student’s code:__________________________ Class:_________ AMERICAN LITERATURE I MID-TERM TEST TIME: 50 minutes 1) According to the U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776)‚ what are the fundamental rights that all men are born with and cannot be deprived from? a) Freedom‚ Equality and Democracy b) Life‚ Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness c) Life‚ Freedom and Equality d) Freedom‚ Equality and the Pursuit of Happiness . 2) Which of the
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One aspect of postmodern culture is our being mesmerized by technological devices which have helped erode the separation between the private and public. Critically discuss the ways in which texting both enhances and decreases social interaction and intimacy. It seems that individuals have been arguing about what is natural and what is not from the beginning of time. The original and natural product is very rarely found that professions have been created to find the origins
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whose work focused on the postmodern condition was Jean Francois Lyotard. As Jean-François Lyotard explains in his book ‘The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge’ (1984) he is concerned with ‘the condition of knowledge in highly developed societies’ (Lyotard‚ 1979). For the purpose of discussions regarding Lyotard‚ it is prudent to note that the use of the term "postmodernism" is not to be understood as a historical era following the modern period. In ‘The Postmodern Condition’ Lyotard insists
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A Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemmingway’s " A Farewell To Arms" is a classic display of literature. The way he develops his characters is ingenious. In the beginning of the story I did not like the way it was going. As I read deeper into the book‚ "A Farewell To Arms" I discovered the complexity of the characters themselves. I discovered that Frederic Henry was a rather complex character as well. When you are finally given the full picture of Frederic Henry‚ you realize that he can be described in
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------------------------------------------------- English literature From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia William Shakespeare English literature is the literature written in the English language‚ including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example‚ Robert Burns was Scottish‚ James Joyce was Irish‚ Joseph Conrad was Polish‚ Dylan Thomas was Welsh‚ Thomas Pynchon is American‚ V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad‚ and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian‚ but all
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and artistic production. According to Jameson‚ cultural production in late-capitalism is identif iable through a use of pastiche or copying. Jameson describes this as random cannibalization (17-18). In postmodern art‚ history is self-consciously reappropriated and re-fashioned into new forms. Postmodern art‚ Jameson argues‚ was a logical outcome of late-capitalism‚ which in its late stage has allowed society to abolish the distinction between high culture and mass culture‚ producing a culture of degradation
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Examination of Postmodern Poetry Fanny Howe’s poem “When I was a child” contains several similarities to Dickinson’s work. Howe’s piece transcends Dickinson’s style in her compressed sentences and metaphysical narrative. The condensed form in which the poem is written is a style first seen in Dickinson’s writing. The theme of the metaphysical world is present in Howe’s poem such as in the line “I left my body to look for one” (805). Howe presents her poems as “meditations on matter and spirit”
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Literature During the Victorian Age of Great Britain Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901 - the Victorian era‚ her reign‚ the longest in English history). It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century. The 19th century saw the novel become the leading form of literature in English. The works by pre-Victorian writers such as Jane Austen and Walter Scott had
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analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition. A key figure in contemporary French philosophy‚ his interdisciplinary discourse covers a wide variety of topics including knowledge and communication; the human body; modernist and postmodern art‚ literature‚ and music; film; time and memory; space‚ the city‚ and landscape; the sublime; and the relation between aesthetics and politics. -Jean-Francois Lyotard is a French philosopher best known for his ideas about post-modernism. In this essay
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20th Century World Literature A Madman’s Diary Victoria A Pagano 20th Century World Literature GS 340 Marshall Lloyd March 2‚ 2012 20th Century World Literature A Madman’s Diary In this paper we will research the Chinese Revolution of 1911. Talk about how is Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary a reflection of China’s revolutionary history‚ explain how In Diary‚ who the madman was and what he represented. Also we will look at and explain what cannibalism represented. And then we will
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