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… sisters - Charlotte, Emily and Anne. Emily Brontë published only one novel, WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847), a story of the doomed love and revenge. The sisters also published jointly a volume of verse, POEMS BY CURRER, ELLIS AND ACTON…

… problem with violence, beginning with Cain killing his brother Abel. All through history decent society has endeavored to change violent offenders by putting them in prison. This does not stop the problem because criminals love the free services…

… artists of the 19th century. He had no interest in history painting, portraiture of heads of state, or exotic subject matter, for he believed that the artist should be realistic and paint everyday events involving ordinary people. He was…

… or blossoming of music, art, and literature among the African American community. According to the Encarta Encyclopedia 2003, Zora Neale Hurston, "The American writer and folklorist, who's anthropological study of her racial heritage, at a time when…

… by Margaret Atwood, the Gilead holds Offred, whose real name is never revealed, a prisoner because she is a woman. Atwood adds to the realism of Offred's situation by using Biblical allusions. Almost everything within the novel has a Biblical reference…

… Brown and Company: 1963) Ferdinand Clegg, an amateur entomologist, kidnaps Miranda, a beautiful artist, and holds her in an underground room. Though his actions alone condemn him as evil and immoral, the motive, his upbringing, strong sense of values…

… a writer's life and Kurt Vonnegut is no different. Although there are many small influences on his life that made him such an excellent writer, the most influential event is obvious. Vonnegut's views on death, war, technology, and human nature were…

… pictures James Bond with a nice suit and big guns. Spies are not a new thing and do not exist only in this modern form. Spies have always existed in many different forms: one of the most important forms is a women spy. The best spies are people…

… daily conduct, dominated then by so many linear habits, had suddenly begun to spin around a single common anxiety. The cocks of drawn would catch us trying to give order to the chain of many chance events that had made absurdity possible, and it was…

… heart of mother Russia. In his travels through Europe he had a chance to study the most prominent philosophers of that time, absorb their ideas, and later implement them in his literary works. "The streets of revolutionary Paris taught him the unpleasant…