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…An adventurous story called "Lord of the Flies" was composed by the illustrious author named William Golding, the story describes the life of many kids who are ambushed in an uninhabited island because the plane they took fell and now no one…

…Ideas can be conveyed in many different ways dependant on the tone, style and diction of the piece. Both William Hazlitt and Mark Twain present a very similar topic in two very different ways. Hazlitt’s “Education of Women” speaks of how classical…

…Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony Number Five Ralph Vaughan Williams, descended from the famous Wedgwood and Darwin families, was born at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire in 1872. In 1890 he entered the Royal College of Music, and in 1892 he entered…

…William Butler Yeats wrote his "The Second Coming" in January of 1919, three years after the Easter Rebellion of 1916 and after the First World War had ravaged Europe from 1914 until 1918. Chinua Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart, his first novel, in 1958…

…, with no winner so far. Human nature is such a sensitive issue because it helps to define morality and savagery. William Golding's story Lord of the flies, has added much to the ongoing debate over human nature, because it speaks a lot on the topic of human nature…

…“Spotted Horses” and “Mule in the Yard” are two short stories by William Faulkner that deal with comedic animal chases. Although both provide entertaining examples of Faulkner’s work in very similar settings, on the scale of literary value, “Spotted…

…to accurately portray life and people as they really were. (Wagenknecht 68) Realists such as Henry James and William Dean Howells, two of the most prolific writers of the nineteenth-century, used typical realistic methods to create an accurate depiction of changing…

…William Shakespeare's tragic play Macbeth is set in 11th-century Scotland. The overarching political system then was feudalism, a system that was "based on the holding of land" and placed "an increasing emphasis on local protection, local government…

…1) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 2) Cat's Cradle is about the narrator who is trying to find out exactly what happened the day that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. He interviews Felix Hoenikker's (the father of the atom bomb) children…

…Baz Luhrmann's 1996 adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" contains many different camera techniques like camera angles/movements, costumes, props and soundtracks to clearly identify the different aspects and attitudes of every character…