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  • A Very Worthy Person

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    This is one more friend of the Proposers. It is just a regular man, who loves his Motherland, with his own thoughts. He expresses them with reference to George Psalmanazar’s story about an obese fifteen-year-old girl from the island of Formosa. He mentions that a lot of gentlemen of the Kingdom have recently killed, during…

  • Tuesdays with Morrie Summary

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    The story begins with Morrie who is considered as an excellent college professor who is loved and adored by his students not only for his academic credentials but also because of his benevolence and generous attitude towards his students. In his late sixties, the college professor finds out that he is on the verge of…

  • Chaucer (The Narrator)

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    “Chaucer’s original plan, Canterbury Tales, drew approximately one hundred and twenty-two stories that each pilgrim should tell on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back: Chaucer has actually completed only twenty-two, although two other creatures exist in fragments.” One of the qualities that make Chaucer’s work so compelling is his ability…

  • Twelfth Night Essays

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    The Twelfth Night: The Comedy, The Deception and The Drama Perhaps among the greatest works of literature contributed by William Shakespeare to mankind would include the comedy The Twelfth Night. Employing the power of imagery, Shakespeare used his characters and their words to discuss the issues surrounding love and deception while at the same time……

  • Governor Bellingham

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    Here we come to the very interesting person of Richard Bellingham. He served in our real life as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Probably exactly because of him, we see that this story could be real. As a character, he doesn’t have a very big role or a huge amount of words, but his…

  • Rex Walls

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    Husband to Rose Mary, and father of Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen. He is referred to as Dad in the narrative. Drinker and slacker Rex and unrecognized artist Rose Marie brought up their children in the atmosphere of dreams and romance of travel. They always were in search of the ideal place to settle seriously…

  • The Killer Angels Summary

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    This is a historical fiction novel recounting the plot behind the Battle of the Gettysburg from the point of view of real-life figures of the Civil War such as General Robert E. Lee, General James Longstreet and Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain. While the book offers factual information, the emotions behind the suffrages of the war…

  • A Room of One’s Own Summary

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    Virginia Woolf has dedicated lots of her work to the feminism and female empowerment, but “A Room of One’s Own” is the most prominent of such writings. Using the fictional characters and conversations to present her idea, like in classical Greek texts, Virginia Woolf urges the readers to think about gender inequality, economic and social…

  • Frankenstein Summary

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    Frankenstein is the hero of M. Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein, or Modern Prometheus” (1818). Written under the direct influence of the English Gothic novel of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, M. Shelley’s novel surpasses the works of H. Walpole, A. Radcliffe, and others in many ways in terms of the scale of the humanistic…

  • A Room of One’s Own Essays

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    The View Towards Feminism and A Room of One’s Own Written in 1929, A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf has been broken apart into many different view points and meanings that in a whole, affect woman and/or artists. The interesting thing about Woolf’s piece, is that it’s an essay that uses fictional characters…