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    John Laurens

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    John laurens was one of many american war heroes .He was a soldier and statesman during the American revolution era and also known for his opinions of slavery and his help to gather up slaves to fight for their freedom as U.S. soldiers.In 1777-1780 he joined the Continental Army and was made the official aide-de-camp to general george washington with the rank liutenent conoel. He served with von Steuben, doing reconnaissance at the set of Battle of Monmouth.He then started to become very good friends

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    Yeats Irish Identity shaped poetry, mythology and history, other Irish writers, folktales, Irish Theatre. Many people say that William Butler Yeats was the greatest poem writer from the 20th century but to him he was just an ordinary person that had a love for writing poems. William Butler Yeats was born on 13 June 1865 in County Dublin, Ireland to John Butler Yeats, a lawyer turned portrait painter and Susan Mary Pollexfen, daughter of a wealthy family from county Sligo Yeats's mother shared with

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    Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, by William Wordsworth is a poem that works from the simple to the complex. William Wordsworth is a generation one romantic poet. The poems are meant to be short and brief, but the poem Tintern is quite a bit longer. This poem by Wordsworth was written in 1798, during his second visit to the valley of the River Wye and what’s left of Tintern Abbey, which was once a great medieval church, in Wales. Wordsworth hasn’t visited Tintern Abbey in five years, and this time

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    Trevor Huffman Dr. Oxendine RH 102 16 October 2016 Literary Analysis-Prose Prose is a form of literature that people enjoy reading because it usually tells a story that someone experienced in life through first person perspective. Prose is similar to a short story that is fictional. Many writers make these stories comical or something that will have an impact on the reader. A majority of the time the story has a meaning or lesson to be learned behind what it might actually sound like. An author

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    Red House Gothic

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    by Henry Sellick and Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen are all successful examples that show the reader how gothic literature is shown. Coraline and The Red Room both use the setting; at an old gothic house which both have an atmospheric feel of fear and dread. Weather is an additional aspect that is shown to be gothic in Northanger Abbey and Coraline that describe the stormy night with howling wind and the treacherous rain which both cause a gothic feel. Lastly Northanger Abbey and Coraline have included

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    Matthew Harder Dr. Pam Perkins English 3800 April 9, 2024 The Economy of Truth, Lies, and Deception. Jane Austen has a fascination with economics where the dramatic scenes in Northanger Abbey occur because a character lies about finances, or the main character Cathrine is misled or misreading wealthy cues. Austen writes Cathrine as a nave young girl and one of the ways Austen displays this through Cathrine's ignorance of the effect that money has as a motivator for people, which leads to Cathrine

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    Catherine was not rich. The General treats Catherine differently after he learns that she does not possess a grand fortune. Catherine expresses her surprise at the change: “And now-what had she done, or omitted to do, to merit such change?” (Northanger Abbey 217). Her anxiety that she must have done something wrong or have forgotten to do something may have been caused by her economically inferior status. However, when General Tilney confronts her about his issue, Catherine discovers herself as the

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    Austen Jane Austen is a renowned writer who existed amongst other writers such as Henry Fielding (author of Tom Jones) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein), in a time called the Georgian Era. Jane Austen works include Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Juvenilia, Mansfield Park, Emma and Sense and Sensibility. Although Jane Austen has gifted to the world many great works, it is recorded on Bio.com that “her work did not become popular until after 1869 and during her life her works were published

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    Gothic Literature Essay

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    and the texts ‘The Red Room’, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper”’ and ‘Northanger Abbey’, there are many aspects of gothic literature present, gothic literature is used to create mystery and a sense of something odd to come. Coraline is a movie about a young girl who discovers a parallel universe in the new house she moved into, The Red Room is about a supposedly haunted room, Northanger Abbey is about a girl who is spending some time in an old Abbey, she begins to imagine everything is much more interesting

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    Heroic Ignorance and Gothic Novels Jane Austen’s novel, Northanger Abbey, seeks to explore the effect of wealth on society. Throughout the novel, this portrayal of wealth assumes an increasingly critical tone, and is thus used to suggest the negative impact of financial goals in a relationship. This is shown in the contrast between Catherine’s relationship with Mr. Tilney, and Isabella’s promiscuous ways. In this dynamic, Catherine remains pure, engaged to a poor clergyman, whereas her friend Isabella

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