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    This is backed up by Livy’s claim that “in the old days all poets agebant, produced and acted in their own plays” and if it is true then the scene where Pseudolus speaks of ‘playing the poet’ is vaguely autobiographical in nature as Plautus - who has taken on the role of Pseudolus to achieve the goal of entertaining the audience - now claims to be taking on a new role, which is in fact his original role, in order to enable his role as Pseudolus to be enacted

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    a stranger getting run over by a car will be more emotionally dramatic than reading it in the news. Therefore, Satrapi chooses to accompany her words with images to tell her narrative and elicit emotions from the reader. For example, after Satrapi had the bronchitis incident and decided to return to Iran, she looked

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    that already happened in our life and it became something we will remember. In research wo do have some kind of memory called false memory. False memory can be defined to situations in which subjects recall incidents that did not experience it before (Bookbinder & Brainerd, 2016). For example, from the case study when Paul Ryan, Mitt Rommey, and Hillary Clinton

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    Amy Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 to Janis and Mitch Winehouse in London, England. Unfortunately, she died on July 23, 2011 of alcohol poisoning. She had an older brother, Alex. In the book, Amy, My Daughter, written by her father Mitch Winehouse, he says that as a child Amy was always putting on talent shows for her family and enjoyed being the center of attention. She inherited her musical talent from her father’s side of the family, since he and his mother both sang. Amy got her academic

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    2007 page 69.) I would have remembering reading this quote while preparing to go out on teaching practice and looking back on my experience now and using all of Brookfield’s lenses - Learner autobiography, theory, peer observation and critical incident questionnaires to reflect this is most definitely the biggest hegemonic assumption I took with me while entering the classroom as a teacher in Kinsale Community School. As seen by my tutors and cooperating teachers and by myself, which is evident

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    What is the name of your work? What is the author’s name? When and where does it take place? A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce is a semi-autobiographical novel that takes place in Ireland during a surge of political reformation, and calls for separation from England during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Describe your response to reading this novel. Was the novel absorbing? Burdensome? Aligned with your expectation? Not? Was there a difference in your usual reading, since this

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    Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms tells the tale of two young, star-crossed lovers in the midst of World War I. A powerful romance and stirring history of the war, this semi autobiographical novel meshes the contrasting worlds of love and war, setting war as the backdrop of love. The novel’s portrayal of love is an issue that has attracted critical debate, prompting many academics to reflect on its existence, form, and role in the plot. Joel Armstrong is one such academic. His literary criticism

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    We’re all human, trying to answer the same questions. However, she consistently comes off as immature and I disagree with her on many fronts, for example with her belief that personhood doesn't start at conception. I realize these essays are autobiographical however it disturbs me when an author uses their work as a platform to interject their political views. Yet, deeper within her than her loud liberalism is a reality that has won her many evangelical

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    will provide some “intellectual” context about the poem that may not be supplied in the diction. “Goodwill” is a news and persona poem that is based on a South Korean news article released on November 6, 2016 (hence the epigraph) about the following incident: an elderly man purchased a puppy and kitten, and when he tried bringing them into a motel and was denied entry because of his new pets, he dropped both animals from his hands. As the poem hints, the kitten died, and the puppy was grievously injured

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    and ‘Jane Eyre', respectively. ‘Tess of the D'urbervilles' is based on the experiences of Tess. Whereas, ‘Jane Eyre' is an autobiographical book about Jane. The two novels are based in the past when women were not considered as equal to men. The characters Jane and Tess are both women and so they are subject to discrimination and they both have a lot in common, for example both Tess and Jane are considerate and caring. Jane Eyre's background is a sad one, at the beginning of the novel she's an

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