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    Literacy Autobiography When I look back on my childhood, it is hard for me to identify the specific point in time when literature entered my life. As far as I know, books have always been a friend to me, a retreat from the ordinary and an escape into unlimited worlds of magic. In fact, the earliest memories of my childhood consist of my mother reading such books as The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and Go, Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman to me in the fading hours of the evening. Due to my mother’s insistence

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    The story of my history as a writer is a very long one. My writing has come full circle. I have changed very much throughout the years, both as I grew older and as I discovered more aspects of my own personality. The growth that I see when I look back is incredible, and it all seems to revolve around my emotions. I have always been a very emotional girl who feels things keenly. All of my truly memorable writing, looking back, has come from experiences that struck a chord with my developing self.

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    Robert Mitchell Russell 10/28/2015 History of European civilizations Dr. Kruse Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini was born on November 3rd in the year 1500 in Florence, Italy. His father was Giovanni Cellini and his mother was Marisa Lisabetta Granacci. The time period Cellini was born is considered to be the beginning of the Cinquecento period of the arts in Italy. By the end of Cellini’s life he was successful in many aspects of cinquecento arts. This paper gives highlights on Cellini’s

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    Kerouac used first-person narration like that of Burroughs’s autobiography and imitates Cassady’s confessional style. He dramatizes the emotional effect of his road experiences in a rapid typist manuscripts. Jack Kerouac's On the Road as an example of a work of fiction that approaches autobiography. Although all Kerouac's main novels contain elements of autobiography, the novel On the Road is presented as the fictional autobiography of Sal Paradise's road life. Kerouac involves himself in a "self-interview"

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    Comparing Two Compelling Memoirists A strong and influential memoirist is able to grasp the reader’s attention and dive into topics bigger than themselves. Maya Angelou, the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, describes herself as neither a hero nor a victim as she recollects her past. Growing up, Maya Angelou not only suffered from white prejudice and gender inequality, she was presented with situations that made her feel powerless. According to Angelou, “The Black female is assaulted in

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    In her book American Indian Stories, Zitkala-Sa's central role as both an activist and writer surfaces, which uniquely combines autobiography and fiction and represents an attempt to merge cultural critique with aesthetic form, especially surrounding such fundamental matters as religion. In the tradition of sentimental, autobiographical fiction, this work addresses keen issues for American Indians' dilemmas with assimilation. In Parts IV and V of "School Days," for example, she vividly

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    Summary Of ' The Ghost '

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    speech, book , article , autobiography and various other literary work in which another author’s recieves full credit. Often these authors are celebrity, politicians or other popular figures who can sell books but cannot write. Autobiographical writing is the written account of one 's life which is written by the same person. On the other hand, Ghostwriting consists of written accounts of another person’s life; mostly famous personalities, whose autobiographies, memoirs or written speeches

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    The late 1600s to the late 1700s was the nascent stage of colonial America. The first settlers were trying hard to get a foothold in this new land. Religion played the important role. The settlers who had come here were the Puritan Protestant Christian who believed in rigid principles. But soon with time people started to question this version of God, that was preached by the early Puritans. The world was not yet ready for atheism, but it was surely ready to question the scripture and the old philosophy

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    they find is the consciousness of a collective identity …..a sense of the importance of interpersonal relations in the formation of a sense of self.”(174) Julia Watson similarly tries to: “redefine the theory of autobiography through the female text”(Watson 184). Among the autobiographies under she finds “similar presentations of the emerging self via a series of significant others on whom she models and against whom she defines herself” (184) She argues: “The preeminence of the other and the quality

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    What Is A Diary?

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    What is a diary? A diary is a bridge between the written language and our deepest emotions. The reason why a diary is so special is because it is most often used for one’s self, and not intended for publication. Therefore, there is no need to hide one’s true emotions since what is written has no chance of being shared or judged by anyone. Since a diary usually remains confidential, and free from judgement and criticism, it is one of the only places where a person has no need for a filter. It can

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