Literary merit

Merit Pay The controversy of the merit pay system has been a highly contentious discussion in the field of education, most notably in my school district. As stated in the Education Commission of the United States, merit pay is pay for performance where a teacher’s compensation is tied to the performance in the classroom (2010). While merit pay for classroom teachers has been around for decades, it is increasingly becoming an issue around the country. As seen in my district, the issue has become

George Meredith’s 1885 Diana of the Crossways accounts the charming and witty titular heroine through her miserable marriage and the subsequent fallout. Although Diana is based on polemicist Caroline Norton’s own disastrous marriage and divorce scandal, Meredith’s protagonist borders between New Woman themes and Victorian feminine ideals, as Diana does not damningly deviates from the latter. In this essay, I will explore how Meredith has rendered the character of Diana palatable for upper and middle

Progressing through ranks and merit badges widened my range of knowledge, from fingerprinting to landscape architecture. Seeing this variety kept me in and wanting more. I encountered other Scouts beyond the troop and I made really good friends that are out of the normal school environment

rapidly through the enlisted ranks to staff sergeant and in October 1944 received a battlefield commission to second lieutenant. Murphy won 33 decorations, including the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, and three Purple Hearts”(Honoring those who went beyond the call of duty). This is a great example that he is fearless because he kept going on deployments on different campaigns until the war was over. While he was out on these different campaigns

Bhalchandra Nemade. He is a novelist, a poet and a distinguished critic. The impact of his original thinking and the force of his powerful argument on the contemporary literary and intellectual life of India is unparalleled in recent history. His greatest contribution to Indian literary criticism is his theory of Nativism. As a literary critic he has been passionately advocating it. As a creative writer he has demonstrated how theory can be brought into practice. Hence his novels like ‘Kosala’ ‘Bidhar’

For the purposes of this project I work from the definition of the pastoral, as laid out by Terry Gifford. : the pastoral in the literary context is a discussion life in rural landscapes and environments, and literary works that consider “the country with an implicit or explicit contrast to the urban” (12). During the 1780s, when Yearsley was writing, the pastoral was already an enormously popular template for would-be writers to emulate. While critics such as Paula R. Backscheider, Margaret Doody

reading, but instead challenges the dominant modes of interpretation when dealing with children’s literature. Buckley engages with Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, challenging some of the critical responses to the book, as well as drawing in some foundational literary criticism authors and thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Roland Barthes and Lewis Carroll. Buckley’s intention with this paper is to oppose restrictive interpretations of Coraline, as she posits the book to be far more complex than most examples of

In Response to Robert Young After reading Contemporary Literary Theory: Its Necessity and Impossibility, I find that I agree with most of what Robert Young says in regards to literary theory. The main point that really struck home with me was when he talked about theorists lacking the ability to connect with a wide audience. He states, “Literary theorists seem to speak and argue with each other in a private language, making little effort to address a wider audience” (Young 165). I could not agree

and especially the king of England. Although an entertaining storyline does earn one respect as a writer/poet. It was Shakespeare’s masterful use of literary devices that garners the respect and acknowledgement of many modern day professors. In Act 3, Scene 1, Hamlet begins a soliloquy in which Shakespeare showcases his literary genius. A literary device that is often overlooked in the Early Modern period of Europe is the utilization of soliloquys to give insight to a character’s inner thoughts

Thomas C. Foster’s book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, tackles the process of uncovering the underlying complexities and symbols that authors incorporate into their literary works. In its most lucid form, Foster’s message is that, when reading a work of literary merit, anything you may postulate has a deeper meaning most likely does, since skilled authors do not include items and occurrences just to include them. The dystopian literature novels 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World follow