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    Radicals Vs Realists

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    Individuals play a huge role in international politics and affairs. Even though it is portrayed different by realists, liberals, constructivists, and radicals they do contain some similarities. Each of these theories reflect ideas that explain how the international system works. Most of these theories are based on the idea that states always act in accordance with their national interest or the interest of that state. Most often states have the same national interest whether it is in self-preservation

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    Transcendentalism, post-modernism, absurdism, surrealism, magical realism: literary movements designed to expand the mind and challenge popular conceptions of what literature truly means. Socialist realism, on the other hand, was formulated and implemented solely as an attempt to prevent free thought and limit the mind to the acceptance of one ideology. Aspects of socialist realism date back as far as 1860, but it did not become the official state policy of the Soviet Union until 1932, at which point

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    at the world in an optimistic point of view. After the Civil War during the Reconstruction Era, many changed their outlook from optimistic to a more realistic outlook on life. The time period between 1870 and 1910 was when the literary movements, Realism and Naturalism in literature became prominent. Authors like Stephen Crane and Mary Chesnut wrote novels that followed these movements. These writings helped influence today’s writers to write more about current events and how they affect people. The

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    Realism is defined as accepting something or a situation as it is. Realism can be compared in the all three of these stories. One story being fictional and the others based on factual evidence. Realism shows the truth in each novel and its up to the readers or the main character to accept the challenge put in front of it. Jack London wrote “To Build A Fire” to show the literary conflict of man versus nature.Sadly, the man never realizes the reality of his environment and it leads him to his death

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    a day-to-day basis. In The Outcasts of Poker Flat helps to see in the Realism Era because of its references to the California Gold rush, and the story references to the hard life on the road to the west. Harte’s stories also feature the old west which was the way of life back then. Bret Harte also puts his personal experiences in his characters/ stories because back then authors wrote based on themselves. He presents realism in a mass of his plots in his works. Bret Harte’s works display his references

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    Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism is the period post Harlem Renaissance. Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism is considered a reality check. The high period of the Renaissance was over, and the realization set in we’re still black in America. This Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism brought a new style of writing. The writing took a naturalistic approach, meaning there was no sugar coating, no pandering, and everything you read was real. Many new writers came about in this era of Realism, Naturalism

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    Realism writing started to be used in the 1800s, basically to show what the world actually consisted of and not what our eyes tried to see. Realism did not sugar coat anything, regardless of what it was. It would speak whatever, but always with the truth. In the stories of “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin both authors develop the theme within these two stories. The view of point that these two stories develop is that people go by what is on the

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    These stories portray many relationships that we wish were ever so real. Along with these feel good stories, there are also writings that portray real-life. Stories based on realism differ greatly from fictional tales by their lack of stereotypical endings and more complex realistic relationships. Kate Chopin portrays realism in her book, “Desiree’s Baby.” This story takes place in the South during the time of slavery. Here, a wealthy man named Armand is homed to one of the South’s plantations. This

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    Realism art is like a photograph that allows the viewer their own interruption. Realism was an art movement that revolted against Romanticism. Realism was after Romanticism and before Modern Art. Realism was popular around the time of 1840 to 1880. The Romantic style of art had emotional and exaggerated themes. The Realism painters “began to explore the reality of everyday life”. Norman Rockwell a famous artist lived from 1894 to 1978. He painted in the realist style. Norman Rockwell famous

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    divinity of one with himself and in nature, however, this transitioned in the late nineteenth century. This literary period, known as realism, targets the everyday lives of the individual, including a vast amount of details; which The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson perfectly illustrates. This psychological short story exemplifies the characteristics of the realism most effectively by displaying the characters as the essential focus and being critical of gender roles. Throughout this tale

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