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    hobbit” and “Lord of the rings” were already became a famous sign of fantasy literature. Their author created a fantastic and great world for us to imagine. No matter teenagers or elders are loving his work. He contributed a lot to the literature and whole world. There are a lot of meaningful questions about Tolkien and his work deserving us to find out answer. Why he written these books? How he contributes and influences literature and world? I think the reason is that he wants to write these books is

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    Literature affects our lives because it describes that everyone has their differences, that we as humans should think of others and assist them in their lives, and literature illuminates the issues with human morality and how we can agree what is right and what is wrong. First, we as humans should think of others. In the movie, “Freedom Writers”, the students that are portrayed in the movie suffer through gang violence outside of their school environment. However, to understand themselves better

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    develop. Some movie authors who would improve the evolution of the literary world include Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Heavily influenced by the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution, American Romanticism was a genre of its own, unique to even the most progressive literature of the time period. As the growing industry blew up and western expansion became a thing of the present and not just the future, American romanticism blossomed. Through the presentation

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    What is an American? How does literature create conceptions of the American experience and American identity? An American is someone who is born in America, a citizen of the United States of America, knows American culture, and knows the history of it. One becomes an American by either being born here automatically and becoming a citizen, or moving here from a different country and then becoming a legal citizen. Literature creates conceptions of the American experience and American identity by giving

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    Dulce Et Decorum Est

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    expressed by the Encyclopaedia Britannica is “literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound and rhythm.” Poetry has a large impact on modern society as it has the ability to effect and relate to current issues in the world and expose the truth behind these problems, as it is able to convey messages that no other form of literature can. Wilfred Owen uses this in his poem Dulce Et

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    to give immense account on what thing are really like. Literature is an art of writing where the writers express the human experiences in their specific kind of language i.e. to communicate the information. Literature is a real time travel. An archeology can give us elements, a snapshot of time, but the literature is more of an energy, showing us what people 100’s or 1000’s of years ago believed, behaved and what they experienced. Literature gives us chance to broaden and deepen the human experiences

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    Living in the digital age has change a lot how we read and understand literature. There is no secret that every piece of literature has hidden messages for the reader to interpreted especially poems. Each reader understand something different, Google is make uses get to a conclusion about the text. Google help a lot while reading the poems, especially while reading “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Daddy” by Silvia Plath. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke the author is the

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    nonfiction story about a family who experienced the Trail of Tears, that story could probably offend Native Americans. That white German man has no idea what it would be like to be Native American let alone go through that suffrage. When finding literature to read it is important to consider the source it is coming from. Reading from different races of authors helps grow perspective. If you only read from old white authors, what does that do to your perspective? Is it really a problem? As long as

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    Salter’s article, “Once Upon a Time, Literature. Now What?” Salter discusses his views on language, literature, and popular culture. He begins the article by stressing language as the most important part of being a human because with language there is great power. Salter introduces the idea that there is a crisis in our society that is affecting literature’s importance in society. Salter defines this crisis as popular culture and goes on to argue how literature has been replaced by popular culture

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    Literature can embody time, start a revolution, or be used as a coaster under the flattest fizzless cup of Pepsi. It can tell historical triumphs or new wave gyres, yet in each of these examples, literature has a single and simple purpose. It is easy to tell time through a book because a reader can simply glance back out their window to check. It is easy to grab a group of friends read a guidebook on revolution and paint some signs. A hipster might think it’s chic to take an old copy of Peter Rabbit

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