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Analysis of John Keats's "When I Have Fears": Death & The Freedom of Limitations
November 4, 2010 - 1982 words | English » John Keats
John Keats’s “When I Have Fears” has often been read as a poem about a poet and his fear of mortality. Such a fear is not hard to unearth in Keats’s collection of poetry, not to mention his famous letters to family and friends. However, this... Read Article »

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John Keats Poetry When I Have Fears Shakespeare Sonnets
(Im)Mortality and the Poem: Comparing and Contrasting Marvell and Shakespeare
April 29, 2010 - 1824 words | Literary Criticism » Shakespeare
The meaning behind both Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Shakespeare’s sonnets has been debated since their respective publications. Marvell’s poem and specifically Shakespeare’s sonnets 55 and 60 have undeniably divergent... Read Article »

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Marvell Shakespeare Immortality Poetry Mistress Death Sonnets Andrew Marvell Shakespeare To His Coy Mistress Sonnet 55 Sonnet 60
Exploring the American Immigrant Experience Through Literature
February 23, 2010 - 2011 words | English » Immigration
In “Amor de lejos: Latino (Im)migration Literatures,” B.V. Olguin writes, “Latino/a (im)migration narratives…often illustrate the traumatic aspects of displacement by focusing in part on how immigration, migration, exile, and colonization place... Read Article »

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Immigration Migration American Immigration Narratives Asia Haiti China Nationalism Cultural Identity Buddhism Marriage Stereotypes Spirituality
Immigration, and What it Means to be an American
February 22, 2010 - 1049 words | English » Immigration
On the eve of the 19th century, in 1781, French-American immigrant Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur wrote a letter, the third in his famed Letters from an American Farmer, entitled “What Is An American?” His answer, as open for interpretation as it might be... Read Article »

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American Immigration Immigration Being American Jean De Crevecoeur James Fallow
In Defense of The Spirit Of An Author: On Anne Fadiman's "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down"
February 19, 2010 - 1743 words | Literary Criticism » Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a non-fiction exploration of culture and medicine that tells the tragic story of the Lee family and their daughter Lia, an epileptic... Read Article »

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Hmong Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down Asian American Critique
The Significance Of The Screenplay
February 17, 2010 - 1800 words | Film and Cinema » Screenplay
Film is a highly collaborative medium. Most movie viewers probably do not think of the collaboration process each time they sit at the theater, or at their computer, but the required teamwork is significant, as any moviegoer who has actually sits through the end credits... Read Article »

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Screenplay Film Writing Movies Industry Hollywood Screenplays Directors Actors
The American Immigrant: A Roach In The Glue - Examining the work of Hemon and Kambanda
February 11, 2010 - 1235 words | English » American Immigration
At the conclusion of her essay, “My New World Journey,” Nola Kambanda writes that “Sometimes I am not sure whether home is behind me or in front of me…I might just be attaching [this longing] to those things that are familiar to me…it... Read Article »

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Hemon Kambanda Nola Kambanda Aleksandar Hemon American Immigration My New World Journey Blind Jozef Pronek
The Ugly Truth: An Exploration of Postwar Representations of the Holocaust Through The Obscene
January 28, 2010 - 2901 words | History » World War II
Omer Bartov’s essay from Intellectuals on Auschwitz expresses the author’s dismay with the postwar and postmodern representations of, and discourses on, the Holocaust. He breaks down larger concepts on memory and history into five segments. In his fourth... Read Article »

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Holocaust Omer Bartov Bartov Genocide Auschwitz World War II Obscene
The "Vast Wasteland" Gets Vaster: The Future of Television in the Online Revolution
January 26, 2010 - 2669 words | Communication Studies » Television
In 1961, nearly a decade after the “Golden Age” of television had passed, commercial television was still changing the American lifestyle, from living rooms to bars. It was then that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Newton Minow declared that... Read Article »

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History Of Tv Tv Television Media Communication Television Internet Online Digital Age Transition

Cody Brotter studies Communications at Boston University in Boston, MA.