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80Arthur Miller - The Crucible
Arthur Miller entered into this world at the beginning of the great depression. He was a poor student, and decided to quit school when his father lost his business in 1929. He never graduated. He worked...
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82Discussion over Death of a Salesman
In all aspects of literature, the work usually revolves around a main character that is surrounded by other minor characters. The minor characters shape and affect the main character in numerous fashions. For...
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72How can literature help society?
Literature can help us examine the past and predict the future by analyzing characters and evaluating their actions. In Emily Dickinson's I Felt a Funeral in my Brain, for example, the speaker's attitude is at...
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80Marilyn Monroe Hollywood Sex Goddess
Marilyn Monroe died a suicide at 36, after starring in only a handful of movies, but she dominated the golden age of Hollywood and personified Hollywood glamour and she became, without question, the most...
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78Fellow Travelers - Hunting Homosexuality and Communism
Politics and Witch-Hunts and Fruit - Oh my! This is a haunting tale of the early 1950s - 1990s, recounting the strange period of McCarthyism, and early Cold War, nd the fall of the Berlin Wall. Who knew bananas would play a part? Who knew that the Communists were not to be the only prey hunted by McCarthy?
3 comments75Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is one of Arthur Miller's most intriguing plays. I read this play in the latter stages of College Composition II with Prof. Jenny Sullivan. Our relationship for much of that semester wasn't...
2 comments56Who are your favorite authors?
Emily Dickinson is probably the most prolific author of the 19th century, buit it would be hard to classify her as a "Favorite". Her poem "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" is a classic. Most likely, there isn't...
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65Willie, Harold and George Meet at Frank's Chophouse
"Hi, partner. Mind if I join you?... I take your silent response as an affirmation and invitation. You come here alone?" "What? No. No! Of course not! My boys are blowing me to a big dinner tonight!" ...
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59The Crucible -- a Movie Review
During the 17th century, a rash of practicing witchcraft broke out in the small town of Salem...or did it? In The Crucible, Arthur Miller dramatizes the events of the Salem witch hunts and their tragic...
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62Marilyn Monroe, a legend
Marilyn Monroe, a legendMarilyn MonroeShe was born on 01 juni 1926 the name Norma Jean Mortenson. Her mother, Gladys Baker (hence, Norma Jean Baker) was a psychiatric patient, and Marilyn could not afford to...
