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Edward Estlin Cummings, a 20th century poet, painter, playwright, and novelist, impacted literature greatly. Nearly all of his poems challenged the accepted rules of writing through formatting and grammar choices. The topics of the poems created the most controversy, especially the poems he wrote focusing on nature, religion, and his sexuality. Due to his strict religious upbringing, Cummings conveys his inner strife and difficulties forming connections through his eccentric writing style.…

The tile is located in the Art from Islamic Lands gallery, in room 2550, on the second floor of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum on Harvard University Campus. The object number is 1960.102. It is located with a series of Ottoman tiles on the Eastern-most wall of the one-room gallery. The tile, created between 1520 and 1540, is from Iznik, Turkey. It is composed of fritware ceramic painted under glaze. The shape is a hexagon with a circular floral pattern derived from a central decoration. The…

adulthood and adulthood. Around emerging adulthood when going to college is a valid choice, does any cognitive development happens due to going to college? Around the 1950s and 1960s, William G. Perry, Jr. (1999) conducted a longitudinal study of university students going through their four years of education through a series of interviews and created Perry’s theory of intellectual development…

Cummings was born and raised in the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings knew he wanted to pursue a life of poetry at the young age of eight years old, however; he did not seem to know what tragedies awaited him. Not long after attending Harvard University did he become a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the time of World War I. Due to suspicion of espionage he was soon imprisoned in a French concentration camp. After returning to his home state he married twice; both marriages…

The main character was largely a protagonist. A large portion of the play was about a breakup, entering Harvard University and finding new love again. But just through the view of her eyes, and experiences. As the poem goes on the audience feels as though each of her decisions she made herself and not because of her ex- boyfriend. Which shows that the musical revolved…

While Cummings started writing poetry at a young age, his first self published work was an autobiography. The Enormous Room was published in 1922 and contained Cummings’ experiences in jail during WWI. His next work, Tulips and Chimneys,was published in 1923 and contained numerous short poems. Cummings published more poems at around that time. (Biography.com). Cummings’ next work was the play Him, which was performed by the Provincetown Players in 1927. Then, he wrote Eimi in 1933, which was…

Elbridge Gerry was born on July 17, 1744 in Marblehead Massachusetts and had eleven other siblings. His family was rich and had their own business. His father was a Merchant-shipper after retiring from being a sea captain. After graduating from Harvard to become a merchant himself, Elbridge started working with his father and his two brothers in their family business. This business sent dried codfish to Spain. This job was just the beginning of an extraordinary man's journey into politics.…

onlookers and make a fool out of a local “townie” character of clearly inferior intelligence, a man that has been costumed to fit the character of “Ivy League graduate student” to a tee is begins to reference obscure academic literature in the local Harvard bar that both characters are patrons of. When the graduate student picks an intellectual argument with the uneducated townie, the writers bring in the townie’s friend and the film’s protagonist, a genius having trouble harnessing…

In 1831, at the age of twelve, Walt Whitman began working for his local newspaper. He soon fell in love with the written word and started writing his own poetry (“Poet Walt Whitman”). Fast forward to the turn of the 20th century, and Whitman has already made a name for himself as one of America’s most influential poets. Two of Whitman’s most esteemed works are “O Captain! My Captain!”, written in 1865 to reflect on Abraham Lincoln's death, and “O Me! O Life!”, written in 1891 to contemplate…

Moore, D. (2011, August 10). Octavia Spencer maxes out Minny. USA Today, P.D1. Moore’s review of Octavia Spencer’s role in The Help focuses on how well she played the part of Minny Jackson. Minny was created with Octavia in mind, her attitude and strong will are just a few of the similarities that they share. The paper goes on to discuss how Octavia’s past helped her prepare for her “big debut”. Octavia first appeared in the film A Time to Kill in the late 1990's. Since then, however, she…