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    Stories are much more than just accounts of events that have happened in the past. Stories are comprised of the narrator’s individual thoughts and perceptions formed into strands of words in order to draw out empathy or understanding from others. Every word within a story acts as a potential launching pad for the thoughts and emotions of the readers, causing no two encounters with the story to be alike. This lack of equality between individual readings separates the writer’s experience from the…

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    I believe the highest point of human achievement is art instead of war or technology. What distinguish us from other species is art, what we usually describe as a diverse range of human activities. People may not enjoy carving or drawing, but music is an art form that everybody can enjoy. Jazz music has a feature that other music form doesn't have, it spread so quickly and become so popular in 20th Century, which helped black people gained lots of benefit of American society, and eliminate much…

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    Understanding Japan’s Culture Culture is the collection of all the physical and intangible manifestations of human knowledge and achievement of a society or societal subgroup (Chapter 9, n.d.). Culture can include art and artistic knowledge, for example. All cultures share several fundamental characteristics in common. Culture is shared – passed from person to person and group to group in a variety of ways. Culture is learned – children and adults are taught culture by others, through both…

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    Nato Thompsons novel, Culture As Weapon, was very eye opening, due to the fact that it informed me as a reader about the manipulation of our values as citizens of the United States. For instance, within the novel Thompson goes on to discuss how we as citizens are manipulated into believing everything we see or hear political leaders do. For example, after the attack on the World Trade Center, the nation was crumbling and was looking to point fingers at whom to blame. Many individuals pointed…

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    Throughout my readings of New Historicism, I began to notice a pattern of similarities with that of the psychoanalytical theory. I mentioned sexual repression last week as a part of the Governesses’ decent into madness; however, this week’s theory gives more of a backdrop for that eventual loss of sanity. During the Victorian era, sexual promiscuity was forbidden; therefore, any sexual repression had to remain unsatisfied. James takes sexual repression to an all-time high, by subtly writing…

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    An interesting part of life is that things never stay the same. Change is something that always finds its way into our lives. Some change can be good, and some can be bad. Although the key thing is that whatever it may be, it’s essentially a new beginning or gateway. Music happens to be a prime example of this kind of transition as it has abundantly shifted overtime. What used to be viewed as the standard sound of music in the past, is now different in the present. The genre of jazz is one to…

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    Authors of the Roaring 20’s In a time when a home library was a great investment and being well read was valued, literature was a major game changer in society. When television was still considered science fiction, people only had access to printed material for current events and entertainment. Literature from the 1920’s serves us today as a way of understanding what it was like to live a life during the prohibition, the Great Depression and so forth. Writers such as Edith Wharton and Ernest…

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    Authors use many satirical devices in which they are able to add humor, irony, exaggeration, among many others, to criticize politics or other issues. There are two different types of satire known as Horatian and Juvenalian. Horatian satire is tolerant, witty, wise and self-effacing. Juvenalian satire is angry, caustic, resentful, or personal. The authors of “1984” and “A Modest Proposal” use satire to criticize a country’s government. The novel of 1984, written by George Orwell, is a…

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    Music and dance have played a vital role in culture over many years, and still does today. Through many years music and dance have helped Native American and African-American culture survive, persevere, and thrive. They have preserved their culture, and their music/dance is a constant reminder of what each culture has faced and overcome. Their music/dances are alive today, and are appreciated by many. Native Americans and African-Americans have been fighting to preserve their culture since…

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    Individual versus Society Many forms of literature discuss the theme of the individual versus society. The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad are examples of literature that contain this theme. Both of these works provide evidence that expresses how an individual is shaped by society. The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass and Heart of Darkness express how different societies expect certain traits from an individual, and how an…

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