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Different eras in American literature have diverse characteristics, therefore, it is challenging to discover pieces of writing from separate eras that exhibit the same characteristics. Light romantic era and modernism prose have quite little in common, however, authors Washington Irving and F. Scott Fitzgerald show various traits that are comparable. Irving wrote “The Devil and Tom Walker” in the light romantic era, it is quite literally regarding Tom Walker and the devil. Tom Walker meets the…

rights. Her priorities consisted of women’s parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce, the economic health of the family and birth control. On top of fighting for women’s rights in varying ways, Elizabeth Caddy…

Living between 1897 and 1962, William Faulkner passed after a literary career marked with many influential books in the Western canon. Based around the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi, Faulkner’s work captures the essence of the deteriorating Southern-American aristocracies and lifestyle in the wake of the Civil War. Blending masterfully with intricately designed thematic elements, Faulkner executed experimental writing techniques that strayed from traditional form, commonly…

William Faulkner 's “That Evening Sun” and Langston Hughes “Red-Headed Baby” are both stories that deal with racism, hate, and objectification of women and the negative mindset towards the African American people. Both these authors demonstrate all this through narration and symbolism. The main focus is to contrast both the stories and how they use narration and symbolism to show how African American women experience objectification and racism. While the narration of “That Evening Sun” is done…

Now that we are all pinching pennies, a lot of people are traveling together with coworkers, friends or family, or perhaps with a tour group. There are times when I enjoy charting the waters on my own and times when I welcome the kindred spirits of fellow travelers on my journeys. If you are new to this type of traveling or if you would just like to make your trips better, there are certain behaviors and attitudes that are different when traveling with a group of two or more people. Here are…

Lance Detweiler English 11(4) Mr. Hendrickson March 2, 2018 What is the American Dream, and is it worth pursuing? The American Dream is often referred to as one ideal, however, some argue it can be different for every person. In his book, The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams described the American Dream as “...that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is not a dream of…

TV is one of the most prevalent forms of media in today’s society giving young people incredible access to what is on the television. The access had been increasing in the last half decade since the standard of living has been going up. According to Eugene V. Beresin M.D. “In 1950, only 10% of American homes had a television. Today 99% of homes have televisions”. TVs are available in almost everyone home in the US and many children have a TV in their own bedroom. Despite the common idea that…

to be suspended by the PGA Tour for testing positive for an unnamed performance-enhancing drug. 11. A June 2011 peer-reviewed study categorized 159 sports as one of three types: combat, independent, or object. Golf is one of 74 independent sports, along with others such as gymnastics, track and field, swimming, speed skating, and surfing. Not all sports have to be object (like football and baseball), or combat (like boxing and karate). 12. Golf has many things in common with other sports,…

In 1776 a nation seceded from the British and created an ideal for its citizen to strive for. The American Dream was a fallacy created to keep lower class people working hard and the upper class comfortable through the suffering of the poor. The holographic ideal of the American Dream continued to flourish through all of time and still today. In the pioneer days it convinced people in their comfy homes to uproot and move westward in the hopes of a better life, but all that was found was despair…

Myth and Regional Identity John T. Matthews, in The Sound and the Fury: Faulkner and the Lost Cause, locates the cause of the struggle as the Civil War. Matthews points out that the Civil War had “permanently altered the foundation of both the Southern economy and race relations” by abolishing slavery, which was the basis of Southern society. As the promise of Reconstruction fell through and without a system to replace slavery, the South was denied economic recovery. The Southerners were faced…