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    Prior to the 20th century the world lived a transcendentalist time period, a idyllic place and paintings would include the aesthetic grasp of nature, and a painting emanating a positive vibe, then an abrupt turn to chaos came upon Americans and paintings went from nature to humans in agony , poisonous orange backgrounds and negative vibes, this period is known as Modernism. Scientific innovation, industrialization, and world war I are all factors that which led to the dismantling of…

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    saving someone from evil or an action to clear a debt. This theme emerges repeatedly throughout the novel Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher and Gabriele Mucciano’s film Seven Pounds. The novel Whale Talk is a story of an adopted American teenager, The Tao Jones (T.J.), who forms a swim team in Cutter, Washington. While the film Seven Pounds follows Ben Thomas on a quest to atone for for seven deaths he caused. In both works, the author and the screenwriter integrate the rhetorical triangle to better…

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    the help of psychiatric drugs and doctors. Even though his first marriages was ill-fated, his relationship with Ezra Pound was the opposite. The day will forever live in English Literary history, “On September 22, 1914, Eliot met Ezra Pound, it was an event that marked the forging of a spiritual bond that endured for the rest of Eliot’s life” and would change everything.(Jason 1188) Pound was already an accomplished poet and “besides Eliot, [he] also helped launch the careers of fiction writers…

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    James Joyce Research Paper

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    lot of information on, is pretty important. Another literary critic is Ezra Pound. Ezra focuses more on what James thinks and does. A lot of what's in this critical essay is not so much about his life, but it’s more about his perspective and point of view on things. Ezra puts in “He does not believe ‘life’ would be all if we stopped vivisection or if we instituted a new sort of “economics.”’ (James Joyce, quoted in Ezra Pound). This is a good thing, because we are able to really know more about…

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    Similar to Ezra Pound, Rudyard Kipling had other adored works, but “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands” is seen as brutally bigoted.4.) You determine if the text is suitable for you to read. After knowing about the times the text was…

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    Personal Narrative

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    tightly to help me calm down. Jason smiled at me gently and kissed me on my cheek. "Shhh, shhh. We're safe. Don't worry about anything." Jason cooed into my ear and pulled me to him. "While you were asleep we crashed somewhere. We don't know where yet. Ezra is off in search of food." Virus added vigorously, trying to keep my attention. Sleep was pulling at my mind. All I wanted to do was sleep. I've got to stay awake but... Maybe they wouldn't be too mad if I took a nap... This is a dream after…

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    Sun Valley Essay

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    you can visit. One major attraction is Sun Valley located on Idaho’s splendid mountains where many Native Americans once climbed. Many famous Americans who have helped made America a better place have come from Idaho such as Moses Alexander and Ezra Pound. Idaho’s motto is “Esto Perpetua” meaning, “let it be perpetual.” Idaho has been in existence for a very long time. Over the years, historians have gathered lots of history on Idaho. Hundreds of years ago, only Native Americans lived there.…

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    A Moveable Feast Essay

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    through the years he lived in Paris after World War I with his wife, Hadley. Throughout the book he introduces us to some significant people, that would later make an impact on the whole world. Some examples are, F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife, Zelda, Ezra Pound, and Madox Ford, these people impacted his life and his way of writing the most. The first part of the book, Ernest writes about his time in Paris, visiting different cafe’s, writing journals, and just trying to be a successful short…

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    Subsequently, some modern poets among whom Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, took as model for their own works Dante's oeuvre. In fact, Ezra Pound mentioned in his poem titled “Sestina: Altaforte” the Medieval nobleman Bertran de Born (lived in the late 12th century), who was put by Dante in the hell (Inferno Canto XXVIII) as he was suggested to be…

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    Matsuo Basho

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    Very beginning within his work was based on the Imagism, but he was changed to the modernist. He met Ezra Pound, another modernism poet, from the University of Pennsylvania. Pound influenced a lot to Williams. Williams was really good at writing poems about the snap or the ordinary events. For example, "I have eaten, the plums, that were in, the icebox, and which, you were probably, saving…

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