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May 1, 2024 · Show how the author develops their arguments and supports the thesis. Focus on the evidence used by the author rather than the specific details of their reasoning. When writing the literary précis, focus on literary devices the author uses to develop the theme. Step #3. Clarify the purpose of the work.
May 20, 2024 · Easy targets for satire, the early Gothic romances died of their own extravagances of plot, but Gothic atmospheric machinery continued to haunt the fiction of such major writers as Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Brontë, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and even Charles Dickens in Bleak House and Great Expectations. In the second half of the ...
May 15, 2024 · treaty, a binding formal agreement, contract, or other written instrument that establishes obligations between two or more subjects of international law (primarily states and international organizations ). The rules concerning treaties between states are contained in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969), and those between states ...
May 18, 2024 · Racism, the belief that humans may be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called ’races’; that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural and behavioral features; and that some races are innately superior to others.
May 10, 2024 · The Iranian prophet and religious reformer Zarathushtra (flourished before the 6th century bce )—more widely known outside Iran as Zoroaster (the Greek form of his name)—is traditionally regarded as the founder of the religion. Zoroastrianism contains both monotheistic and dualistic features. It likely influenced the other major Western ...
May 18, 2024 · Bildungsroman, type of novel that deals with how and why the protagonist develops morally and psychologically. The German word Bildungsroman, from which the term is derived, means ‘novel of education’ or ‘novel of formation.’. Classic examples are J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
May 17, 2024 · The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as ...
