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    World War I was very tragic time, and only a few novelist captured the true lives of people who lived during that time. Ernest Hemingway, an english author who was in the Italian first aid during World War I, is one of the novelist who show an aspect of life during World War I in the novel Farewell to Arms. Hemingway tries to show what people had to deal with during those times. A man named Fredi, who is an american in the Italian first aid, meets a woman who he falls in love with. He tries to…

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    was a reflection of the meager amount of self-respect and dignity she possessed. Furthermore, “Sweat” was a representation of the majority of African-American women in the early 1900s. Like most authors and novelists, Hurston did not write to simply put words on a page. Hurston was a conduit for the muffled voices of the oppressed African-American people during the early to mid-twentieth century. While she did not lead over 20,000 people in marches through Selma or Washington, Hurston was an…

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    author of these two poems is Langston Hughes. Hughes was born in 1902 and died in 1967 (Wikipedia, 2018). He was American poet, social activist, and novelist. He was from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the people to start the innovation of jazz poetry. He was also known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York (Wikipedia, 2018). His grandmothers were both African American slaves and his grandfathers were both white slave owners (Wikipedia, 2018). These two poems in the Montage…

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    American novelist Ernest Hemingway claimed that, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since” (Goodreads). Huck Finn follows the journey of a young boy trying to help a runaway slave reach freedom. Twain’s writing uses very realistic language and morals of the time period it is set in. Many argue that Huck Finn is negative and offensive; and that the…

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    biggest african american movement, revolutionizing and changing the world of art. One of the things that came out of the Harlem Renaissance is the book, Their eyes are watching god, this book is about a women named Janie who is in a journey filled with ups and downs, just to find love. A novelist named Richard Wright talks about how Hurston has a, “minstrel technique that makes the ‘white folks’ laugh.” and , “...does little or nothing to improve society’s perception of African Americans, in…

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    that had many impacts on society. African Americans were never treated equally, they were always treated very badly and they were put through slavery. They were not able to vote and they didn’t have a say in anything. During segregation everything was very unfair for them and that was during 1900-1939. Segregation was a racial separation where White Americans denied African Americans from equal access to certain thing in their daily lives. African Americans were not able to eat at the same…

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    fictional novel written by an American writer Donna Tartt and was published in year 1992. It was the first novel of Donna Tartt and the story addresses a different perspective of typical college students’ life. Donna Tartt was born in the 23rd of December year 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi. She enrolled in the University of Mississippi in which where her writings has caught the attention of a famous American writer Willie Morris. Morris, Barry Hannah an American novelist, and an Ole Miss…

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    reading a book. There are also some lacks of evidence that Which one is true chief officer’s statement or family statements. But in his statistic shown that last couple years, unarmed African American man and boy being shot by police, (par 3). According to the Jon an Laughland saying that African American males 15% of all deaths listed this year by partial research into the use of deadly force by police, (par 1) Giving this statistic is makes sense to support his…

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    understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other.” (Shillinglaw). John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was born February 27 1902 to his death on December 20, 1968 and he had won the Nobel and the Pulitzer prize winning american novelist. His famous novelist are “Of Mice and Men” , ” The Grapes of wrath” , and “East of Eden.” He got married three times and had two sons he divorced his first two wives until his third wife came named Elaine Anderson Scott they remained married…

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    Acceptance equals Peace George Orwell, an English novelist, has said, “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” With this wise quote, Orwell says that to be happy you have to tolerate individuals who are different than you, no matter their background, politics, race, or religion. Acceptance and tolerance are shown in the novel by Harper Lee, titled To Kill a MockingBird. Those who believe that acceptance and tolerance is an idea that is not possible are completely wrong. Without a…

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