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The movie “Freedom Writers” is based on a true story. Hilary Swank as Erin Gruwell plays an inspirational teacher at Wilson High School. She is ready to take on the teaching world as she steps inside Wilson High School for her first day. Her class, varied with teenagers of different ethnic backgrounds, wants nothing more…

The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer” Berkenkotter & Murray Summary Berkenkotter’s research was designed to test the idea that researchers can study writing in a “laboratory” environment (as Perl did, and as Berkenkotter herself did in earlier research) * She studies Murray, a “publishing” writer, in both a lab & a natural setting, &…

Modernist literature is often notable for what it omits; the explanations, interpretations, connections, summaries, and distancing that provide continuity, perspective, and security in earlier literatures. The modernist movement started to come about during a violent time period due to the World War and along with technology advances in society. Alienation is the primary theme in…

Sir Walter Raleigh was a celebrated British Explorer and poet that quickly gained power by wooing Queen Elizabeth I with sweet words. gaining the topographic point of going one of the Queen’s favourites. Sir Walter Raleigh was born sometime between 1552 and 1554 in Devonshire. a state that specialized in sheepherding and agriculture ( Aronson…

“A Splash of Publicity” 1. Michael Joseph, an English author born in 1897, wrote several books on the art of writing. His writings, including the story “A splash of publicity,” exhibit a gift for fresh and clever humor. 2. Before delving into the subject and theme of the story, let’s outline its plot: Charles Potts,…

My favorite British writer and his famous book ‘Treasure Island’ My favorite famous British writer is Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850. Robert went to Edinburgh University to study law. Later on he decided that he wanted to be a writer, not a lawyer. In his early 20s…

William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize speech revealed to all who have witnessed or read it, the many duties of a writer. The most significant point that he made, to me, was that a writer’s duty is to connect. That includes both connecting with their audience, and other writers. Writers have the ability to put something out…

St. Vincent Millay ( 1892-1950 ) was born in Rockland, Maine. Her parents, Cora Lounella, a  nurse, and Henry Tolman Millay, a school teacher, divorced when she was approximately eight ;  ‘‘ Vincent ‘‘ stayed with her female parent. In 1917 she graduated from Vassar, published Renaissance  and Other Poems ( the rubric piece had…

ical EnvironmentThe Harlem Renaissance emerged during turbulent times for the world, the United States, and black Americans. World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 had left the world in disorder and stimulated anticolonial movements throughout the third world. In America, twenty years of progressive reform ended with the red scare, race riots, and…

  Writers seem to be of a different breed than a lot of people. They have a “reputation of being enormously mentally unstable” (Gilbert 2013) and “manic, alcoholic depressives” (Gilbert 2013). It has been said that anguish and artistry go hand in hand (Gilbert 2013) but is that true? Is a troubled mind full of…