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This paper looks at Dennis Bock's, "The Ash Garden", and discusses how two very different people are brought together by the horrors of warfare. The paper relates that Bock himself released the book in 2001 and it was evidently shortlisted for the following awards: the Kiriyama Pacific Rim prize, the 2001 Amazon.com/books in Canada First Novel Award, and the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize (please see the back cover of Bock, 2001, for a listing of awards won). The paper describes how the story revolves around three people - Anton Boll, an Austrian Jew named Sophie, and a Japanese girl named Emiko who survives the Hiroshima bombing - whose lives are changed profoundly by the bombing of Hiroshima in August of 1945.

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"This paper looks at Dennis Bock's, "The Ash Garden", and discusses how two very different people are brought together by the horrors of warfare. Bock himself released the book in 2001 and it was evidently shortlisted for the following awards: the Kiriyama Pacific Rim prize, the 2001 Amazon.com/books in Canada First Novel Award, and the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize (please see the back cover of Bock, 2001, for a listing of awards won). The story revolves around three people - Anton Boll, an Austrian Jew named Sophie, and a Japanese girl named Emiko who survives the Hiroshima bombing - whose lives are changed profoundly by the bombing..."

Tags:ash, garden, bock

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One of the major themes in T.S. Eliot's poem, "Ash Wednesday," is the concept of turning. This theme operates on many levels. The paper shows how Eliot uses the word "turning" to create an extended metaphor that takes on layers of meaning as the poem progresses, such as turning toward, away, around; cycles of time; spring/rebirth/Christ rising on Easter morning; physical/spiritual/moral regeneration; the cyclical nature of human mortality; and finally, the completion of the journey from the spiritual waste land of hopelessness to the spring of repentance and redemption. The paper examines "Ash Wednesday" to show how the turning theme functions in the poem and how it demonstrates the personal and professional metamorphosis and regeneration of the author.

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"One of the major themes in T.S. Eliot's poem "Ash Wednesday is the concept of turning. This theme operates on many levels. Eliot uses the word "turning" to create an extended metaphor that takes on layers of meaning as the poem progresses such as turning toward, away, around, cycles of time, spring/rebirth/Christ rising on Easter morning, physical/spiritual/moral regeneration, the cyclical nature of human mortality, and finally, the completion of the journey from the spiritual waste land of hopelessness to the spring of repentance and redemption. An examination of "Ash Wednesday" shows how the turning theme functions in the poem and how it demonstrates the personal and professional metamorphosis and regeneration of the author."

Tags:literature, John, Donne, Catholic

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In this article, the writer presents a general overview regarding volcanoes on earth. The writer then concentrates on health effects following the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

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"There are over 1000 volcanoes on Earth, which were active during its geological history. Some of them are extinct and have not been active during the historical times. Scientists find that these are unlikely to become active again. The dormant volcanoes have a recorded activity in the past but now appear quite. The active volcanoes are the ones that erupt more or less regularly or show some signs of unrest (like earthquakes). The large amounts of hot red lava that pours from the volcano crater is ..."

Tags:volcanic, st., health

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A book report on Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes". Author Frank McCourt's present-tense narrative gives a glimpse of his trouble-ridden childhood years and through a first person perspective he weaves a real-life yarn of poverty, destitution, the abuses of alcoholism and the torment and anguish associated with it.

Tags:rank, angela, ashes

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This paper examines the role of the British in Frank McCourt's popular autobiography "Angela's Ashes". While the British are often blamed for the conditions in Ireland, the series of tragedies that occur in "Angela's Ashes" can be attributed more to the decisions of the McCourt family and to the prejudice of the Irish than any other source.

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The paper provides a personal reaction to Claribel Alegria and Darwin Flakoll's "Ashes of Izalco," which describes the social, economic and political injustices evident in El Salvador's state sponsored massacre.

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""Ashes of Izalco" by Claribel Alegria and her husband Darwin Flakoll recounts the state sponsored massacre of over indigenous peoples during the early 's in what was known as La Mantanza. The Slaughter: Seen from the perspective of Carmen Rojas, the daughter of wealthy parents, Frank, an American ex-patriot and Paul, a symbol of American democracy the story brings to light the social economic and political injustice of El Salvador."

Tags:oppression, class divisions, coffee, agriculture, peasantry, patriarchy, imperialism, victimization, voice

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This paper cites the controversies about the truthfulness of memoirs representing not just the genuineness of precise memories but also the way in which so many contemporary memoirs, including Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes", are assumed to depict reality accurately. Next, the author demonstrates that McCourt's memoir, a real-life Irish American success story, does not quite represent historical accuracy but rather only communicates what he as an adult remembers of his earliest life. The paper concludes that McCourt's much lauded work is best recognized as an artful interpretation of events presented in a highly emotional style.

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"McCourt constructs the dialogue and voices of the community and calls them objectively true, but his memoir is a storyteller's masterful presentation that can only deliver his current perceptions. When he does assume a child's voice, it is a "faux naive narrative voice" with a "selfless sense of responsibility, bordering on masochism" which "has helped secure the book's vast audience, since the innocent veracity of children is sacrosanct in American society, and a child racked with guilt tells a particularly compelling tale even though the book suspiciously has a literary feature in its overall tone."

Tags:revelatory, artistic license, infancy identity, interior monologue

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In this article, the writer points out that on the surface, Frank McCourt's memoir "Angela's Ashes" is a true-life story of the American dream-an Irish family comes to America, and the sons of the family pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, in the form of the author Frank McCourt, and his brother Malachy McCourt. THe writer discusses that according to many literary critics controversies about the 'truth' of memoirs call into question not just the truth of specific memoirs but the way so many contemporary memoirs, including McCourt's, purport to accurately depict a community or point in time. The writer maintains that all memoirs, to some degree are lies because of their intense subjectivity, and in insisting upon the truth of his recollections, McCourt's memoir falls far short of creating historical accuracy. The writer concludes that at best, he can only convey what he as an adult remembers in an emotional fashion, of his previous life.

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"Just like an author of fiction, he performs an Irishman who has made good in America and uses narrative tools to create that identity, as well as the identity of his mother. He renders his mother--his poor, oppressed mother, the mother of dead children and the wife of an irresponsible alcoholic--very different than the far stronger and resilient, and more socially connected individual witnessed by community members like Steinfels. McCourt's command of the collective voices of the community through reconstituted dialogue and also by chronicling their perceptions of his mother (as seen through his eyes) gives his memoir and authorial tone that is entirely literary in nature but which has been believed as history.
"In an interesting facet of the narrative technique noted by James B. Mitchell, because McCourt does not perform a interior childhood identity whose survival is in question ..."

Tags:memories, recollection, accurate, account

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The paper discusses how A. S. Byatt, in the novel "Possession", succeeds brilliantly in the monumental technical achievement of creating a deeply layered romance in which two twentieth century literary scholars, Roland Michell and Maud Bailey, become themselves romantically involved as they investigate a startling connection between the two Victorian poets of whom they have made specialized study. The author shows that Byatt's feat is an especially remarkable tour de force as she invents and adroitly interlaces the poetic works of both Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte into her narrative. This essay presents a critical analysis of Ash's poem "Swammerdam" as it reveals it's intricate intra textual roles in the novel.

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"Byatt introduces the word "possessed" (225) as Swammerdam considers his obsession with insects. From the title of the book it is obvious the Byatt herself is possessed with the ways in which humans throughout history become possessed by one thing or another. Scholars are possessed by long dead poets, men and women are romantically possessed by one another, mentally and physically and Swammerdam and Ash are possessed by obsessions to study "forms of life" (225). As Swammerdam "crucified" "frail dark wings," for his own knowledge and "amusement," the reader sees the analogy to Ash's poetic crucifixions of his poetic characterizations and even feels a foreboding knowledge of Christabel's fate as she will succumb to the pins and microscope of Ash's possession."

Tags:Ancient, Mariner, Christabel, Donne, eggs, microscopist, Blackadder

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This is a five page paper about the book by Payson Sheets, "The Ceren Site: An Ancient Village Buried by Volcanic Ash in Central America". The paper offers a summary of the book and goes into the methods of archaeology and a general reaction to the text.

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""The Ceren Site: An Ancient Village Buried by Volcanic Ash in Central America", by Payson D. Sheets, is an in-depth look at the famed archaeological site in El Salvador (in Spanish, Joya De Ceren) that featured a pre-Columbian Maya farming village. The one hundred and sixty eight page book recounts the discovery of the site (by Sheets himself) and how it has been in continuous excavation ever since. The spectacular Ceren site provides the reader with a clear, concise and interesting perspective into the ancient past. Through the site, Sheets learned much about Mayan..."

Tags:archaeology, sheets, maya