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This paper profiles the two authors of "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron"; Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind.

From the Paper
"The book "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" would not be the riveting work that it is were it not for its highly competent co-authors, Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. Both McLean and Elkind write for Fortune magazine and both were promoted in April to Editor at Large, a promotion they each deserved fully. (Williams Dilanni) As a team, McLean and Elkind work masterfully together engaging in comprehensive research and making probing..."

Tags:The Smartest Guys in the Room, Peter Elkind, Bethany McLean, authors

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This paper explains that women authors from the nineteenth and twentieth century used their literature and poetry as vehicles for the new role and passion of the woman. The author points out that Marge Piercy in her poem "Barbie Doll" articulates the bondage that a woman is under due to the roles and appearances they are expected to maintain. The paper concludes that, from the writings of these women authors, the inner woman bears similar characteristics: Women are consistently making a way through life to gain equality to men and they desire to express their emotions and passions while stepping outside of the societal standards.

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"Kate Chopin creates a female character in "At the Cadian Ball" and "The Storm" that is vivid and defiant. Calixta is the image of hope that an authentic woman dares to embody. Chopin challenges society in her literature. She tests the roles of women. For instance, the female character she depicts in "The Storm" and "The Cadian Ball" is sexually overbearing, an adulterous, and presumptuous. Radek suggest that women of the nineteenth century "were not supposed to have any real sexual contact before their marriage." The characteristics that Calixta possesses are dissimilar to the expected roles of women. The women of this time should be reserved, subservient, compliant, and gentle creatures."

Tags:rebellious, passion, role, poem, gender

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This paper examines the works of Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson and T.S. Eliot - authors emerged from the second world war dissatisfied with the emotionless aura, rampant materialism, and shallow culture which seemed to stamp out art and the individual in America. The paper relates that the 'Lost Generation' authors wanted to break from the old-fashioned and confused society of post-war America. The paper also looks at how these authors accomplished this their writings which challenged romanticism through realism, structure and coherence through rhythm, and confined poetic construction through symbolism and literary allusion.

From the Paper
"The notion of romanticism, so popular during the 19th century, was passionately abandoned by the Lost Generation, particularly by author, Sherwood Anderson, who favored realism in his writings. Anderson wrote prose which generally dealt with issues of the individual's emotions and situation with the larger structuralized society. Particularly in the short story, "Hands", Anderson deals with the sorrowful existence of a man, unjustly accused of pedophilia and homosexual inclinations as a school teacher."

Tags:rhythm symbolism, literary allusion, realism

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This paper examines the innovation of literary techniques, especially those made in respect to Woolf, Joyce and Lawrence. Here, these three authors are presented as being the pioneers of specific writing devices. A comparison between Joyce and Burgess is later made to prove the influence that Joyce had on later authors.

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This paper consists of two short stories having two different descriptions of what happened between the Spaniards and the Mexicans when the Spaniards arrived in America. Neither story can be accepted because the authors have manipulated, constructed, and eradicated the events that cause the reader to question both accounts from the arrival of the Spaniards until the end of the struggle between the Mexicans and Spaniards.

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"Bernal Diaz Del Castillo related the horror of seeing fellow soldiers with "their chests struck open and their palpitating hearts drawn out" (Castillo 42). The study of the anonymous authors of Tlatelolco's version of the story eradicates this episode as Mexican authors tell their side of the conquest of Mexico. When it comes to the stories of the conquest of Mexico, both stories are told differently depending on whether the author was Spanish or the authors were Tlatelolco. The authors have manipulated, constructed, and eradicated different parts of the story. While the events are different, they both have similarities that allow the reader to assume..."

Tags:eradicate, construct, manipulate

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This paper examines the double standard that has been applied within the literary world. It takes the lives of three women authors: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Rowlandson, and Anzia Yezierska, and examines the commonality of their struggle to find and secure the women's identity.

From the Paper
"Women's literature has long been characterized by the struggle to establish the feminine experience in accordance with accepted standards within the context of the world at the time of writing. Women have long been repressed to a very small section of the literary world and as such, they have had to struggle with preconceived notions, cultural standards, and intellectual bigotry against them, which is reflected in their writing. Women authors have perceived themselves, particularly those from previous two centuries, as having to nearly shout to be heard."

Tags:adversity, compare, contrast, history, literature, women, writing, Browning, Rowlandson, Yezrierska

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The paper examines the lives, writings, and ideas of a number of these American authors, artists, and intellectuals from the span of American history. By discussing the ideas that they developed, it is possible to understand why their ideals, beautiful as though they may seem in retrospect, were not embraced more heartily by the whole of American society. The paper considers the works and ideals of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Eakins, Henry Adams, Henry James, Henry David Thoreau, and Florence King.

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"Authors and artists are not part of a group generally known for their pragmatism. Creating literature and art that will survive the historical moment requires the author to speak to human ideals that transcend the historical moment and the often-unfortunate political realities of those eras. Though some authors and artists have been fortunate enough to influence the development of society and infuse it with their ideals, this is not often the case. Nonetheless, by attempting to grasp even the failed..."

Tags:american, society, literature

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This paper explains the content and style of Carl Sandburg's poem, "Prairie Waters at Night"; Ambrose Bierce's short story, "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"; Steven Crane's novel, "The Red Badge of Courage;" and Arthur Miller's play, "Death of a Salesman". The author points out that Carl Sandburg's poem, "Prairie Waters at Night," emphasizes the theme of the tranquility of waters at night by using repetition, alliteration, and sentence length to convey the sensations of a calming night by the water through sound. The paper relates that the works by Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane demonstrate the use of strong narrative; whereas, in Arthur Miller's play, "Death of a Salesman", the Requiem offers incredible ironies.

Table of Contents
Carl Sandburg's Poem, "Prairie Waters at Night"
Ambrose Bierce's Short Story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek"
Steven Crane's Novel, "The Red Badge of Courage"
Arthur Miller's Play, "Death of a Salesman"

From the Paper
"Alliteration is also a technique that Sandburg utilizes successfully in this poem. The sound of the letter "l" is particularly effective in that it has a hypnotic quality about it. In the words willows, and laughter, we get a feeling of relaxation and ease associated with this scene. The vowel sound in the words long and drowse are also a form alliteration that forces to read the poem slowly. Another technique of sound that the poet uses is long sentences and line lengths. In this way, he forces us to read the sentences slowly, which reinforces the slow, tranquil mood he is trying to convey."

Tags:alliteration, sensations, narrative, requiem, ironies

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This paper compares and contrasts these two novels which deal with the struggles that women have had to endure to reach their relative level of equality today. Each author relates personal experiences through the main character of her novel. The paper shows how "My Antonia" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God" classically depict women's struggles in society to obtain a balance within oneself as well as in one's environment and community.

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"Two of the greatest novels to illustrate female identity are Willa Cather's My Antonia and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. These classic characters, though not exactly modern, portray many of the same identity and personal conflict situations still active in the lives of many women today. Cather and Hurston question women's social scripts and societal structure through their literature. They ask the main question: Where do women belong? They ask this not only in a sense of community, but also sexually, economically, socially, and domestically among others."

Tags:feminism, equality, balance, identity, women, novel

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This paper describes the seating at a fantasy dinner to which Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sylvia Plath, Yann Martel, Franz Kafka and James Joyce are invited. Because they have a lot in common, the writer of the paper seats himself at the head of the table with Gabriel Garcia Marquez on his right. Kafka is seated beside Marquez; whereas, Yann Martel is placed on the writer's left. Finally, at the other end of the table is seated Sylvia Plath, all alone. Of course, the paper presents reasons for this seating arrangement.

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"Finally, at the other end of the table I would seat Mrs. Sylvia Plath. I put her at the end because she would probably not be very good company to anyone else at the table. She is a manic depressive who is always trying to kill herself. They say that she had a bad childhood because her father died when she was 8 from a preventable death. Her husband also left her to care for two children alone as well. She never got over her father's death or the departure of her husband and her depression is very evident in her poetry and writings."

Tags:attention spanish, grotesque alienation, manic depressive, realism