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E. E. Cummings' "Advice", 2007.
An analysis of the persuasive technique of E. E. Cummings' "A Poet's Advice to Students".
2,410 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper discusses how E. E. Cummings, in his essay "A Poet's Advice to Students", advises that the best way to write poetry is to be a poet, and how his most persuasive explanation of what it is to be a poet is his explanation itself. The paper looks at how the perpetual enactment of Cummings' own demonstration of 'pistis' utilizes complex rhetorical strategies, which are artfully veiled by simple words and appealing rhythm to make his 'feeling' accessible to the reader. The paper asserts that, while Cummings' words are characteristically his own, their seeming simplicity echoes Aristotle's observation that the most persuasive art is the appearance of artlessness.
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"The title functions to both introduce the ethos, or character, of the speaker and establish the kairos, or occasion, of the text's reception. Ethos refers specifically to the character of the speaker as presented in the text, intended to establish the trustworthiness of the argument's presenter. Here, the title positions the speaker as a 'poet', who is therefore qualified to offer the instruction to follow. By prefacing the text as the 'advice' of an established poet to 'students', the title also serves to construct its own kairos by positioning the reader as one who may be educated by that which is explained. Thus, the title itself performs the rhetorical function of establishing the speaker's trustworthiness while simultaneously engendering receptiveness in the reader. "
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E. E. Cummings, 2002.
An analysis of the literary style of the author E. E. Cummings.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper looks at the form and function of E. E. Cummings's work in relation to his symbolic message, unique visual writing style, and suggestions on interpretations.
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E. E. Cummings: Conformist, (not) Rebel., 2002.
A look at the life and work of poet ee Cummings.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses the life and work of E.E. Cummings. The major theme in his poetry is romantic love, he was not a rebel of modern poetry; he was a conformist.
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Donne, Cummings and Yevtushenko, 2002.
Analyzes the poem ?People? by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and compares it to works by John Donne and E.E. Cummings.
774 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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The paper shows the poem ?People? by Yevgeny Yevtushenko as an insightful and thought-provoking discussion about mankind in general as well as the individual man. The paper argues that because the poem glorifies people and reminds us to look for good in others, we could learn a great deal about being more considerate of people?s thoughts and feelings by incorporating the poem into our lives. The paper compares "People" to poems by John Donne (?Meditation XVII?) and E.E. Cummings (?anyone lied in a pretty how town?), comparisons which intensify the poem?s theme of brotherhood.
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"The theme of brotherhood is strong in Yevtushenko?s ?People,? appealing to our more philanthropical emotions. In a sense, the poem echoes John Donne?s ?Meditation XVII? from which the following well-known quotations come: ?No man is an island? (827) and ?. . .never send to know for whom the bell tolls? it tolls for thee? (828). Both Donne?s ?Meditation? and Yevtushenko?s poem express the idea that the loss of any individual in society is a loss of part of ourselves because we all share a bond with mankind, whether it be a bond of general humanitarianism or a more direct connection of knowing ?brother of a brother? or ?friend of friends? (328). When someone dies, he takes with him his private world of memories, ?his first snow and kiss and fight? (328), which are a part of the person with whom he experienced these events as well. Therefore, a piece of the secret world of the living joins that of the dead, never to be rekindled in conversation, only in one-sided reminiscing."
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E.E. Cummings, 2002.
Examines the opinions of poet E.E. Cummings on technology and man's alienation from nature.
664 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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Poet E.E. Cummings considered any force that threatened what is natural and instinctive to be an antagonist of life, an adversary that men must confront before they completely lost their ability to feel and respond as individuals. The paper shows that Cummings thought mankind obsessed with technological advances and flashy advertisements promising the American ideal that he renounced the natural condition by developing needs for unnecessary things. The paper examines Cummings' contempt for man's alienation from his true self in the poems "pity this busy monster, manunkind," and "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," which scorn what organized society has proudly developed.
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"Cummings further expressed his fear of the degradation of man's natural state three years later when he wrote "when serpents bargain for the right to squirm," an Elizabethan sonnet that satirizes society's blind adherence to decorum and regulation. Here, Cummings demotes man from being a monster, a word that at least implies animalistic qualities, to being an unnatural unanimal. When such legalese as bargaining, striking, and signing on the dotted line is applied to creatures and events of nature, the effects are preposterous, and yet society accepts such irreverent behavior in man, once a natural creature. Despite the child-like language and nonsense comparisons in the poem that add a touch of innocence to the poem, Cummings? message is clear: nature is being ?separated from its most essential qualities?, left to exist ?simultaneously with his horror of a society seriously awry? (Marks 60)."
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Edward Estlin Cummings, 2003.
A review of the life and literary style of the novelist E. E. Cummings
2,583 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper is a biography of the life and career of Edward Estlin Cummings, the twentieth century poet, playwright, novelist and artist. It describes his life from his birth in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 14, 1894 through his childhood, education at Harvard and his experiences during World War I. It discusses how Cummings was a man of many talents-- a poet, a novelist and an artist and how he was also a voice, as all writers eventually become. It looks at how he stood for the freedom of the individual and how he expressed this through all of his works. It shows how in his poems he basically broke every law of grammatical structure known to language in and twisted the lyrical phrases around for the effect of both creativity and statement and in his art he did it by just the freedom and abstract design of his ingenuity transformed into what he painted.
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"Some of the rather influential voices that played a role in both Estlin?s writing and art forms included many modern, known people. Early in his career, Estlin looked to William Shakespeare to enlighten him on the art of developing sonnets. He admired Shakespeare?s ?intensity? to make art what it is. He took this intensity and incorporated it into and molded his sonnets after Shakespearian ideas, so to speak. These turned out to be some of the finest sonnets of our century. Estlin wrote them in a way as to ?celebrate love, savagely ridiculing human stupidity, and recording his pilgrimage to the transcendental? (Unger 433)."
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Shakespeare and Society: "Measure for Measure" as a Reflection of English Society and Advice to King James, 2002.
This paper contends that Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" is a reflection of English society and advice to King James.
2,340 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper argues that Shakespeare wrote "Measure for Measure" as a complimentary tutorial for King James. In doing so, he portrays the current state of affairs in England and attempts to provide James with advice concerning the problems facing his kingdom.
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"Shakespeare?s England at the time that Measure for Measure was written was in a state of internal conflict and discord. King James I came to power in 1603 and inherited a kingdom rife with a myriad of social and cultural problems, including corruption in the justice system, religious disputes and crises, and rampant sexual immorality. Shakespeare, the ?King?s Playwright,? as Alvin Kernan dubs him, wrote Measure for Measure as a complimentary tutorial for King James. In doing so, he portrays the current state of affairs in England and attempts to provide James, as a ruler with Divine Right and responsibility to his country, with advice concerning the problems facing his kingdom."
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Advice to New Parents, 2001.
Discusses & compares concepts & advice of four experts: Dr. L. Emmett Holt, Dr. John Watson, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. Penelope Leach.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 9 sources, $ 55.95
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"In the last 100 years, experts from fields such as pediatric medicine, psychology and child development have offered a plethora of advice to new parents. Beginning with the medically-based advice of Dr. L. Emmett Holt (1894) and the psychological counsel of Dr. John Watson (1925), we can see the seeds of more modern (and still relied-upon) works, such as those of Dr. Benjamin Spock (1945) and Dr. Penelope Leach (1979). Examined comparatively, these books provide a fascinating window into the ideas about children and childhood that characterized their respective eras. As such, this paper focuses on the similarities among and differences between the seminal works of these four experts, with specific attention to the ways they have influenced our understandings of the very experience of childhood.
EARLY WORKS: PRESCRIPTION AND CONTROL..."
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Advice on Buying or Renting a Home, 2004.
Review of Internet articles about the pros and cons of renting or buying a home.
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper reviews several different Internet sites that purport to be non-biased sources of information concerning the pros and cons of renting or buying a home. The paper points out that the advice offered on these sites is often from a source that stands to gain from whatever position that they advocate, thus making the advice biased rather than unbiased. The paper also points out that some of the sites contain advertisements that contradict the advice offered on the site; this minimizes the credibility of the advice.
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"Deciding whether to buy a home or to rent one can be a very difficult subject. In everyday life, many people seem to have very strong prejudices about the subject. Especially among the younger generation, it seems that many people find renting to be very advantageous and preferable to buying. However, if one goes on-line to research this topic, it is very difficult to find reliable information which honestly weighs the pros and cons of renting and buying. Many pages claim to give an unbiased view of the situation, or even to favor renting over buying. For example, one page titled ?Mortgages: When not to buy a house? (http://www.bankrate.com/brm/ news/mtg/19990805.asp) definitely looks as at first glance as if it supports renting over buying. However, on closer inspection one finds that the article has strong ties to the real estate industry. Another site, She Knows Home and Garden, (http://sheknows.com/about/look/2156.htm) includes an article titled ?The benefits of buying a house?. At first glance this article seems to be presenting an unbiased informative look at all the reasons why buying is better and feasible for every life situation -- if one reads the fine print this article is actually a summary or reprint from a HUD (Housing and Urban Development) pamphlet supporting home purchase. While it may be possible to find unbiased information on this subject online (for example, one can find sites aimed at ?home economics? teachers which present relatively unbiased perspectives [Clow]), these are not presented in such a way that they are readily accessible to the common reader."
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Real Estate Investment Advice, 2006.
A review of Ken McElroy's book, "The ABC's of Real Estate Investing: The Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Advisors Miss".
1,033 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper presents a review of the real estate investment advice book, "The ABC's of Real Estate Investing: The Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Advisors Miss", by Ken McElroy. The paper explains that the book is part of the famous "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" business book series by investment guru and advisor Robert T. Kiyosaki and that the introduction to the book is, in fact, written by Kiyosaki. The paper further explains that Kiyosaki frames the investment advice that Ken McElroy provides in the book and that the book is a worthwhile and motivating read for any investors in real estate.
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"According to the book The ABCs of Real Estate Investing: The Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Advisors Miss, it is a myth that some investors seem to have the so-called Midas touch of investing, while others do not. (9) Rather than attempting to intimidate with impressive-looking ledgers of facts and figures, ordinary investors are encouraged to read this book for concrete suggestions of how they can enter the real estate market, how they invest wisely and charge the appropriate rents for their area so they can recoup on their investment, as well as glean some general personal and motivational strategies. True, in "every business and every industry there are people who just seem to drip with success," states the introduction (1) But this book provides the reader with the practical steps to emulate such people, people who seem to have the uncanny ability to know the right properties to invest in, and thus have the power to become their own bosses, and live as they chose to live."
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The Misguided Advice of Friar Laurence in "Romeo and Juliet", 2003.
How Shakespeare uses the character of Friar Laurence to alter the destinies of "Romeo and Juliet".
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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An overview of the actions Friar Laurence took in advising Romeo and Juliet, his possible motivations, and their results. Split into three sections, the first focuses on the Friar's relationship with Romeo; the second, on his relationship with Juliet; and the third, tying the two together and exploring the consequences of the Friar's actions. The paper takes a somewhat defensive view of the Friar, pointing out that he did nothing maliciously, but that perhaps his confinement as a Franciscan monk had made him immature in his ability to advise the young lovers.
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"In Romeo & Juliet, Friar Laurence provides an interesting departure from Shakespeare?s regular devices of tragedy. Instead of inescapable fate and/or evil schemers leading to the deaths of the main characters, Friar Laurence single-handedly causes one of Shakespeare?s greatest tragedies with no thought of evil, and no help from fate. Instead, misappropriated influence combined with lack of worldly experience, panic and cowardice conspire to alter the Friar?s well-intentioned advice and actions into the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, those he was trying to help."
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"Business Elites & Urban Development" ( Scott Cummings ), 1997.
Reviews collection of essays questioning ability of private sector to transform cities effectively or humanely.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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" In The Social Production of Urban Space Gottdiener argues that prevailing approaches to the study of urban areas have not adjusted to the emergence of a new model, the "polynucleated metropolitan region" (p. 7). It is Gottdiener's goal to produce a conceptual means of analyzing the production of space that is based on materialism. To this end he synthesizes various strands of marxian analysis to produce an analysis based on the notion that "spatial and social relations are dialectically related" (23). Employing this idea, Gottdiener analyzes the present version of settlement space of which the unique feature is socio-spatial organization restructured by "the combined efforts of Late Capitalist social process and the spatial process of deconcentration" (p. 23). The essence of his critique is displayed very effectively in his analysis of metropolitan.."
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"Fatal Advice" ( Cindy Patton ), 1997.
Critical review of work arguing against traditional methods of safe-sex education & for revolutionary approach to stop AIDS.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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" Cindy Patton, in Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong, argues that the more graphic and explicit efforts of safe-sex educators were simply the result of an increase in HIV infection among young people. The previous, more conservative educational approach was both ineffective and contradictory for all youth, and especially for gay youth who most needed such education. That earlier approach advocated abstinence, use of condoms, and compassion for those who have HIV, and was aimed at heterosexual youth (34; 62). The "national pedagogy" controlling such education believed that graphic safe sex education would promote sexual activity among the youth, and that gay-oriented safe sex education would promote homosexuality (117). As a result, with respect to gay youth, the highest risk category, education was not only ineffective but hard to find."
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Conquering the Blank Page - Advice on the Art of Writing, 2001.
The following essay is a creative writing paper discussing the difficulty in conquering a blank page
1,010 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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This essay describes the challenges faced by a writer when writing a piece of creative writing. The writer speaks from his personal experience of writing short manuscripts.
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?It lies before you, silent in its emptiness and formidable in its vastness. Like a Colorado slope fresh with virgin snow, it stretches clean, white and untouched across the horizon, waiting for the mark of your pen or the stroke of your keyboard. It is the dreaded blank page, that endless expanse of white space that waits in the void for that first brilliant word.Conquering the blank page is the first challenge faced by a writer. Transferring that first word from pen to paper or from keyboard to screen can be a difficult process.?
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Childhoods in Poetry, 2005.
This paper compares the writing styles of E.E. Cummings in his poem "in Just" and Dylan Thomas' poem "Fern Hill".
1,020 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that, unlike poets of their period who wrote mainly about war and people suffering, E.E. Cummings "in Just" and Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill" discuss their childhoods. The author points out that, although both Cummings and Thomas use a lot of visual images to trigger the reader's senses, thus making the poem more believable to the reader, Cummings also uses a lot of coinage such as "mudluscious", which makes the reader think of what the world would be like if it were covered in mud. The paper relates that Dylan Thomas in "Fern Hill" uses a formal, complicated words, in long stanzas, because he is not writing about a child or for a child but rather in an adult's perspective for an adult; E.E. Cummings "in Just" uses informal diction because he is writing in a child's perspective.
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"E.E. Cummings writes about childhood in a third person narrative. It is as if he is outside of the mainstream. Cummings is on the outside trying to look into what it is like to be a child. This is why he writes in a child's perspective. People are given a chance to start fresh. Everything becomes new once again. People's spirits are awakened and it is as if they have been given a second chance at happiness, and carefree. Dylan Thomas has a different approach to writing about childhood than Cummings. Thomas writes in a first person narrative. He does not write as a child's perspectives, instead, he writes as an adult, in an adult's perspective. He is looking back on his childhood, as an adult."
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