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  2. Brave New World - Wikipedia

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    Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...

  3. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 - Wikipedia

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    And all that mighty heart is lying still! William Wordsworth : Poems, in Two Volumes : Sonnet 14 " Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 " is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames , viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning.

  4. Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Wikipedia

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    Ella's poem plaque at San Francisco's Jack Kerouac Alley.. None of Wilcox's works were included by F. O. Matthiessen in The Oxford Book of American Verse, but Hazel Felleman chose fourteen of her poems for Best Loved Poems of the American People, while Martin Gardner selected "The Way Of The World" and "The Winds of Fate" for Best Remembered Poems.

  5. Troilus and Criseyde - Wikipedia

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    Chaucer's version can be said to reflect a less cynical and less misogynistic world-view than Boccaccio's, casting Criseyde as fearful and sincere rather than simply fickle and having been led astray by the eloquent and perfidious Pandarus. It also inflects the sorrow of the story with humour. The poem had an important legacy for later writers.

  6. SparkNotes - Wikipedia

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    Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.

  7. Stephen Crane - Wikipedia

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    Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism.

  8. Tyrtaeus - Wikipedia

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    The floruit given in the first entry of Suda is perhaps too early since Jerome offers a date of 633–632 BC. [2] Modern scholars are less specific and provide instead date ranges for the Second Messenian War (and thus for Tyrtaeus' life) such as "the latter part of the 7th century", [3] or "any time between the sixties and the thirties" of the 7th century.

  9. Crazy Brave: A Memoir - Wikipedia

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    Crazy Brave was written over the span of 14 years. Harjo's younger sibling has said that the violence perpetrated by Harjo's stepdad was extremely downplayed in the memoir. [12] Joy Harjo uses her memoir to talk about past traumas and abusive father figures. [13] Joy Harjo sectioned Crazy Brave into four-part, east, north, west, and south. [14]