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Great Contemporaries is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written by Winston Churchill. The original collection was published in 1937 and included 21 essays mainly written between 1928 and 1931.
Student winners in art, speech and writing will be honored at a free celebration at the Marcus Performing Arts Center, Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. Grades 2-3 First place: Khalise Warren, third grade, Kluge ...
Journey consists of a series of short essays, often autobiographical, along with two poems, and has been called one of Angelou's "wisdom books". [1] It is titled after a lyric in the African American spiritual, "On My Journey Now." [2] At the time of its publication, Angelou was already well respected and popular as a writer and poet.
The essay concludes, "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." The work can be seen in relation to other absurdist works by Camus: the novel The Stranger (1942), the plays The Misunderstanding (1942) and Caligula (1944), and especially the essay The Rebel (1951).
1987: Today and Forever, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa's reaction to the failure of the Meech Lake Accord on the Canadian Constitution. 1988: Sermon on the Mound, in which British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher offered a theological justification for her ideas on capitalism.
It was a collection of sixty essays from the NPR series, plus twenty essays from Murrow's original series. The audio version won the 2007 Audie Award for Short Stories/Collection. Another book, This I Believe: On Love was published in 2010. It collects sixty new essays from public radio listeners on the subject of love.
Ōe began publishing stories in 1957, while still a student, strongly influenced by contemporary writing in France and the United States. [3] He was particularly influenced by the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre [ 5 ] His first work to be published was "Lavish are the Dead", a short story set in Tokyo during the American occupation, which appeared ...
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