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  2. The Nose (Gogol short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story juxtaposes the nose as a symbol of salvation for Major Kovalyov with the nose as a symbol of self-destruction for barber Ivan Yakovlevitch. [11] Major Kovalyov's nose serves as a symbol of his own snobbery and pretentious attitude. [15] Once he loses it, his entire demeanor towards the world changes. [16]

  3. Marigolds (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion. [ 1 ] While teaching literature at the Community College of Baltimore County , she published "Marigolds" in Negro Digest , and it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks ...

  4. Flowers for Algernon - Wikipedia

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    Flowers for Algernon is a short story by American author Daniel Keyes, which he later expanded into a novel and adapted for film and other media.The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. [2]

  5. The Scarlet Ibis - Wikipedia

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    "The Scarlet Ibis" is a short story written by James Hurst. [1] It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 [2] and won the "Atlantic First" award. [3] The story has become a classic of American literature, and has been frequently republished in high school anthologies and other collections.

  6. Social influence - Wikipedia

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    There are three processes of attitude change as defined by Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman in a 1958 paper published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. [1] The purpose of defining these processes was to help determine the effects of social influence: for example, to separate public conformity (behavior) from private acceptance (personal belief).

  7. Araby (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Among later writers influenced by "Araby" was John Updike, whose oft-anthologized short story "A&P" is a 1960s American reimagining of Joyce's tale of a young man, lately the wiser for his frustrating infatuation with a beautiful but inaccessible girl. Her allure has excited him into confusing his emergent sexual impulses for those of honor and ...

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    To share a story about your or a loved one’s experience with drug treatment, write to treatmentstories@huffingtonpost.com or leave a voice mail at 860-348-3376. Please include your phone number. Please include your phone number.

  9. How I Taught My Grandmother to Read - Wikipedia

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    ) is a fictional short story written by prolific Indian author Sudha Murthy. This story was published in the book How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories in the year 2004 by Penguin Books, India. Later it was included in the Class 9 English Communicative CBSE Syllabus. In the story, the author recalls how she taught her illiterate ...