Every society in the world has it s own form of literature highly embedded into its cultural fabric. The communities history and traditions are preserved in the literature that is later passed down from one generation to another. Literature encompasses so many things in our lives other than keeping the world reminded of the good olden days. Every academic institution in the world was born out of literary enthusiasm
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For me it is none other than Count Leo Tolstoy, he is my favorite author of all time, I have read everything he has ever written, and my book shelve is full of his titles. His thoughts and his way of seeing things matched perfectly with mine, discovering his books was like running into a …
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Storytellers since the time of the ancient Greeks have enjoyed imagining that people are capable of breaking the laws of nature and gaining fantastic strength or powers. They have also imagined amazing machines and mythical figures with magical abilities. In a sense, the spirit of discovery expressed in the scientific and industrial ages-and in new …
In January 1604, James of England held the Hampton Court Conference near London. At this conference, James responded to demands of the Puritans that included reforms to church government and changes in The Book of Common Prayer. The king rejected many of the Puritans’ demands but agreed to one that had a powerful effect …
People have enjoyed going to see plays as a form of entertainment since the earliest times. In ancient Greece and Rome, performances were given in great open-air arenas. In ancient Japan, the Noh plays were popular forms of entertainment. During the Middle Ages, sacred stories and plays with Christian themes, called morality plays, …
Once upon a time . . . ” is a phrase that we all probably recognize from the fairy tales that we heard as children. The stories that we call fairy tales occur in many cultures around the world, and often the same basic tale can be found in several cultures. The Jataka …
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In June of 1215, King John rode to meet his angry nobles at Runnymede, a wide meadow on the banks of the Thames River. No one present on that day could have guessed that the nobles’ demands, written in the form of the document we now call Magna Carta, would later become the cornerstone of …
Every night I struggle with this thought saying unto myself , let me just write one last sentence, one more paragraph before going to sleep, I end up staying awake till late into the night hoping to find that one last sentence to take down. When you find yourself waking up in the middle of …
We have followed the character a long way now, we have feared his dangerous exploits, we felt his joyous and sad moments together, defended them during the trial, cried with them at their times of sombre difficulty for we too felt their pain. We even fell into the wells when he was being thrown down. …
What is the meaning of creative writing, a creative writer doesn’t have to worry about what to put onto paper and what not to from the beginning, from the start, you don’t have to worry about anything, just pour onto paper whatever comes to the mind, all thoughts and feelings, then later on when the …
Chief Okalavou the ruler of the left western Indian tribe is fearing loss of his chiefdom, so he calls Bundokishva, one of his youngest sons, he tells him, “last night I had a dream, the most terrifying nightmare I have ever had since the day I was born.” “In my dream”, he …