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The Reception of the Ambassadors in Damascus (1511)
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Edward Said’s Orientalism: Influence, Significance and Criticism in Post-Colonialism Studies

Posted on July 31, 2022July 31, 2022 omrish

After Edward Said’s work, Orientalism, was published in 1978, it created a lot of buzz and admiration in the academic world,

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Language and Speech
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Linguists Bakhtin and de Saussure on Language and Speech

Posted on July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 omrish

Human beings own the rare ability in nature to use voice as a highly complex communication means, which sets them

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fishing meaning
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Fishing Context to Understand the Actual Meaning of Words

Posted on July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 omrish

In his article, “Is There a Text in This Class?” from his book with the same title, Stanley Fish demonstrates

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Lord of the Flies - Human Nature
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The Darker Yet Insightful Layer of Golding’s Lord of the Flies

Posted on July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 omrish

Novels can be seen as an onion. At first, the readers encounter the transparent outer layer, in which they discover

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Dorian Gray Alternative Ending
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Alternative Ending to the Picture of Dorian Gray (Chapter 20 Rewrite)

Posted on July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 omrish

It was a lovely night, and he loved the soft touch of his silk scarf around his throat. As he

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Geoffrey Chaucer Funny
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Chaucer’s House of Fame Satirizes the Poets in Dante’s Inferno

Posted on July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 omrish

In his poem, the House of Fame, Geoffrey Chaucer adopts several scenes from other poems of renowned poets and reworks them

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Pip and Abel Magwitch from Great Expectations
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The Growing Pains of Great Expectations’ Pip and Wuthering Heights’ Cathy

Posted on July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 omrish

One of the most pleasurable aspects of the novel is the possibility of witnessing the development and growth of the

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Ernest Hemingway and a lion in Africa
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The Layers of Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”

Posted on July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 omrish

The short story “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway is a tale of a dangerous hunt

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The Beatles Funny Muppets
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Exploring “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road” by the Beatles

Posted on July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 omrish

Persuasion is an art. Over the ages, human beings have attempted to develop, refine and perfect their ability to articulate

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Katharina and Petruchio by Washington Allston
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The Taming of the Shrew’s Clothing Motif: Disguise, Social Class and Marriage

Posted on July 21, 2022July 21, 2022 omrish

One of the main theatrical devices in almost any play is the clothing of the characters. The different types of

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