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For poet William Carlos Williams, poems were a way of life and a way to express life. Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey on September 17 in 1883. His father was a British businessperson in New York while his mother was an artistic Puerto Rican. Williams began writing poetry while he was still a […]

Whitman and Mysticism What is mysticism: Mysticism is not a coherent philosophy of life, but more a temper of mind. A mystical experience, according to BERTRAND RUSSEL, involves insight, a sense of unity and the unreality of time and space, and a belief that evil is mere appearance. A mystic’s vision is intuitive; he feels […]

Personal Narrative Defined: The personal narrative is a compositional piece of writing, usually employing the first person, which entails a factual event, incident, experience, or person integral to the author’s life. “The experiences we have are the basis of our dispositions, our world views, our characters, our ways of thinking, and our ability to undertake […]

You love a poem you saw on the Internet and want to quote it in your book. But is that plagiarism? You want to quote a passage in a book but you’re not sure whether you need to ask permission or not. What counts as fair use and when do you need permission to use […]

Do you want to write in a more compelling style? If you are like most people, your answer is yes. The good new is, it only takes a small amount of improvement and you will effect your emails, articles, press releases, blog posts, web copy and every part of your business and your life in […]

There are a lot of writing services over the internet which provides such samples for students to view before thinking of the option to buy. Most samples are free of charge. In other cases, the service companies only provide part of the paper for view. They are aware that people can easily copy the whole […]

The GED test is run by the American Council of Education and is also known as the General Education Development test. The GED consists of five main sections which are science, social studies, language arts reading, language arts writing and mathematics. By practicing your skills in each of the following subjects you dramatically increase your […]

Abstract: Franz Kafka in 1916 wrote a short novella called Metamorphosis (1. Bantam Edition 2004) a book of immense psychological and insightive nightmare into the human condition. Here we will exam Kafka’s masterpiece from a psychoanalytical perspective to see that this work was an insightful self examination of depression, mental health and the role of […]

One of the most distinguished poets of our time Claude McKay was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica, British West Indies in September 15, 1889, as the youngest of eleven children of his peasant parents in Jamaica, Thomas Francis and Ann Elizabeth (Edwards) McKay. McKay’s family was fairly well off having received land from the bride’s […]

The world is awash in self-help books on nearly any topic you can imagine, and more books and eBooks emerge every day. The most powerful and convincing are self-help memoir, a blended genre that has not been formally defined. If you have the urge to teach people to do something you have done, the form […]