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- 261: Ray Bradbury
- ... Bradbury has remained. He attended Los Angeles High School, where he wrote and took part in many dramatic productions. His literary tastes were broadened to include Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway when he took a creative writing course. In 1938 Los Angeles High School yearbook, the following prediction appeared beneath his picture: Likes to write stories Admired as a thespian Headed ...
- 262: Mark Twain
- ... his lifetime for being a great author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death on April 21, 1910, his great literary reputation has further increased. Many writers such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner have declared his work-especially Huckleberry Finn- a major influence on 20th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi river ...
- 263: John Steinbeck: A Common Man's Man
- ... Career”, Saturday Review, 8 February, 1969: 10-14. Steinbeck, John. “A Primer on the Thirties". Esquire October 1973: 127-131, 364, 366. Walcutt Charles C. “Later Trends in Form: Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dos Passos”, American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream. University of Minnesota, 1956: 258- 59. 268-69.
- 264: The Secret Lion: Symbolism To Reinforce The Theme
- ... is that Miss Brill was alone, she lived in a dark little room and she was a sad lady. In the story “A Clean Well- Lighted Place” the author Ernest Hemingway also uses symbolism to reinforce and illuminate the theme. The old man sitting in the cafe’ drinking brandy, represents or symbolizes the old waiter. Both are very lonely old men ...
- 265: RedScare
- ... The raven is just a symbol of the narrator mournfulness and his sorrow of his lost Leonor. Poe´s ways to describe his gothic settings make him similar to Ernest Hemingway. He uses the same ways to describe how things are, so the reader can really imagine them. With his descriptions he makes the reader paranoid about their surroundings, and makes ...
- 266: El Toro Bravo
- ... them have changed bullfighting to what it is today. Many people have influenced bullfighting. Goya and Picasso who are very famous artist influence bullfighting by painting pictures of bullfighting. Ernest Hemingway was a famous writer who wrote about bullfighting. El Cid was famous for killing a bull with a spear in public. Pedro Romero was famous for killing 5600 bulls during ...
- 267: J.D.Salinger
- ... style to his writing he related well to those crazy college kids. "For the college generation of the fifties, Salinger has the kind of importance that Scott Fitzgerald and Erenst Hemingway had for the young people of the twenties." (Hicks, Granille p.502) Part of the reason Salinger speaks the "language" of the youth of the world. "Salinger has a marvelous ...
- 268: The Holocaust - The Way It Was
- ... the "Nazi ideals" were frequent, some due to the their authors being Jewish, such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, but many of them by non-Jews such as Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, and Helen Keller (a particularly offensive person to the Nazis since she successfully overcame her handicaps). The Jewish population of Germany hovered around 600,000 in ...
- 269: Drugs Debate
- ... between the consequences though. For example, mind expanding drugs have affected some of the most influential literature and fine art of the twentieth century. Artists such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Degas and Vincent Van Gogh were regular absinthe users for example. Their works are inspirational, influential and they broke societal boundaries. Without absinthe, the works of art ...
- 270: Mark Twain 3
- ... His adherence to American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day and had a powerful effect on such later American writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, both of whom pointed to Twain as an inspiration for their own writing. In Twain's later years he wrote less, but he became a celebrity, frequently ...
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