literature
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'You know my methods, Watson'
I've recently re-read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories and was going to write a review, but tuning into the news at any given time has given me a different idea. Think of this as an advice column for the media. A response from a hypothetical 'Dear Sir Arthur,' if you will.
By Matty Long5 years ago in The Swamp
Muckrakers the super heroes of journalism
Muckrakers were investigative reporters and writers during what is known as the Progressive Era which lasted from 1890–1920. These individuals wrote about injustice and corruption in order to bring much needed changes in society. You could call them whistleblowers who published articles in magazines like Cosmopolitan and McClure's and also in books. The January 1903 issue of McClure's is considered to be the official debut for muckraking journalism.
By Cheryl E Preston5 years ago in The Swamp
Book Review: "The Red Prince" by Helen Carr
I have read many books on history in my life and honestly, some of them are far better than others. I find that there is a technique to writing a book of historical nonfiction that is set on exploring person and personality simultaneously with politics and contextual items. Be that as it may, many books often fail to provide the former for the hope that the over-explanatory of the latter may compensate as a ‘I bet you did not know this [insert ideology here]…’. But, it can make the book dry and insensitive and often, we as readers have a hard time enough imagining that these people who lived in the distant past were real at all so that just adds to it. The reader would be far more interested if the book was more personal, had more character and made us really think that we knew this person from the distant past properly as we do our own friends. Context, character and plot must go hand-in-hand to make a great nonfiction history book and in the book “The Red Prince” by Helen Carr, I can say that they definitely do. They fuse together perfectly to not only give us a personal portrait of John of Gaunt, but also plays on various things that the reader may have already seen such as the portrayal of John of Gaunt in Richard II and his own child and grandchild getting their own plays with “Henry IV” and “Henry V”.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in The Swamp
Racism, Homophobia, Violence and Literature
Édouard Louis, the 28-year-old French writer, is considered the new "enfant terrible" of French literature. One Saturday last August, we were talking animatedly in a busy restaurant on the island of Aegina. He had chosen this Greek island near the capital Athens to spend his summer vacation. Even at our first meeting there, I recognized a kind of contradiction when I unconsciously compared his gentle and calm current aura with his fierce and angry literary writing.
By George Karouzakis 5 years ago in The Swamp
Mr. President
Mr. President Published by Nadira Grey Copyright ©2021 NADIRA GREY. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher/author, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.
By Nadira Grey5 years ago in The Swamp
The Diary
I never thought my nosing around would get me anywhere. I had been searching for answers about my birth since the beginning. As soon as I was old enough, I began asking my mother questions. My name is Nicholas Pennington and the year was 1876. By that time, I had waited almost twenty years for the answers about my birth.
By Amberly Henning5 years ago in The Swamp
The right to bear one less arm.
Sam Gregor was loved by everyone and known by no one. The year started on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was 1989. Two years before the fall of the Berlin wall and two years after The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed for the first time above 2,000, gaining 8.30 to close at 2,002.25. It had been a long year in a busier decade. It was the year U.S. President George H. W. Bush banned the importation of certain guns in the United States. The guns banned were classified as assault weapons. Semi-automatic rifles. George H W Bush had given the people the right to bear one less arm.
By Briana Charles5 years ago in The Swamp
Everybody Can't Stop Laughing at the CBN's 2 Grammatical Blunders in New Letter.
Wait for it. *********************************************************************** WEAR A MASK. SAVE A LIFE. I hope you enjoy reading today's story. But before you go ahead and read the story, here are some important tips from the World Health Organization that we must all comply with in an effort to minimize the spread of the novel COVID-19. Please do these to make sure that you and your family are as safe and healthy as can possibly be throughout the entirety of this new year.
By Jide Okonjo5 years ago in The Swamp
Resistance Literature is Blooming in Kashmir
A poet famously wrote of Kashmir, “if there is a heaven on earth, it’s here, it’s here, it’s here.” The steep, icy slopes of Sonmarg or the soaring Himalayan views are the sights that inspire poets and tourism magazines alike, but Kashmir is having a surge in a different kind of writing: passionate resistance literature against Indian occupation.
By Raisa Nastukova5 years ago in The Swamp
“The French Revolution” by Thomas Carlyle
The various texts that are available on the French Revolution are very informative, but few are as close to a first-hand experience as Thomas Carlyle’s account of Edmund Burke’s Reflections. Within my readings of Thomas Carlyle’s “French Revolution” I have found a number of new philosophical questions that I had not before considered when reading it in parts previously. These philosophical questions include not only the main existential crises of life and death, memory and existence - but they also include the question of worth, requirement for living standards and the question of whether the new and changing world really needs feudalism. The royalist argument that spans quite a majority of the text seems to be focused on their requirement, their greed and the way in which their systems are in place to oppress the poor. There is a massive section purely on the aristocratic conspiracy to keep the poor fighting each other instead of fighting them and it is clear that through the storming of the Bastille that this is not working. The analysis of the newspapers during this time seem to change as well, through the death of Louis XV we get the aristocratic opinion and yet, after the storming of the Bastille the newspapers turn more towards those by Jean Paul Marat.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in The Swamp
