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    The late 1600s to the late 1700s was the nascent stage of colonial America. The first settlers were trying hard to get a foothold in this new land. Religion played the important role. The settlers who had come here were the Puritan Protestant Christian who believed in rigid principles. But soon with time people started to question this version of God, that was preached by the early Puritans. The world was not yet ready for atheism, but it was surely ready to question the scripture and the old philosophy

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    political thriller containing power, politics , corruption and murder. It also highlights the problem which are involved in the art of 'ghost writing ' . Ghostwriting is the act of writing books or other pieces such as a specch , book , article , autobiography and various other literary work in which another áuthor ' recieves full credit. Often these authors are celebrity, politicians or other popular figures who can sell books but cannot write. Autobiographical writing is the written account of one

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    kings to write their biographies to legitimise their right to rule and to put away any criticism. Secondly, a biography is a person’s life written from the perspective of another. It is typically written in third person, different from an autobiography which is written by that particular person on their own lives, written in the first person. One such biography was Einhards, Life of Charlemagne, or Vita

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    prolific writer and her literary canon consists of nine novels, two autobiographies and some non- fictional works. In fact, NayantaraSahgal has introduced a considerable number of autobiographical elements in her novels. For a question, she asserts that ‘all art is autobiographical’ (Women’s Space The Mosaic World Of Margaret Drabble AndNayantaraSahgal, 27).Her work ranges from factual and emotional autobiography to fictionalized autobiography. Nayantara believes that it is not a serious moral offence in

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    The kitchen holds a lot of memories in our lives. From the time our parents nested us a home, mother and father had cooked or dined with the family in the kitchen. The walls of the kitchen have many stories to tell and memories to keep. If only it could talk about the memories from the heating stove, the clay jar of water, the plates, the sink, the table, and all the meals. Truly, the kitchen is a cherished place. When I was younger, I remember my two widowed aunts tidying up the kitchen. They

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    An autobiography is a history of a person’s life written or told by that person. When most of us think of an autobiography we think about the stories of political figures or well-known celebrities. We are interested in the events that shaped their lives and can even be inspired by the way they handled themselves or how they achieved their goals. There are many examples of this through music and the hip-hop genre is no exception. The article, “The Revenge of Autobiographical Rap”, points out that

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    Abstract This paper brings out the hidden emotional story of the protagonist who is struggling with a family crisis. Due to sudden death of her husband, the family becomes isolated form actual life. As a wife loses her husband, her children lose their father. Each one of the family is moving towards different directions his or her own level of acceptance. Still it is a family, but a different one. The author’s timing and skill makes the family loss and its aftermath searching of the protagonist’s

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    life; he drew from his experiences in St. Louis crafting Amanda after his mother Edwina and Laura after his sister Rose. The use of his family members for models of this early work is undeniable. However, the over-emphasis of Williams’s use of autobiography helps situate Menagerie as naturalistic because Williams was drawing from real memories. While Williams was inspired by his personal life in some regards, his contribution to literature was never a faithful reconstruction of his personal history

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    appearance and body based on Margery’s attire. Reduction to Body, “the treatment of a person as identified with their body, or body parts” (feminist perspectives on objectification), can be seen throughout Medieval England and Margery Kempe’s autobiography. The female body especially, has undergone immense scrutiny for simply existing, genitelia often referred to as “shamefuls”(Allen 191). Margery’s disinterest in being sexual is based on the idea that God will love her more if she were to refrain

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    What Is A Diary?

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    What is a diary? A diary is a bridge between the written language and our deepest emotions. The reason why a diary is so special is because it is most often used for one’s self, and not intended for publication. Therefore, there is no need to hide one’s true emotions since what is written has no chance of being shared or judged by anyone. Since a diary usually remains confidential, and free from judgement and criticism, it is one of the only places where a person has no need for a filter. It can

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