Reinhold Niebuhr. In 1959, King published a short book called The Measure of a Man, which contained his sermons "What is Man?" and "The Dimensions of a...
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"What Is Man?" is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature...
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1906 What Is Man? (King essay), essay written by Martin Luther King Jr. and published in 1959 What Is Man?, a book by Wolfhart Pannenberg What is Man, a...
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modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g., Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While...
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A video essay is an essay presented in the format of a video recording or short film rather than a conventional piece of writing; the form often overlaps...
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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Widely known for his horror novels, he has been crowned the "King of Horror". He has...
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and 1990s. In response, King allowed the novel to fall out of print. In 2013, King published the anti-firearms violence essay "Guns". Charlie Decker,...
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Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) (redirect from Civil Disobedience (essay))
called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published...
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title is a reference to the 2005 film King Kong, directed by Peter Jackson. In the first essay of the book, Despentes describes herself as "more King Kong...
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statement: Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings...
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The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer; died 19 November 1703) was an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of King Louis...
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Sapere aude (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Foucault's essay "What is the Enlightenment?" took up Kant's formulation of "dare to know" in an attempt to find a place for the individual man and woman...
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The Abolition of Man is a 1943 book by C. S. Lewis. Subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper...
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" "You mean all the people?" "What is the nature of the Good? What is the nature of justice?" "What is happiness?" A man in a bird costume then attempts...
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Mark Twain bibliography (section Essays)
Missionary Critics" (1901) "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany" (1901) "What Is Man?" (1906) "Christian Science" (1907) "Queen Victoria's Jubilee" (1910)...
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Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
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homeless man who claims that his mission is to find the Holy Grail. Parry tries to enlist Jack's help in getting the Grail, explaining that the Fisher King was...
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H. G. Wells bibliography (redirect from What is Coming?)
Process" (essay), "Morals and Civilisation" (essay) The Time Machine (1975), collection of 1 novel and 1 short story: The Time Machine (novel), "The Man Who...
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The Lion King is a 1994 American animated musical coming-of-age drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Buena Vista Pictures...
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'Salem's Lot (category Novels by Stephen King)
'Salem's Lot is a 1975 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his second published novel. The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who...
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Richard Bachman (redirect from Collie Entragian (Stephen King))
Bachman is a pen name (as well as a fictional character) of American horror fiction author Stephen King, adopted in 1977 for the novel Rage. King hid the...
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James Baldwin (section Essays)
second part addresses Black life in America, including what is sometimes considered Baldwin's best essay, the titular "Notes of a Native Son"; the final part...
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King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age...
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in which he states: Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked...
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Alexander Pope (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
part to the character of Wormius in The Dunciad, who is seemingly based on Hearne. An Essay on Man is a philosophical poem in heroic couplets published between...
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Oedipus Rex (redirect from Oidipous the King)
Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. Originally...
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List of demons in the Ars Goetia (redirect from Zagan (king))
According to Wierus, Bael is the first king of Hell with estates in the east. He has three heads: a toad, a man, and a cat. He also speaks in a raucous...
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compilation Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing (2000). Some of these pieces, however, remain uncollected. Stephen King bibliography Unpublished...
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Shooting an Elephant (category 1936 essays)
"Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by British writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late 1936 and broadcast by...
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On Fairy-Stories (category Essays by J. R. R. Tolkien)
"On Fairy-Stories" is a 1947 essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy story as a literary form. It was written as a lecture entitled "Fairy...
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