Diarist Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

(Lady) Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978 -c. 1015): Novelist, diarist, and courtesan. She was the author of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel; the diary nikki; and a collection of tanka poems. The daughter of the court official Fujiwara Tametoki, she sat in on the classical Chinese literature lessons that her brother received, in spite of the Heian traditions against higher education for women. (Sei) Shonagan (c. 966 - c. 1013): Like Lady Murasaki, was a lady-in-waiting of th...

POETS & POETRY | 1600 | He began a famous poem, ""I celebrate myself, and sing myself"" Walt Whitman 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | 800 | In 1893 this British man published his ""initial"" book, a ""text-book of biology""; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells FRENCH LITERATURE | 2000 | A collection of about 90 tales, ""The Human Comedy"" by this author paints a vivid portrait of 19th c. France (Honoré de) Balzac CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 400 | Cartoonist Michael Ramirez...

Week 1 J Childrens Most Prized Possessions ECE 405: Children & Families in a Diverse Society Week 1 Journal: Childrens Most Prized Possessions The German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage, Anne Frank once said, œWe all live with the objective of being happy: our lives are all different and yet the same.Looking through the photographs in the Toy Stories Collection, I realized that toys are a bridge to unifying a diverse world.The fact of the matter is no matter where children live, how t...

Este es un ensayo en el que se analizan, resumen y relacionan los textos "Diario a bordo de Cristóbal Colón" y "El Entenado"