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Create-a-Autobiography
24,000 words, approx. 80 pages
 A complete lesson plan by Educational Impressions. For Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.


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Autobiography : The Primary English Curriculum
645 words, approx. 2 pages See also anecdotes, biography, genre, first person writing, letters An autobiography is a first person account written by the subject which may seek to justify, explain or excuse as well as to inform. The boundaries between fact and fiction can become...
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Autobiography Summary
6,034 words, approx. 20 pages AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Autobiography is a form of religious literature with an ancient lineage in the Christian, Islamic, and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. It became an increasingly common and significant form of discourse in almost every religious tradition...
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Autobiography Information
715 words, approx. 2 pages
 An autobiography, from the Greek autos, 'self', bios, 'life' and graphein, 'write', is a biography written by the subject or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled "as told to" or "with"). The term was first used by the poet Robert...




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Bhutto autobiography details threats
2/3/2008: 253 words, approx. 1 pages In an autobiography being published after her assassination, Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she was warned that four suicide bomber squads would try to kill her, one led by Osama bin Laden's 16-year-old son.The former Pakistan prime minister — who was killed in Rawalpindi...
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Justice Thomas writes autobiography
9/29/2007: 700 words, approx. 2 pages Breaking his 16-year public silence on his bitter confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says Anita Hill was a mediocre employee who was used by political opponents to make claims she had been sexually harassed.Thomas writes about Hill, his former employee in two government...
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Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
6/15/2005: 301 words, approx. 1 pages Description : Amazon.com He reached an apogee of fame in the mid-1980s as the producer-arranger of Michael Jackson's blockbuster album Thriller and the charity single "We Are the World," but Quincy Jones has been a force in American music since he was a teenager. He...
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Zimbabwe politician expelled for insults
3/4/2007: 410 words, approx. 1 pages The ruling party in Zimbabwe expelled one of its co-founders for insulting President Robert Mugabe in a recently published autobiography, a government newspaper reported.A meeting of party leaders in Edgar Tekere's home district of Manicaland in eastern Zimbabwe, "unreservedly condemned" Tekere's book, "A Lifetime of...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Brigitte Georgi-Findlay
16,486 words, approx. 55 pages
 In the essay that follows, Georgi-Findlay examines the American frontier experience from the perspective of a Native American woman—Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins—using her Life among the Piutes to discuss the role of gender in such areas as assimilation, Native American/white relations, literary style, and sexual and political power.
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A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
11,953 words, approx. 40 pages
 In the essay that follows, Ruoff contends that Native American autobiographies became more intensely focused on Native American-white political relations, and more self-reflectively literary, over the course of the nineteenth century.
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Critical Essay by Robert Folkenflik
10,878 words, approx. 36 pages
 In the following essay, Folkenflik studies the treatment of alterity and the self in autobiographical narratives from St. Augustine to Jean-Paul Sartre, with primary reference to several Victorian autobiographers.


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