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Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202
Leo Tolstoy once famously wrote that "All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." And I absolutely wish that there's no relatives as miserable as Oedipus's. Ancient Greek playwrights truly concentrated on the dysfunctional household. I mean, they had performances about spouses murdering husbands, parents killing children, daughters…
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The Odyssey – Crash Course
We're going to begin at the beginning of literature, or, at least, a beginning of literature. "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of a man ..." that lets all his shipmates perish, lies to everybody he meets, cheats on his wife with various nymphs, and takes 10 years to complete a…
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How-to Writing
What is how-to writing or explanatory writing? It's just what it sounds like, you write to teach someone how to do something. Explanatory writing is used to help someone understand a topic. It's often used for how-to posts, where you're giving the reader step-by-step instructions on how to do something. You can also use it…