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Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay called for staunch individualism. "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for each person to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.
2006 The Best American Short Stories 2006, "Self-Reliance" 2003 The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, "The Story" 2001 Pushcart Prize XXV, "Mates" 2000 The Best American Short Stories 2000, "Allog" 1999 The Antioch Review Distinguished Fiction Award; 1998 The Best American Short Stories 1998, "Chance" 1991 Syndicated Fiction Award (from NEA)
Winner of the 2018 Global Read Aloud in the Middle School/Junior High Choice category of his book Refugee. Winner of the 2019–2020 Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) for Refugee [11] 2020 Buxtehude Bull [12]
Short story collections by Ursula K. Le Guin (11 P) Pages in category "Short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Wilder's story as a writer, wife, and mother is explored through interviews with scholars and historians, archival photography, paintings by frontier artists, and dramatic re-enactments. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page (2020) is an 83-minutes documentary covering the life of Wilder, the authorship of the Little House books, the making of ...
Slow Learner is the 1984 published collection of five early short stories by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, originally published in various sources between 1959 and 1964. The book is also notable for its introduction, written by Pynchon.
Sustained silent reading (SSR) is a form of school-based recreational reading, or free voluntary reading, where students read silently in a designated period every day, with the underlying assumption being that students learn to read by reading constantly. While classroom implementation of SSR is fairly widespread, some critics note that the ...
Delderfield attended an infant school in Bermondsey, then a "seedy and pretentious" small private school — "seventy boys and four underpaid ushers, presided over by a jovial gentleman who wore blue serge". [2]: 18 He then went to a council school, which he hated, but which provided him with the prototype for Mr. Short in The Avenue.