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'Nowadays, footballers stop being normal people from the age of 11 or 12'  The42

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The crisis of American power: How Europeans see Biden's America  European Council on Foreign Relations

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How to Write a Great Movie Review Step by Step  Big Easy Magazine

Joe Biden reclaims the middle ground with kitchen table appeal  The Australian

Saadat Hasan Manto death anniversary: Three authors recount the ways he helped them (un)learn  The Indian Express

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Ved Mehta, the ‘writer’ who was blind’  National Herald

Jack Thompson of All Trades - Bruce Bawer  Commentary Magazine

There’s a rich intersection between music-loving golfers and golf-minded musicians  Golf.com

The polished gems from Shirley Hazzard's trove of sparkling stories  Sydney Morning Herald

Trump gives National Medal of Arts to Toby Keith, Ricky Skaggs  Los Angeles Times

Milwaukee Novelist Explores Life on 'The Home Front'  Shepherd Express

Sunday Lounge | Indians are inescapably multilingual: Amitav Ghosh  Livemint

About to retire, Michael Krasny reflects on a long career in radio  The Jewish News of Northern California

The Uneasy Afterlife of “A Confederacy of Dunces”  The New Yorker

Clutter, says who? College essays, letters from Stephen King and Tucker Carlson: I’m keeping (almost) all of it.  The Washington Post

Nature in Verse: What Poetry Reveals about Science  Scientific American

'Inside Story', or is Martin Amis Just Hedging?  Book and Film Globe

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in your guys opinion which of johns updikes pomes is the best? can you the give me a little literature analysis about it please

what events during his time influenced him to write. For example some aurthors wroke during the segregation.

Are there any changes in the structure action or feeling of the poem? Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot, Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut off Before it has a chance to go two blocks, At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth’s Garage Is on the corner facing west, and there, Most days, you'll find Flick Webb, who helps Berth out. Flick stands tall among the idiot pumps— Five on a side, the old bubble-head style, Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low. One’s nostrils are two S’s, and his eyes An E and O. And one is squat, without A head at all—more of a football type. Once Flick played for the high-school team, the Wizards. He was good: in fact, the best. In ’46 He bucketed three hundred ninety points, A county record still. The ball loved Flick. I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty In one home game. His hands were like wild birds. He never learned a trade, he just sells gas, Checks oil, and changes flats. Once in a while, As a gag, he dribbles an inner tube, But most of us remember anyway. His hands are fine and nervous on the lug wrench. It makes no difference to the lug wrench, though. Off work, he hangs around Mae’s Luncheonette. Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays pinball, Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates. Flick seldom says a word to Mae, just nods Beyond her face towards bright applauding tiers Of Necco wafers Nibs and juju beads.

What is the writer's characterisitc voic or tone? What kind of person do you imagine this writer to be? Can you please answer this, this would be really helpful.

for English i have to explain how john updike reflectid the realism period?. do you guys have any idea. REALISM 1855-1900 (Period of Civil War and Postwar period) Novels and short stories Objective narrator Does not tell reader how to interpret story Dialogue includes voices from around the country Social realism: aims to change a specific social problem Aesthetic realism: art that insists on detailing the world as one sees it Civil War brings demand for a "truer" type of literature that does not idealize people or places Writings of Twain, Bierce, Crane The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (some say 1st modern novel) Regional works like: The Awakening. Ethan Frome, and My Antonia (some say modern)