sagetrieb
sagetrieb
Female
June 13, 2007
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Doctorate
English / Literature / Writing
Reading and writing (of course). I work out a good deal, especially lifting weights and walking. I love to dance, travel to exotic places, eat sushi, and go to movies.
Biography
BA, MA, and PhD in English and Literary Studies. I have taught high school and college for many years
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Answered a Question in Self-Reliance
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Answered a Question in Trifles
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Answered a Question in The Glass Menagerie
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Answered a Question in Pygmalion
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Answered a Question in Medea
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Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
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Answered a Question in Shakespeare's Sonnets
The speaker is a poet who considers how others in the future will evaluate his...
Answered a Question in In the Time of the Butterflies
Chapter 11, which is Maria Teresa's diary while in jail, is as interesting for...
Answered a Question in The Things They Carried
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Answered a Question in Death of a Salesman
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Answered a Question in In the Time of the Butterflies
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Answered a Question in The Souls of Black Folk
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Answered a Question in The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales has so many translations that I cannot locate that exact...
Answered a Question in In the Time of the Butterflies
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Answered a Question in Odour of Chrysanthemums
The only difference is that "odor" is the American spelling and...
Answered a Question in Sonnet 29
An author is never the “speaker” of his poem but rather constructs a voice, a...
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
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Answered a Question in 1984
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