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Looking at the Life and Death of the Author |
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"Readin' is just Writin' spelled wrong" Jacob Shores 1886 |
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A Poem: Postmodern Poetry |
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Boxer. Born Jacob Parker Shores, on May 13, 1830 in LaFayette Alabama. Shores was seventh of eight children born to Munrow and Lillie Shores, poor tenant farmers in Alabama's Buckalew Mountains. Two years after Jacob's birth, Munrow Shores was committed to the Searcy Hospital for the Colored Insane. When Munrow died a few years later, Lillie Shores married Pat Brooks, a widower with a large family of his own. Although poor, Jacob was blessed with a strong family and a deeply religious, attentive, and strict mother and grew up to be generous and accepting of others. |
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A Paper: The Interjected Author, Finding the Perfect Poststructuralist Novel |
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A Review: The Golden Notebook |
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A Play: Isis and Avon (The Secret Life of William Shakespeare) |
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Officially Sanctioned Discursive Body of the F.O.C |
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