Critique of William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Speech In 1949, William Faulkner, the writer from Oxford, Mississippi, was awarded the Nobel Prize. He was the first American author to receive this prestigious award since the start of World War II. The context of his acceptance speech is important. W...

Affirmation The song Affirmation is written and performed by Darren Hayes (lead and back up singer) and Daniel Jones (keyboard, synthesisers and drum and rhythm programming). They are better known to the world as the Australian pop group Savage Garden. Some of the poetic devices that are used th...