A Book Essays and Term Papers
The Secret RiverFollowing The Idea of Perfection was always going to be a tough call. Five years on from her Orange Prize-winning bestseller about middle-aged love in the Outback, Kate Grenville has turned to something quite different: historical fiction and a story about convict settlement.
This is a narrative ...
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The 'Id' in Fight ClubThe Id in Fight Club
In Sigmund Freud’s book, Civilization and its Discontents, he discusses the area of the human psyche that he calls ‘the id’. Striking similarities between Freud’s theory and characters in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club become apparent by reading and comparing both works. ...
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Hard TimesHard Times is a novel written by the well-known British writer, Charles Dickens. The book was published by Wordsworth in 1854 in the United Kingdom.
Charles Dickens was born in 1812, at Portsmouth. When he was 15, he left school and became a lawyer’s clerk. Then he studied by himself. In the ...
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Three GirlsPrejudice about Marilyn Monroe
Seeing lots of celebrities in TVs, movies and biased newspapers, we regard their lives as we see through the mass media. Celebrities hide their personal life and try to show things that might give the public good image about themselves. Becoming a famous actor, ...
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Chinese CivilizationThe origin of Chinese civilization began near the Yellow River around 1200-221 B.C.E. Throughout this time many ancient Chinese dynasties came about that were different in many ways. Though every dynasty differed, all Chinese seemed to value the same things in life. Of these values the strongest ...
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Letter to Suzanne CollinsDear Ms. Collins,
I am writing you this letter because I am very fond of your books and you are one of my favorite authors. I have been recently reading your series of The Hunger Games and I just wanted to say that the first two books I read were fantastic. I love how you can keep the reader’s ...
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Oliver TwistBook Report
Name of the book: Oliver twist
Author of the book: Charles Dickens
Presenter: Yuval Shlomo
Tenth grade - Five points - ×™'3 "Gal" Class:
Date the report is handed in: 6.11.2011
The settings
Dickens story, Oliver Twist, take place in London 1830. At that time, Great ...
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio3 VITRUVIUS
From On Architecture, Book 3 (c.25BC)
Vitruvian theory is sometimes described as anthropomorphic in the sense that he predicates proportional rules on the ratios of the human body. Here, in this explication of the idea of ``symmetry'' in Book 3, he supplies this theoretical basis ...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time IndianThe book The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexis, is a story of a boy transferring schools and the challenges he faces as he does this. Arnold Spirit is an Indian boy who writes in his journal, which of course is in first person. He decides to switch schools from his old ...
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Themes in MetamorphosisAlienation
Our first theme is alienation. Alienation is the act of distancing oneself and affections from a person or object in which you previously had a close relationship with. Alienation is a major theme in the story Metamorphosis and it is probably one of the most evident outcomes of ...
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Lone SurvivorAt the beginning of the book, Marcus Luttrell describes his childhood and his training to prepare for the Navy SEALs with Billy Shelton. After joining the U.S. Navy and completing SEAL training, Luttrell describes his posting in Afghanistan, in the Hindu Kush mountains of the Kunar province. With ...
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Yellow StarYellow Star
Part One
The use of colour imagery is used in an effective manner and enhances the text and its meaning. Firstly, the colour orange is distinctly chosen for Syvia’s coat and muffler because orange signifies brightness. As the book proceeds, pieces of Syvia’s bright coat were torn ...
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Fallen AngelsFallen Angels
by Henry David Gantt
2/28/14
The characters, themes and literary devices used in Fallen Angels, a novel by Walter Dean Myers, make it the compelling, critically-acclaimed novel that it is.
The three major characters in Fallen Angels, Richie Perry, Harold "Peewee" Gates, and ...
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Little League: Play Ball!Jordon Valdez
1-14-15
6th Hour
Little League: Play Ball!
By Matt Christopher
For my diorama on my book I am doing the scene of the boys on the team excited in the dugout because they were about to take the little league world series. This book was a very intense book and strongly wrote. ...
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100 CupboardsGuinevere Pijor
Literature
Mrs. Springer
1-21-14
100 Cupboards
By: N.D. Wilson
Henry has been staying with his aunt and uncle since his parents were kidnapped. In his room he hears scratching coming from one of the walls. He removes ...
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Review Of Mila 18 By Leon UrisBook: Mila 18, New York, Bantam Books, 1961
Author: Uris, Leon
Subject: An Author's Depiction of European History During World War II
Mila 18 is a historically accurate, fictionalized account of the 1943 Warsaw uprising in the Jewish Ghetto. The novel, written by Leon Uris, depicts the ...
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Natural Environment In Turtle Island By Gary SnyderThoughts on the Natural Environment
Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the topic of the natural environment, especially as it relates to the book "Turtle Island," by Gary Snyder. Specifically, it will discuss my personal thoughts and feelings about ...
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Extremely Loud And Incredibly CloseExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close
By: Josh Maize
As we read the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close I noticed various themes throughout, but the one theme that manage to catch my eye was grief. Grief can be defined in five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. As ...
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Hiroshima by John HerseyKhaliunzaya Gan-Orig
Dr. Radford/ Emily Bowlus
History 162
5 April 2017
Hiroshima Paper
As a seven year old, I was sent from my home country to the U.S. to find a better life with my mom and grandma. In Mongolia, I would say our family was very well off, but at the time, economy was ...
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