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Looking For Alibrandi

A major discovery that Josephine Alibrandi made in Melina Marchetta's , was about her Grandmother's past life. She discovers many things about her Grandmother, including how she got to Australia, her relationship with her husband and that with Marcus Sandford. At the beginning of the novel ...

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A Tale Of Two Cities

One way you may approach Lucie Manette is as the central figure of the novel. Think about the many ways she affects her fellow characters. Although she is not responsible for liberating her father, Dr. Manette, from the Bastille, Lucie is the agent who restores his damaged psyche through ...

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Kate Chopin's Controversial Views

"Too strong a drink for moral babies, and should be labeled `poison'." was the how the Republic described Kate Chopin's most famous novel The Awakening (Seyersted 174). This was the not only the view of one magazine, but it summarized the feelings of society as a whole. Chopin woke up people to ...

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The Red Tent (all You Need To

The initial incident occurs when Simon and Levi, two of Dinah’s oldest brothers, enter the city of Shechem and murder all of the resident men, including Dinah’s beloved husband, Shalem. Cursing her entire family, a pregnant Dinah is taken to Egypt by Shalem’s mother, Re-nefer. ...

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The Beat Generation

The Twentieth century has witnessed several movements which have helped to shape the rise of American culture. Each movement has in some way altered the way we think and act. One of the most influential literary movements of this century has been that of . The Beat writers were a small group of ...

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Keeping Things Whole

"Too strong a drink for moral babies, and should be labeled 'poison'." was the how the Republic described Kate Chopin's most famous novel The Awakening (Seyersted 174). This was the not only the view of one magazine, but it summarized the feelings of society as a whole. Chopin woke up people to ...

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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Dmitri Mendeleev was one of the most famous modern-day scientists of all time who contributed greatly to the world’s fields of science, technology, and politics. He helped modernize the world and set it farther ahead into the future. Mendeleev also made studying chemistry easier, by creating a ...

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Wallace Stevens

was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879; the son of Garret Stevens and Margaretha Zeller. He was the second of five children and outlived all of them. He had two brothers and two sisters who were all very close. Wallace attended Reading Boys' School where his brothers also attended. ...

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On The Short Story Phineas Com

Phineas and Gene: A Comparative Study To be an opposite of something or someone means to be the furthest from being like that person or object. One can say this for Gene and Phineas in the short story "Phineas" by John Knowles. Through reading the story one comes to see that Gene is an exact ...

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Creative Writing: X-Men

When many people hear about the X-Men, they think of a silly kid's comic book, but that is not so. X-Men, actually most comic books in general, are a unique blend of two classic art forms; drawings, sometimes even paintings, and storytelling. A comic artist must be able to convey the right mood ...

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History Of The Original Teddy

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, then to rank with those poor spirits who niether suffer much nor enjoy much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. [sic] The creation of the original teddy ...

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Jeffrey Dahmer

Why does a happen? How does a man become a serial killer, necrophiliac, cannibal and psychopath? Very few convincing answers are forthcoming, despite a spate of books that propose to understand the problem. Many of the theories would have you believe that the answers can always be found in ...

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George Lucas

THX 1138, American Graffiti, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back…the list goes on and on. Although many have not heard of each of these films, everyone certainly has to know the man behind them. has, in many cases, written, produced, and directed, not to mention edit, his own films. His ...

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Kinsolver's The Bean Trees: Problems In Today's Society

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kinsolver is a book that discusses many of the problems in today's society. I found it to be over all insightful yet a little boring at time. There are many hidden meaning and symbols too many to mention so I'll look at just a few. One of the main symbols appears right ...

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Summary Of The Scarlet Pimpernel

This is a story about a hero and his league of courage, who risk their lives to help rescuing France leading leader. These peoples were being acuse by the French citizen, and sentences to the guilloitine, for the acusation of being a traitor to their country. The story started out with a ...

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Hopeful Encounter

The sun was setting. Far to the east, threatening black clouds arose from the fumes of pollution from the several smoke stacks towering over the city. The streets were pock marked and dented with the recent shower of acid rain. Hot boiling steam from the sewers made the temperature of day much ...

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Go Ask Alice 2

Alice is fifteen, white, middle, class. She diets, she dates. She loves Roger but the most time he doesn’t notice her. If she would ever sleep with a boy she would sleep with him. Alice hates her look. She wants to be pretty and slim. Lately she loses fascination about all things. School is ...

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Julius Caesar And His Accomplishments

There were three Great European nations in the ancient days. The Greeks, the Carthaginians and the Romans. The Roman hero was Caeser. He was born 100 years before the Christian era. Like many of the Caesers before him, he was a patrician meaning having descended from a long line of ...

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Anne Frank

I can remember the first time I knew of Otto Frank's idea for the Secret Annex. Otto had been paying attention to the Nazis for quite some time, and had noted their strong desire towards the expansion of Nazi rule. I myself must admit that I knew nothing of the terror we were about to face. ...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God 5

When Janie returns to Eatonville, the whole town seems to turn out to watch her walk down the street by herself and up to her own house. She had disappeared some years before, with a young man named Tea Cake. The townspeople wonder why he has not returned with her. In fact, the town is viciously ...

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