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Book Review Essays and Term Papers
Angelas Ashes Summary"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at
all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly
worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the
miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish ...
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Review Of Benjamin Franklin's AutobiographyBenjamin Franklin's autobiography was to serve as a precedent for
his son. His admiration and venerability for his ancestors inspired his
life and hopped it would do the same for the future generations. Franklin
was interested in the past actions and lives of his ancestors, from who's
experience ...
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The Hobbit-review Of Summer ReI was fascinated by the story of The Hobbit. I thought this book was very good, and I liked it very much. The Hobbit is full of exciting events and action, making it difficult to put down.
I enjoyed many things in this book, specifically the characters and the setting. Each character Tolkien ...
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To Kill A Mocking BirdUsually, my method of writing a book review starts off with a quote. However, this time with this particular book I’ve decided to begin with a description of the author. Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. She studied law along with her father and sister. In her allegorical novel, To Kill a ...
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Mean Girls Film ReviewFor my film review I chose to watch a film far outside of my usual viewer patterns, the film I decided to watch was Mean Girls. The movie entails intercultural communication between teens in high school. Pop psychology meets SNL describes this movie best, written by 35 year old Tina Fey, the ...
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Literary Criticism on The Kite RunnerThe Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini can be seen as a great book but at the same time one that is too simple and easy. In discussions of The Kite Runner, one controversial issue has been the inner levels of the novel. On one hand, many people believe that the novel is filled with numerous ...
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Arrow of God`Arrow of God' is Achebe's third novel and was set in the 1920s in rural Nigeria, after the pacification period and long before independence. The point at which it is set, the colonial project is well underway, and many British officials and contractors are in Nigeria building the infrastructure ...
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Review: The Longest Day By Cornelius RyanRyan, Cornelius. The Longest Day. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
"The Longest Day" is an account of the D-Day invasion, told in the form of a novel. The book begins with the story of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel's attempts to thwart an invasion against the "Atlantic Wall" . Ryan describes Rommel's ...
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A Rumor of War ReviewIn A Rumor of War, Philip Caputo tells of his battle experience in the Vietnam War and how it changed him from an idealistic young man fresh out of officer's school, to a ruthless killer, to a disillusioned soldier sick with the waste of war. He arrives in Danang sure of a quick and certain ...
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Boxcar Children: Children’s Theatre ReviewChildren's Theatre Review: Boxcar Children
Arden Children's Theatre is Philadelphia's first resident professional children's theatre program. Amazingly, Arden Children's Theatre produces children's shows with the same caliber of actors, designers and budgets it uses on the mainstage.
An ...
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ReviewThe series of books for children by J. K, Rowlings, featuring a boy with magical powers by the name of Harry Potter, have swept the world. These books have captured the imaginations of adults as well as children. They have one undeniable feature critical to children's literature: children want to ...
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Night by Elie Wiesel: A ReviewElie Wiesel's story NIGHT is an accounting of his later childhood in Hungary and how he and his family ended up transported to German concentration camps. The book is emotional and moving although Wiesel does not use emotional words or phrases. His simple language and matter-of-fact approach ...
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The Mummies of UrumchiQuite a few books on the topic of mummies can be found in library catalogues and on the site of Amazon.com (Cat Mummy, the Mummy's Curse, Ancient Mummies, Pharaohs and Pyramids, Mummies and Disease… This is especially the case, because people enjoy reading about the unusual and sometimes ...
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Book Report On "A Dramatic Death"This story starts off with the Dorking Drama Group who are making a play
everything is going well until gruesome accidents start happening but the group
ignores it until a prop falls down and kills someone. The police do a
investigation but conclude that it was a accident so the play goes on, ...
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Review Of The Scarlet LetterAdultery, betrayal, promiscuity, subterfuge, and intrigue, all of
which would make an excellent coming attraction on the Hollywood scene and
probably a pretty good book. Add Puritan ideals and writing styles, making
it long, drawn out, tedious, wearisome, sleep inducing, insipidly asinine,
and ...
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In The Middle Of The Night: ReviewIn the Middle of the Night
By Robert Cormier
(Harper Collins, 203 pages, $8.95)
Reviewed by Ranwick
Well, I picked up the book not really sure what it was about, and half way
through I still wasn't sure but once I grasped hold of what was going on I
couldn't put the book down.
In the Middle of ...
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Book Report On "A Dramatic Death"This story starts off with the Dorking Drama Group who are making a play
everything is going well until gruesome accidents start happening but the
group ignores it until a prop falls down and kills someone. The police do a
investigation but conclude that it was a accident so the play goes on, ...
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The Nation Takes ShapeCritical Book Review III:
In his book, , Marcus Cunliffe outlines what he calls a half a century of immense progress. He focuses in on the period of time from after the Constitution is drafted to the end of Andrew Jackson’s presidency. (1789-1837). In his book he outlines the major events ...
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A Review Of The JungleThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a dreary story that depicts the
life of a working man in the early twentieth century. The book shows the
horrid working conditions placed about the Chicago factory workers and the
horrors of the standard of living. The book follows behind an immigrant
from Russia ...
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