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Oresteia: Theme of Light and Darkness

Aeschylus's Oresteia - Light & Darkness Motif Aeschylus's Oresteia, like most other ancient plays, skillfully makes use of various kinds of literary devices to highlight the main themes. One important literary device in Oresteia is the motif of light and darkness that signifies good and evil and ...

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Review of Nine Parts of Desire

Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks In journalist Geraldine Brooks' first book - published in 1995, well after the Gulf War - she tries hard to get past the mysteries and misunderstandings, and into the truths of Islamic women. For the most part, Brooks' effort is laudable and ...

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Book Report: Reaching Dustin

Book Report. Reaching Dustin. I learned a lot from this book, but there is one thing that stood out the most: don't judge a book by its cover. Throughout the book Carly, the main character, sees Dustin like everybody else does: sometimes ...

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Book/Movie Comparison of Howl's Moving Castle

Hayao Miyazaki's production of Howl's Moving Castle was the movie that I had lately watched along with reading the paperback by Diana Wynne Jones. So, I got to admit that I was terribly anxious to read the novel that had inspired one of the most famous Japanese film director, producer, ...

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Me Before You - Jojo Myes

BOOK REPORT- Me Before You Jojo Moyes By: shira hatzor At first, it was really hard for me to read this book. Not because it was written in high language level or anything like that, it just was a bit too heavy reading for my taste- at first. And also it was one of the first books that I've ...

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Survival (on The Book Night)

The book Night is about the holocaust as experienced by Elie Weisel from inside the concentration camps. During World War II millions of innocent Jews were taken from their homes to concentration camps, resulting in the deaths of 6 million people. There were many methods of survival for the ...

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Mother-Daughter Tradition In The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club is a representation of the persistent tensions and powerful bonds between mother and daughter in a Chinese American society. The book illustrates the hardships both the mother and daughters go through in order to please the other. Also, it shows the troubles the daughters face ...

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Thunder Rides A Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches And The Mythic Present

I feel that what Claire Farrer means by living in the "mythic present" is that although most Indian culture is perceived long to have been different, it is in fact very live and active today. I will give specific examples from her book, Thunder Rides a Black Horse, to support my arguments of ...

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The River Runs Through It

The “Water is Wide” takes place on the coast of South Carolina and Yamacraw Island during the nineteen sixties. A man by the name of Pat Conroy offers to teach over on the island, many people on the island have no education and are illiterate. When Conroy gets over to the island he ...

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Holocaust (devil IN Vienna)

The Holocaust. A subject most people would like to forget but shouldn't. People must find out as much as possible about it so history won't repeat itself. Millions of Jewish men, women, and children , of all strata were persecuted because of what? Nothing besides the fact that they were Jewish. ...

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One More River

Can you imagine having to leave everything you have ever known to live in a country on the verge of war? Lesley Shelby, the main character in by Lynn Reid Banks, knows exactly how it feels. This Jewish Canadian girl has to emigrate to Israel with her family. Through the determination and ...

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Billy Budd 2

To form simply one opinion or show merely one aspect of this story is naive, rude, and closed minded. How may one stick to one deli mea, moral questioning, or out-look on a book that jumps from such cases like frogs on lily pads? Just as Melville has done, I shall attempt to arrange my perception ...

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Combining Individual Stories Into Larger Wholes

The inclination to combine individual stories into larger wholes goes way back into oral tradition. In the literary world this kind of story linkage is known as a short story cycle, or sequence (various other names exist but these have caught on). It is not a collection of isolated stories but ...

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Billy Budd

To form simply one opinion or show merely one aspect of this story is naive, rude, and closed minded. How may one stick to one deli mea, moral questioning, or out-look on a book that jumps from such cases like frogs on lily pads? Just as Melville has done, I shall attempt to arrange my perception ...

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Interview With The Vampire

This novel, “”, by Anne Rice, is by far one of the best book I’ve ever read. It started with a young boy interviewing a vampire, and the vampire related him the whole story of his life, how he became a vampire, his thrilling adventures through the centuries and his complex ...

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Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": Summary

This week I read Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts. I read from page 1 to page 437 for a total of 437 pages. The book is about an A-6A Intruder (a naval bomber) pilot named Jake Grafton. In the first few pages Jake's best friend and B/N (Bombardier/Navigator) is killed by a Vietnamese ...

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Rick Pitino

By w/ Bill Reynolds The book that I read is about a great coach, and an unbelievable motivator, . Pitino is most remembered for his incredible years as head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. In 1996 he led them to a national championship and in 1997 he led them to the final round. After that year ...

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Heilner's "Beneath The Wheel" And Me

As it did every school day of my junior year, 11:12 AM had come once more to mark the end of my academic morning, and the beginning of my lunch period. After paying my one dollar for a small cherry vita-pup slush drink and a strawberry fruit roll-up, I would take my place at the usual lunch ...

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Native Son

1. by Richard Wright; 1940 2. At the halfway point of this book, I find myself amazed at the segregation and racism going on. Never have I read a book that has so clearly accounted for the African American’s feelings towards white people. The hate that brews inside of the African Americans is ...

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Into The Wild

Courage is something that is extremely hard to define, because it is very different in every person. It can be demonstrated in a number of ways. A person could jump into an icy lake to save a child or they could stand up for what they believe in like MLK did. It is for these reasons that courage ...

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