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  • Why Read the Books

    Why Read the Books

    It has now become clear that Italo Calvino will prove to be one of this century's major writers. In recent years, his work has been established alongside such pan-European thinkers as Barthes and Eco, particularly in the sense that his interests are polymathic. Calvino is an essayist, a literary theorist, a writer of fiction and, to a large extent, a visionary. Paradoxically, much of the modernity he has explored in his narratives has its roots

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    Essay Length: 542 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 16, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Colonial America Book Notes

    Colonial America Book Notes

    Colonial America BookNotes John Putnam Demos (1937-) A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony NY: Oxford UP, 1970. xvi + 201 p. Ill.: 15 photos (btw. 108-09). Appendix: demographic tables (191-94). Bibliographical footnotes, index (195-201). ISBN: 0195128907 (1999 ed.) Thesis: "A familie is a little Church, and a little commonwealth, at least a lively representation thereof, whereby triall may be made of such as are fit for any place of authoritie, or of subjection

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    Essay Length: 1,877 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2009 By: Janna
  • Argument Paper on the Book of Philippians

    Argument Paper on the Book of Philippians

    ARGUMENT ON THE BOOK OF PHILIPPPIANSThe book of Philippians has long been considered simply a letter of thanks for the financial gift of Philippian believers to the apostle Paul. Such a limited assumption hinders one when approaching God’s Word for insight. The letter was written not merely with the intent of thanks, though Paul’s gratitude is evident; it contains much spiritual exhortation and doctrine. Philippians also contains in it perhaps the most touching testimonies of

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Under the Banner of Heaven Book Review-Mormon Fundamentalism

    Under the Banner of Heaven Book Review-Mormon Fundamentalism

    Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven. New York: Anchor Books (a division of Random House, Inc.), 2003. Jon Krakauer’s literary legacy has shown that he is a man impressed with extremes. It takes one form of extremism to give in to one’s wanderlust and decide to forsake all earthly possessions to attempt to live in the wilderness like in Krakauer’s Into the Wild, and another form

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    Essay Length: 2,010 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Figurative Language in the Third Book of Jonathan Swiftвђ™s Gulliverвђ™s Travels

    Figurative Language in the Third Book of Jonathan Swiftвђ™s Gulliverвђ™s Travels

    “And though I (…) understand all mysteries and all knowledge and have no charity, I am nothing.” /St Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, 13, 2 / Each of the four books of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels discusses one aspect of human nature. The discussions’ language is rather satirical than an earnest tone. The first book is about the physical aspect, the voyage to Brobdingnag focuses on the “Homo politicus”, the political man. The third

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • Presenting a New Book Featuring Don Rutledge’s Photography

    Presenting a New Book Featuring Don Rutledge’s Photography

    Presenting a New Book Featuring Don Rutledge’s Photography Light: The Photojournalism of Don Rutledge By: Stanley Leary Don Rutledge has worked in 143 countries and all 50 states. His work has included assignments from the world famous Black Star picture agency in New York; to civil rights efforts (including documenting the work of John Howard Griffin for Black Like Me); to photo stories in Associated Press, Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Forbes, Stern in Germany, and

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Hot Zone (book Report)

    The Hot Zone (book Report)

    Imagine walking into a tiny village in Africa, suffering and dying from some unknown virus. As you approach the huts you hear the wails of pure agony from the afflicted tribe members. Coming closer, you smell the stench of vomit mixed with the bitter smell of warm blood. People inside lye dying in pools of their own vital fluids, coughing and vomiting up their own liquefied internal organs; their faces emotionless masks loosely hanging from

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Red Badge of Courage Book Report

    Red Badge of Courage Book Report

    Red Badge of Courage When I first started reading this book I thought why does every one rave about how well it is written so I totally dove into reading it and found many forms of symbolism. The Symbolism in a Soldier The story The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, was written to reflect the harsh Civil War realities. Cranes style of writing to portray these realities included the technique of symbolism. In

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Book of Job and the Lessons Taught

    The Book of Job and the Lessons Taught

    The Book of Job and the Lessons Taught The Old Testament’s Book of Job is a highly controversial part of the Biblical text. The book of Job is part of the collection of Wisdom Literature, along with Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. The Book of Job is not simply a story, but a fable, full of meaning and lessons to be learned. Job attempts to rationalize human suffering and the ways of the Lord.

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Creation from the Book of Genesis Within the King James Version of the Bible

    The Creation from the Book of Genesis Within the King James Version of the Bible

    In the Beginning… The text used for the title starts “The Creation” from the Book of Genesis within the King James Version of the Bible. As the rest of the story goes, God created Earth and all of it’s inhabitants within 6-days. This belief if the foundation of the Creationist theory, which in recent history has been proposed to contradict Darwin’s theory of evolution and the concept of natural selection. Darwin’s theory of evolution, which

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: David
  • Should Libraries in Canada Remove from Their Shelves Books That Some Patrons Find offensive?

    Should Libraries in Canada Remove from Their Shelves Books That Some Patrons Find offensive?

    Should Libraries in Canada remove from their shelves books that some patrons find offensive? Books are a vital part of our society. They are essential in providing knowledge and information for everyone. All books do not provide the same meaning to each individual who reads it. Many readers may not even interpret the book the way the author meant it to be interpreted. Each reader brings with them a personal history with different morals and

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    Essay Length: 1,031 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Top
  • Book Review: The Japanese

    Book Review: The Japanese

    This book,"The Japanese", written by Jack Seward covers a lot of information on the overall life of Japan, however, I will only summarized fifty-three pages of this book which will cover their food and drink (chap 8 pp.133 -162) and their language (chap.9 pp.163 -186). A lot of the information is past through little anecdotes that Seward has experienced with the Japanese. The author starts the chapter on food and drink by telling the reader

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Janna
  • The Lonely Crowd Book Review

    The Lonely Crowd Book Review

    David Riesman studied the post World War 2 society during his time. His study involved looking at the socialization of a person within groups, settings and periods of time. In the first chapter of his book, “The Lonely Crowd”, he defines social character as part of a society’s “mode of conformity” In other words; the way a person is socially characterized is based on the way he or she is influenced. Riesman analyzes those influences

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Paradise to Promiseland Book Review

    Paradise to Promiseland Book Review

    Part I In Part two of From Paradise to the Promised Land, T.D. Alexander uses chapters fifteen and sixteen to describe the themes of God’s desire to be amongst His creation and His desire for them to be holy. The tabernacle, later replaced by the temple, plays a great part in this process because it was constructed to become the dwelling place of the Lord. No man was allowed permission to commune with God unless

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Great Gatsby Comparison Between Book and the Movie G

    The Great Gatsby Comparison Between Book and the Movie G

    The Great Gatsby Comparison Paper The similarities and the differences between the book The Great Gatsby and the movie G are many in both accounts. The book The Great Gatsby was written and set in the 1920's with all caucasion characters, and the proper talk and everyday life of the 20's. The movie G is much different in this aspect because the writter's and the director of the film decided to modernize the story and

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Book of Deuteronomy

    The Book of Deuteronomy

    Precis #1 Andrea/Overfield, "Establishing a Covenant with a Chosen People" Moses, "THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY" "THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY" is written when Moses was leading the Israelites out of Egypt, where they were slaves, and into the new "Promised Land", (between 1279-1213 B.C.E). The Israelites had just spent many years crossing and wandering in a vast dessert (forty years). As they begin to get closer, their leader Moses believes that he will not make it

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Book of Rev.

    Book of Rev.

    I often ask the question on how the world would come to an end. It is my nature to ask this. For a while I thought that this question was without an answer. I became interested in this topic a few years ago, but never explored my curiosity. It started when I went to church. The Pastor was talking about the end of the world and to be prepared because the time is drawing near.

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Vika
  • A Year in the South Book Review

    A Year in the South Book Review

    Name Class Teacher Date During the course of Civil War people faced many different hardships and challenges. As the war began secessionist hopes were high and they had control over the unionist. However, as the war progressed this began to change. The men that fought for the Rebels were beginning to come home and the same was true for the men who fought with the Yankees. Since many of all these men lived in the

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Anna
  • Describe What Evolutionary Psychologists Mean When They Employ the Term ‘theory of Mind'.Use Examples and Research Studies from Book 1, Chapter 2 to Show Why This Theory Is Important in Evolutionary Psychology.

    Describe What Evolutionary Psychologists Mean When They Employ the Term ‘theory of Mind'.Use Examples and Research Studies from Book 1, Chapter 2 to Show Why This Theory Is Important in Evolutionary Psychology.

    Describe what evolutionary psychologists mean when they employ the term ‘theory of mind’. Use examples and research studies from Book 1, Chapter 2 to show why this theory is important in evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology is a specialist field within the spectrum of psychological enquiry, which seeks to examine and understand some of the predominant reasoning behind the concept of why the human species, whilst biologically similar to other species on the planet, is so

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Max
  • Book Review: Getting Things Done

    Book Review: Getting Things Done

    Book Review: Getting Things Done Reading through much of this book peaked my interest on many different viewpoints and ideas. David Allen has indeed done his homework and talked to many different people in various careers and summarized helping others in this informative book. This book is very interesting and could help people with reducing stress in high profile jobs. A couple of ideas Mr. Allen wrote in this book could be very helpful to

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Edward
  • Book Report and Review for Flowers in the Attic

    Book Report and Review for Flowers in the Attic

    Have you ever imagined living locked up in an attic for 3 years and 5 months? Have you ever imagined not growing up with your mother's care and love at the time you were 5? Flowers in the Attic is one of the more original series written by V.C. Andrews of the Dollanganger series. It is one of the best books I've read because it's depressing and dark yet heart-touching. In this book report,

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    Essay Length: 982 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Yan
  • In the Blood Book Review

    In the Blood Book Review

    Family run businesses are the backbone of Canada, from corner shops to institutions such as Molson Inc. and Ellis-Don Construction Ltd. More than just money-making establishments, they are traditions handed down, ventures embarked on a century ago that have been handed off from father to son and mother to daughter. But from this seemingly heavenly custom springs frustration, anger, rebellion, jealousy and revenge as new generations of entrepreneurs-to-be decide they want nothing to do with

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Gingerbread - Book Review

    Gingerbread - Book Review

    Bibliography: Cohn, Rachael Gingerbread New York: Simon & Shuster Children's Publishing Division, 2002 Gingerbread is a novel about a girl named Cyd Charisse. After Cyd Charisse is expelled from a fancy boarding school, she finds that her problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer named Shrimp. Her mom and her step-dad seem to think that she needs time to figure out who she really is and what she

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Book Review - Andrew Jackson

    Book Review - Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson has remained an enigma in American history. Where previous Presidents had Either come from the Virginia dynasty or were named Adams, Jackson was from the west. His Early life was controversial, as demonstrated by his marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. At the Time of their marriage, she was still married to her first husband. Jackson's devotion to his wife Led to many confrontations, some of them deadly. He despised the abuse of power

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • Book Report - the Outsiders

    Book Report - the Outsiders

    Book Report On The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis - Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old member of a gang called the Greasers. His parents died in a car accident, so he lives alone with his two older brothers, Darry and Soda. He is a good student and athlete, but most people at school consider him a vagrant like his Greaser friends. Sodapop Curtis - Soda is Pony's handsome, charming older brother. He dropped out of school to work

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Mike

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