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  • Fahrenheit 451 Books

    Fahrenheit 451 Books

    The Book In Fahrenheit 451 books are burned on sight without exceptions. If I had the choice to save three books and “become” one, the first would be The Black Road which represents what greed and power can do to any kind of man. The second is A Spell For A Chameleon; it shows how if you’re different in any way from society you will be exiled out of the “group”. The Far Side

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    Essay Length: 523 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Corporation - Book Review

    The Corporation - Book Review

    The Corporation: A Book Review Joel Bakan’s book, The Corporation: the Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, is a decisive look into the mind of the corporation, or big business. It outlines the importance of profit in business and how ruthless corporations are willing to be in order to bring in substantial revenue. The book uses a historical timeframe to portray the ruthlessness of business ever since the idea of the corporation arose in the

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    Essay Length: 1,631 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Monika
  • Farewell to Manzanar Book Review

    Farewell to Manzanar Book Review

    Farewell to Manzanar Book Review “ What is Pearl Harbor?”(4). The book I read was Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki. This is what started World War II. During these times Japanese people were treated like animals. They were forced to live in internment camps throughout Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 was approved by Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, this order ordered the military to place Japanese or Japanese Americans into these internment camps. This is

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    Essay Length: 540 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Kevin
  • My Book Review

    My Book Review

    That’s no animal, I tell you! Listen to the dog bark-ing! It must be a human being.” The woman stared into the darkness of the sierra. “What if they’re soldiers?” said a man, who sat In-dian-fashion, eating, a coarse earthenware plate in his right hand, three folded tortillas in the other. The woman made no answer, all her senses directed outside the hut. The beat of horses’ hoofs rang in the quarry nearby. The dog

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    Essay Length: 418 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Yan
  • Pox Americana Book Review

    Pox Americana Book Review

    Smallpox is an extremely deadly disease which, in one point in time, was the most feared disease on the planet. In the book Pox Americana, Elizabeth A. Fenn writes about the encounter with the deadly disease in the 1770’s to the 1780’s. Her book was first published in 2001 in New York City, where she originally wrote it. Her book contains just under 400 words that explain the disease, some of the first encounters with

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    Essay Length: 800 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Maltese Falcon: Book Vs. Movie

    The Maltese Falcon: Book Vs. Movie

    The Changing Of Characters Many time in our lives, we have seen the transformation of novels into movies. Some of them are equal to the novel, few are superior, and most are inferior. Why is this? Why is it that a story that was surely to be one of the best written stories ever, could turn out to be Hollywood flops? One reason is that in many transformations, the main characters are changed, some the

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    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • A Million Little Pieces Book Review

    A Million Little Pieces Book Review

    The book “A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey is a heart wrenching story of James’ time in drug rehab. In this book Frey is trying to inform the reader about what it is like to go through rehab. He describes his entire time, from the day before he arrives until the day he leaves. He describes all his feelings and the routine life they give him at the clinic. The main themes of this

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    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Jon
  • Compare and Contrast to Kill a Mockingbird Book and Movie

    Compare and Contrast to Kill a Mockingbird Book and Movie

    To Kill A Mockingbird - Differences between Movie and Book There are usually differences in two different versions of something. This can often be seen when a book is made into a movie. There are many similarities and differences in the book and movie versions of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To begin with, there are many similarities between the book and movie To Kill A Mockingbird. For example, Tom Robinson died in

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    Essay Length: 788 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Top
  • A Critical Book Report in as I Lay Dying

    A Critical Book Report in as I Lay Dying

    A Critical Book Report in As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying is a novel written by William Faulkner in 1930. William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons of Murry and Maud Butler Falkner (he later added the “u” to the family name himself). “His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in the history of northern Mississippi who served as a

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    Essay Length: 3,690 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: July
  • Odyssey Book Review

    Odyssey Book Review

    The original author, Homer, was a Greek poet who wrote epic poems. Not much is known about Homer, but there are different theories of what Homer seems to be. Some believe he was not even a real person, some think that it was a group of people that made up the poems, some think he was a woman, and according to the legend, he was a blind, poor poet who lived in Ionia. The author

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    Essay Length: 1,071 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Compare and Contrast of the Book Night

    Compare and Contrast of the Book Night

    Compare and Contrast Paper “Through love, through hope, and faith’s transcendent dower, we feel that we are greater than we know.”- William Wordsworth. As stated in this quote, when we have something to hope for, and someone showing us love, we are capable of many things. In the movie Life is Beautiful and the book Night love and hope are the only things that keep the characters alive. This is shown through Elie and his

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Book Review on a Thousand Spledid Suns

    Book Review on a Thousand Spledid Suns

    Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in 34 countries. In 2006 he received the Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Refugee Agency and was named a U.S. goodwill envoy to that agency. Told through the alternating voices of two women, the story spans the turbulent period from the 1970s to post-9/11. The story is set

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    Essay Length: 681 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Book Review Of: To Kill a Mockingbird

    Book Review Of: To Kill a Mockingbird

    Book Review of: To Kill a Mockingbird Genre: Fiction/Realism First published in 1960 by William Heinemann Ltd. F Plot To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother, Jem, in 1930's Alabama. Through their neighbourhood walk-abouts and the example of their father, they grow to understand that the world isn't always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems. The

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: July
  • Good Morning, Midnight Short Analysis of an Extract Ot the Book

    Good Morning, Midnight Short Analysis of an Extract Ot the Book

    Jean Rhys (1894-1979) a West Indian writer. Discuss how Rhys' style and thematic concerns in this passage are reflective of the period studied. The extract from Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys starts off with the entrance of "an old Englishwoman and her daughter", told to the reader by the omniscient narrator written in first-person. This extract is written in a stream-of-consciousness as there is some attempt of presenting to the reader what is going

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Edward
  • Marketing James Patterson Books

    Marketing James Patterson Books

    Executive Summary: Over the last decade James Patterson has published an unprecedented number of best-selling books, cemented a powerful brand image amongst a loyal following, and redefined the process by which authors create content to meet reader demand. From November 2000 through June 2003, Patterson had cumulative sales of over six million dollars, trailing only John Grisham during that time frame. He has generated the majority of his sales through a loyal readership that consistently

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Book Review of the Namesake

    Book Review of the Namesake

    Book Review Abbey Parise The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri “We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright. Some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”(Anonymous) The Namesake is about a Calcutta family trying to do the best they can at becoming true Americans while keeping their heritage and customs. In her book, she described to the reader

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    Essay Length: 770 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Steve
  • Bartolome De Las Casas Book Review

    Bartolome De Las Casas Book Review

    An Account much abbreviated of the destruction of the Indies, Indianapolis, IN, Hackett Publishing Company INC., 2003 Bartolme De Las Casas is an interesting character. His passion for people who at the time were seen as a sub species of humans (if even human at all) is remarkable. De Las Casas came from a modest family and was well educated. He was brought into the world of the America’s through his father Pedro De Las

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: regina
  • The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Book Report

    The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Book Report

    The Invisible Man is the story of a young black man whose name the reader never learns. He is a young man from the South who is haunted by his grandfather's deathbed warning against conforming to the wishes of white people because the young man sees that as the way to be successful. The narrator's first real glimpse at the cruel manipulation of white people comes when he is invited to the local men's

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    Essay Length: 601 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Artur
  • Book Report on Jarhead, by Anthony Swafford

    Book Report on Jarhead, by Anthony Swafford

    The novel “Jarhead,” by Anthony Swafford is a first hand account of the Gulf War in early 1990. I really enjoyed reading this book. It was very honest account of his experience, and while he wasn’t actually in any combat situations, it was fascinating to see what life was like overseas. Swafford also often incorporates stories and information from his home life, which shows the reader how he got to where he is today. I

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • Advise and Consent Book Review

    Advise and Consent Book Review

    Lee Epstein and Jeffrey Segal's book Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments, is a decidedly useful tool when dealing with the appointment processes held when a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court. Their findings tend to be in continuum with those of many legal scholars popularized today in scholarly journals and politically concentrated newspapers. They take over two hundred years of history and sum it up and pinpoint the exact areas needed to

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    Essay Length: 1,621 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Forbes Book Review - Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time

    Forbes Book Review - Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time

    Book Review: Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time It would be an understatement to say that the twenty figures presented in Gross’s Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time are success stories. These people have molded and shaped the way we live our everyday lives through their incredible achievements. Imagine starting with only a vision, while lacking the financial resources and personnel to make that dream a reality. This was the case for

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf Book

    Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf Book

    Although it is thought of as having been 'written' by Hitler, Mein Kampf is not a book in the usual sense. Hitler never actually sat down and pecked at a typewriter or wrote longhand, but instead dictated it to Rudolph Hess while pacing around his prison cell in 1923-24 and later at an inn at Berchtesgaden. Reading Mein Kampf is like listening to Hitler speak at length about his youth, early days in the Nazi

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Bred
  • The Outsiders: Movie Vs Book

    The Outsiders: Movie Vs Book

    Ever read a book, and then see the movie of the story? The novel and movie, The Outsiders, had many similarities and many differences. The Outsiders is an excellent tale by S. E. Hinton, and the movie was high-quality as well. There was a huge variation between the two. There were also tiny details that were precisely the same. The novel and movie had many similarities and differences. The similarities are a huge part

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Kevin
  • The Catcher in the Rye: the Symbolism Behind the Book

    The Catcher in the Rye: the Symbolism Behind the Book

    The Catcher in the Rye: The Symbolism Behind the Book The Catcher in the Rye is written by J.D. Salinger. This book in particular is closely based on the life of Salinger. The symbols in this book are very highly developed and have a lot to do with the development of Holden’s character and also explain how he feels about certain things in his life. The three most important symbols in this book are ducks

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Kite Runner - Book Review

    The Kite Runner - Book Review

    The Kite Runner, a quietly powerful novel, fulfills the promise of fiction, awakening curiosity about the world around us, speaking truth as the lessons of history echo down the years. The themes are universal: familial relationships, particularly father and son; the price of disloyalty; the inhumanity of a rigid class system; and the horrific realities of war. In Afghanistan, young Amir's earliest memories of life in Kabul are blessed with a cultural heritage that values

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Jessica

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