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‘Stargirl’ is a novel by the author Jerry Spinelli. Jerry is an American writer that grew up in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and he now lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He decided to become a writer at the age of 16 after a poem he wrote about sports was published in a local newspaper. Jerry went to Gettysburg College and he got his...
Book ReviewLiterary Criticism
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“Meaning, while a slippery concept, seemed inextricable from human relationships and moral values”. Intending to find the ‘meaning’ of life, 36-year-old Paul Kalanithi pursues a career and devotes his life to a neurosurgeon. But everything takes a turn when the doctor turns a patient himself. The book is the journey of the author who was once an actor but now...
Book ReviewCritical Reflection
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Jared Diamond's study of 13,000 years of human history led him to the conclusion that societies evolved differently, depending on the geographical environments they inhabited, rather than human biology, genetics, or culture. He attempts to answer Yael's question by examining agricultural and geographic trends, a thesis that runs counter to traditional scholarship that offers cultural explanations for European and Western...
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Introduction 'The Notebook' by Nicholas Sparks is a poignant and captivating love story that has touched the hearts of readers around the world. Set against the backdrop of the 1940s, the novel follows the passionate and enduring love between Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson. This summary essay provides a concise overview of the key elements and narrative arc of 'The...
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‘Jurassic Park’ is a sci-fi novel by Michael Crichton that explores what happens when dinosaurs are brought back to life through genetic engineering. Things are definitely spiraling out of control, but it is through this chaos that the conversation about man vs. nature emerges. Man vs. nature is a powerful theme in Crichton's ‘Jurassic Park’ as many of the characters...
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Anne Lamott, a single mother, described her journey from conception to the birth of her son and his first year as a growing infant. She is a thirty-five-year-old woman, in the initial stages of the pregnancy she described herself as being too self-centered, cynical, eccentric, and edgy to raise a baby alone. She is too nervous to raise the baby...
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‘Abina and the Important Men’ by Trevor R. Gets, and Liz Clarke tells a story about a young girl who attempts to have her voice heard by people of higher class and status. However, her voice is constantly silenced and people with the agency are always the people in control of Abina’s life. In Abina's story, class, status, and agency...
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Reading ‘The Hate U Give’ by Angie Thomas shows readers the truth about what is happening in the world, but it mostly focuses on racism. This is important because it is an issue that seems indirect and most people hesitate to discuss this topic. This book brings the subject directly into the spotlight. It also tackles, unfair racial profiling for...
Book ReviewThe Hate U Give
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Angie Thomas touches on a lot of different subjects in her book ‘The Hate U Give’, and she does it so very effectively. This book is frustrating and painful, but also funny and moving. It’s frustrating and heart breaking to read, because you are reading about these situations in which there is blatant discrimination and such a lack of justice....
Book ReviewThe Hate U Give
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We describe propaganda as information used to promote a political cause, which is typically biased. Because the telescreens always convey propaganda, they inundate the citizens with information that confuses them. As a result, they cannot formulate anti-government thoughts. We can see its significance clearly in George Orwell's novel ‘1984’. It has a major impact on its readers and it makes...
1984Book ReviewGeorge Orwell
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The silence of the lambs I have read the horror book 'The Silence of the Lambs'. The author, Thomas Harries started his career reviewing crime novels while working as a reporter in New York. He made his debut in 1975 and has since become a best-selling author worldwide, primarily through the books on the refined psychopath Hannibal Lecter. Silence of...
Book ReviewSilence
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Many people have very different perceptions of what it is to be a man. Since history began, different cultures have had different perspectives on how to be a man and what a man is. Our culture’s perspective toward masculinity and femininity is harming individuals and society at large. Men and women are struggling to stay true to themselves because it...
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Why are we constantly unhappy? Why our daily life is so full of regret and anxiety? What is making true relationships so hard to keep? Tolle gives answers to these questions in his book ‘The Power of Now’. By his sayings, the most important thing that matters and the one we think about least is the present. All life is...
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Coney Island is no ordinary amusement park, but a place to experience all that society has to offer in one location. As John F. Kasson, author of ‘Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)’, wrote, “the popular resort quickly became a symbol not only of fun and frolic but also of major changes in...
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Write an essay tracking Atul Gawande’s evolution as a doctor. His perspective on how to advise patients who have serious or terminal illnesses seems to change over time. Why and how does that happen? What experiences helped him to modify his approach? Include an analysis of how your own views about confronting terminal illness and old age have changed from...
Book ReviewPersonal Life
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‘A Painted House’ is a perfect representation of the common American lifestyle. It was inspired by the authors own childhood in the American South. It takes place in the south around the 1950s. This story is told through the eyes Luke Chandler, a seven-year-old boy. His memories and struggles are expressed in so many descriptive ways leading to the overall...
American LiteratureBook Review
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Flannery O'Connor's short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is more than a thrilling narrative; it's a deep examination of the complexities of morality and human nature. Written in 1953, the story delves into themes that are both timeless and universal. Through a journey that takes a dark and unexpected turn, readers are drawn into a world where...
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Peter Fritzsche’s Life and Death in the Third Reich gives personalized accounts of the Nazis’ different approaches, rationales, and justifications for their actions in their relationship with the German people between 1933 and 1945. Rather than blaming the German citizens for allowing Nazi ideology, he focuses on the complex relationship between the German population and the Nazis. He argues that...
Book ReviewLiterary Criticism
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For what reason do a few students leave school prepared for success while others, maybe tied with the obligation of their debt and an un-useful degree? This leaves students asking why they wasted time with school, to begin with. Since the money-related emergency that hit twenty to thirty-year-olds particularly hard began, much consideration has been attracted to whether the school...
Book ReviewParty
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Chapter 1: In chapter one, we are introduced to the main character Jacob, or Yakob. Jacob is a teenager who is going through a time of struggle, stress, anger, etc. While Jacob is at work, which is a family business that he just so happens to hate, he gets a call from his grandfather who is slightly losing his mind...
Book ReviewGrandfather
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” is a quote by Sean Covey. It intends for people to listen not for the sake of it but for the reason to understand the other person. In the book 7 Habits of highly effective teens, Sean Covey intends to give modern-day teens...
Book ReviewHabitsTeenagers
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Every human story could become a tragic story if that story is told as a tragedy. According to Aristotle the protagonist of a tragedy has a flaw in character, a downfall of their own doing followed by a harsh realization of the tragic error before dying and this evokes a reaction in those who witness it, which is a pity....
Book ReviewMovie Summary
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“A Wrinkle in Time”, authored by Madeleine L’Engle, tells the wildly crazy story of three young children, Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O’Keefe. This amazing adventure commences when young Meg a distant child who’s just trying to do the best she can, can't sleep because of the storm that's happening outside her bedroom window at night. She goes...
A Wrinkle in TimeBook Review
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols is a book that touches on topics of decadence and nihilism in figures, societies, and cultures. This book contains a chapter on Socrates, labeled “The Problem of Socrates”. The chapter focuses on a critique of Socrates’ beliefs through Nietzsche’s views on Socrates’ philosophy on the value of life, dialectics, and reason. And this will...
Book ReviewFriedrich Nietzsche
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In one of his many attempts to address Ireland’s deteriorating state of religious, political, and social crisis, Swift reportedly wrote to Alexander Pope in 1729 that his country was ‘absolutely undone, as I have been telling it often in print these ten years past,’. In his essay A Modest Proposal, Swift satirizes the worsening condition of famine in Ireland and...
A Modest ProposalBook Review
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The story of Gilgamesh is very complex and as stated by Kenneth Rexroth a psychological one as well. It displays and encapsulates the mental processes and ways of thinking for the audience to understand and enjoy throughout their reading. In this paper, I will attempt to create a type of psychological portrait. This displays in detail how the characters change...
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In this article, I'm going to delve into the complexity of one of the most famous love triangles of all time. Stephenie Meyer's ‘The Twilight Saga’ has real cultural value, especially considering the film adaptation. The films explore many major themes in and out of production, including feminism, love, choice, and escapism. But this saga is truly life-changing. Even Obama...
Book ReviewTwilight
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INTRODUCTION Speculative fiction is defined as a genre which encompasses many subgenres of fiction, where the authors included unrealistic or magical elements in the fictions. Speculative fiction is any fiction in which the “laws” of that world (explicit or implied) are different than ours (Neugebauer, 2014). Neugebauer also stated that the term 'world-building' usually goes hand in hand with speculative...
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