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A Midsummer Night Dream Literature Essay
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On the contrary, Frances de la Tour begins her review of the comedy with a confession that "to me A Midsummer Night's Dream is a nightmare journey into love and out of love. It's about passion and the pain of passion, rejected love and unrequited love." However, at one point all doubtlessly agree, that love is indeed the cornerstone, the binding element, and in a sense the main hero of the play present in almost every scene.
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Love and Conflict between Dominique Francon and Howard Roark Literature Book Report/Review
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The accidental encounter of Dominique Francon, a news reporter, with Howard Roark, the red-headed quarry worker, is intrinsically woven into the web of The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand with the thread of love and hatred. The storyline revolves around Roark’s main adversary Ellsworth Toohey, an architectural critic, and Dominique Francon
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Analysis of Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones Literature Book Report/Review
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Much of the book focuses on Derk, and about his personal life, especially in regards to his son and daughter, and although the main theme of this book is fantasy, there is much more than is divulged into within this book. For instance, the trappings of various different fantasy epics are spoofed in this book.
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Character of Gilgamesh Literature Book Report/Review
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Throughout the epic poem, Gilgamesh goes through a significant change of character that allows him to evolve, and by the end of the story Gilgamesh has grown into the true hero he was destined to be.
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Jasmine Tea by Eileen Chang Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Chuanqing appears incapable of loving another human being and acts as though he is emotionally dead. However, a professor’s daughter, Danzhu, develops an interest in befriending the troubled young man. Through his convoluted logic, Chuanqing passes through stages of dislike, hatred guided by jealousy.
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God Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent by Gustavo Gutierrez Literature Literature review
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The purpose of the author was to convince the reader that poverty, disease and pestilence exist not because God wanted to punish them or society in general. These conditions exist because God wanted us to learn how to help others and not become dependent and mere spectators. He wanted us to experience the creation ourselves.
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Pastor Shirley Caesar as an American Music Legend Literature Essay
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The book also comes with a free CD featuring 200 drug monographs and handouts to facilitate patient teaching. This book is an invaluable source of clinical information. It has been a bestseller since its first edition and the new edition with its updated information and additional useful features is an exceptional resource.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Literature Literature review
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There is truly something more that is going on than what may first appear to the eye in this novel, and it should also be known that the power of this piece of literature truly has much less to do with that of the conflict of the great forces that generally typifies great works of literature, and rather has more to do with.
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Analysis of World Literature: Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke and Edmond Hamilton Literature Essay
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  The authors chosen by me as the manager of the Manuscript Search workgroup for Hard Cover Literature Publishing are four famous science fiction writers who are tightly connected with Hard Cover Literature Publishing. The authors are frequently influenced by the society in which they live or the times and events within their life spans.
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Blak's Story Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the protagonist introduces himself as an orphan, a thief, a gang member, and a drug dealer who has shot people and been shot. He also tells at the beginning of the story that he has come across several moments in life when he thought he came real close to giving up, but something inside him kept the little candle of hope.
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Creativity in Education Shown by Percy Walker in His Essay The Loss of Creature Literature Essay
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The student is presented with cold, uninspiring facts packaged in glossy books, beautiful classrooms, and scientific rules. The result is, the student no longer enjoys the poetry he reads nor does he learn anything from the science experiment he does, except dry jargon and clichés. In the process, he loses the beauty of the poetry and the wonder of creation.
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The Autobiography of an ExColored Man by James Weldon Johnson Literature Book Report/Review
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The protagonist of the fictional story, the Ex-Colored Man, is given the ultimate choice in the story to either embrace his black heritage and culture by expressing himself through the African-American musical genre ragtime or to live indistinctly as an average middle-class white man.
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The Flesh and the Spirit in American Literature Literature Essay
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According to the essay, John Smith in “The General History of Virginia” depicts the role and impact on religious beliefs on the first settlers. Smith writes: “everything of worth is found full of difficulties: but nothing so difficult as to establish a commonwealth so far remote from men and means, and where men's minds are so untoward.
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Political Satire - Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres Literature Book Report/Review
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Because Louis de Bernieres'  'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' proved to be one of the most captivating, unusual, and emotionally engaging books ever read, my initial response to the statement was bemusement tempered with resentment.  The first was due to the categorical definition of 'powerful political satire', the latter because of the negativity implied by the term 'unsatisfactory novel'. 
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The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Literature Essay
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Generally speaking, Giusеppе di Lаmpеdusа turnеd 58 whеn hе stаrtеd to writе Thе Lеopаrd, though hе hаd hаd it in his mind for 25 yеаrs.  Thе аuthor diеd аt thе аgе of 60, soon аftеr finishing Thе Lеopаrd, so hе did not еvеn hаvе а chаncе to sее it is publishеd аnd did not tаstе thе flаvor of fаmе.
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The Things They Carried by Tim Obrien Literature Essay
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This story vividly depicts inner state of the characters during wartime and their living essentials such as fear, kindness, love, and uncertainty. These things are so important for them as ammunition during wartime, because they help the main heroes to overcome depression and difficulties they face with.
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Fear by Pablo Neruda Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that when Neruda says, “Everyone is after me to jump through hoops/ whoop it up, play football, rush about,/” the busy din and excitement of normal everyday healthy life is invoked, where man rushes on from one thing to another without pause. Also important is the introduction of the phrase that is repeated in the poem.
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Is Hamlet Primarily a Tragedy of Revenge Literature Book Report/Review
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One of the most celebrated tragedies in English literature, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is an important play by William Shakespeare which narrates the story of how Prince Hamlet takes revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered his father, King Hamlet, and married his mother Gertrude.
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Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons by Joseph Cirincione Literature Book Report/Review
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"The good news is that the nonproliferation regime has worked. The nuclear threat is less cruel today than it was in 1970 when the Non-Proliferation Treaty entered into force". He bases this evaluation on the fact that "the number of nuclear weapons in the world has declined from a peak of 65,000 in 1986 to roughly 27,000 today". But does this automatically make the world a safer place?
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Raymond Carvers Cathedral Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that in this story, the central character is isolated, coarse, and even bigoted, as Carver shows by revealing his racism “Her name was Beulah! That’s a name for a colored woman. The purpose of this literary analysis is to demonstrate how Carver produces revelation in “Cathedral” through the use of strong characterization.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the frame of the novel, the world of fantasy, plays a critical role, opposing its imaginative visions to existing or potential ills and injustices in society. On the other hand, imaginative episodes are one of the most important means by which Marquez can investigate new ways of defining itself.
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Saint Apollonias Back Teeth Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that surprisingly Mancio bets military secrets and somehow wins against the Incas and cashes the gold. In Montezuma’s peacock how a cook shows his love, affection, and gratitude towards his lover has been sketched. All the recipe's instructions were given. All the happenings of the French revolution were described.
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Voltaire and Racine Literature Essay
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The novel is evocative of Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man." In this regard, one can claim that in looking into Racine's Phaedra, Voltaire will react both with pride and indignation, pride because the play illustrates the dangers he himself believes if passion and reason are not in check, and indignation because the main character, Phaedra, succumbed to the torment of fate as symbolized by the constant characterization of Greek gods and goddesses.
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The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos Literature Essay
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He wanted to make it clear for people of all ages. John Demos tells us about the struggles between Puritans, Catholics and Native Americans. But the most significant thing in his story is the choice of the representatives of these leading groups of that time.
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Different Types of Poetry Literature Essay
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It should be pointed out that all the presented verses of the paper are written in the modern English language. Thus, "Psalms 137: Super flumina" sounds like that: "By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept when we remembered the old Zion as for our harps, we hung them up upon the trees that are there".
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Literature Literature review
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Sebold focuses on identifying and commemorating all those women and children who were murdered or abused. Ruth is compelled to locate the places where these crimes occurred and to write the names of all such victims in her journal, doing “important work,” Susie tells us, “work that most people on Earth were too frightened even to contemplate” but which her “fans in heaven” cheer on.
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Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Literature Book Report/Review
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In spite of the gawky situation, Cervantes felt compelled to respond with his authentic Part II, a veritable sequel to his earlier work. It is seen by many critics that structurally the two parts bear distinct differences —one, somewhat imperfect, and linear in form and the other, a more nearly perfect, circular form. One must note Cervantes’ desire to write a sequel, and the ironies inherent.
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Los Vendidos by Louis Valdez Literature Book Report/Review
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The insight of the author, how he probes the mindsets of the characters as for their reaction to many small and big challenges of life- this is the real art of writing! These interesting probes make an author great. It makes the reader nod in approval about the author's observations.
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Un Seor Muy Viejo Con Alas Enormes by Gabriel Marquez Literature Essay
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This is the story of what happens when an angel comes to town. But while it is subtitled ''A Tale for Children,'' it is by no means a simple story. The setting is no ordinary town, and its visitor is no ordinary angel—indeed, he seems very ordinary and human, despite his extraordinary appearance.
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Poems on the Icarus Theme Literature Book Report/Review
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Three poems have been selected, Musee des Beaux (poem1), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (poem 2), and Brueghel in Naples (poem 3). Even though they are all writing about the same painting all poems have the same ambiance, but their length and the point of view from which they are written are entirely different.  
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Antigone and Oedipus as Tragic Figures Literature Essay
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Oedipus is unable to exercise free will because his fate has been determined.  In contrast, it is exactly Antigone’s ability to exercise the free will that precipitates the tragic occurrences.  By making this the case, Anouilh reflects the often tragic events realized in recent history by those at the mercy of great power who have dared to exercise free will. 
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Analysis of Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Literature Assignment
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Ruby does not trust money and would rather resort to bartering goods and working the land can offer so much trade if one knew what to do with one has in her surroundings. The cabriolet represents Ada’s first step in learning from Ruby’s practicality in the short time that they have known each other. 
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Imperfections of the Mind Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that both the short stories, through their protagonists, demonstrate that imperfections within the human mind can drive individuals to madness and these literary pieces have several similarities and differences in the ways they present how the character’s imperfections within the mind drive him mad.
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History and Violence in Modernist Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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World history in the twentieth century is especially noted for the various wars, bloodsheds, violence, etc and modernist literature, including fiction and poems, has attempted to represent this human situation. Significantly, there is an obvious relationship between history and violence in twentieth-century and modernist literature.
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The Inevitability of The Fall of the House of Usher Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the grounds and the house can only be expected to produce a disconcerting effect on the viewer. The house is haunted, not by the dead, but by the barely living. Poe’s depiction of a crumbling world introduces the fragile remnants of the Usher family and foreshadows their inescapable demise.
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Australian Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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Aboriginal philosophy is a main component of a life in the Australian environment to ensure the continuation of the survival conditions. The author explains the traditional view of Australian people through the description of tabooed areas of experience in novels of the aboriginal writers.
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Coetzees Disgrace Literature Book Report/Review
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.. He lives within his income, temperament and emotional means. Is he happy' Apparently, he is. Yet "he has not forgotten the last chorus of Oedipus: Call no man happy until he is dead" (Coetze, 2000, page 1). Lurie hasn't found any solution in any way and still has things to tie up sexually after his amorous relationship with the paid escort Soraya (much younger than him, "tall and slim with long and dark, liquid, eyes" (Coetze, 2000, page 1).
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Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the American is persuading her that “it’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig, it’s not really an operation at all” and “I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in”. Jig does not want to have an abortion, and retorts later stating that “'It's ours”; she displays her feelings indirectly.
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A Lawyers Life by Johnnie Cochra Literature Essay
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The author states that throughout this book Cochran truly and quite overtly attempts to put this case into perspective for others to understand better, and he also thoroughly incorporates into this the discussion of how he is on a mission to eradicate racism wherever he finds it, as best as he can.
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The First Agreement: Be Impeccable with Your Word Literature Book Report/Review
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The metaphor of smoke and mirrors is used. This term is often used to describe illusion and deception. But here there is self deception; we fail to see ourselves as we truly are because of this smoke. The concept of dreams is explored in a very unique manner.
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To Elsie by William Carlos Williams Literature Essay
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The author states that the mixture of simple language with more complex terms reflects the mixture of the ordinary and the extraordinary that appears in Williams’ vision of the country. In the first line, when Williams writes of “the pure products” he immediately thought of all the goods that American manufacturers and all the food that its farmers produce.
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The Old Lie, The Young Die Literature Essay
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The author states that Owen was one of the latter—he joined the war because he was force-fed the “Old Lie”: “It is sweet and right, to die for one’s country.” He had enjoyed his military training, but his life on the front was an experience of Hell. Although introspective and solitary by nature, he treasured the communal experience of living.
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Darrell Huff's How to Lie with Statistics Literature Book Report/Review
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As reviewed by The Atlantic, How to Lie With Statistics is, “a pleasantly subversive little book, guaranteed to undermine your faith in the almighty statistic.”  Truly,  the book even though a bit dated, having been written in 1954 is timeless.  A classic that persists to chase away false beliefs and enlighten those who are statistically naive.
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Whispers outside the Room - The Haunted Fiction of Jean Rhys Literature Essay
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The paper discusses this issue in terms of appropriation and originality, first putting forward a thesis, which is then defended/attacked with reference to examples from the text. It will be argued that the novella Wide Sargasso Sea does stand up as an independent, legitimate, work of art, despite having its basis in Bronte’s Jane Eyre. 
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James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the novel reveals David's struggle to accepting himself and rejecting the fear of his own sexuality. Self-acceptance and fear of one's sexuality are both different things, and so they can never be resolved in the same way. A person can lack fear of one's sexuality by openly practicing it.
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Paradise Lost: Miltons Divine Inspiration Literature Essay
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In the very next line, Milton shows us again the connection between the written word and divine revelation.  “In the beginning,” (I, 9) also the first words of Genesis, as shown earlier, complete the unbroken circle from traditional scriptural interoperation to divine revelation and back.  Throughout Paradise Lost, the two concepts play against one another and move back and forth.
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Robinson Crusoe: How Robinson Adapts to and Learns From his Experience of the New World Literature Book Report/Review
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Robinson Crusoe is a novel which was written by Daniel Defoe and was first published in the year 1719. This piece of literature is in fact considered as being the first novel in English, and it has been used to set examples and provoke influence in many different areas of the world, not only in the past but in the present as well.
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Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy Literature Book Report/Review
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This paper is a history of the Confederate guerillas who plunged Missouri into a bloody and vicious conflict of an intensity that as of then is still considered as being unequaled in any other theatre of the Civil War. Brownlee uses the beginning of the book to discuss how fighting in the Civil War commenced on April 12, 1861.
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Literature Book Report/Review
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The author wrote the book in order to arouse the sleeping minds of the Americans. Well, the author indeed achieved his objective of letting the Americans know what was happened in the past why does America experience this type of predicament. The book was written early 20th century.
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Nel's and Sula's Friendship Literature Book Report/Review
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The kind of friendship that Nel and Sula had was ideal for it is comparable to a relationship between biological sisters. They have played together since their childhood days and they were able to withstand the test of time. A prevalent theme in Sula is the influence of family and friends on the characters.
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