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Historical book Literature Book Report/Review
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For reasons best known to themselves these official version of history is only the twisted truth. In the book "The Secret Histories" we find a collection of documents, memos and transcripts that expose the dark side of such events ranging from the hand of IBM in the Jewish annihilation by Nazis, the dark side of the Korean War, The CIA's hand in the overthrow of the democratic government of Iran in 1951 and the covert political maneuvers conducted in Chile, the way unsuspecting human beings were secretly used as guinea pigs to experiment on plutonium from l945 to l947 and the torture of inmates in the infamous Abu Ghraib Prison, the reflection of official paranoia as shown by the secret age
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The Tempest Play Literature Essay
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The play also affirms various hierarchies. In the debate between the two professors, the English professor says Caliban deserved his punishment because he was trying to defy the Elizabethan concept of the Great Chain of Being. He implies that Caliban must always be Prospero’s inferior and must never fight back.
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The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Literature Book Report/Review
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Evaluated from this point, the theme of education, which is a major theme of the novel, can be comprehended as the best example for the same idea. That is to say, the theme of education is strongly connected to the structure of the novel and the novelist aims at the education of the readers by proposing this theme and strategy.
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Supernatural Liminality in Shakespeares Hamlet Literature Book Report/Review
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As Hamlet’s father’s ghost occupies a liminal state in reality, so does the marriage between Gertrude and Claudius and Hamlet’s possible madness.  Hamlet’s indecision and inaction further this sense of incompletion. Thus the liminal state of the supernatural in relation to the living characters would have deepened the sense of dramatic tension and ambiguity about the tragedy’s true meaning.
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The Sun Rising by John Donne Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the character, inquiring the sun, asks controversially. “Busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?”. The considerable oppositions imparted in these lines are detention versus candidness as well as infinity versus momentariness.
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A&P by John Updike Literature Essay
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The setting is the real key to understanding what is actually going on. The theme of “A&P” has to do with how Americans make choices that affect their entire lives based on false promises made to them by an economic system that is based upon turning every idea, object, and person into a commodity that can be bought and transformed into a status symbol.
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William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Literature Book Report/Review
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The thesis states that the comical elements far outweigh the tragic elements so this makes this play a comedy. The play is a comedy to show how characters interact to change for the better or worse. In the beginning of Act One, Scene Three, Don John professes himself to be a melancholic man.
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A Comparison of Colombian and Cuban Writers Literature Essay
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Colombia has undergone tremendous tragedies and crushing events in history that thoroughly shaped how it is politically and socially. Marquez, known for his writing style that follows a dramatic turn of events incorporating reality to encompass the phenomenon of a certain episode, the core of his literary style called magical realism.
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The History Teacher by Billie Collins Literature Book Report/Review
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The author of the paper states that the ‘history teacher’ represents all those adult sections of the contemporary society who pathetically and often unsuccessfully try to protect the innocence of the young minds by misinterpreting or glossing over the bitter and nasty parts of life.
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The Death of Ivan Ilych Literature Essay
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An unexamined life, in this sense, could be taken to mean a life that is not lived to its fullest - a life that contributes little to society or to the others in your own social circle. A person's life can be measured and defined by the number of other lives that it touches.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that identity is such a vital aspect of each human being. According to Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, identity is “the distinguishing character or personality of an individual”. Indeed, identity makes and keeps the individuality and uniqueness of a person. Hence, it must be inherent for a human to search for his or her own identity.
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It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton Literature Book Report/Review
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One of the book’s main ideas is the collective responsibility of the village, signifying the nation’s role to the development of a dependent child. The idea here is that it takes more than a family to raise a child. Through her anecdotal illustrations, when she was breastfeeding Chelsea then, the child started foaming at the nose.
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The Discovery Of Society by Randall Collins and Michael Makowsky Literature Essay
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Makowsky and Collins survey the ideas and lives of the societal thinkers who have formed and persist to falsify ethnicity in sociology. Both authors interlace conceptual and biographical particulars into a tapestry of the history of social consideration of the 19th and 20th centuries, that is both appealing and thrilling.
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Can Literature Tell the Truth better than other arts or other Areas of Knowledge Literature Essay
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He does not, in general, care - or need to care - what his writings will deliver to his audience; for him, it is being true to himself in his pursuit of the truth that matters. And what is the result. Various portrayals of the truth of the universe, each different from the other yet each (for the most part) consistent in themselves, and all removed from life and experience as we know it on a day-to-day basis.
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The Life of Edgar Allan Poe Literature Assignment
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The author states that at present, the writings of Poe are still enjoyed by the people and continue to give us pleasure. Today, Poe is known, read, and appreciated on the basis of a comparatively narrow body of work, roughly a dozen tales and half as many poems. For the novice reader, these favored texts offer easy access to Poe's most exemplary writing.
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Metaphorism in The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes Literature Essay
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Marquita, read ‘The Thought Fox’ by Ted Hughes because this is where the idea for this poem came from. You can find it on the internet or in the Norton Anthology of Poetry. You can explain the origins of the poem to your teacher, once you know it. This poem is a METAPHOR, like his, for the act of creation and how it can be lonely and difficult.
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Tone and voice in Things Fall Apart Literature Essay
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According to the paper, Achebe uses lesser symbols and images like foils alongside the dominant ones to weave the textual web so as to produce emotional and artistic effects. For example, Okonkwo's successful transformation through personal achievements, from the son of one of the lords of the clan is praised proverbially.
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The New Deal by Paul K.Conkin Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Conkin is not very fond of Roosevelt and throughout the whole book echoes failures of his administration to address the various problems that plagued pre-World War II America. The first chapter of the book is dedicated to Roosevelt and his personality, as the foremost character shaping the events during the Depression years.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the presentation and “evolution” of Janie’s character seem to have caught my attention, thereby propelling me to fix my concentration with every detail of it. To begin with, the story actually starts at the ending part, which means that the author employed a flashback of events through the storytelling made by Janie.
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A View from the Bridge Literature Essay
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A View from the Bridge, which was originally a one-act play written by Arthur Miller in 1955, was inspired by the story of a longshoreman who informed the Immigration Bureau of his relatives’ presence as illegal immigrants; an act done by the said dock worker as a means to prevent one of his kin from marrying his niece.
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The Dark Continent by Mark Mazower Literature Book Report/Review
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These most important events, starting from the crisis of parliamentary democracies, the crisis of the Empire and World War I to Germany in the time of Hitler, the rise and fall of communism and the final transformation of democracy and victory of capitalism in Western Europe, are given chronologically.
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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and Luck by Mark Twain Literature Essay
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In this paper, a comparison of two short stories is provided as an illustration of Johnson’s point in elucidating the meaning of “just representations of general nature. The literary texts included in the comparative analysis are “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and “Luck” by Mark Twain.
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The Revolt of Oppressed People Literature Essay
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Often, a combination of factors becomes a growing problem leading to widespread dissatisfaction boiling under the surface. A precipitous incident or incidents can then catapult the people into revolt. Usually, it is not the upper classes, ensconced in their authoritative societal position, who revolt. Most often, it is the masses, the commoners.
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Riddley Walker and Ender's Game Literature Essay
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The subplot in this novel is the part when the author goes back to the Earth where Peter and Valentine are trying to gain power through the net boards online so that they can rule the world.
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Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Literature Assignment
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The author states that Don Quixote and Toy Story, both, present accounts of prominent, thrill-seeking gentlemen exposed to two different cultures. Don Quixote, or Alonso Quijano, is a man from La Mancha, Spain who immerses his thoughts on stories of chivalry, knights and their weaponry and ladies.
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The Origin of Thanksgiving in Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick Literature Essay
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Looking east it doesn’t seem any change since 1620. The author of the book Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick describes the American history covered in mythology and romantic fantasy and calls it as a restorative myth of national origins. The Mayflower, Plymouth Rock was the first Thanksgiving that tells about the Pilgrim settlement of New England.
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The Scarlet Letter: a Story of Sinners Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that throughout the novel, the one question that Hawthorne consistently raised was that of sin. Who is a sinner? Who has the right to judge him? On what basis, if any, can a person be branded by his fellow human beings? This essay endeavors to decide who the greatest sinner in the novel is.
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El burlador de Sevilla Literature Book Report/Review
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In "el burlador de Sevilla", Don Juan is presented as an excessive and libertine character that always follows the dictates of his own will and is completely fearless of human or divine justice. Regarding his social status, Don Juan is a notorious member of the aristocracy of the Seville.
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The symbolism of Amy Lowell's poem patterns Literature Essay
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As far as I have understood "patterns" refer to the way of living with the harmonization of mind and soul. Patterns actually represent all those circumstances to which we are adhering to survive. "Symbols" represents different characters which Lowell's wants us to realize as each symbol has its own pace in this world of pattern.
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British Women Poetry - Elizabeth Hands Literature Book Report/Review
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Elizabeth Hands, one of the notable women poets of the Romantic Era, satirizes the snobbish nature of the Aristocratic upper-class ladies in the English society in her poem entitled “A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant Maid”.
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The Classic Role of the Ingenue Literature Book Report/Review
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The role of ingénue, however, has developed over time in opera, as will be demonstrated by the comparison-contrast of two different operas, one older than the other. Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, written in the golden age of opera in the 19th century—as well as Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, a modern opera written in the early 20th century—are the two operas to be compared and contrasted here. 
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Sir Thomas More's Utopia Literature Book Report/Review
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The trouble with Utopian socialism is that it does not involve itself with how to get there, believing that the influence of its own vision is enough, or with whom the mediator of the struggle for socialism might be, and, rather than deriving its principal from censure of existing situations, it pulls out its vision expedient from the creator’s own psyche.
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On Being Brought from Africa to America by Kate Chopin Literature Essay
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The story is narrated in the third person, but Wheatley’s poem is a direct address to the reader. Both Desireé and Wheatley desire inclusion—Desireé does so desperately, perhaps because she had earlier never even dreamt of the possibility of exclusion, but Wheatley is content to utter her wise and gentle words.
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The Lord of the Rings Literature Essay
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"In the pantheon of fantasy writers, no deity is treated with greater reverence than J.R.R. Tolkien, who is regarded by most readers as the Father of Modern Fantasy." - says James Berardinelli, the author of the comprehensive review of The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
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Representation of Brutality in Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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Cousins' 1962 essay "Who killed Benny Paret" can be comprehended as making an essential argument against the propriety as well as the morality of professional boxing and it is all about the dangers that accompany the sport of boxing. In his attempt to provide a compelling argument about the physical dangers of boxing to participants as well as the moral dangers of boxing to viewers, Norman Cousins is essentially engaged in a piece of cause and effect relationship.
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Anglo-Saxon Poem: Beowulf Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the poem has explained the 'brief genealogy of the Scylding royal dynasty' which was named after mythic hero as a tribute to his services and sacrifices. Scyld Scefing has reached his tribe as a castaway babe on a ship loaded with treasure. The poem has explained the rituals of the funeral ceremony of Scyld in a beautiful manner.
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Transcendentalism: Walt Whitman as American Influence Literature Essay
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In an American context, this literary movement, symbolized by the work of authors like Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau, represented a break from rigid Puritan ideals to a gentler and more humanistic view of Americans as individuals vested with spiritual variety and intellectual competence
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American Nation: A History of the United States Literature Book Report/Review
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At present America is a developed country and it expanded from small piece of lands along the Atlantic regions, and it includes all the land between Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the big North American continent. When analyzing the pages of history one can understand the dramatic changes that America has gone through in terms of population, economy and technology.
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Reflections of observing a self serving life Literature Book Report/Review
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O'Connor 's use of religion in the story points to her opinions that religion can become a devious tool in the hands of those who use it only for their own selfish means.Throughout the story, the grandmother is described as a pessimistic, selfish, and devious woman
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The Aristotelian Appeals Literature Essay
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The author states that rhetorical analysis is the art of examining the author’s views and opinions through examination of the components used in persuading the audience by the author. Rhetoric is a word that is used to describe the art and skills of persuasion. The main areas examined during this analysis is the purpose of the work.
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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Literature Book Report/Review
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The author of the paper states that the story has a gruesome ending – death. It also begins with the death (burial) of the protagonist, Miss Emily. To whom death has no real meaning, most likely, a person is not receptive to change. Death is prevalent, both literally and figuratively, in the story.
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Desdemona a Moral Heroine or a Victim of the Violent Repression of Women under Patriarchy Literature Essay
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Desdemona chooses to marry Othello, a highly respected general in Venice. It is a decision made out of free will. A decision that eventually inspires Iago to sow the seeds of doubt in Othello’s mind. By making this choice, it could be said Desdemona unwittingly becomes the agent of her own destruction.  
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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra Literature Book Report/Review
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Antony has emerged as indecisive, and his expressions and jargon towards his love remained diluted. The character remained vacillated about his emotions towards Cleopatra, and his reluctance towards the abidance of the terms of honour. The interpretation of love in not merely confined to the revelation of emotions, and the existence of the bond of affection which has engraved the scintillating sense of passion, desire and commitment.
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The Female Gothic Literature Essay
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Radcliffe was very successful and this called on many imitators. Most of them were lowly, thus the genre started to be viewed generally as inferior. Along with other features, Radcliffe brought about the threatening figure of the gothic villain. This later turned into the Byronic hero. Many of Radcliffe’s novels turned out to be bestsellers.
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Review of Beyond Charity by Perkins Literature Book Report/Review
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In the book “Beyond Charity” Perkins describes personal experience working with church of different communities and races. The author claims that trying to build a strong base and relations with community, church goes beyond charity ad welfare. Since the second half of the 29th century, the welfare became to play major role in life of citizens.
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Peaceful Conquest by Sidney Pollard Literature Book Report/Review
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It is interesting, in the light of 26 years of progress, to read S. Pollard's book (Pollard, 1981). This review will focus on his chapter 7, which concerns the economic history of Europe from 1870 to 1914. The period neatly brackets the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1, and the beginning of the "Great War" of 1914-1918.
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L.A. Confidential: Film vs.Novel Literature Essay
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This essay investigates that the novel " L.A. Confidential" was written by James Ellroy. It is a rapid, action packed, aggressively told story about the life and times of the Los Angeles Police Force in the early 1950s. It intricately tracks the cases and efforts of the police over a half decade. The central characters are all police.
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Shakespeares Timing in Romeo and Juliet Literature Essay
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The author states that Shakespeare uses the rapidity of time to also make a connection between the timing of how things happened, how quickly human life passes, how fast love can be lost, and the ironic timing of the two lovers’ deaths. Shakespeare uses timing throughout the play to create the concept of “star crossed lovers.”
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Gertrude and Ophelia in Hamlet Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the truth is, a person could readily build a comprehensive and complicated history of current literature bias established upon nothing but different analysis on Hamlet and its women – an endeavor that has been implemented by at least an expert of literature. Gertrude portrays the mother of Hamlet as well as the ruler of Denmark.
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Anne Bradstreet and Her Poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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In Massachusetts, Anne Bradstreet built and raised a family in spite of hardships and struggles. As members of the Puritans, her father and husband joined a group of men to protect the Puritan values and establish their own society in a new land. To run away from church persecution, they came to America (Gonzales, 2000).
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