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Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alan Macfarlane Literature Book Report/Review

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The book in question, published in the year 2008 has already been acclaimed by the readers and also by the critics. ‘Japan through the Looking Glass’ is especially important since it addresses as well as provides answers for the questions and doubts and vague ideas about the culture and civilization of Japan. Macfarlane in his book has described the country of Japan to be an ‘enchanted’ world.

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The Evidence of Some Bitter Struggle Literature Essay

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The author states that Poe allows the reader to imagine what the rest of the “evidence” is on “her emaciated frame”. It is as if the reader is seeing her for the first time along with the characters. She is just a “frame” rather than a body, seeming more dead than alive and more terrible in her aspect because of it.

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Mythology and Symbolism in Irish Literature Literature Book Report/Review

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The book report gives detailed information about such unique phenomenon of Irish literature, as dreaming and mythologizing. The researcher of this paper aims to analyze the history of its beginnings and that is it often used by Irish writers based on three literary works of W.B. Yeast, Brian Friel and Michael Longley.

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The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton Literature Essay

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The author of the paper states that that led to contriving a trick of pestering their master by imitating cat’s cries next to the bedroom of the bourgeois and the bourgeoisie. By goading him with catcalls, they provoked the print master himself to authorize the massacre of the “malevolent” cats.

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Mathematics Text Book Literature Book Report/Review

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He also notes the need to continuously innovate in one's particular approach to teaching as the generations of children differ from each other thus intending to show how diverse the subject presentations maybe. In huge classes, Musser tries to point out that the need to balance out the teaching style in mathematics is necessary so as to assure that the students are able to grasp the idea of the subject matter in a much easier and effective manner that would work for the majority of the population of young learners making up the class.

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Anna Tsing Friction Literature Essay

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There is a power dimension within the global scope that wrests its control over the Indonesian environment, from multinational corporations vying for profit and thick-skinned environmentalists adamant over its protection, both however could also provide a negative and a positive effect in Indonesia and its people.

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The Color of Water and Being Human Literature Book Report/Review

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Giving so much importance to race distracts us from what we really need to work on: becoming better human and humane beings. "There were two worlds bursting inside me trying to get out. I had to find out more about who I was, and in order to find out who I was, I had to find out who my mother was" (McBride, 266).

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Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility Literature Essay

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Similarly, Jane and Elinor have a sweet and reticent disposition. Both are not forthcoming in showing their feelings towards their suitors. Jane, who is constantly roused by Miss Bingley, never really gets angry with her, or shows her true emotions. Similarly, Elinor deals in the most diplomatic manner with Lucy, despite her feelings for Edward Ferrars.

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1984 by George Orwell Literature Book Report/Review

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The conclusion from this study states that in 1984, Orwell returned to topics he had treated in other works--imperialism, class, poverty, morality, freedom, and language--in the context of a drab future dystopia, a hopelessly wrong society, where the greatest heresy is the expression of common sense.

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Comparative Textual Analysis Literature Book Report/Review

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Mary’s narrative is a first person narrative of the Indian Wars, which lasted from 1675 – 1699. This is one of the famous original narratives of early American history. Mary was a strong Christian whose faith never faltered. The social-political climate was one of change.

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Asia's Premier Serial Killer by Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj was born in Saigon in 1944, the son of an Indian man from Bombay and a Vietnamese mother, named Noy. His mother's second husband, a French military officer stationed in Saigon, Lieutenant Alphonse Jarreau, later adopted Charles Sobhraj and he was eventually resettled with his mother in Marseille, France.

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How George Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country Literature Book Report/Review

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his work, ‘Crimes against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy’, has attempted to delve deep into the actual nature of the Bush governance by exposing its true nature and its reluctance towards a growing crisis of global environmental issues.

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Language and Literacy in America Literature Essay

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Observably, the English Only policy has taken a toll on the pride and identity of several cultural clusters, isolating them from their roots and from their clans. Being castigated for using their ancestral language which is frequently brought down in their own minds, these people have acknowledged the prevailing society’s unfair verdict

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The Story of Lies and Truth: Death of a Salesman Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the story is about maintaining a certain appearance, about a sincere attempt not to hurt the family, and keeping the truth undercover. This duplicity produces unending tension for the family throughout the play that presents only false images. In the play, Charlie is the truth.

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Analysis of The History of Rasselas and Prince of Abyssinia Literature Book Report/Review

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None of the people whom Rasselas have encountered during his journey is able to keep it for a long time: the happiness of the wise man lasts till the death of his daughter, the adherents of pastoral life feel happy until they meet a person who comes off better than they, etc. Therefore, the prince obviously fails to find the true happiness

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Mockingbirds and Flies Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that flies buzz angrily around a bloody sow’s head on a stake, signifying decay, destruction, demoralization, and panic in Golding’s fable of an island paradise turned deadly and malevolent. “Lord of the Flies” is a suggestive name for the Devil, a devil whose name proposes that he is devoted to decay, fear and destruction.

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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Literature Book Report/Review

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“But no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box” says Shirley Jackson in her short story, “The Lottery”, indicating the point of the macabre story. The story is set in an ordinary American village of three hundred inhabitants, who are apparently friendly to each other.

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Friendship and Companionship in Moby Dick by Herman Melville Literature Literature review

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Ishmael says he became sensible of strange feelings. These are in fact not any particular feelings such as related to joy or sorrow, but are just “feelings.” Ishmael is inundated with “feeling” – an uncategorised expansive emotion. And then he feels a melting inside him. This is a very characteristic response accompanying the awakening of the heart.

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Machiavellian characters in King Lear Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that in King Lear, he has created some of the most Machiavellian characters in his gallery of masterpieces: Goneril, Regan, the utterly villainous Edmund. All of them are monsters in their own right, but what is remarkable is that they all start out as normal people with whom the audience could have some degree of sympathy.

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African Literature Literature Essay

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Although motivated by quite disparate circumstances, the effects of both these phenomena have shed light on the cultural aspects of the land. In spite of the harmful effects of the education of Africans in the languages and ideas of colonial nations which destroyed the traditional culture of the land, the recent developments in research on the traditional culture of Africa have greatly contributed to the rich heritage of its traditions.

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In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' View on Crime and Victmization by Alarid and Cromwell Literature Book Report/Review

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In the book, In Her Own Words: Women Offenders' Views on Crime and Victimization Alarid and Cromwell have reduced the literature use of words and phrases in order to make it more meaningful to the students. They Editors edited it in such a way that it's thoroughly acceptable from the primary reading itself.

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The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood Literature Book Report/Review

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In the background of the ‘Theory of Knowledge’, one can assume that truth is contextual and the process of contextualization is the basic activity in the process of finding truths of ideas and things. Only human beings who are able to think and reflect on the reality of things can determine the truth and falsity of ideas and things.

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The Hills Like White Elephan Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the conversation is somewhat vague and elusive. They discuss the topic without saying the topic: abortion. Both characters have different views on this matter, which is evident from their body language and from the dialogue. This paper will analyze the body language and dialogue from a psychological point of view.

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Small Island by Andrea Levy Literature Book Report/Review

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The novel, ‘Small Island’, is written by Andrea Levy and is based on the time when the East Enders migrated to England, to serve in odd jobs and to earn a livelihood. This was the time when racism in England was at its zenith and a human being was differentiated from the others by virtue of the color of his skin.

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Wuthering heights Literature Essay

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His tale, which is at first confined to his own experiences with the cast of Wuthering Heights, presents several situations and relationships that prove to be too enigmatic or esoteric for him to decipher on his own. He ostensibly seeks the help of Nellie to provide the background to the current situation

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Huckleberry Finn and 19th Century Literature Book Report/Review

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The book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" has been hailed as a classic but more so, for its unbiased view of the times in which it was written. Though it was written by Mark Twain, the author who earlier gave us adventures of Tom Sawyer, this book is however a far cry from the happy innocent Tom Sawyer.

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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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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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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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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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Comparing January 1795, and Residence in London Literature Book Report/Review

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January 1795 is a poem by Mary Darby Robinson. Residence In London is a poem written by William Wordsworth. This survey explores the poetic structures in the two poems and makes comparisons between them. The thesis argues that January 1795 is the antithesis of The Prelude, Book Seventh, Residence In London, lines 624 – 741.

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Arm Wrestling with my Father by Brad Manning Literature Book Report/Review

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The writer lists a number of names used that the son would refer to the father as; Daddy, Dr, Moreland. The only way they would talk to each other is referring to each other as an arm. Comparing Brad Manning’s sort story “Arm Wrestling With my Father” and Itabari Njeri’s “When Morpheus Held Him”.

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Virginia Woolf Works: to the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway Literature Essay

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Defiant of these stereotypical roles and restrictions, in which women were viewed as ‘dirty’ and as “social and political corpses" under the period’s legal and social system, Woolf became a social critique of women’s social and political status in Britain as evident in her works, relentlessly asserting that men and women be treated equally in her society.

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Othello and Iago Literature Book Report/Review

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Constituting an eternal and essential part of human life, tragedy as a genre has its all-time grandees among which William Shakespeare is probably the most widely acknowledged master. His heroes have been known for centuries but still they do not lose realism even in our time.

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What Dexter Green Finds in Winter Dreams Literature Essay

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What Dexter Green Finds in “Winter Dreams”? Throughout the story, an event from his early years stays in his memory, but is not fully developed until Dexter realizes that he never really owned this memory. Dexter starts his career by noticing how other people think and act-he observes the rich men he caddies for, recognizes the tantrum that the young Judy Jones throws (and later her constant jilting), and seizes the opportunity to open a niche laundry business.

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Carl Roger's Humanistic Approach Literature Annotated Bibliography

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He discusses the advantages and disadvantages of these conditions from the points of view of various commentators and scientists and compares their viewpoints. The author states that the two elements, e.g. realness and acceptance are useful and attractive for those who work in the field of psychology. “Empathetic understanding”, is concerned, he states that this condition brings a lot of problems.

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Seeing through August Wilsons Fences Literature Essay

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The author states that at the beginning of the play, Troy thinks he is building a fence to please Rose. She wants a fence that will keep all those she loves safe inside its walls. Later, after Alberta’s death, Troy completes the fence to keep danger, death, and frustration outside its walls.

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Renaissance Literature Analysis Literature Book Report/Review

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In addition, when the war is over and he must now bargain with France for Katherine’s hand (and land), he is quite gracious to the French, even though there is a considerable amount of threat in his tone to suggest his perceived superiority as the conquering king: “If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace, / […] you must buy that peace/ With full accord to all our just demands” (5.2.68-72).

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Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan Literature Essay

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Fish Cheeks is a simple chronologically arranged anecdote of a short period in Amy Tan's youth. She speaks of the kitchen, which “was littered with appalling mounds of raw food...” and then proceeds to describe exactly what these were. We are made to “feel” the atmosphere of the setting by Amy Tan's strong descriptions of what is happening and what she feels about what is happening.

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Portrayal of the Divided Self in The Kite Runner Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that oppression leads to the warped personality of the oppressor and the divided personality of the oppressed. Author Khaled Hosseini in his novel, “The Kite Runner”, portrays the divided self of Hassan, the oppressed Hazara boy. The Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos also gives us a glimpse of the divided self of the protagonist.

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Research Paper on Fences by August Wilson Literature Research Paper

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As Robert Brustein writes, "August Wilson larger purpose depends on his conviction that Troy's potential was stunted by centuries of racist oppression. "Fences" takes place during a period of time when the fights against segregation are barely blossoming results" (Brustein, 1986, p.205).

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A comparison of Augustan and Romantic poets Literature Essay

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The most important poets of the Augustan period include John Dryden and Alexander Pope. Alexander Pope is the writer most associated with the Augustan Age, who exemplifies the literary style of this period which is characterized by harmony and precision. His works, as well as those of his contemporaries, exhibit order, clarity, and the appropriateness of style.

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Anita Pachecos Royalism and honor in Aphra Behns Oroonoko Literature Book Report/Review

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The review begins with a clearly stated objective of exploring the main points of Pacheco’s essay and analysing its strengths and weaknesses; proceeds to describe Pacheco’s arguments and illustrations that suggest Behn’s hero as ‘Eurocentric’ and ‘royalist.’ A significant portion of the review is spent on summarising Pacheco’s viewpoints.

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The Awakening by Kate Chopin Literature Book Report/Review

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The author states that the novel provides a different view of the actions and emotions of the independent protagonist. The open discussion of the emotional and sexual needs of women in the novel had a shocking impact on the readers of her time and was eventually not received well. But after some fifty years, people began to view the novel in a new angle.

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Byond th Lrning Orgniztion by Jrry Gilly Literature Essay

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Thе pеrformаncе аlignmеnt procеss sеpаrаtеs pеrformаncе mаnаgеmеnt into two distinct phаsеs. Stеps onе аnd two аrе thе rеsponsibility of thе orgаnizаtion; stеps thrее through sеvеn аrе thе rеsponsibility of mаnаgеrs аnd еmployееs. This modеl еmbrаcеs thе bеliеf thаt еmployееs аrе thе kеy to improving long-tеrm businеss rеsults.

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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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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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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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The Unknown Citizen by W H Auden Literature Essay

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The postmodern era has been described as the ‘cam-era.’ We are all under constant watch. The development of communication technology has virtually effected the possibility of everyone to be watched.

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The Theme of Isolation in Yellow Wallpaper Literature Book Report/Review

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Gilman discusses her “rest-cure” prescription prescribed by Dr. Weir Mitchell. She explains why this prescription, along with her husband John, may have driven her mad. Gilman also addresses how the narrator is in a little room covered in yellow wallpaper which makes her feel isolated in addition to her madness.

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