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West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief by Steven Kotler Literature Book Report/Review
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The overall argument of Steven Kotler's engaging book is the fact that when one is at one's lowest there is an opportunity for hope and a return to a perhaps better life than the person had before. The love of surfing is the one enthusiasm that Kotler has left after several years suffering with Lyme Disease.
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Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ Literature Essay
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The action of the book Jujitsu for Christ took place in Mississippi in 1960s, and the author of the novel gave a clear notion of that time. The book uncovers such important events as civil rights movement and relations between races. These issues are underlined both individually – in the main characters and their actions description – and in general, while narrating different complicated situations and problems which the protagonists had to resolve.
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Irony behind marriage that overrules the lives of the women in both the genres of literature Literature Essay
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Kate Chopin and Anton Chekhov belonged to the early nineteenth century. This period saw lot of social and cultural changes. The Industrial revolution brought a great change in the social status of the people. The pragmatic society largely changed the conservative values of the people of that period.
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Setting, Characters, Point of View, and Symbolism in the Story Powder Literature Essay
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Jeremy Reeds, nicknamed Powder, is the main character of this story observed in the paper. This character has supernatural powers. He has incredible telepathy and intellect. His actions show someone with the ability to go beyond the normal limits. This character, who is an albino, has a brain with a powerful electromagnetic charge.
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Phillis Wheatley as a Slave Literature Research Paper
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Despite her enslavement, Wheatley strived to prove her intellectual ability through her poetry and used her skill as a weapon to fight slavery and refute the negative theories about black people. In this endeavor, she chose Western cultural and religious values and even a European voice to accomplish her noble task.
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A Reflection on Lovely Like Jerusalem, by Aidan Nichols Literature Book Report/Review
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In his book, Lovely Like Jerusalem, Aidan Nichols attempts to outline the Old Testament, in the narrative, critical, and theological terms. He argues that a lack of knowledge of the Old Testament is a significant detriment to understanding the New (9).
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The Garden of Forking Paths Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the labyrinth in the story is a manifestation time itself, and of the attempt to circumvent cause and effect by choosing a lateral rather than linear narrative. For Dr. Yu Tsun, time is running out, he knows that it is not a matter of whether he will be captured, but when.
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Driving Miss Daisy Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that it’s a touching story of a very few characters central among whom are a seventy-something-year-old lady and a sixty-year-old African-American taxi driver called Hoke Coleburn. The lady is Daisy Werthan, a patrician widow staying in Atlanta, Georgia all by herself barring Idella, another African American who is her housemaid.
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Do They Have Reason by Stephen Dobbyns Literature Book Report/Review
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While addressing the 'seriousness' of such pressing daydreams, the point of view almost subconsciously registers that this is an older narrator: through such factors as how he recalls the conversation rather than recording it, or in how he portrays the third graders easily smoking their first cigars, without any coughing or other difficulty.
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Gender Relationships in Turgenevs Fathers and Sons Literature Book Report/Review
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It is the first instance in Russian literature where a novel carries out a dual character study, as on the one hand Bazarov and Arkady explore their nihilistic opposition to the open display of emotion, and, on the other hand, Bazarov feels a deep love for both Madame Odintsova and Fenichka. 
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The Truth of Love: William Shakespeares Sonnet #116 Literature Book Report/Review
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The techniques used by Shakespeare to portray his belief of the unwavering resilience of true love are as beautiful and artful as they are successful. He, also, clearly believes what he writes as his final lines of Sonnet #116, “If this be error and upon me proved/ I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
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Zadie Smith's White Teeth Literature Book Report/Review
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The writer presents a multiethnic fabric with brilliancy and understanding, and all the characters are fully and vibrantly sketched. The dialogues were humorous, sensitive, sensible and without pretension. The writer received rave reviews for her first book.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell Literature Book Report/Review
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The conclusion states that everything Squealer did work out for his own benefit in the end. The pigs ruled supremely, enjoying all the riches that the working of the farm had brought. Any animals that were deemed to be balking the authority of Napoleon were quickly silenced in the cruelest of ways, much like that of how human dictators such as Hitler had abused his subjects.
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The Human Insect in the Mechanized Modern World of Morons Literature Essay
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The loving and subservient nature of Gregor offers unconditional love after they had long forgotten about him. The movement, in and out of Gregor’s room of furniture and all things “no use trying to sell but that should not be thrown away either” dumped into his room, in the third part show how uncaring they had become of him.
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The tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare and recent historical events Literature Essay
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Both Macbeth and the Venezuelan caudillos are strongly ambitious characters that use any means to achieve their goal: power. For example, Macbeth, at the beginning of the play, considers killing King Duncan, so that the prophesy he has been told will become truth: "Are less than horrible imaginings:/My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical"
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Eight-Person Narrative Story Love Medicine Literature Essay
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Love Medicine is an eight-person narrative story that clearly depicts two Native American families struggling with life issues that have been the circle of existence since mankind has been born. The dramatic and varied emotions expressed through the portrayal of each character are what bring the Native American spirit into the story.
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The Importance of Religion in Dickinson's Poems Literature Essay
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Emily Dickinson’s place in history has affected many aspects of social order. Dickinson’s writing touched on many issues that were very important to the life and development of Dickinson’s persona; such as religion, war, psychosis, and love. Dickinson’s insight into these issues has been the source of the majority of the interest in her work.
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The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser Literature Book Report/Review
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Furthermore, each person had been able to give lessons and unwillingly, for lack of better word, teach those that obeyed their rule; this can be especially seen in the first Canto, in which the Faerie Queene taught the Knight a few things to bear in mind when handling the Faerie Queene.
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Character of Mrs. Hutchinson in the Lottery Literature Essay
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On the whole the story beautifully exhibits the patriarchal system of the village and the brutality it thrusts on the people. With this small introduction, I would like to focus on the character of Tess Hutchinson in this paper.
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The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne Literature Essay
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The author states that Aylmer’s obsession with the flaw, that he believed to be a “symbol of his wife’s liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and death,” eventually drove Georgiana to agree with his perception, and towards insanity. Before they married, she had been content with her beauty, both physical and spiritual.
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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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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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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own & Orlando Literature Book Report/Review
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The main feature of Virginia Woolf's novels is that she could characterize persons of the opposite sex as convincingly as those of her own. Mrs. Woolf classified authors according to the androgyneity. The novel Orlando had many interpretations. It is not only a fantasy. The technique of the expression of its thought is functional.
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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that this is a dystopic novel, more potent than George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four, since science’s ability to control the human mind did not seem completely unrealistic, though fearsome, at the time. Brave New World Revisited, published in 1958, Huxley seems to support the system that the state might use.
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Women and Men Are Alternative Beats of the Same Heart Literature Book Report/Review
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Men have, perhaps, no role other than to find novel ways to oppress women! The never-ending talk of giving equal rights to women has been going on unabated. The laws enacted by the Parliament in all the countries will not bring equality to women. The change has to be achieved within by both men and women, mostly by men! My simple question is how can you give equal rights to women?
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Enrichment and Enhancement of Life by the Inclusion of Music Literature Essay
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I confess that when I first encountered Ralph Ellison’s Living with Music, my assumption was that music was something he “worked around” or accommodated, rather like one could be described as “living with diabetes,” but such was hardly the case. For Ellison, music was his lifeblood—the ever-branching river that gave nurture and purpose to every element of his complex life.
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The Role of Protagonist: a Voyage to Self-Awareness Literature Book Report/Review
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All stories lead to a moral. Huckleberry Finn realizes the worth of every individual, whether he was a slave or a free soul. The racist and religious themes also give morals. It tells them that slavery is not something which should be encouraged. Emma realizes that it is not necessary that whatever she does, it will turn out to be the best
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Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan Literature Essay
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For modern people living 21st century and considering the romantic charm of the Taj Mahal it seems easy to label these women as unthinking, vapid creatures, given only various forms of pleasure methods, living exclusively to please and satisfy their men. We must look beyond the mirror adorned harem rooms, or beyond the baths where those women amused themselves, or miniature paintings that show life of harem in an opium haze, jewels, wine and gestures of love.
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Toni Morrison's Novels The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved Literature Book Report/Review
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In the afterword to The Bluest Eye, Morrison writes that she hopes its opening ‘provides the stroke that announces something more than a secret shared, but a silence broken, a void filled, an unspeakable thing spoke at last’ (Morrison 1977). In these three novels, I believe Morrison sets out to speak the unspeakable in order to fill the void she sees in communal black American culture.
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Annotated bibliography: William Shakespeare''s Othello Literature Essay
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The author of the paper goes further comparing other critics in stressing Othello's vulnerability, and totally ignores Emilia's role in the play. In some way he summarizes the critical debate between those who see Desdemona as saint and those who see her as slut. He contrasts the genuine intimacy of the women with the hypocritical friendship of the men.
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Huxleys Brave New World Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that to be more precise the writer has described all the human moral values as vices in this world. Every chapter in this novel sends jitters through the body of a reader. The time showed in this novel is in the future. The significant thing about this World is that it is not divided into different continents.
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Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi Literature Essay
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Author of the Book, Never Eat Alone Keith Ferrazzi is originator and CEO of the teaching and consulting corporation Ferrazzi Greenlight and a donor to Inc., The Wall Street Journal, and also at Harvard Business Review. Previously in his profession, he was CMO of Deloitte Consulting and at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and also CEO of YaYa Media.
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Psycho-Social Oppression in George Orwell's 1984 Literature Essay
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The author states that oppression cannot be called oppression when it goes beyond a certain limit. 1984 has perhaps more resonances with an epic vampire tale than with one of merely political and social oppression, it evokes a scenario where the last man standing — Winston, the humble protagonist of this novel — gets converted in the end.
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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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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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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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Satire in Jonathan Swift's Poems Literature Book Report/Review
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A detailed analysis of the literary career of Jonathan Swift makes his mastery of the genre of satire very explicit. These poems have been illustrative of the satirical merit of the poet. The critics of Swift have always been in praise for the prominence of the satire of Swift. It is most significant to note satire in Swift was the most favorite tool in the hands of the artist.
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Edgar Allen Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado Literature Literature review
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In Edger Allan Poe's short story The Cask Of Amontillado, although it is only three pages long, we can see a miniature all the elements that Edger Allan Poe repeatedly uses in all of the stories and poems. His themes are almost a perfect precursor of all of the main themes and preoccupations of the 20th century, and his techniques of mood and psychological extraction presages.
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Textual Analysis of Albert Einsteins Why Socialism Literature Essay
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Originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review in May 1949 Albert Einstein’s essay “Why Socialism?” presents a set of social and political claims. The major argument of the article concerns the fact that a specific combination of personal and social strivings determines the degree of an individual inner equilibrium and his integration into society.
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Recognizing Ourselves in The Common Man and Literature Essay
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The character of the Common Man serves many purposes. He is a narrator, actor, and commentator, explaining the historical context and setting the scene. By standing outside the action, then taking up roles within it, he states what the author believes; that no matter how ordinary or insignificant he may seem, his involvement is unavoidable. 
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Ralph Ellisons Battle Royal Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the story, however, has survived and continues to be read with interest, not just by African-Americans or Americans but by numerous racial groups. As a foreigner to whom this story has supposedly no historical or cultural interest, it had deeply personal meaning because its focus was not the plight of an African American male.
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The Stereotypical Image of a Woman in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four Literature Book Report/Review
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Julia is one of the key characters in 1984. It stands for the opposite of a "brotherly", anti-sexual, entirely repressed society. At first "sight", or if you read superficially, Julia would seem like a very lighthearted person, a woman who goes with the flow and just cares about having fun and fulfilling her own sexual desires
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Change and Transformation in the Metamorphosis Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the family of Franz’s father belongs to a poor family while his mother from a well-to-do family. His father sets up dry goods in a store to sell for a living while his mother is the daughter of well to do merchant of clothes and brewery. He had 2 brothers who died that affected him so much, but he was blessed with sisters.
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Love and romance in The Great Gatsby Literature Book Report/Review
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Thesis. Jay Gatsby idealizes romance because it reminds him youth, his true feelings free from cupidity and greediness. Love to Daisy helps him to recreate his past and symbolizes realization of his secret dreams. Love of Daisy is the only thing he cannot possess, for this reason it becomes so desirable and attractive.
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The Prince Hamlet Literature Essay
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Hamlet was indeed skillful, he didn’t work when he wasn’t properly equipped. It is then very important for Hamlet to be prepared for whatever task he has to work for. He works independently, however, it should be within the conditioning position. He must take courses in music for him to realize that he has the talent.
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Mamas Heritage: The Gift of Her Beliefs Literature Essay
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Dee’s were a façade, an accessory to her image and with her, the useful everyday things and their true meaning would lose their value eventually.  She was too materialistic to appreciate the importance of the items.  Mama resolved that conflict by putting her beliefs into practice and took the right and just course of action.   
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Motivation in the Workplace Literature Essay
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Managers are interested in increasing the productivity of employees and they are searching for ways to do so. Since the start of the industrialization process managers are searching for ways that can help employees produce more. Initially, the focus was on the physical work of the employees but with the passage of time management started to focus on the other factors as well.
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Legal Highs - Legislation Issues and Analysis Literature Essay
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Legal highs are “substances which produce the same, or similar effects, to drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy, but are not controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act” [Talk to Frank]. However, this is a misnomer because the word legal does not mean that it is sanctioned by the government and therefore safe to use. 
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The Maturation of Emma in Jane Austen's Emma Literature Book Report/Review
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Emma’s childlike attitudes and behaviours are the products of her upbringing and situation in life. Growing up without a mother, Emma has no boundaries and accountability. The only person who could provide that authority, Mrs. Weston, is so mild that she hardly restrained Emma.
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Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that there is no direct reference to A Doll’s House in the obituary material. In the Wikipedia entry, only one statement directly refers to the play. According to the Britannica article on Henrik Ibsen, the “proper voice” of the Norwegian playwright came with the writing of A Doll’s House in 1879.
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