Katherina sees no need for men and marriage ("MonkeyNotes-The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary"). ... She attacks everyone with her vast intelligence and quick wit (Malone; "MonkeyNotes-The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary"). ... She is a characterized by an uncontrollable spirit and a fiery temper ("MonkeyNotes-The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary"). ... First he refuses to buy her the clothes she wants (Stokes 178; "MonkeyNotes-The Taming of the Shrew by Willi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Book summary - Up From Slavery The book, Up From Slavery, written by Booker Taliaferro Washington, profoundly touched me when I read it. ... All slaves were free and had to go find a new place to live and a new place to work. When the slaves were first freed there was alot of hostile feelings from the whites towards the newly freed slaves. ... Booker over came the obstacles of the free black man by educating himself and other blacks to become "equal" to whites. ... This book was a very enjoyable book to read. ...

• Word Count: 1450
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• Grade Level: High School

Book Report summary of, "Bless the Beast and Children" By: I enjoyed reading Bless the Beast and Children by Glendon Swarthout. ... After finally stealing a vehicle and arriving at this ranch the boys devised a plan to free the buffalo. ... When trying to free the buffalo by driving their vehicle through the fence, cotton crashed and was killed. I especially liked this book because it shows courage and pride in the boys. But I disliked the length of the book....

• Word Count: 190
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• Grade Level: High School

It has become much easier for people of all ages to simply skim over a news article or read a quick book summary online. ... Time is better spent opening up a book and reading. ... If the cost is free to download an e-book from Google, what underlying cost are we as a society inevitably paying? ... What will consumers do with a $300 dollar e-book reader if the e-book prices become unaffordable? When the internet is down, an e-book isn't accessible. ...

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1984 Book Review 1) Summary George Orwell's 1984 was a good book. ... Winston bought a diary, knowing it was illegal at a prole book shop. ... Still I can say that I found the book interesting. ... The amount of information in the book was huge. ... Freedom is slavery because the free, independent man is doomed to fail and slavery is freedom because the man subjected to collective will is free from desires and dangers. ...

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The book "Montana 1948" shows us how people can be very dishonest and shows us that certain people will choose what they want to see and what they want to forget about. ... Wesley's suspicion of Frank grows greater as the book continues on. Towards the end of the book Frank murders Marie in the Hayden family home. ... Because of this, Julian sends a few men from his farm to try to rescue and free his son Frank from Wesley's basement. ... Even though Julian knew that his son was a rapist, he still wanted him to be free in society. ...

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The reader is familiar to the qualities of this reservation, and by seeing it through the eyes of Bernard and Lenina, feels mocked. 3 Plot Summary: At the beginning, unnamed students are ushered through the Central London Hatchery, and introduced to the processes and functions of the hatchery. ... (Helmholtz and Marx) The book does not imply that their opinions were correct, and so the book offers the theme that majority rules and the ones that do not conform to it suffer. ... This theme is further enhanced by the fact that John whips himself to free himself of guilt. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is a summary based on a aspect of DNA. ... The article just like the book shows a diagram of how "the bases which are exposed when unwind, attract unattached DNA nucleotides." ... "Because they fit together only in these pairs, the free nucleotides float in and line up in the proper order all by themselves" The nucleotides match up with a big one opposite a small one. Like the book states, "the previously joined parental nucleotide chains serve as models for the formation of new strands of nucleotides and as each stand is formed, its bases are joined to the bases of an original strand."...

• Word Count: 421
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• Grade Level: High School

It was used as a place to experiment with torture, where the Police summary court was located, and also where the original Auschwitz executions were carried out. ... January 1945 the Soviet Army mobilized to free the prisoners of Auschwitz. ... Before reading this book I thought that Auschwitz was only created to be a killing camp. ... All of the statements in the book from survivors were hard to read. ... With all that was included in the book it showed me how quickly an event like this can happen. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Brief summary of Jefferson Davis" life and achievements Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808 in Kentucky. ... When the confederacy broke free from the Union, Davis wanted to take control of the confederate army, but was elected president instead. ... For the rest of his life he tried some unsuccessful businesses and he wrote a book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881. ...

• Word Count: 332
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• Grade Level: High School

UNCLE TOMS CABIN-SUMMARY The book starts out where Uncle Tom is sold to a trader because of his owner's debts. ... Mas'r George, the young master, is growing up throughout the beginning of the book and at the end leaves Kentucky to go to the plantation to find Tom. When he returns he sets his slaves free. Throughout the book, especially in the first half, we have flashbacks to George and Eliza's escape to Canada. ... This is the setting for the bulk of the book. ...

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The notion of free will attributes to persons the capacity to choose autonomously among possible alternative actions. ... Kant is supposed to have asserted that we are morally responsible for all of our actions because we have free will, and that we have free will because we exist in a noumenal world in which we are uninfluenced by the temptations of desire and inclination.... It is the summary of what he says: We must always act under the practical postulate that our will is free. ... Morality is the natural condition of a free will. ... He says that "Thus a free will and a will subject ...

• Word Count: 1984
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• Grade Level: High School

In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five he presents the Tralfamadorians as an influence on Billy for the belief of the idea that fate and free will doesn't exist but the existence of the Tralfamadorians is questionable, so is the idea of predestined life. ... Kurt Vonnegut suggests that the idea of no free will and predestined life can affect any human as it did to Billy. ... Kurt Vonnegut includes the uncertainty of Tralfamadorians to show that free will and fate are just ideas that humans believe to provide answers for the unexplained, like religion. ... Thus Kurt Vonnegut di...

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Jones book out loud in class during our story time. ... Every time I would try to read a book, which was still a required book to read for class, I would notice my eyes jumping all over the page. ... To stay on the same page in class, I would listen to audiobooks of whichever book we were assigned in class, or just listen to someone on YouTube read the book. Eventually, I just kind of winged it and would Google search summaries of the books I was supposed to be reading. ... Not just the assigned books in English class, but on my own free time too. ...

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Dedication, Chapters 1-2 (Read: Chapter I Chapter II) Summary The Prince is a gift from Machiavelli to the Magnificent Lorenzo, son of Piero de' Medici, offered as "proof of [the author's] devotion." ... Although the book is "unworthy" of the Magnificent Lorenzo, the author hopes he will accept it. ... Machiavelli emphasizes that the book is short and direct, and written without without resort to "pompous phrases" or "embellishment." ... Annexed principalities can be put under the rule of a prince, or set up as "free states." ... In the Dedication and these chapters, Mac...

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Angela's ashes do not actually feature in the film, although they do in the book. ... Click here for a detailed summary Background The film is based on the book of the same name, which stayed at the top of the best-seller lists in the UK and USA for months from mid-1998. The book is widely acclaimed as a masterpiece. ... During his latter years at school he is taught by an imaginative headteacher who tells them, "They can crush your bodies but they can never crush your minds; free it boys, free it." ... However, one day he finds the money-lender dead at home so he steals her money an...

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Book Summary In his book, John Katzenbach exemplifies to upper level the successes and failures of two models of management: The single leader role and the team leadership role. ... In the opinion of our group, one can find the main points of this book from simply reading the chapter summaries at the end of each chapter or from the section titled: What this Book is About. ... The author's conclusion is distinct in that he does not define a solution in this book. ... And since there is no right or wrong answer, one is free to interpret the information as appropriate for one's sp...

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It's obvious that there is a lot of land covered in this book because they are on a cattle drive. ... This is an example of free enterprise because he intends on using these cattle to make money, which is free enterprise because free Ringo - 3 enterprise means that there is no limit on how a person can make money. The sixth Americanism I found was free speech. ... In this book report I have listed eight Americanisms and written a short summary of the novel. I hope that this has given you a good idea of what the book is about and the kinds of American characteristics that it holds....

• Word Count: 933
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• Grade Level: High School

Book summary - Up From Slavery The book, Up From Slavery, written by Booker Taliaferro Washington, profoundly touched me when I read it. ... All slaves were free and had to go find a new place to live and a new place to work. When the slaves were first freed there was alot of hostile feelings from the whites towards the newly freed slaves. ... Booker over came the obstacles of the free black man by educating himself and other blacks to become "equal" to whites. ... This book was a very enjoyable book to read. ...

• Word Count: 1447
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• Grade Level: High School

This is true in Mark Zusak's novel The Book Thief. ... Hans discovers Liesel has picked out a book well beyond her reading level, yet Liesel still is determined to read. ... One day at school, Liesel picks up a book with greater confidence than ever, and knows she could read every word. ... One such word shaker was a small, skinny girlhe immediately ordered the tree to be cut down AT THAT moment, the word shaker twisted free. ... In summary, Max and Liesel's companionship allow them to deal with their tragedies through connection between past experiences and their love for words, whi...

• Word Count: 2179
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• Grade Level: High School

What is the author's purpose in writing this book? ... The other history in the book is cultural because we brought the English culture to have free labor from slaves, but our founding fathers tried to change that to make America different from England. ... How is the book organized? ... List new facts/ideas that you learned from reading this book. ... Give a brief summary of the book. ...

• Word Count: 1226
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Dallas Library book review carries many agreeable points. ... " I did not find this book disturbing. ... I strongly agree with his view on the book. ... This book was very good and explained many details. ... At first he lived a lavish, care-free lifestyle but in the end he paid a heavy price for his actions. ...

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TITLE From Anti-slavery Sentiment to Eradication; Reasons for the Abolition of Enslavement From the Missouri Compromise to the Emancipation Declaration SUMMARY The drive to end slavery gradually became the dominant American reform movement from 1820-1863. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe: The most powerful of all abolitionists propoganda was Hariiet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," published as a book in 1852. ... The book succeeded in bringing the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience. ... He helped free the slaves. ... It was at this meeting that...

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To effectively create, maintain, and amplify this theme of Christian ethics, the use of imagery, symbols, and characters create, maintain, and amplify the central theme throughout the book. ... An example of imagery in the book is when the police come to investigate the Clutter's house. ... Symbols are effectively used to create and amplify the central theme of the book while also linking to the idea of organic unity. ... Nancy's actions of helping others in her free time and becoming involved and assisting others in their lives prolong her Christian ethics. ...

• Word Count: 1081
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