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. ... Detailed Summary: This is just the story basically Ab ;0) The film opens in Brooklyn, New York 1935, where Irish immigrants Malachy and Angela McCourt and their four children are celebrating the birth of their fifth child, and first girl, Margaret-Mary. ... However...

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Chapter One: The Prison Door Summary A large crowd of Puritans stands outside of the prison, waiting for the door to open. ... Chapter Two: The Market Place Summary The crowd in front of the jail is a mixture of men and women, all maintaining severe looks of disapproval. ... Chapter Three: The Recognition Summary On the edge of the crowd Hester notices an Indian accompanied by a white man. ... Chapter Four: The Interview Summary After Hester returns to her prison cell, she remains agitated by the day's events. ... Chapter Six: Pearl Summary Hawthorne discusses the choice of the...

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This paper will provide a synopsis of the book, look at the main conflicts in the story using the Lens and TRIP methods of conflict and provide a critique of the writing as a whole. ... This brings us to the second major conflict of the book. ...

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In  The Book of the Duchess, the poet is introduced in the first person. ... The narrator then falls asleep on his book and experiences so strange and wonderful a dream that, he says, no one on earth can properly interpret it. Not even the famous Biblical interpreter of dreams, Joseph, who read dreams for Pharaoh (see  Genesis, Book 41), nor Macrobius, the late Roman author who wrote a famous (in Chaucer's day) commentary on  Cicero's  Dream of Scipio, would have the skill to read the fantastic dream the narrator had that night. ... The Book of the Duchess, The Dream (Lines 291-...

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Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 In the first chapter of "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. ... Spencer's" room Chapter 2 The second chapter of the book mentions the actual conversation between Holden Caulfield and Mr. ... Chapter 5 In the fifth chapter of this book, the narrator describes his Saturday evening after eating the standard Saturday dinner of steak, mashed potatoes and a dessert of something called a Betty Brown. ...

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The summaries in this paper examine several unique and sometimes conflicting perspectives that, taken together, give the reader of Native Son a deeper understanding of the novels purpose. ... He is terrified of himself and every situation that he encounters in the book and the book shows what may happen when one lives by compulsively acting on fear. ... The book then fallows this theme, in the third book; Fate. ... The first time Bradley read the book, it simply infuriated and frightened him. He then picked up the book several years later, and had a different reaction to it entirely: one o...

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Executive Summary BookTrader was created by four former college students from Eastern Washington University. ... BookTrader forecasts book sales will fluctuate when students are in school. ... This will also be part of a service charge to help them find a book buyer or trader. ... However Amazon will take a percentage of the sale after the book is sold. ... Competitive Sectors BookTrader faces competition from college book stores, online sites like Amazon selling books for less, and more traditional book stores. ...

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For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers Best Book prize, had made the six-book shortlist for the Booker Prize; but that did not impress Greer, who grimaced and said: "I hate this book. ... It's a Canadian book about India. ... If she wanted to make the case that she ...

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For a debut novel, it brought the author rare attention, first as a winner of the Governor-General's Award of Canada and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, then as an entry on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. ... It again reached the shortlist for the Booker Prize and received various awards. ... A Fine Balance, which had just received the Commonwealth Writers Best Book prize, had made the six-book shortlist for the Booker Prize; but that did not impress Greer, who grimaced and said: "I hate this book. ... It's a Canadian book about India. ... If she wanted to make the case that she ...

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Andrew Jackson Book Summary/Contents Andrew Jackson, in the author's words, was "mild, polite, polished, benevolent, and democratic." It would not be in anyone's favor to question the alidity of the his words, but to understand them with unrestrained faith in hose words will help to insure complete insight into the book. ...

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(Brief Summary p. 1 )" Ayn Rand was born in Russia in 1905 and moved to America when she was 21. ... Basically the book is about a strong willed man, Eqaulity, who wants to be a Scholar, but instead is decided to become a street sweeper. ... She could show how and why philosophical ideas matter, in our personal lives, in movie theaters, book stores and art museums, in parliament or Congress (Peikoff p. 2). ...

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A Time to Kill is a novel written about how a ten-year old black girl named Tonya Hailey's life was shattered when two rednecks beat and raped her, and then how her father took the law into his own hands and decided their punishment himself. Tonya was walking home from the grocery store when the two rednecks, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard, saw her. They threw full beer cans at her, breaking her flesh right down to the bone. Taking turns, they straddled her and forcefully and brutally raped her. They tied her to a tree with ropes burning through her skin while they drank and laughed...

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From the overall summary of the book's plot, it is clear that Frankenstein is an intelligent man, highly respected about the town and has developed a good reputation. ... This is a clever writing technique, because it makes you feel as Frankenstein might - you feel his anxieties and anticipation for the monster to come to life, and this will therefore make you get into the book and continue reading. ... I also think this was done to show some sort of prejudice message, or a bullying message, that runs true throughout the whole book - Shelley may have been trying to get the message acro...

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However, Jane Austen does show characters growing through out the book. ... Other characters are brought into the book to contrast each other and to show the reader the differences between characters, which in turn can represent the difference in people during this time period. ...

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The songs and rhymes are totally different aspects that are separate from the book. ... This book was in response to a historical event, World War I, which inspired Tolkien to become an author. ... The book I read for this months reading tracking assignment is a book known to all, praised by many, and unread by few, the book is in fact a sequel to yet another masterpiece that will always be among us, titled, The Lord of The Rings, The Fellowship of The Ring. ... I'll begin with a somewhat brief (I promise nothing) summary of the book, The Two Towers. But before do that I would like to fu...

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Therefore, as a scholar I felt that the airing of conflicting ideas, in one book, could be a step towards mutual understanding and acceptance and a vehicle to help bridge the divide between differing points of views and philosophies. ... As neutral editor for this book, I have strived for completely fair and scholarly representation of all sides of each issue presented. ... Also I should mention that as editor, in the process of putting this book together, I have discovered that this work itself is considered controversial by some. ...

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While searching the American Psychological Associations (APA) website I found a great article that showed that there are several variables of sexual orientation that affect the classroom experience and academic achievement of K-12 students. Population being studied in this case is jr' high and high school students. First students can be at a disadvantage to pre-dispossed biases by teachers. As we've learned already to this point everyone has bias and there is no way around it. If you have an accepting teacher and one that will make the situation a good thing instead of unconformable ...

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Summary of Rebecca Rebecca's narrative takes the form of a flashback. ... Baker - A London doctor who saw Rebecca the day of her death Frith - The butler at Manderley Clarice - The heroine's maid Jasper - One of Maxim's pet spaniels, and the heroine's favorite Chapter 1-4 Summary Rebecca begins with the sentence, "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." ... At the end of the drive, the heroine notices a book of poetry in the car, and he insists upon giving it to her. ...

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Many people associate business and its practices with greed and love for profit, which most of the times is directly related to immorality. In this paper I will try to answer the question "Is business ethics an oxymoron?" by examining four ethical approaches: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, Virtue Ethic...

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Summary Until Galileo's time science was a handmaiden of philosophy which in turn was the handmaiden of theology. ... Drake throughout the book portrays Galileo as a mechanical genius, a spiritual man with an incessant drive to explain the world through science. ... All references are made with respect to Drake Stillman's book and for convenience and brevity only the pages of interest will be referenced to. Analysis Drake divides up his book as follows: Early years, conflicts with philosophers, conflicts with astronomers and theologians, the Dialogue and the Inquisition and fin...

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Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. was born on September 20, 1878 and became an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres. He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle that was written in 1906. Before his success at the age of fifteen, he began writing to support himself and help pay his college expenses. During his college years, Sinclair encountered socialist philosophy, the influence of which is evident in his writing throughout his life, and became an avid supporter of the Sociali...

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Part II: Review of the Literature A) Summary In a paper which looked at gun control and firearms violence in North America, Robert J. ... In his book, The Saturday Night Special, Robert Sherrill explains the cheap, usually illegal, easily concealed handgun that plays a part in so many crimes in the United States. ...

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After first kissing Juliet, she tells him "you kiss by th' book,"" meaning that he kisses according to the rules, and implying that while proficient, his kissing lacks originality (I.v.107). In reference to Rosaline, it seems, Romeo loves by the book. ...

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In the book Amazing Grace, Jonathan Kozol uses his unique ability to express his experiences, to the reader. ... The Walden book review praises Kozol on his style and storytelling. ... The Elliot Bay book company wrote a review dealing with Kozol and his choice of setting. ... That review is a summary of his genius. ... (Manning 1) "Barbara Ehrnreich also comments on the spirituality of the book. ...

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Purpose of the research: I have chosen this book The jungle by Upton Sinclair because I think that working class people of the 1990's..still live in a capitalistic jungle. Although this book was written at the turn of the century, it still reflects the times in which we live. ... I have learnt from the book The Jungle that business is a dog eat dog world. ... The book became famous and made Sinclair a good deal of money, but the socialist ideals that the author intended as the cure for the ills of capitalism were not recognized by most readers, who were more worried about unhealthy me...

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