The first section of the book took place at "Oxbridge", which stands for Oxford and Cambridge Universities. ... The next setting took place in London. ... (p.39) When returning home she finds that women in the work place have the most unimportant jobs of the society and the questions were unanswerable. ... At home the narrator reflects on the English women during the Elizabethan era. ... She pulls a book off the shelve by Mary Carmichael called Life's Adventures. ...

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The title of my book is The Island by Gary Paulsen. The main character in this book is Wil Neuton. ... Wil said he didn't want to leave so his parents went home to call a shrink. ... This was a good book. ... Most of the book took place on the island. ...

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Book Review Tomorrow when the war began is about two girls Ellie and Corrie, two bored teenagers planning a camping trip to a place behind Ellie's farm property, called Hell. ... Jokingly Lee and the others, Fi, Homer, and Kevin, suggest that it's the start of world war three, and that show day/comem day would be the perfect time to attack, cause everyone would be at the show and easy to catch and all that... So they set off home, back to civilization, but what's waiting for them at Ellie's is not what they'd expected. ... And all the livestock are dead or mal-nut...

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Anyway he called her and she almost went off until Holden drooped Eddie's name. ... Holden when call her "quite a little phony," she even sounded phony through the book with lines like "I'd love to grand." ... "They both kept thinking of places as fast as they could" trying to get the upper-hand in a game of illusion. ... The title of the book is a mystery all the way until chapter 21 when he sneaked back home to see Phoebe. ... All through the book he will think about call and eventually sneak home just to se...

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Many of these moments are discovered through diary entries, allowing Kyle to expose his personal thoughts in conflicting situations, as well as enabling a clearer layout of the sequence of events that take place. ... In seeing this, Kyle starts to contact home more often. Discovering that he is living on the edge, and bearing in mind the reactions of his fellow soldiers, he begins to appreciate and value the comforts of home. The technique of fractured sentences is demonstrated in a call from Chris to his wife Taya. ... I'm on op, but I wanted to let you know that I've accepted some...

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Introduction- The Red Badge of Courage is a book that takes place during the Civil War. ... At first, Henry was very eager to join the army even though his mother begged him not to, then when he was faced with the fact that he was witnessing real fighting and even death it didn't take him long to change his mind and to wish he was back home. The internal conflict in the story is really the main theme that is continuing through the book. ... Henry says to himself that he wishes he had a wound that he calls "a little red badge of courage", too. ... Probably the biggest reason why I wou...

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"Tomorrow When The War Began" is the first book in a series of seven that were written by John Marsden and published in 1993. ... It is about her and her seven friends, six of whom when returning on a camping trip with her into a supposedly impenetrable ravine called Hell, find that their homes have been invaded and their family and friends held hostage at the Wirrawee Showgrounds by an unknown foreign army. ... They"re the ones who tore up the rule book, not us." ... Stock them with food and stuff, in case we get cut off from this place. ... This could almost be called sibling rivalry. ...

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Jack Kerouac and his so-called "Dharma Bums- lived an extremely unconventional lifestyle, to say the least. ... This time, it is Japhy who articulates it best in the book and exhibits this on several occasions. Also, Japhy's selfless generosity is almost an underlying theme within the book. ... When Ray ventures into the forest to meditate during his visit home over Christmas, he is directly engaging in one of the preachings of the Sutra. ... He does not need power, money or influence to feel as if he has secured a meaningful place in the world. ...

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Another block passed by, then another, then another, before I knew it I was in the middle of down town, my first experience of life outside of school and home. ... Yes I was picked up and finger printed, and my parents were called and I was in some deep stuff. I remember going home and all those people at my house, who had been looking for me and were all worried about me. ... You see I had what they called ADD, Attention Deficite Disorder, basically, I learned slower than the other kids, and I recall one time my mom telling me that the kindergarten teacher Mrs. ... It keeps us in a nice home ...

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In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ... One can choose to get out of bed in the morning, go to work, go home, relax and then go to bed. ... And this is what Kierkegaard calls unchanging "that which does not change within the self system is the fact of the self's freedom". ... Let us say that it is now six fifty nine in the morning and this person starts work at eight o"clock and in order to get to work on time they have to be up by seven o"clock at the latest, I suppose we should also note that being late for work is not an option, if yo...

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Victor Frankenstein is a young man in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and plays the role of God throughout the entire book. ... Victor reads of his brother's death through a letter from his father, and travels back home. He is very troubled by his brother's death and when he nears his home, he stops to watch a lightning storm. ... In fact ninety percent of all Americans do not aggress with the sensation of human cloning. 7 The United Nations, the G-7, the World Health Organization and other international bodies have all called for a global ban on human cloning, but even with a...

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He does not consider Joe's companionship as anything very important and most of all he is completely dissatisfied with his place in life and his future. ... He began to regain a little warmth when he cried and was sorry for the way he had behaved but obviously not enough to make him go home and rectify what he had done. ... While Pip was in debt a friend advised him to spend even more money to join a club called the Finches, which would swallow up even more money, and he would gain nothing for it. ... Pip went through the whole book wanting to be a gentleman but to be one he needed to k...

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Imagine that the sky was actually purple - though you would call it blue because that was the word assigned to the sky. ... In Erich Fromm's book Escape from Freedom the author sums up Martin Luther's acknowledgement of man's selfishness: "Luther assumed the existence of an innate evilness in man's nature, which directs his will for evil and makes it impossible for man to perform any good deed on the basis of his nature."" ... In the science fiction novel Anthem by Ayn Rand readers are introduced to a dystopian society where man's place in society is chosen for him: ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

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