Critical Evaluation This book left me with a joyful feeling; troubled with doubts about God's true will for my life, this book enabled a fresh new point of view. ... This review however, includes a book printed in 2001 and contains revisions by AMG Publishers. ... "Readers should note that the points of current history mentioned by Meyer are from the latter half of nineteenth-century England" (foreword). ... As Christians, our spirits all need rekindling from time to time; this book accomplishes that goal. ... These are the teachings that abound in this book, resting on the frame of Mos...

• Word Count: 1340
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This short note addresses the question whether Degas should be considered the last of the academics or the first of the modernists. While it may be possible to argue in favor of either thesis, in this note I will provide examples that lead me to believe that Degas should be considered a modernist. ... (I learned from the lectures and a book that working in a laundry was the hardest and most miserable work for women in Paris during that period. ... From the lecture and a book I learned that these models are prostitutes. ... Rosenblum in his book "Paintings in the Musee D"Orsay" said that Degas ...

• Word Count: 1380
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This book has other religious references as well. Paul rides a rocking horse to become close to god, whereas the biblical figure of Saul/Paul was riding a horse into Damascus when he he encountered and became close to god. other references to this are the fact that the writer makes note of Paul's eyes, which in the bible Saul is struck blind briefly by god. ...

• Word Count: 357
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• Grade Level: High School

In the fallen world of the valley, where human commitment is the only realizable dream, the fact that in the end as in the beginning two men walk together causes Of Mice and Men to end on a strong note of hope "the crucial dream, the dream of man's commitment to man, has not perished with Lennie."" (5). In the book other people quote on George and Lennie as being friends they say things like it is weird that you don't see people usually walking together. ... As Owens points out, " The death of the dream, however, does not force Of Mice and Men to end on the strong note of p...

• Word Count: 1171
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout his essay, Achebe notes how Conrad used Africa as a background only, and how he "set Africa up as a foil to Europe,"( p.251) while he also "projects the image of Africa as 'the other world,' the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization... (p. 257) Without outside knowledge (beyond the book), Achebe had no basis to charge Conrad with this rather harsh comment. ...

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Weizsacker's statement in his book The Apostolic Age(1958), "From all our authorities there can be no doubt that [baptism] was practiced from an early date in the Apostolic period." ... Beasley-Murray's book Baptism in the New Testament(1963) he brings out what scholars believe Paul's view of baptism was. ... It is also interesting to note that by Paul's time the practice of believer b...

• Word Count: 8909
• Approx Pages: 36
• Grade Level: High School

This short novel was rejected twice, mainly on the grounds that it was only 35,000 words and used only a moderate part of all of the notes, journals and other things that he had collected and intended to use. ... Now Eric plunged into finishing the book, and despite the fact that it took about 2 more years, it was exactly the book he had wanted to write initially. ... ("Orwell- 2) The book was published as, Down and Out in Paris and London, in 1933 by the House of Gollancz. ... In 1946 he attempted to settle in the Scottish island of Jura, where he stated his last book, 1984. ... Ind...

• Word Count: 8146
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most sign...

• Word Count: 7844
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• Grade Level: High School

Italy is probably the most diverse nation in the world. Much of the riches of early Europe material and intellectual came from this country of city-states. Italian Studies is the study of this diversity. Which is pretty much anything the mind can imagine. From politics, law, design, fashion, sports...

• Word Count: 2032
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• Grade Level: High School

Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

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Communism is based on the ideas and teachings of Karl Marx as modified by Lenin. At its most basic, the ideal of communism is a system in which everyone is seen as equal and wealth is distributed equally among the people. There is no private ownership. The state owns and controls all enterprises and property. The state is run by one leading elite. ...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School