It is important to realize what the job of an author is before sitting down to write. ... Being able to read a book that is written in the framework fashion is exciting. ... It is also important that readers know the responsibility that they hold when picking up a book. In the quote above Iser speaks about reading a book. ... The job of an author is to write a work that the reader can relate to on come level. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Usually, you read either prose or poetry, but this book combines them both into something beautiful. ... Jack London did a stunning job using them, and I"m pretty sure someone could not duplicate this feat. ... Jack London has done a great job with this book, and I appreciate that very much. ... If I have a family somewhere down the twisted dimension of time, I will have them read this book. ... In conclusion, I fell Jack London did a superb job on the "Call of the Wild". ...

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Book publishers usually pay authors a royalty (commission) of 10 to 15% of the books price for each copy sold. ... Poetry is one of the most challenging types of writing and one of the lowest-paying jobs. ... Publishers want poems from the poet's own imagination, language and experience different from modern poetry. - Writers and editors held around 341,000 jobs in 1998 nearly one-third of salaried writers and editors work for newspapers, magazines, and book publishers. ... Most support themselves with a steady income from a second job as well as their w...

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Is this picking up a book and reading it? ... Maybe reading and writing is being a book critic? ... I remember she signed my favorite book Enjoy this in your hometown, Cassandra with a winky face next to it. This was so exciting for me, I had found my favorite author from my hometown and she personally signed my book. ... How can I help these people and do my job when I cant access the tools or materials needed because of my own lack of education? ...

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Gary Paulsen's career has spanned many different jobs. ... He got the job with the help of a false résumé. ... His other jobs include construction worker, engineer, and sailor. ... He was often drunk and had day jobs. ... Paulsen only writes one book at a time; but while he is writing one book, he does research for another. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The House On Mango Street Summary This book is about young Latino girl named Esperanza who is growing up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago. ... Esperanza then gets a job and has bad experiences there, and not too long after that her aunt dies. ... This book represents the struggle that minorities faced while living in ghetto communities. Esperanza had to sacrifice her childhood to get a job at the age of twelve to bring home some money for her family. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Today, Sandra Cisneros lives in central Mexico and travels around the world doing book signings and readings to dedicated fans. ... Cisneros says, ‟I'm not a good traveler, but part of my job is to take the stories out there to those who need to hear them. ... Some of her greatest accomplishments came along with countless awards such as the PEN Center West Award for the Best Fiction, American Book Awards, Anisfield­ Wolf Book, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. ... Cisneros worked multiple jobs in her time. ... "Long after you have closed the book, it's what haunts ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I t was this book that allowed Hinton to attend the University Of Tulsa. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. ... All people want to have a good job, make a lot of money, and live a good life. ... The pace of the book is the main reason it won so many awards. ... In conclusion, Hinton does and excellent job of depicting a "diamond in the rough- image in the character of Ponyboy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A book of natural history followed, which he tried unsuccessfully to locate years later for his children (Contemporary Authors, 25). ... "By then I was broke and I got a job in West Texas skinning dead cattle that died from a prolonged drought. ... His next job was bailing hay in New Mexico's Pecos Valley, across the road from Billy the Kid's grave. ... During the mid-1980's, his novels crowded book store racks along with adult Westerns that he hated. ... He had no formal education, spent much of his youth wandering from job to job, and was over forty by the time he publishe...

• Word Count: 1689
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• Grade Level: High School

Didion seemed to have the inside look at her subjects in the first half of her book and in the second half she leans more towards her own experiences. Lillian Ross never included herself in her book, Picture, other than brief, non-descript mentions about being in the room. ... She does a great job at short stories with her attention to remaining focused on the subject. ... Lillian Ross seemed to get lost in the details of her surroundings and bored the reader with that part of the book dragging on. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sharking I have chosen this book because of interesting cover and title. ... The truth is that there were nor fish nor ghosts or Frankenstein in the whole book. ... There are sixteen chapters, sixteen stories with different incidents in the book. ... All the characters want to stop taking drugs find a job or but they actually do nothing for it. ... I did not expected much by reading the book but at the end, I found that I found the treasure. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Her father's job required her to spend half of the year in New York and the other half in New Orleans. ... At the end of Buckley's review he insults Hellman's book to a great degree he wrote "she is elderly but there is time yet, time to recognize that she should be ashamed of this awful book." ... It seems that she insulted many people with what she wrote and at the same time some think she did not do a very good job of writing about it. ... Hellman's personal memoir An Unfinished Woman won a National Book Award and was praised for the amusing way she portrayed herself i...

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• Grade Level: High School

Moving on his own, Clifford wrote in his book about day to day experiences that took place on the island. ... Geertz does a good job of explaining his experiences with these people, and I for the most part understand what he is saying. ...

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He wrote a book, The Age of Paradox, which became one of the best business books in 1994. ... The Necessary Attributes In this section, I agree with the three attributes: a belief in oneself, a passion for the job, and the love of people. ... The other attribute, a passion for the job, is the same as caring enough to work through the tough times and the good times. ...

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In the book, Edna's husband and other people involved think something is wrong with her. ... Also portrayed in the book is Adele, a friend of Edna's. ... She is a wife and mother, one that takes pride in each of her jobs. ... While criticism slowed down Chopin's writing career after that book, the ideas in her writing left a lasting impression, even today. ...

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This was exactly what I did; I provided a summary of the book and parts that interested me. ... I gave a summary of a chapter from the book that supporting why it did not work favorably, then discussed how to avoid those types of mistakes. ... To make my example more persuasive, I effectively used terminology from the book. ... I believe when I talk about my position, I do a well job supporting it. ...

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She managed to get the point across as the book made many people of the era confused, mad, and unhappy with the speech. The first section of the book took place at "Oxbridge", which stands for Oxford and Cambridge Universities. ... (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. ... In the final setting of the book, Mary contemplates on the style of writing from both women and men. She pulls a book off the shelve by Mary Carmichael called Life's Adventures. ...

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In "Preservation," a man loses his job and his wife finds that their refrigerator has stopped working. ... Sandy's husband comes home with bad news that he lost his job. They stay calm about it and he decides to start looking for another job. He would look in the newspaper and go out and search but he couldn't find an available job that dealt with his field let alone an available job. When he wasn't looking for a job he was laying on the living room sofa sleeping, watching TV, or reading a book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It's not nearly as bad a job as some people think- (Giovanni, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles). ... One of her most famous collection of essays is bound into one book entitled Sacred Cows and other Edibles. ... She is very open about her thoughts in this book. ... One such book is Blues For All The Changes: New Poems. ... She even dedicated a book-Spin a Soft Black Song-to her dog."...

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Hirsch states that, " anyone who is concerned about American education will be persuaded by the book's argument and act upon it."... (Hirsch 2) Shaw 2 of 4 Literacy is important in the world due to it's need to fill out forms or get a good job, however, they are so conspicuous that it isn't oughted to be discussed. ... In certain writing, the reader may ignorantly understand some of the words point, but they will not understand thoroughly what the book or newspaper is about. ...

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This novel is about two lower class farm hands that travel from town to town attempting to find a steady job. ... Steinbeck was able to relate to these characters because before he found success as an author, he traveled across America from California to New York looking for jobs (O'Connor, pp25-31). ... Steinbeck believed that a book (the Bible) was much realer than experience (O'Connor, p16). ... Throughout the entirety of the book, there are numerous references to God, Jesus, Moses, and Biblical stories. ... It is apparent that this novel reflects John Steinbeck's passion and...

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The book begins with the divorce of her parents, and Maya and her brother Bailey moving from St. ... She has to come to terms with the feelings and issues of being a teenager, getting a job, finishing school, watching her brother pull away to find freedom, and an unexpected pregnancy. ... She booked a downtown hotel room and wrote from six till noon on weekdays. ... I would strongly recommend this book to any mature reader. ... I remember Farewell to Manzanar being a very boring book, which I wasn't interested in. ...

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War isn't all you think it is, it has much more to deal with then just killing people. The author of All Quiet on the Western Front ,Erich Maria Remarque, and the poet of "Dulce Et Decorum Est", Wilfred Owen, have similar opinions on war. Threw out there writings they give examples of how war can hu...

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For two years he "rode the trains, worked odd jobs, and explored new places." ... All of the songs that he would sing, he wrote down the lyrics music and published them all in a book called The American Songbag. ... He wrote many other great works such as Chicago Poems, which told about life in the streets of Chicago, The American Songbag, which is a collage of songs and fold tales that he had collected over the years, The People, Yes, which was "an epic, book-length poem about the depression" (Niven 3), an autobiography called Always the Young Strangers, Remembrance Rock, Complete Poems, an...

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While working odd jobs, he wrote short stories, essays, and book reviews. ... He also wrote a lot of book reviews; one of his was on Maxim Gorki. ... He received an American Book Award Nomination, in 1980, for Lust above My Head. ...

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• Grade Level: High School