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. ... The Book of the Duchess, The Dream (Lines 291-1334) The narrator now begins recounting his dream. ... Through the window the dreamer hears the sounds of a great many horsemen assembling for a hunt. ... The hunting horn sounds, signaling the end of the hunt. ...

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As explained in the book Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music, in 1949, the term "Race Music" lost its luster (Bayles 110). ... David Ewen argues this point in his book All the Years of American Popular Music. ... Hugh Gregory illustrates the influence of R&B music on Rock "n" Roll in his book A Century of Pop. Artists like Fats Domino and Little Richard took the sounds of Rhythm and Blues and gospel to the pop music scene worldwide. ... The passionate sounds were full of emotion and attracted a large audience because soul music created such a beautifu...

• Word Count: 2641
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• Grade Level: High School

Sounds like the perfect diet doesn't it? ... His book was immediately met with criticism from the general medical community. ... The 90's ushered in a new era of body conscious people with money to spend on an idea that sounded like it would help them get in shape. ... His book, though still criticized by his peers, sold like hot cakes. ... In his last book Atkins for Life, the late Dr. ...

• Word Count: 2528
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When they shock E.T. with the paddles, you see her jump at the sound and then you see everything pour out of her. ... Every shot in the book was used, along with some variations on close-ups. ... Sound There are a multiple sounds that E.T. can make. ... According to E.T. the Extraterrestrial from Concept to Classic, there are nine different sounds that E.T. can make. These include "sucking in his breath, panting, whimpering, chewing, swallowing, screeching, a soft scared sound with his breath, screaming and a sound that is somewhere in between the noise of a jet plane and screeching tire...

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Magua is obsessed by Cora and will to trail her throughout the book. ... Gamut asks him where in scripture he has proof for this heresy, and Hawkeye replies that he requires only one book for his beliefs, the book of nature. ... They suddenly hear the sound of footsteps approaching. ... He, like the Indians, has become sensitive to the small sounds of the forest. ... Suddenly, the crashing sound of a c...

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Roy, ending a lengthy multi-country tour sounded as if she were feeling a bit battered by the storm when we spoke. ... So there was a whole lot of media excitement and no book because the book wasn't out yet. ... The book really delves, very deep I think, into human nature. ... There aren't any lasting positive relationships in the book. ... "Actually I wouldn't see the book that way. ...

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Sissy, daughter of a 'horse breaker', has managed to keep all her imagination throughout the book and hence become the so called heroine of the book. ... Later on in the book Sissy makes amends with Louisa, making Louisa feel good when she admits it was her fault that their relationship got distant over this matter, which is was not. ... Arriving with good wishes, she is not able to convey her ...

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This eventually leads to Montag realizing the true meaning of a book, and that a book is the only escape from being censored. ... This book has pores-(Farber 92). ... He is against books and believes they should be done away with, but at the same time he uses a book to harm Montag. ... "Millie, ever in need of escape from the opportunity to think, uses her seashell radios to occupy her brain at night, as an electronic ocean of sound coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward mornin...

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Sterne's devices have a common effect in drawing attention to the physical substance of the book, they make the reader realize that he is holding a printed book in his hands and focus his attention from imaginative involvement with the text, onto the book itself. ... Thus, we become involved in the creation of the book. ... There is another set of asterisks in the third book (pg. 129). ... This physical assault on the book makes it impossible for the reader to forget the material nature of the book. ... In the fifth book we find the obscure fragment "Upon whiskers" (pg. 242). ...

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However, this book sold more copies than anything else Whitman published in his lifetime. ... The first edition of the book was paid by his own, so he only printed 795 copies. The book appeared on the fourth of July, as a kind of literary independence day. Nevertheless, the book had very poor sales. ... I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book i...

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Although some of the beliefs of American Puritans were austere, but they completely transformed the life by practically adopting the customs of their Holy Book. ... Similarly, he stated the narrations of saints in his book "Magnalia Christi Americana". 4: Religious Insights: The most important as well as the key feature of the Puritan Age was the religious insights in the literary works. ... Eight hundred copies of his book were sold at that time. ... He gives the example of a little baby who utters different sounds as he cannot speak in a proper way. Such a little baby ma...

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Additionally, the first two stanzas contains words that have distinct and definite ending sounds such as "t", "p", "k" and "d" that simultaneously generate an impression of strength belong to the voice speaking. . ... She also believes words that have a consonant that cannot be sounded at all without a vowel, which at the end of a syllable cause the breath to suddenly stop "not only have a definition but have a connotation and a felt quality" (Oliver p. 22). ... The hardness of the "d" ending the word "hand" and the assonance of the sound "ow" being repeated in abrupt short phrase su...

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Chapter One The narrator assures us that the book we are about to read is true, more or less. ... He was never able to write the book. ... That night, he read a book by Erika Ostrovsky. ... Now, he presents us with his war book. ... This book, he says, is a failure. ...

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"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). Baldwin's interests went from being an activist in the civil rights movement, to book reviewer and essayist for New York periodicals, to international celebration as literary artist. ... view of the damage that racial prejudice inflicts on both whites and blacks" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). ... Baldwin finished his long-awaited first book, Go Tell It On The Mountain, during a stay in his companio...

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In the book Amazing Grace, Jonathan Kozol uses his unique ability to express his experiences, to the reader. ... The tools Kozol uses to invoke great emotion from the reader is what makes this book a work of art. ... 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. ... (Manning 1) "Barbara Ehrnreich also comments on the spirituality of the book. ...

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In the final book of Frank Miller's influential graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, "Russia has taken the lead in the arms race" (Miller, 168). ... Returning to the fight with the mutant leader, we do see the classic comic book version of masculinity. ... At that moment, when Batman leaves his armored Batmobile, you truly see a classic comic book manly man (Page 78). ... This sounds eerily similar to that of Gotham. ...

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The book contains over a hundred chapters and around 6,200 verses and is based on a man named Allah. Allah is repeated several times in the Qur'an and he is the person who revealed the book who also took responsibility in keeping the book safe. ... The book expresses many conversations between God and Muhammad about different relationships, emotions, attitudes, future and prophecy, faith and possessions. Muslims derive much of their life's meaning from this book. ... The word Sahih means correct, true, valid or sound in Arabic. ...

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Three of the most famous writings from ancient civilizations are the writings of Confucius, Hammurabi's code of laws, and Egypt's Book of the Dead. ... In Egypt, in the Book of the Dead, a man couldn't proceed into the after life unless he was found innocent of any wrong doing on Earth. ... Hammurabi showed responsibility by saying "If a builder has built a house for a man, and has not made his work sound, and the house he built has fallen, and caused the death of the man's son, the builder's son shall be put to death." ... One of the lines of the Book of the...

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One might think from this staggering dedication that this book is going to focus purely on slavery. ... Some cape of sound would have quickly been wrapped around her, like arms to hold her steady on the way. ...

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One might think from this staggering dedication that this book is going to focus purely on slavery. ... Some cape of sound would have quickly been wrapped around her, like arms to hold her steady on the way. ...

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According to the text book "Introduction to Sociology" Culture is defined as all that humans learn to do, to use, to produce, to know, and to believe as they grow to maturity and live out their lives in the social groups to which they belong. ... In her book, "I Come To Get Me," Arlene Nash Ferguson says it best: "It became a mirror in which black Bahamians saw the true reflection of their essence, their moods, their feelings and deepest yearnings. ... Junkanoo, a Bahamian national festival is a kalediscope of colour and sound. The rhythmic sounds of cowbells, goatskin drums and whistles, ac...

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Ever the innovator, Dizzy was looking for a new style, and a new sound to create and conquer, and the answer strangely enough, was bubbling away behind many of his own compositions. ... The next logical step for Dizzy it seemed, was to see if it was possible to combine these rhythms with the powerful sound of his big band and balance the off-center accents of famed Be-Bop drummer Kenny Clarke's drumming, with the genuine sound of African and Cuban percussion. ... He simply had locked in his head, a concept of the sound that he desired, and Mario seemed to know exactly what he was lookin...

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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 Catholic Church is seen as such a holy place and when most people think of it, they think of a sacred place with holy people, especially the ones who devote their lives to the church like priests, monks, and nuns. They are typically described are perfect and follow every rule of God. These holy ...

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He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. ... Vonnegut's anti-war stance only adds to the difficulty, since (as a filmmaker acquaintance remarks to him) writing a book against war would prevent war as effectively as writing a book against glaciers would prevent their motion. ... With his right hand raised, Vonnegut vows not to glorify war and promises to call his book The Children's Crusade. ... While teaching at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Vonnegut lands a three-book contract, of which Slaughterhouse-Five is the first. ... Vonnegut...

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