If a person constantly reads books that have the same type of theme, they will most likely start to look for things related to what they're reading in their books, in their everyday lives. ... In chapter 7, the minute that Leon left for Paris, she became depressed with her life. ... This resulted in Emma not getting what she truly wanted all the time. ... Emma said time and time again that she just wanted love and romance, but-from reading-we know that eventually she would want more. ... s life was ruined by the books she read because of the way that she perceived them. ...

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Each and every person should experience this well-deserved break from a physically and emotionally hectic life. ... Pleasure-reading allows an escape from real life. ... Books can dispatch readers to lands far away, either in time or space. ... Each time readers do this, their comprehension level goes up, and it gets easier to understand plots as time progresses. ... The more books read, the more the reader's mind is able to grow. ...

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It sounded funny at the time. ... I know it was a bit eccentric, but after signing about five student loan applications and in essence signing my life and credit away for the time being, I felt that I was entitled to something. A few pieces of paper and several hardback books were just not going to cut it. ... I slowly began to adapt to my new time schedule. ... I would just say no to bagging groceries for the rest of my life. ...

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No I did not kill anyone how could I possible convince anyone of the justice of stolen life; it all started with the idea: bootleg books on tape. ... The result of the course of two years of my life and my cordial associates was about 20, choice selected but appearing random, novels on tape. ... So what was I to do with all the time and money invested but place an ad in a local more liberal, and lenient newspaper very small, almost unnoticeable: "BOOTLEG BOOKS ON TAPE". ... Word of these audio books spread it became almost an underground obsession.. who these voices were. ...

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They know there's an easier and better way to make it in life, just by looking at sports stars and computer geeks, for example. ... Now they understand the uselessness of working like a slave for money and that they need to get angry so they're not pushed around by life. ... They take the used comic books being thrown away and open up their own library of comic books in the basement, charging a dime for a full days' admission. ... "Oh, yes, I hear it all the time," said rich dad. ... It only takes an open mind and the willingness to take time away from "the rat race" for a...

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Physical acts of writing bring words to life through the senses. ... Physical acts of writing bring the words to life through the senses. ... In a story "One Writer's Beginnings" by Eudora Welty, she writes about bibliophilia: "Yet regardless of where they came from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them-with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself" (491). ... Life is a book to be written. Books are not often look...

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Although both books do talk about character, they have completely different views. ... This says that if you make good decisions, and do good things a lot of the time, you will be a good person. ... She eventually said, "I couldn't give up my life for Mike (Packer 147)."" ... She also had time to grow up physically, emotionally, and characteristically. ... I think that if you really love someone, you would be willing to give your life for them. ...

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The renaissance was a time of "I" and personal glory. ... The art he created, the books he wrote were all centered on God and kept to the code of the Church. ... The Middle Ages was a time of toil and hardship, it was a constant uphill battle and life was one of servitude. ... The total attitude shifted from "we" to "I"; no longer was this a time of servitude, now was the time to live life for all that it was worth. ... This parallels the contrasting attitudes between life in the Middle Ages and life in the Renaissance. ...

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In only being allowed to do reports for three books I am glad I chose "Wrestling Sturbridge" as one of the three. ... This time, for Ben, is an abstract yet virtuous time in which he questions his ideas, his morals, his aspirations, and most of all his ability. ... This nervousness fuels Ben's need to succeed, on the mat, and in life. ... Ben wants a better life then that. Ben's mind is finally at ease in the end as he discovers not everyone gets what they want out of life. ...

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Frankenstein is one of the best books that I have ever read. ... I choose to analyze this character for my essay because it fascinates me, and reflects on my character at the same time. ... Also when he desperately asked Victor to create him a companion that would keep him from committing murders against his creator's family; you can understand that he believed that only a "monster" like him could agree to share her life with him. ... The old blind gentleman found sincerity and refinement and him even dough he couldn't see him the whole time: they became friends. ... At ...

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A lot of people take seminars and read books about optimism because optimism has many good things that people want to learn. ... They usually have a sense of security about the future because they believe that next day their life will be happy and without problems. ... So, for a successful life people need both pessimism and optimism because they can help balance each other. ... When he understood that such girls would not pay seriously attention to him, his time was over. ... As for me, I prefer optimism because it gives me more privileges in my life. ...

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A lot of people take seminars and read books about optimism because optimism has many good things that people want to learn. ... They usually have a sense of security about the future because they believe that next day their life will be happy and without problems. ... So, for a successful life people need both pessimism and optimism because they can help balance each other. ... When he understood that such girls would not pay seriously attention to him, his time was over. ... As for me, I prefer optimism because it gives me more privileges in my life. ...

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They all had dreams and they were all disappointed because something in their lifes. ... He thought "I could be alone worker going sometimes to the town and have nice life". ... His dream was to have friend and somebody to talk to he felt lonely and only thing that he did after work was reading books. ... Candy was an old man who had worked on the farm for a long time he had lost one of his hands and because of that he was not working very much only sweep and taking care of the chickens. ... This story had a sad part when they made George kill his best friend and his cousin at the same...

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Even to an accountant, art may me a neat general ledger or the books balancing at the end of the month. ... It is a process that takes time. ... Do they not have a picture in their office that, if only for twenty seconds, they may glance at to take their mind off the ills and troubles in life. ... I think that someone who says that art serves no function is a very unhappy person with life. ...

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The purpose of this story is to show how women need to maintain leisure time, money, and a room of her own so that she can become a writer. ... She looks in the card catalog for books written on the marvels and great things that women had written. ... Only in time will the freedom of the work force become truly equal. ... Being wealthy, having free time, and not having a lot of responsibilities gave the women the incentive to go out and do something on their own. ... She pulls a book off the shelve by Mary Carmichael called Life's Adventures. ...

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Just because a person may be heard using dialect or jargon at times does not necessarily mean that they stick to that language all the time, or forever. ... I am not the first to notice this, as there have been countless books written about their way of life, but I do have first hand knowledge, being from this area and having elderly grandparents who are perfect examples. ... And even though I don't speak the same way they do all the time, I do not have any trouble understanding what my grandpa means when he says: "I "hope" Jim chop that firewood last week." Although I never use this te...

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I thought that was a mere myth, something that only existed in the world of movies and teenage fiction books. ... I thought to myself, am I honestly that important to someone that they sacrifice lunch time in order to come up with insults about me? ... Some kids have absolutely no one to ease the pain for them and ultimately choose to cut their life short. ...

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I thought that was a mere myth, something that only existed in the world of movies and teenage fiction books. ... I thought to myself, am I honestly that important to someone that they sacrifice lunch time in order to come up with insults about me? ... Some kids have absolutely no one to ease the pain for them and ultimately choose to cut their life short. ...

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They will experience things from books to parties to drugs. ... In college freshman are allowed to pick their own classes and choose what time they want to attend them. ... They will also begin to think about their spiritual life and miss their original church. ...

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Thomas deliberately creates a strategy to provoke and support his idea to the reader's curiosity by using examples from the simplest forms of life to the more complex, we humans. ... In the first sentence he uses "so many new books about dying" His first effect was to imagine how easily they are available by placing them by the health diet and home repair paperbacks and the sex manuals. ... He wants the reader to understand or just think, "was this a natural death for the elm tree, or was life taken from it?" ... Once again, Thomas begins to infiltrate his thought to the reader, b...

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Essentially, robots are man-made versions of animal life -- they are machines that replicate human and animal behavior. ... However I also got other resources such as magazines, books or other source was a television program about control systems. ... Well the primary source was the internet but apart from that I even used magazines, books are always the best source and television programs. ... By seeing all the videos on YouTube and going through the magazines and reading the books I got really inspirited this motivated to work really hard about the personal project because the topic was rea...

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This big role that politics plays in life gives many a narrow-minded view. ... Stories are much like life when considering interpretation. A few people may read the same books, poems, and articles but end up with a different result of their connections to one another. ... Emily Dickinson was a nonconformist for her time. ... Society needed and stills needs her individualistic approach on writing and life. ...

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Really, this book is a fictional book in a non-fictional world, filled with a whole bunch of real life situations; it is what road these characters take and how they handle these problems is what makes this book so interesting. ... If one likes books such as The Great Gatsby, or The Adventures of Huck Finn, then one might not enjoy this book so. ... This book can be related to real life, and I"m sure that there are people in this world that do go insane, such as both of these characters end up doing. This book really questions a lot of things, such as work in life, or love in ones life,...

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Before the internet was given life people were required to spend hours upon hours trying to do simple research. ... Why read the full article when there is a summary somewhere else that requires even less time? ... "It could be that the real debate will not be books versus the internet but how to build an internet counterculture that will better attract people to serious learning"(Brooks 389). ... Reading books shifted to finding broken down summaries. ...

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According to the holy books like the Quran, the Bible, and the Tipitaka one day the world would be destroyed and all the living creatures would die. ... Life is not same for every person. ... He may live in a slum in a small hut and there is filth and dirt everywhere at the same time another person may be sleeping, or playing with his friends, or riding a luxurious car and live in a big house. ... The great scientists, writers, soldiers, and philosophers who died many years ago are still remembered by the people of their time and who came after them as well. ... These people spent a small amo...

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