Wuthering Heights: The Movie or the Book? ... The book successfully takes the reader over two generations of characters, each with different ideas, personalities and attitudes. ... Further, Emily Bronte would have recognised it as the book she wrote. ... The book has been filmed faithfully, from beginning to end. ... Of particular note is Matthew MacFadyen's engaging and coltish Hareton - inexplicably adoring of Heathcliff, and torn between his love for the man who destroyed his father and Catherine, the young woman he loves. ...

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Suso originally penned The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom in German, and published it in 1328. It rapidly became the widest read meditation book in Germany in the 14th century. ... Note the posture of the muse, with drapery that suggests her movement, and also the page of the Holy Scriptures that is in the process of turning. ... Another consideration of note is the theological imagery in the piece. ... As a side note, this work seems to be one of the earliest references to the spring-powered clock (Department of Medieval and Modern Europe). ...

• Word Count: 1293
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Finally, the book attempts to establish Rogers association with David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Charles Harrelson. The authors of this book feel that their own investigation points to Rogers as the perpetrator who played a much bigger part in the incident. ... Unless the reclusive Rogers spent his free time bragging to the neighbors about his CIA involvement between November 1963 and June 1965, or left a written note somewhere in the house claiming involvement, there would likely be nothing at the Houston crime scene connecting him to Kennedy's death. ... These personal relations...

• Word Count: 1988
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If I were to try and summarize the varying representations of sex in the book I would end writing a book in itself. ... While each of these influences are separate and distinct, it also important to note that each of them are intertwined and always manipulating each other. ... It is important to note that this train of thought directly influenced the very characters telling the stories. ... The theme of lustful attraction and ensuing sexual intercourse is played over and over throughout the book without second thought from the characters, except on occasion only for the purpose of figuring...

• Word Count: 1609
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Walter LaFeber's new book, his eighth, is bountifully nutritious despite its brevity. ... LaFeber duly notes that Jordan has directed some of his millions to good causes. ... This is disappointing, since Knight serves to exemplify the corporate transnational genius, not Jordan, as the book's title suggests. ... LaFeber's account of this growth of advertising in the 1980s and 1990s is an instructive high point of his book--and a sobering one. ... He notes that in 1980 the average American was exposed to 1,600 advertising commercials each day. ...

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However, it is important to note that both authors do not bash authorities; rather, they only criticize the blind acceptance of such authorities. ... He uses digestion as an analogy to reflect the worthlessness of book knowledge. ... What we know as book knowledge is thus completely irrelevant for it fails to look at the greater picture. ... Throughout Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais emphasizes what seems to be the theme of the book: "know yourself."" ... As a matter of fact, Montaigne begins his entire treatise by emphasizing that "I, myself, am the subject of this book- (3). ...

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In her book titled "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters"" and "Original Stories from Real Life"," Wollstonecraft advocated for the importance of educating children into the middle class philosophy. ... She continued to note that, educating women would eventually make them good mothers and wives who can positively contribute to the development of the society. ... Civilization of Society In her book titled "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"," Wollstonecraft argued that women need to receive education that was equal to their status in the society. ... In her book, Mary Wollstonecraft refe...

• Word Count: 1251
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I chose this book to review because it contains valuable text that is useful for all humans to read. ... The most interesting parts of the book will be summarized in this essay. ... Overall the book provided me with a lot of useful information, which I will attempt to convey in the following essay. ... One must note the different kinds of relationships that exist in different cultures: monogamy, and polygamy describe forms of marriage; "gamy" in Greek means marriage, not mating. ... Another word that was commonly used in the book was "promiscuity." ...

• Word Count: 1322
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Introduction The book This War is for a Whole Life (2006) by Richard hanks focuses on the historical journey of the American Indian tribes in search of equality in America. ... The following article review assesses analyzes the book This War is for a Whole Life as per the findings by Richard Hanks. ... The book points out the level of injustices exposed to Indians in America after the arrival of the Europeans. ... However, the Author also notes that the initial attempts by the Native Indians of America to resist the encroachment into their land are not successful. ... Similarly the book outl...

• Word Count: 1426
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The book is a phenomenal read and it could even appeal to the general public. ... The last point in the book that Hall makes in this book is that the Louisiana cultural tradition of racial openness couldn't be entirely destroyed. ... At the end of the book, she also provides us with four different appendices on different topics that she touched on throughout the book. She then provides a ten page note on her sources in which she discusses the origins of these sources and their pros and cons. ... My favorite parts of the book were when she was discussing the cultural side of the Afro-Cre...

• Word Count: 1683
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For a book that seems to look down upon racism, these passages are rather confusing. ... That is not to say that the book is not exciting, quite the contrary in fact. ... Another appreciable characteristic of the book is the reference to the "Last of the Mohicans". ... For this reason, the book is not deserving of its genre classification, "Historical Fiction". However, it is important to note Cooper's undeniable contribution to American folklore and frontier romance....

• Word Count: 1482
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They are as follows:(1) The ordinary Bible read in the Church,commonly called the Bishop's Bible, to be followed,and as little altered as the truth of the originalwill permit.(2) The names of the Prophets, and the HolyWriters, with the other Names of the Text, to beretained, as nigh as may be, accordingly as theywere vulgarly used.(3) The old Ecclesiastical Words to be kept, viz.the word Church not to be translated Congregation &c.(4) When a word hath divers Significations, that tobe kept which hath been most commonly used by themost of the Ancient Fathers, being agreeable to thePropriety...

• Word Count: 1976
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"This book was written to illuminate the Jewish side of its very early debate with Christianity by taking a fresh look at what Jewish sages saw as their issues in what was at stake (2)." ... Basser's book is, if nothing else, extremely organized. ... The book in its entirety is not intended for the casual scholar of religious studies. In this respect, Basser is losing valuable audience, in both profit from those not buying his book, as well as with people who purchase the book, yet they aren't receiving the full benefit of Basser's intentions because they may not understand m...

• Word Count: 1460
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Two well known works, "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi, and "Hagakure," written by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, both consist of profound ideology about being samurai. ... In the book, Yamamoto describes a lot of incidents in which people become involved in killings because they feel that they have been humiliated by others. ... However, the book Hagakure is said to be a work that is full of nostalgia. ... " Ikegami notes that "Hagakure is best understood as its author's reinterpretation of Samuraihood in confronting the culture double bind of Tokugawa 'vassal bureaucrac...

• Word Count: 1482
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The Wilmington (Wellington) Race Riot, the core of Charles Chesnutt's book, was surrounded by the controversial elements of the Jim Crow South and the growing hatred of the Black community. ... This is evident in the book immediately following the robbery and murder of Mrs. ... While on a much lighter note, the third and final demonstration of discrimination and hatred towards the black community of Wilmington (Wellington), the separate car rule, allows us to see the concept of de jure segregation in action. ... During this particular scene of the book, he was asked to end his conversatio...

• Word Count: 1273
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The book, The Studies on Hysteria, was wrote and published before the departure of Breuer and Freud (Davis Webpage) and the book, Symbols of Transformation, was wrote and published before the departure of Jung and Freud (Davis Webpage). ... Since the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams there has been a lot of debate about the book. The debate takes place, mainly, because of his addiction to cocaine at the time the book was written (Thornton Webpage). ... As Daniel Schacter notes: "If we"re unaware that something is influencing our behavior, there is little we can do to understand or c...

• Word Count: 1758
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Saussure's most influential work is the Course in General Linguistics (1916), a compilation of notes on his lectures. ... David Holdcroft in his book, Saussure: Sign, System, and Arbitrariness, clearly states the two central ideas in Saussure's Language as a System of Signs': " Saussure introduces two key principles, the Arbitrary Nature of the sign and the Linear Nature of the Signifier- (47). ... Jonathan Culler in his book, Ferdinand de Saussure, states that Saussure preferred synchronic over diachronic: It has been suggested that in distinguishing rigorously betwee...

• Word Count: 1928
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This virtue is just one I will focus on, in consideration of length restrictions, but it's important to note that Little Women deals with a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas. ... In Little Women, Alcott accepts this inevitable changeover with the four March sisters maturing as the book progresses. ... Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her characters through common situations and conflicts, Barrie writes to escape from reality (class notes, 4/3/03). ... I would argue that he did not have this guide, as his relationships with the other childr...

• Word Count: 1473
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Interlaced through this paper are certain notes that I deduced about its style and structure, including camera movement, music, lighting, and more. ... Physically, in certain scenes, Robert Crumb is present, guiding the spectator along the pages of his comic book, although he remains unseen. ... An example of this is in the comic book store when he is conversing with the young man with long black hair. ...

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Before moving on to possible solutions for our education system, I want to note an interesting point made in the final chapter of Ryan's book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart that is the basis for my thesis. ... Cities can help reduce white flight by making the living environment more enjoyable and suitable for the average citizen; Ryan notes efforts by cities in "cleaning up parks, creating more retail and living space, and cracking down on street crime" (283). ... In summing up what he feels parents can gain from his book on the inequalities of special education, Ong-Dean says, &quo...

• Word Count: 1473
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It could easily be said that with this book the author may have trying to ingratiate himself to all the local nobility; on the other hand, knowing what follows might also suggest that Machiavelli was really attempting to play off the nobility's fears of chaos and insecurity, guaranteeing safety if they read his short piece. ... The lord most would consider ruthless and cold, but whom Machiavelli names a virtuoso, is but one (probably Cesare Borgia, son of Sixtus IV) character in the book. ... Adams has done it very nicley so I shall not repeat them here) which is part of what gives the ...

• Word Count: 1699
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An epigraph is traditionally used as an insight into a book's general essence; a short introductory element in order to make it simpler for the reader to apprehend the author's intentions. ... The epigraph appears to be an assertion of the exactitude of the documents presented and is representative of the entire book. ... The book is composed of extracts from characters" diaries, letters and telegrams, all having been carefully dated. ... (p.78), that Van Helsing's note is "not delivered" (p.243) and that two letters from Mina to Lucy remain unopened. ... The author's medic...

• Word Count: 1779
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The book provides a basic discussion of evolution along with examples of how the theory of natural selection may relate to aging, cancer, allergies, and other diseases. ... He notes that during the first widespread use of antibiotics following World War II, medicine was able to subdue tuberculosis, syphilis and pneumonia-all of which could then be cured with pills or shots if caught in time. ... The book covers several major issues, including ecosystem disruption and disease, attacks against the self, cancer, malaria, and AIDS. ... Lappe changed the name of his book because to ensure th...

• Word Count: 1545
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In a study by Professor Maurice Porot and medical doctor Jacques Miermont in their book Beethoven et les Malentendus, 1986, they state: "In particular, we will never know the state of the ossicles..." ... (Alsop) For example, Beethoven's late spring quartets, Opus 127 to 135, take on a new avant garde compositional style, including significantly more high notes. ... (CBC News) However, his early and middle periods used more low and middle frequency notes, compared to his late period, where he used more high notes. ...

• Word Count: 1557
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Steve Schaffer, writing on the NASA website, describes this, noting that The Artificial Intelligence Group does research on Artificial Intelligence in areas to further help scientist to discover the deep out reaches of space, going to areas which at the moment are inhospitable to human bodies, but bearable for the artificial intelligence in their mechanic bodies (Schaffer). ... According to John Sullins book the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, computers are not only becoming more efficient, more capable and faster, but the rate at which they are improving is also increasing wi...

• Word Count: 1342
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate