She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential life-lessons that are important for every person to understand. ... She grew up during the Great Depression, which her father compensated for by working three jobs for seventeen years ("Toni Morrison Biography"). ... Morrison became a senior editor eventually and was the only African American woman to have that job in the company. ... In 1996, Morrison received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the Nationa...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is a very bold statement by Bronte, in her attempt to make a political statement within her book Jane Eyre. ... This excerpt from the book clearly expresses Bronte's strong feelings about women's domesticity in her time, and she does it in an almost semi-humorous way which makes it even more impressive. ... Bronte did a masterful job of incorporating her political ambitions within the confines of the text. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book begins before Marisol is born, and is comprised of stories that have been told to Marisol throughout her life. ... As a teenager, Rosa gave birth to her only daughter, an illegitimate child of a married man with five other children, as she tired of waiting for the man to join her in New York, she decided to take a job in a factory, and became very close to yet another man. ... This relationship lasted for a period of time, until Jackson tired of the constant expense of child that was not his own, and the two began to fight on a regular basis, at which time Rosa decided to find a diffe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Julie Otsuka's book When the Emperor was Divine tracks one Japanese family uprooted from their house in Berkeley, California and sent to an internment camp in Utah during the World War Two. ... Second, the handsome and polite father has a descent job to support his family. ... His statement seems unreasonable that he plays several roles and does a lot of things across different job functions and industries, such as a cook, a houseboy and a traitor, but he does not give us a detailed explanation. ...

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Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely could not like such 'cultivated' books" (Eco, 1983). ...

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Ishmael's job as a news reporter serves as a silent metaphor for righteousness through its inherent requirement of impartiality and righteousness. Etta Heine, relative to the other characters plays a minor role; yet her minor role is that of the personification of the major theme of prejudice throughout the book. ...

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Because they do not have a lot of money, they are forced to work strenuous jobs with little financial compensation and as a result, are commonly pushed aside for their differences. ... People innately do judge a book by its cover, but are they singlehandedly the ones to blame?...

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Claudia's world is quite a lonely one, not so many friends but plenty of contacts, quite appropriate given her job situation. ... The themes are what push the responder to react to the positioning of the characters throughout the book, the responder feels sympathetic towards Claudia and learns to despise Lavender. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. Good! Eva Luna was my introduction into the world of Isabel Allen...

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With jobs disappearing by the day, Glasgow's inhabitants were ripe with uncertainty as well as fear in regards to what their futures may hold. ... The finest demonstration of this is in the book's final chapter when Laidlaw took his colleague, Detective Inspector Milligan "by the lapels and flung him across the corridor" (278) for his mistreatment of Tommy. ...

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It is believed that Denham's job as a caretaker for an upper class family allowed Behn the opportunity to receive some sort of second hand education [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ... An example of this stems from a scene in the book where Prince Oroonoko stands amongst all of the slaves looking just as them and wearing the same clothing, yet people still treat him as a person of power [ CITATION Ken l 1033 ]. ...

• Word Count: 2238
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