"The Worst Hard Time – The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl" by Timothy Eagan, is the story of the people of the Dust Bowl. ... I believe that the author Timothy Eagan did a great job in explaining to me the reader the different issues that were involved in the Dust Bowls and he did a great job in explaining the different struggles of the people who lived in the region and who had to endure the dust storms and the bad effects that these storms played on the people not just from an economical standpoint but also from a sociological and psychologica...

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In contrast, Edward de Vere's death in 1604 would have bar him from being the author of several majestic tragedies believed written latter such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear; the fact that the quality of de Vere's published earlier poetry likely before 1585 is vastly inferior to that of Shakespeare; the specific knowledge the plays and poems infer certain prominent people in the Queen's court connect with associated events; similarities in Shakespeare's writings parallel Oxford's life, and the need for a pseudonym by an author-courtier being Oxford to publish his...

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Alexander the Great was a lot like my sister, yet on a much grander scale of course. ... A great leader he was "thus his title; "Alexander the Great-, and yet how great can one be that is so extremely unstable? ... Yet he fits a great deal of the criterion required of the antichrist, especially in his charismatic persona. ... Consider all of the beautiful aspects of his character; he who adored learning (himself being taught by the great Aristotle), proving this attribute in the founding of his famous school in Alexandria. ... There would have been no Utopia or one world system, because p...

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Theoretically, gender separates authors in no more of a respect than do the author's birthstone or favorite color. ... The variances of the two sexes exist predominantly anatomical: not in thought or greatness of writing. The prevalence of an androgynous mind, however will aptly aid in defining the greatness of writers to come. ... And an appeal to both genders is necessary for achieving literary greatness. ... Only through repeated exposure to great female authors will society drop its negation of the truth and come to impart deserved respect to all authors. ...

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Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. ... Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene" through what he knew or indirectly experienced and discovered the disillusionment that "a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in man shaken", what's more, he depicted the postwar unprecedented boom of material re...

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The obvious differences in the description (other than different authors and wars) is the time periods. ... (This has been a great source for historians that study Greek mythology of Ancient Greece because of its heavy content of the gods and goddesses.) ... For both authors, the Greek leader is the hero and represented with a type of honor and glory. ... Among the Greeks Achilles is honored and praised as a great warrior for killing Hector and showing off his victory by dragging around his body for all to see. ... Leonidas also has great honor and glory by Herodotus' accounts for his lea...

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It all began with a wish, a wish for a great interference in the lives of colonists -- a wish for a new form of government, separation from Europe and great wealth. ... Although her predilections are admittedly "Old Whig" and "Bancroftian," the author's view is her own. ... She pays a great deal of attention to detail, which although historically irrelevant, does give the book flavor. ... Another thing that I liked was how the author took each part of the process into steps that took place in making the Constitution. ... Not just another book on the Constitution, Miracle at Philadelphia i...

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The author's provided their readers with great examples to help understand the two concepts. ... In the book, the author used a great example to explain the threat of disruptive innovations. ... Over time, developers add great features to make online courses similar to a classroom setting. ... Truly, the great universities of today and tomorrow will honor their histories while also changing their future.... BYU-Idaho is a great example of an institution that has successfully implemented disruptive innovations. ...

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A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a short story in which it could see reflected the influence of the author's life. ... Although the story is fictional, the setting, the characters and the context which are developed are a portrayal of the time and place in which the author grew up. ... Since there is a connection between "A Rose for Emily" story and the Author, the author's biography is going to be briefly reviewed in this work. ... Teresa Towner in her book "The Cambridge Introduction to William Faulkner" states that Faulkner's great grandfather, cal...

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The author did a good job of including information from both disciplines rather than focusing on just one. ... Evaluation of the Authors There are three contributing authors to this article Elizabeth Wadlington, Alicia Enloe and Shirley Jacob. All three of these authors are professors of education at the University of Southeastern Louisiana. ... Finding information about the authors was difficult and I was unable to locate any substantial material. ... The authors did a great job of informing the reader of what emotional intelligence refers to and how it can be understand through definitions ...

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The Japanese community in British Columbia showed a great deal of support for victory bonds drives and the Red Cross (Ward 463). ... The two authors use a colorful array of language to present their case. ... The authors provide no further evidence to support their claim. ... The authors utilize this quote form an unpublished paper. ... In 1943, there were reports of Japanese activity in North American waters, which caused a great deal of panic (Johnson and Granatstein 119). ...

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In the autobiography genre, it can be hard to fully grasp where the author is coming from when he or she describes a point in his or her story without a secondary source. ... In most cases, secondary sources are used as personal perspectives of the author, outside of the primary topic. Secondary sources don't necessarily have anything to do with the author's storyline in the primary source. The secondary source provides extra information on the primary source and helps you comprehend the writing style and voice that the author uses in his or her autobiography. ... A great example of ...

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He therefore focuses a great deal on different forms of illusions, their classifications and their possible interpretations in chapter 10, and in a great portion of the concluding chapter 11. ... Understanding perceptions, he maintains, is a great challenge (Dodwell 22). ... The success and effectiveness, relative and absolute, of the illustrations used by these authors will now be discussed in detail. ... In fact, the author of this essay might not have come to this accurate conclusion had it not been for accidentally looking at plate 6 at the end of the book, which, it might be added, was ...

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The author uses Camelot, the epitome of chivalric myth, to ground his story and thus to provide a backdrop for his questioning and probing of the meaning and purpose of the chivalric code. ... Likely, even more so for the author's contemporaries than for we moderns, Camelot is the quintessential chivalric legend. By introducing us to the concept of chivalry through Camelot, the author immediately sets a very high expectation for the conduct of his characters, and he reinforces this idea by opening in the heroic style of epic myth, describing the great leaders of antiquity such as Aeneas a...

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The great nation today known as the United States of America, has not always existed in its current state of glory. It too had to start from the bottom of the chain, and work its way up to the greatness of today. ... Another instance where Bradstreet spoke her mind like this presents itself in, The Author to Her Book. ... The next important woman author of this time is Mary Rowlandson. ... So, in conclusion these two prominent women authors did not overall place a direct challenge on Puritanism. ...

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" The authors commit another fallacy in the aforementioned phrase. ... We are left to question which "society" the authors are referring to. ... The author causes great confusion with his lack of explication of his usage of modern. ... The author frequently makes biblical references that diminish the force of their arguments. ... Along with the above mentioned claim, the authors engage in the use of ad hominem. ...

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Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Although the author was just describing the day-to-day life with all the rituals and traditions it did t portray the feeling they had towards the whites. ... The author gives a good background of the relationship white settlement and Indian cultures had, which supported by the life experience. An author depicts all the emotions of struggle and happiness at the times when it is hard to imagine it. ... The ways in which the author could strengthen the book, in my...

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Authorship theory and genre theory if taken at face value mean the analysis of film using the author or genre as the main area of study. ... Before the 1950s the idea of authorship was unusual as the, "industrial nature of film production prevented a single authorial voice making itself heard in film." ... It does not take into account that the author is just one of many who created the film. ... Some critics feel that a film should have no author and that it should belong, "completely to the public" however, "the author always represents to some extent the works downfall" . This leads one...

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Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Although the author was just describing the day-to-day life with all the rituals and traditions it did t portray the feeling they had towards the whites. ... The author gives a good background of the relationship white settlement and Indian cultures had, which supported by the life experience. An author depicts all the emotions of struggle and happiness at the times when it is hard to imagine it. ... The ways in which the author could strengthen the book, in my...

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This is evidenced in the beginning when an unknown girl is reading The Grand Budapest Hotel book at the very dull, yet important gravesite of The Author in Zubrowka; ends up cutting to 1985 with The Author himself sitting at a desk in a low key light addressing the camera in planimetric fashion and telling the story in a naturalistic sense of how he came around to write the story of The Grand Budapest Hotel. ... A great example of this lighting combined with acting would be the hotel lobby scene at 4:45 when The Author first catches a glimpse of the older Zero. From the audience's planim...

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One author explains, "Her writing has been called the fiction of the grotesque. ... (Baumgaertner, 19) Flannery O'Connor put mindful contemplation into her double role as both a Catholic and fiction author. ... (Galloway) The author's own misery is ascribed to seeing what was every author's aspiration of critical praise and respect swiftly dissipate due to the lupus passed on from her father. ... This technique is successful because the author permits violence to remain without being encumbering. ... Flannery notes, "There is a moment in every great story in which the p...

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Robert Greenleaf contends the great leader is seen as a servant first, and that simple fact is the key to the leader's greatness [ CITATION Gre91 l 1033 ]. Another author that studies how a journey to servant leadership is a competitive advantage in business cites Mark 10:43-44 (NIV) "whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all" [CITATION Bil11 l 1033 ]. ... Another author offers that the following consistent characteristics and traits become a way of life for a servant leader: giving praise and feedback, gr...

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In order to understand the thought process behind an author's piece of literature, it often helps to examine the rhetoric of its content. ... Both authors use methods of rhetoric to establish their viewpoint with the intended reading audience. ... Each author effectively uses fact and definition to convince the audience to agree with their respective opinion. ... Being able to use the rhetorical question is truly a great aid in writing to connect with the reader because it is speaking one-on-one. ... Each author accesses analogies successfully but uses them in different ways. ...

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The author presents the society around this small town as rigid due to the unknown fear and evil of human nature. ... The author presents the reflection of human kind in some very irrelevant traditions. ... The author uses the people who were destroyed to death as presenting the good values while the townspeople who destroyed them represent the society. ... The author also presents the villagers in this town vicinity as the prosecution as well as the spectators in this event. ... It's very disturbing that there are great similarities of the reasoning of these townsfolk and the reasoning...

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Global heart failure awareness programs have great impact to improve outcome for the patients with heart failure and eventually save lives. ... This approach assumes that the authors have a good detailed description of the content domain. Author used Spearman's correlation test to show the positive correlation between 2 variables, 1) Education of disease and 2) Treatment adherence. ... Using Kruskal-Wallis test, authors showed the statistical significance of diet, and medication adherence, while non-significance of physical activity. ... According to the authors' studies, some articl...

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