It was the brief, understated style of a newspaper man. ... This was reinforced when a snippet of a retyped Henry James quote was found among the pages of his unfinished manuscript of "A Farewell to Arms." ... Bernard Bereson summarized brilliantly what it is about Hemingway's prose that makes it so powerful when he provided a blurb for The Old Man and the Sea at Hemingway's prompting. (The Old Man and the Sea is) communicated in prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. ... (Hemingway, Short 192) In the following passage from The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes relates - in a...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. ... Stalin used the name "Koba" until about 1913, when he regularly began signing articles and letters with the name "Stalin" (meaning "man of steel" or "steel one"). ...

• Word Count: 7507
• Approx Pages: 30
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An eighty-page mixture of short, fragmentary chapters, photographs, and illustrations of medieval architecture and manuscripts, the Postscript is partly a poetics designed to "help us understand how to solve the technical problem which is the production of a work." ... The fundamental tension in the novel is between those, like the inquisitor Bernardo Gui, Jorge de Burgos, Ubertino of Casale, or Adso in old age and that rare medieval-postmodern William who has abandoned his role of inquisitor, refusing to discriminate between martyr and heretic, for example. ...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The history of the internet is much older and more involved than most of today's society can fathom. ... The History of the International Telecommunication Union As was mentioned in the previous page, each nation has had the responsibility of managing many of their own infrastructure concerns. ... A classic example has been the use of Morse code for those traveling on the high seas to use as a form of communication. ...

• Word Count: 6425
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The company was founded by a young man by the name of Saul Remond, who is currently seeking a marketing degree at Hudson Valley community College to help him understand not just the basic of marketing, but the tools needed to help spread the brand and the gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world. ... Jesus Wear offers clothing for both men and women, in the most popular colors with the best names in the market such as, sun rising light red, sundown red, evening violet, sea blue, mountaintop white, stream rock greyish just to name a few. ... THE TARGET MARKET The potential audience for Jesus W...

• Word Count: 2685
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the time, I did not know who Konishiki was, yet Aya's reaction indicated to me that sumo wrestlers must really enjoy popularity in Japan (why, otherwise, would a 19-year old Japanese girl so readily recognize the obese man on the back of a CD?). ... However, because sumo nowadays is performed so often and so consistently as a ritual embodying symbols that represent "old Japan," it is easily seen as a truly remarkable living legacy of the past. ... In identifying with such symbols, the Japanese are reaffirming their cultural identity, implicitly or explicitly assuming a unilinear inh...

• Word Count: 6746
• Approx Pages: 27
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate