This book along with others encourages the individual to question their beliefs and the world around them. That questioning, the critical thinking, the critical pedagogy is exactly why this book should be taught in a high school environment. ... Like George Orwell's 1984, this novel depicts a dystopia in which an all-powerful state controls the behaviors and actions of its people in order to preserve its own stability and power. ... The government of 1984 maintains power through force and intimidation. ... -This book enriches and supports the curriculum and presents various sides of cont...

• Word Count: 1130
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These questions haunt readers of George Orwell's "1984- from the beginning to the end of the novel. ... From the moment readers meet Winston Smith, and hear the tone at which Orwell wrote, they know this isn't a book for people who need a happy ending. These two themes " despotism and doom "tie together the plot and messages in 1984. ... Orwell describes the political history and psychological underpinnings in Goldstein's book, extracted at length in Part Two, IX. ... The concepts of free enterprise and individual freedom no longer exist in 1984. ...

• Word Count: 683
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Kurt Vonnegut also very often uses science fiction and comic book formulas (quick action, short dialogues etc.), which usually puts his books onto bookstore shelves marked "sci-fi". ... From the opening line, "Call me Jonah," to the end of the book when Bokonon tells Jonah to make a gesture to the gods, Vonnegut uses Herman Melville's Moby Dick as a symbol of fate. ... In fact, one of the book's funniest scenes (at least as far as low humor is concerned) is Jonah's discovery of Mrs. ... To find the war's contrast with love is quite difficult, because the book doesn't t...

• Word Count: 750
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Simone's existential study of the situation of women in the world, drew significantly from personal experience and was extremely influential in the formation of feminist theory, as a result the book Le deuxieme sexe, 1949 (translated as The Second Sex, 1953) was written. ... Due to her friendship with Sartre she had a driving force for philosophical analysis. ... La force des choses, 1963 (Force of Circumstance, 1964); Tout compte fait, 1972 (All Said and Done, 1974); and La cérémonie des adieux, 1981 (Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre, 1984) a diary recording the slow death o...

• Word Count: 713
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Perhaps one of my favorite stories through this short process was Raymond Carver's story "Cathedral", so I decided to make my literature analysis about him and his story. ... (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk When Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Price in 1984), and Where I"m Calling From in 1988, when he was introduced into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. ...

• Word Count: 993
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Make a collection of record covers, CD covers from a variety of periods. Make a detailed report on the design features employed, type of graphic rendering techniques used and the influences of the period the overall design. Over the years we have gone from records to tapes to CDs. The extent of ...

• Word Count: 1033
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School