One of her most famous collection of essays is bound into one book entitled Sacred Cows and other Edibles. ... She is very open about her thoughts in this book. One could almost call this book a "guide to Nikki" because it where she explains herself and her views, not as an autobiography, but almost as though it were a diary. ... One such book is Blues For All The Changes: New Poems. ... She even dedicated a book-Spin a Soft Black Song-to her dog."...

• Word Count: 1670
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In this paper, I make a brief analysis on the stylistic feature of this book on the part of "the abuse of vulgarity", so as to find out whether it is so vulgar to offend the readers or it is just because of the postmodern tact that is arranged by the writer engenders the gap between the book and the readers. ... It has won the National Book Critic's Circle Award for Non-fiction and has been selected as must readings by many American high schools. ... Since there is comment to this book expressed as vulgar and unbearable, we should have the word "vulgarity" clearly defined at first. ...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

From 3 to 5 pieces, they choose one to make into a book. This piece is edited with the teacher's help and the child proceeds to the publishing table where he will copy the correct form and finally illustrate the book. This block ends with "author's chair" in which several students each day share work in progress or their published book. ... - The teacher models the use of an Editor's Checklist to promote and guide self-checking, peer revision, and editing. ... Brainstorming-  The teacher tells the class that they are going to make a class book about dinosaurs. ...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Many critics have found that what is most impressive about Hemingway's pieces is the way he can guide the reader's mind throughout. ... The Sun Also Rises is an informal book that on the surface is relaxed (drinking, partying, sex, etc.) and beneath the surface is a much more, satisfying, in-depth story (Jake's inability to have sex, love between characters, outlooks on life and morals). Everything in the book moves in unison. ...

• Word Count: 2253
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

As stated in the book, Introduction To Educational Research (2002) this qualitative technique assembles data that occurs naturally and is regularly collected by teachers and administrators. ... The researcher was able to use this opportunity to guide the students thinking so that they could see and understand what they were trying to solve. ...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

Then the bus began driving into clouds, and between one cloud and the next we caught glimpses of the town below. It was suppertime and the town was a constellation of yellow points. We arrived thirty minutes after leaving that town, which was called Leuk. The train to Leuk had come in from Visp, the...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Guided tours of the canyon, donkey rides, hotels and lodges, observatories with pay-per-view telescopes and more things so courteously provided by the Park Service "improved" the sight, letting the average tourist see the canyon to its fullest. ... Percy suggests that, while the students studying their respective assignments are good, even necessary things, it would be equally important to have the biology student read a book of Shakespeare"s love sonnets, or have the English student explore the inner workings of the reproductive systems of a dogfish, for each would likely have a greater appr...

• Word Count: 2207
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School