The book, "A Loss for Words," is the autobiography of Lou Ann Walker, the hearing daughter of two deaf parents. ... I found little in the book that frustrated me as did hearing the examples of this kind of treatment. ... Lou Ann tried banging on the door, and slipping a note underneath to let them know she needed them and her attempts to communicate that to them were unsuccessful. ... Although there was much sadness in the book, there was also much humor. ... I have gained so much insight from this book about the deaf culture. ...

• Word Count: 1342
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• Grade Level: High School

Eugenia, who is a journalist, decides to write a book about the personal experiences that the black maids undergo at the hands of their white bosses. ... Pratt also notes that contact zones can have a negative effect in that they promote evils like colonialism and slavery. ... These experiences are then documented by Eugenia, who wrote them in the book. The book, published anonymously to protect Eugenia and her contributors' identities, is a success, and the royalties are shared with the maids. ... The maids did not write the book. ...

• Word Count: 1368
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The book is a phenomenal read and it could even appeal to the general public. ... The last point in the book that Hall makes in this book is that the Louisiana cultural tradition of racial openness couldn't be entirely destroyed. ... At the end of the book, she also provides us with four different appendices on different topics that she touched on throughout the book. She then provides a ten page note on her sources in which she discusses the origins of these sources and their pros and cons. ... My favorite parts of the book were when she was discussing the cultural side of the Afro-Cre...

• Word Count: 1683
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This brief letter stating how this book will help the children in their classroom and all the wonderful things this book can help with, and its signed by the president of the company. ... The circles have the student book as the top left, leveled resources as the top right, the bottom is teacher support and the one in the middle is accountability. At the bottom of the page there is a note that says "You don't have to Stop teaching reading to prepare students for high-states tests!" ... I think that the placement of this story was to show teachers that they are putting all cultures in this...

• Word Count: 1415
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• Grade Level: High School

It is worthwhile to note that the style of the two stories was presented in different ways. In the book, the characters were more spirited, in the Victorian sense, lacking that exuberant, while the characters in the movie were just the opposite, as they were far more energetic and spirited in their portrayals of the character. ... The director of the movie though, maintains the comedic nature of the film as a way of allowing the adaptation to address the same themes as the book: class, culture and gender (Wilson 2006: 323-4). The movie has no choice but to be different from the book because i...

• Word Count: 1319
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In her introduction to her book, Appiah mentions that these international disputes have arisen typically when governments assume the responsibility to act for their citizens, "And the possibilities of good and of ill are multiplied beyond all measure when it comes to policies carried out by governments in our name" (Appiah, xii-xiii). ... In the introduction to his book "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," Harvey examines the process in which markets succeed when their governments create an infrastructure that allows individuals to make their own market decisions while simul...

• Word Count: 1259
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Klinenberg notes that media and communications is a large part of society. ... (pg. 69) One example of this that Giroux uses is the movie "The Lion King ", the movie itself was a huge success making Disney $253.5 million and was ranked as one of Disney's, most profitable movies, this lead it to make even more profits from its soundtrack and other products like stuffed toys , book bags, etc.. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The latter appeared firstly through periodicals, but in the 1850s the book form was already a not too uncommon phenomenon. ... Characteristic instances of what I have in mind are articles like "The British Parliament" , "An Illustrious Englishman's Notes on Education" , "The Jurisdiction of England" , "English Politics and Europe" , "The English Bank System" . ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The strength of the book is that it includes the personal problems that emerge with the frustrations, boredom, tribulations, and misinterpretations that inevitably emerge in the context of "doing ethnography" as well as a true test of cultural relativism through out his journey. ... In the evening he would go over his notes and prepare on what he could work on the following day. ...

• Word Count: 2007
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School