According to the importance of the matter, unequivocally feel that the authors who wrote this text book Bulliet, Crossley, Hedrick Hirsch and Johnson Northup did an extremely great job giving the importance of the Silk Road throughout the chapter. The Silk Road was an ancient trading route that connected China to the West. ... The Silk Road was an important element in the history of "Asian Trade". ... I feel that this chapter was very well written and due to completeness I give it an A, because they authors did an outstanding job describing the Silk Road, the significance it had in Asia'...

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The Road to Acceptance "I could get a job at the filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. ... In chapter 10, he uses the name Jim Steele when he meets the three girls in the bar, and in chapter 13 he uses it again with the prostitute, Sunny. ... Holden mentions a couple of times how he is skinny and in chapter 13 he again mentions that he is sort of "yellow." ... In chapter 14, the pimp Maurice comes into Holden's hotel room and beats him up for extra money. ... He is like a blind man crossing a road, as he walks the road to acceptance, he needs someone to...

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The structure of the Grapes of Wrath is unique in that it alternates between specific narrative chapters about the Joad family and general intercalary chapters about the migrant workers as a whole. ... In the intercalary chapters, Steinbeck often varies his style. In some chapters, like Chapter 3, the anonymous narrator uses symbolism to provide the readers with an idea about the migrant workers. In chapter 3, a turtle struggles to travel across a highway, being nearly squashed twice by passing motorists and flung off the road by a driver who attempted to squash it. ... In the interca...

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Each chapter fluctuates between either the macro view or the micro view. One chapter will be devoted to the workers, the next to something that will affect the Joads. ... Chapter twelve provides the reader with an insight into the society's background. ... Mae, a waitress in a side road diner, refuses a migrant worker and his son, not knowing their situation. ... The historical account of the era is exemplified in chapter seventeen. ...

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Another interchapter, Chapter 3, describes the turtle's journey across the road. This chapter is a symbolic chapter, providing insight into Steinbeck's views on nature and man. ... Chapter 9 is another interchapter. ... It is linked to the previous and following chapters. ... These chapters were some examples of the interchapters in the novel. ...

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The beginning of chapter 5 starts off by giving an analysis of the interdependency classes have on each other after a certain Mr. ... " A central idea in this chapter is the expression of moral values like feeding the poor, or caring for the elderly. ... Chapter 7 focuses on the challenges American workers faced with the poor standards imposed on companies by the U. ... A bigger or more volatile issue is presented in chapter 8 when Jane Adams brings up poverty in America. ... We need to unite under a common moral standard that all people deserve equal rights and should live in society wh...

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A: The opening chapter begins with Stephen Daedalus" early childhood. ... The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt (4). ... Often, Stephen drifts from reality and the fantasies of being at home with his family away from the dreary atmosphere of the school, "it would be nice to lie on the hearthrug before the fire, leaning his head upon his hands he shivered as if he had cold slimy water next to his skin it was mean of Wells to shoulder him into the square ditch (6)" B: (ii) Social & Political Ideas Relevant to our Society It is in the first chapt...

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The last step is that before and after confirming an appointment for the road test you should keep on practicing. ... One of the most important parts to study are the chapters that describe the intersections and the signs, which you are supposed to distinguish such signs as a stop sign or a yield to right sign and what you should do when you see one. Another section of the book that will be helpful is the alcohol chapters where they discuss how DWI (driving while intoxicated) can affect your brain. ... Always keep in mind to never hit the curb while your taking the road test. ... Another ...

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In chapter 16 we have the first reference to the meaning of the novel's title, The Catcher in the Rye. ... The little boy is in the road singing and his parents pay no attention to him? ... In chapter 25 Holden sees obscenities written on the walls of a school. ... However in chapter 25, when Holden squashes his impulse to prevent Phoebe from reaching for the gold ring, it signals his coming to terms with his inner conflict. ...

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In Chapter 2, the narrator of the novel explains that: "Micro-organisms, which cause so much disease and pain on earth, have either never appeared upon Mars or Martian sanitary science eliminated them ages ago. ... In Chapter 10, Wells states, "it was no mere insensate machine driving on its way. ... It picked its road as it went striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about." ... Except for a few chapters when the action switches views to the point of the narrator's brother, this book was written as a first...

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An example of this is when the Joads ran into a man on the road, which lead them to work (this is the stunning sunset). ... Entry for: Part 3, Chapter 23 "The migrant people, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they were hungry for amusement" (Steinbeck 444). ... Entry for: Part 3, Chapter 25 "The spring is beautiful in California. ... Entry for: Part 3, Chapter 26 "The black cloud had crossed the sky, a blob of dark against the stars. ... Entry for: Part 3, Chapter 28 "Wherever they's a fight so hu...

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Chapter 3. ... "The country was also politically stable and had a high level of basic services-airport, deep water harbor, paved road system, pure water, ample electricity, telephones.... "Chapter 3." ... "Chapter 7." ... "Chapter 8." ...

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Chapter Three starts with good weather and beautiful skies. ... Chapter Four is the chapter in the novel that emphasizes red the most. ... Her cheeks burn with a redness after being asked if she would be scared to go down Corbury road with Ethan on a night as dark as that night. ... Mattie blushes at the excitement of sledding down a dark road with her arms wrapped around Ethan's body. ...

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In my opinion the most significant event that transpires during chapters 13-19, occurs in chapter 14 when James is sent to live with his sister in Louisville, Kentucky. ... Chicken Man is a stark reflection of who James will become if he continues down the road he is currently on, and thus James's conversations with Chicken Man coupled with his overall time in Louisville become one of the most influential periods of James's youth. ... I do not like the fact that Chicken Man is stabbed at the end of the chapter, but I feel this profoundly affects James's determination to change...

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Each chapter in the book talks about one school. ... The Bat 6 game started in the spring of 1899 as a girls' baseball competition between Bear Creek and Barlow Road Grade Schools. ... When Shirley moves to Barlow Road, her whole world changes; she lives with her grandmother who owns a house very far from the school, changes her name to "Shazam-, and finds that the area has many Japanese citizens. ... Barlow Road is up to bat and the bases are loaded. ...

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The old Victorian houses and crumbling concrete businesses that have served the town for many years are on each side of the road. ... Going a little further down the four lane road, you have the gargantuan mountain range that casts a shadow covering the town during the red-orange sunset every evening. ... To get to grandpa's house, you turn down an old beaten up road where the traffic lines are blended in with the road, and the pot holes seem to swallow your car into them no matter how hard you try to miss them. On the corner of this road, you can stop and enjoy some mouth-watering ice cr...

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An important feature, appealing to anyone, is how such a large book is broken up into short chapters that can be absorbed easily. The exciting titles of these chapters are listed in the Table of Contents to attract the reader. A recent addition to the book is the Epilogue chapter, which appeals to the reader as it describes the repercussions of Cooke's crimes and the current condition of the families and survivors affected. ... Rosemary was striding away from him down Redfern Street and across the road, insisting on walking home." ... The subsequent chapters then reveal how Cooke came to...

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-This money could be spent on schools, drug prevention programs, job training centers, after shcool programs, roads, or day care facilites; measures which truly prevent crime and make our neighborhoods safer. ... -Start a Death Penalty Focus chapter at your school. ...

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Objective Xavier de Maistre discovered a new meaning to life. Rather than looking right through something he would take the object and change the angle, so he could better see what its meaning was. Take for instance his sofa, which to most people would just be an object to sit ...

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The reference to Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad occurs many times, but most notably in chapter five in the quote, "The old colonial bungalow with its deep verandah and Doric columns, was surrounded by smaller, older, wooden houses, "ancestral homes "that the hotel chain had bought from old families and transplanted in the Heart of Darkness."" ... During the trip, she shows how the tourist unknowingly appreciates the bad roads in a brand new car, the run down schools hidden away beautifully, and the church with an English God, all of which without realizing the cars are breaking ...

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Edna begins to battle her husband's dominance, a sign of feminism developing in chapter eleven. ... In chapter seventeen, Edna responds to Mr. ... Chopin exemplifies this in chapter 25 when she writes, "The thought was passing vaguely through her mind, 'What would he think?' ...

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Protagonist role in The Scarlet Letter " But (Hester) is not the protagonist, the chief actor, and the tragedy of The Scarlet Letter is not her tragedy but Arthur's. He is the persecuted one, the tempted one. He it was whom the sorrows of death encompassed . His public confession is one of the nobl...

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As a result, the situation emerging from 1945 and so on, was laying the foundations of a new chapter in history that would stamp European biography and global politics once and for all. ... On 9th November 1989, the gates were open and thousands of people flooded the roads of Berlin. ... It closed the chapter of Hitler, and the Nazis by opening a new one based in the concepts of democracy. ...

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The baptism at the river re-invented the Lotus-eaters chapter. ... In the chapter of the Odyssey with Scylla and Charybdis, Odysseus had to choose the less evil of the two during his journey. ... The spirit of the Odyssey is captured in the film in regards to both being a road movie with lots of adventures along the way causing the journey to have it's twist and turns. ...

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Marie, his wife, described Harry in the Chapter Fourteen; "She watched him go out of the house, tall, wide shouldered, flat backed, his hips narrow, moving, still, she thought, like some kind of animal, easy and swift and not old yet, he moves so light and smooth like, she thought and when he got in the car she saw him blonde, with the sunburned hair his face with the broad mongol cheek bones, and the narrow eyes, the round jaw, and getting in the car he grinned at her and she began to cry." ... In chapter nineteen when Richard was "Riding his bicycle, he passed a heavy-set, big, blue-eyed wom...

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