His assessment reads: "Of Mice and Men is a modern parable about the unfairness of human society. ... Of Mice and Men casts a grim shadow over this area of human nature and places doubt upon the strictness of the court system. ... It not only leaves this, but also with many open ended questions about human nature and related issues. ... Steinbeck uses a unique style and technique to acquire an easy to follow plot with an impact theme concerning the tendencies of human nature. ... Of Mice and Men is a thoughtful, controversial tale and in short, it is a teacher. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" "Fly Away Peter" charts Jim's loss of innocence as he confronts the brutality of war and the truth about human nature." DISCUSS "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" - ECCLESIASTES 1:18 David Malouf's "Fly Away Peter" is the story of one man's loss of innocence, as he confronts the brutality of human nature during the First World War. ... Here in Brisbane, Jim first encounters the truth about the callous nature of human beings, and the hypocritical nature of war. ... The hellish conditions of war evidently bring out the...

• Word Count: 1373
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The first scaffold scene establishes the root for all further development of the stories central characters. ... Unlike the man she married, however, he is portrayed with images of a dark nature. ... While the girl has developed many "elfish- qualities, she has a knack for pushing the buttons of human emotion. ... In the final scaffold scene, the story comes to a close. ... The girl has now transformed from the fairy-like sprite of earlier chapters, into a human capable of compassion and emotion. ...

• Word Count: 1627
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hughes's poems, short plays, essays, and short stories began appearing in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. ... (www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm) Among his many poems, The Negro Mother (1931), The Dream Keeper (1932), and Montage Of A Dream Deferred (1951) argue passionately a belief in human equality, a wish for color-blind brotherhood, and a growing disillusionment with the American dream. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people without personalizing them, so the reader could step in and draw his own conclusions....

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Richards relates the story of how, when she was young, she always said she wanted to talk to God. ... A dominant theme in this series is "the belief in the supernatural [as being] part of the human soul..."24 These books are romantic, realistic, and supposedly written by various vampires to the mortal world. ... King's readers are fascinated by the mind that can produce such horrifying stories, and they see him as a sort of preternatural being. ... Arthur Miller's The Crucible best illustrates this hypocritical attraction-abhorrence nature of the Puritans. ... She is also ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

My experience in the field consist of writings by Dante" and Machiavelli, films, plays, lectures, and some short readings. ... The Prince, he describes what men really do and shows what human nature is truly like. ... Politics today are still influenced by his ideas, but are not openly portrayed because of the blunt nature of his ideas. ... The Inferno is more than just a fictional story about someone traveling through the universe. ... The postwar era has seen a succession of short-lived, pro-Western coalition governments; the Communists (now the Democratic Party of the Left), although...

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• Grade Level: High School

The creation story is a seven day story. ... Many of the main themes of Genesis are derived from this story one of which causes this story to be considered one of the most important stories in Genesis. ... Another important theme derived from this story is that mankind is the crowning achievement of creation as it is man who is created in God's own image Following the story of creation is the story of Adam and Eve, the first two humans, in the Garden of Eden. ... The stories of Adam's family help establish the themes that all people are descended from Adam and Eve, and that sin i...

• Word Count: 3285
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Instead the people of the USSR had a nightmare unleashed on them unrivaled in the archives of human history. Only once in the passing of human fictional literature has the sensitive horror of this regime been displayed once, much less twice. ... Only he understood that in the end, humans cannot defeat human nature, because it is inherit in them. ... He finished a short draft, entitled, A Scullions Diary about 10 months later. This short novel was rejected twice, mainly on the grounds that it was only 35,000 words and used only a moderate part of all of the notes, journals and other things ...

• Word Count: 8146
• Approx Pages: 33
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School