A couple minutes later, we saw a big yellow bus coming our way and I realized it was for us.          ... Adams announced that we were going to begin reading. I had some experience reading but not very much. ... Later that night, after we put on our pajamas and brushed our teeth, mom sat on the edge of the bed like always. ... My reading skills were slightly developed because of kindergarten but reading on my own was something that I never faced before. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Winston finds himself openly discussing his hatred for Big Brother including the readings of Anti-Party manifesto and getting involved with other rebellious groups. ... While reading the novel I started to develop an analogy of fire and gasoline to describe the relationship between Julia and Winston. ... Eventually, the reading of the anti-party literature, openly engaging in sex for enjoyment, and other behaviors lead them to more careless activities. ... Orwell created the illusion of true love between Winston and Julia in his writings, but later destroyed that idea with the eventual betraya...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

What I believe Elliot meant by that was the intense feeling one can receive from reading a poem. ... I can be sent into a world of Utopia, or a dungeon of sorrow by reading poetry. ... "Late Air" by Elizabeth Bishop is another poem which has personal touched me. ... Late Air From a magician's midnight sleeve the radio singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns. ... His poem "The Reader" combines the natural beauty and sorrow of entropy: The Reader All night I sat reading a book, Sat reading as if in a book Of sombre pages. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

While reading "The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb," I thought that Bibbs commitment and love for his family were drawbacks in his life. ... When I started reading this book my first thought on Henry Bibb with his slave marriage and child, was that he was very happy. ... Then later on in life his wife Malinda becomes pregnant and Henry expresses how excited he was to become a father. ... Later again Bibb was betrayed by the lady he was working for, captured and sent to a slave prison. ... Later Bibb's owner died and he thought that would be the perfect time runaway to Canada. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Mitch becomes consumed in his work as a sports columnist and does not visit his teacher until sixteen years later when he sees Morrie on aNightline? ... After reading Tuesdays with Morrie I felt a sense of discovery. ... I enjoyed reading this book by Mitch Albom and I am also envious of his experience with this incredible man. I learned many lessons of life while reading this book. ... Later, he became alcoholic, smoked, and got involved in gambling. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

If you were to answer this question after reading The Blessing by Jude Deveraux, the answer would be yes. ... This plays an important role later on in the story. ... This story takes place around the late 1980's and early 1990's. ... Fifty years from now people will still be reading her books and enjoying her stories. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

New York, 1975 Genre: Love Romance Recommended age/grade level: late teens 14-18 roughly. ... Interest Level/Reading level: As stated above, the story is about first loves and first sexual experiences. ... Judy Blume is a great writer and the reading level is fairly straightforward. ...

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The letters were more than just reading material for Jimmy. ... Late at night, he"d stare at her picture wondering who took it, wondering if Martha had a boyfriend because he loved her so much. Reading over her letters and staring at her face in the photographs makes Jimmy regretful. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

If you"re having trouble finding the answer to this question, it may help reading certain novels such as the ones we have read in class. ... When Blanche was younger, she fell in love with and married a man whom she later caught in bed with another man. ... Miss Lonelyhearts is a very religious person as we learn later on in the novel, when we find out that he has a figure of Christ nailed to his wall in his apartment. ... Later, Miss Lonelyhearts begs his friends to put the lamb out of its misery, but they refuse. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dora Phillip Bauer, for treatment for aphonia and depression, brought Dora to Freud in the Fall of 1900 for psychoanalysis which Freud later recounts in "Dora". ... Girls then grow up envying males for having a penis and then later "substituting the wish for a penis with a wish for a baby" (Cambridge Companion to Freud 169). Dora's ambivalent feelings toward her mother and later her hatred for Frau K were so because they were the primary competitors for her father's affection. I found this reading very interesting but a great deal of the analysis was "taken with salt" as...

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THESIS ----about Dickens & his "Great Experience" During the long vacation I was immersed in reading a great book. ... When I just finished reading it, I had a lot of problems in writing this read report, but now I feel confident, because I have read it twice seriously, watched DVD and studied writer Charles Dickens's biography and made a deep consideration. ... When I started reading it I supposed that it was about a poor boy gradually became a gentleman in the upper class. ... Later he changes greatly to be an u...

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• Grade Level: High School

Abelard was in his late thirties when he first met Heloise in Paris. ... "Her studies allowed us to withdraw in private, as love desired and then with our books open before us, more words of our love than of our reading passed between us, and more kissing than teaching. ... Later Heloise became pregnant and Abelard could not successfully sidestep the rules of the society because the society of a time just wouldn't accept a premarital sexual affair. ... So later after their entry into religion, Heloise accused Abelard of lust rather than love for her, which I believe, is not true. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Similarly, Hans helps Liesel overcome her adversity of reading, although only being educated until 4th grade. ... However, Hans is willing to stay up late nights to focus on improving Liesel's literary skills, even when she struggles. ... Hans discovers Liesel has picked out a book well beyond her reading level, yet Liesel still is determined to read. He sees her determination, and despite his difficulties in reading, he never gives up on assisting Liesel on her journey in reading. ... This dedication proves successful as she does improve her reading and her self-esteem increases. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Bisson states in Chaucer and the Late Medieval World. ... The former embodies the virtuous Mary, while the later represents the seductive Eve. ... Thus while reading the Wife's prologue, taking a modern attitude toward her and her tale rather than a medieval one is necessary so as not to misjudge her conception of feminism. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

But then something happens and kostos most go back to Greece later on in the week she finds out that her grandfather, Bapi, has died so the whole family goes to Greece. ... After reading the first book this book was so much fun to read because you wanted to know what happened to the girls and the pants after summer was over. ...

• Word Count: 509
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• Grade Level: High School

Due to the fact that so many different facets of the emotion can be depicted in a work, we never tire of reading about it. ... However, a person reading Marlowe's poem who was not familiar with the concept of love might begin to believe that, while the initial feeling of love was uncontrollable, the persuasion of one to act of these feelings was in fact quite formulaic. ... This aspect of Marlowe's work is echoed later on by the poet Marvell in his work "To His Coy Mistress." ... For a person who has never experienced the kind of idealistic love portrayed by Spenser, reading his poem...

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• Grade Level: High School

The importance of circumstantial setting is explained with further detail in the following two scenarios: First scenario; Your alarm does not work, therefore you wake up later than planned. ... Your significant other is reading the morning paper, while awaiting your arrival. ... Just as you finish reading the attached love letter, your best friend bursts into your office bubbling with joy as she recounts the events of her weekend adventure. ... It is late evening, and evening is a direct tie in to an ending. ...

• Word Count: 1865
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• Grade Level: High School

With utter disappointment in his son, he throws the girl into the prison and later orders for her to be buried alive. ... Narrative point of view; When we are reading the story, "The Lady, or The Tiger" we cannot help but notice the element of irony used . ... Another, aspect, after reading the story one comes across is the fact that, the author uses a very fairy-tale backdrop. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

By reading the novel, I can say that Ruth is God's gift to Idgie and so as Ninny is to Evelyn. ... After I finished reading the novel, I recall all my unhappy and pleasant memory of a friend. ... But when I came to the place I would rather say "Why didn't you call me earlier, what happened if I were late?" ...

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The first example of Dante using a story to induce emotions is when Francesca is reading a book with Paolo and they are infatuated with each other at the words of the book that they read. ... Paolo also cries while she tells the story, and this goes to show the powerful nature of love and uncontrollable emotions that were invoked by the story that they were reading. ... Not only does Dante use stories to sway the emotions of characters in the Inferno, he also reaches out to the reader with these stories, which have had an enormous impact on our society to the point where people still read his...

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Amelia Evans threw out her newly wedding husband first from the bedroom and later from her life. ... The first part of the story starts eleven years later, when Cousin Lymon arrives at town, what finally leads to the opening of the cafe. ... Amelia and Lymon, but later everybody got used to it. The second section at Carson McCullers" book starts four years later with the arrival of Mrs. ... Amelia and as it is said in the story: "It is a number of mingled possibilities, and all who love mystery and charms set store by it" (McCullers:77) Certainly there is much more in the story and it...

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• Grade Level: High School

She leaves and says she will come back later. Don Jose appears a few moments later. ... This difference leads to a fight later in the scene. ... Meanwhile, Carmen's friends amuse themselves by reading cards to tell their own fortunes. ... She is partially pushed over the edge by reading the cards since she believes that her and Jose's fate is already sealed in death, giving her no reason any further to behave in an appropriate manner. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

William Shakespeare's "Othello" is filled with jealousy, deceit, heart break, love and a range of emotions that any human being could understand. Othello, the Moor, experiences all of these complicated emotions throughout the play leading not only to his death but the death of his beloved wife, Desd...

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"The Doll House" is a play written by Henrik Ibsen more than a hundred years ago. It is probably one of the first attempts to discuss the need for an equality between men and women. The inclusion of this play in a "World's Classics" book series tells us about how great this play is. But on reading i...

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• Grade Level: High School

"The Outsiders" is a very good book with lots of action and emotions. S.E Hinton, the author, does a excellent job in showing Darry's friendship with Pony Boy. Your emotions change a lot in this book from sad, to scared to sad. Three boys living in a home without a mother and a father makes you f...

• Word Count: 882
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School