Perhaps James' seemingly subdued collection of her "geyser of emotions" is due to the fact that she subconsciously believes that not just women, but men specifically will too be reading her thoughts. ... Much of her diary is a record of her interest in political and social issues and her extensive reading. ... " After reading Jules Lamaître's Etudes et Portraits, she writes that her whole being is "vivified with the sense of the Intelligent revealed!... Youth, she does comment later in her diary, was the most difficult period of life. ...

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Into the mind of the then reading public, fiction inevitably came as a subgenre of (fact-oriented) nonfiction: a story was a true story or no story at all. ... One of the important changes in this respect, especially since the late 1860s, was the accelerating appearance of larger articles on British political, social or cultural matters, usually taken from the Russian or French press, or re-translated from Russian or French translations. ... Excerpts from his bestseller "Self-Help", obviously translated from the Russian, ran authorless in the first 30 issues of the newspaper Pravo in 1867, and...

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Reading "As A Man Thinketh" opened my mind up about myself and the world that we live in in so many different ways. ... As the author states: "Every thought-seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. ... Reading this book brings that saying to a much more profound level. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In short, I liked the story for I could easily picture the events and characters in my head and I was comfortable with reading the story for it was told without using too much flowery words and the narration of events were clear, solid, and simple. ... Later on, she was told that there was a letter waiting for her at the post-office and having the queer belief that letters most often mean death, she hurried to the post-office scared and feeling paranoid. ... Sometimes, she delves herself too much and too deep into her fantasy world that she awakes into the harshest of situations but being alr...

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If we skip a little later in the poem, the author uses a metaphor that proves the point that he has moved on from his lover. ... The first image that came to mind reading that is a dead animal on the side of the road being eaten. ... Later in the poem, he showed signs of overcoming the fact that his love for her was no longer there. ...

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There are many shapes and sizes of people that follow a mass movement, but according to Eric Hoffer in his book The True Believer, all the people have some peculiarities in common with one another. No matter if it is religious movements, nationalist movements, or social revolutions, each person in ...

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I went to school at 9 am, did reading, math, went to lunch, had recess, the daily routine. 4:07 pm a time I will never forget. ... A few seconds later another creature came out of the darkness with my real father, I was so relieved. ...

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Many of the philosophers we have been reading about in class seem to me to be hopelessly dated. ... Throughout the following periods, later known as the middle Ages, the world was dominated by dogma of the Catholic Church. ... Though he was a devout Catholic, and later proved the existence of God mathematically, he found and popularized the concept of questioning that, which is taught. ...

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Later in the eighteen century Hume denied the theory Descartes. ... After reading passages from both writers and understanding both of their arguments , I am not convinced that rationalism or empiricism is right. ...

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The Lady With The Dog In the beginning of the story, Chekhov begins with the simple line, "It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front - This passage shows that the local residents of Yalta have discovered an outsider, a person they know nothing about. Chekhov asks the reader to co...

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As his duty as the catcher in the rye Holden tried to erase the first one that was on the walls, but later said "it's hopeless anyway. ... He may be comparing it to a holy site; because he does ask Ackley about joining later in the book. ... I really enjoyed reading and rereading this book to find embedding symbols. ...

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This could be something he expands more on in later chapters, but for now I feel that he made it all sound so simple to implement. As I was reading the chapter I kept catching myself thinking of ways I could take this love of "romanticism" and put that towards math or geography. ...

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He states "We were bad". (112) I believe that the story takes place in the late 50's, and back then the word "bad" meant cool in certain social groups. ... When reading about this kid I am reminded of an old high school friend Aaron. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Every piece of 'modern' advice about maintaining independence and using their twenties to explore and experiment sexually is layered over a piece of 'old-fashioned' advice about getting married before it's 'too late,' not being too assertive or passionate in sex, and not being too sexually experienced" (27). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate