After study of available literature we concluded that these topics were suitable choices. We chose Dubray Books on Grafton Street as our subject. ... Dubray Books is one of Ireland's largest independent booksellers with eight branches nationwide. LITERATURE REVIEW Leadership "The meaning of a message is the change which it produces in the image.... PRIMARY RESEARCH Our team interviewed Ann-Marie Dolan who is the assistant manager at the Grafton Street branch of Dubray Books; one of eight branches nationwide. ...

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What do you see as the social function of literature? ... The social function of literature takes on many forms. ... The social function of literature is also emphasized in a variety of formats. ... In essence, comic books were a rudimentary form of video - produced for consumption at an easy level. ... The interlinking threads that combine the past and present stories are masterfully woven by the use of background notes and reflections. ...

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This is because much of Bradbury's literature has to do with illusory ideas. ... The firemen go to people's houses where there are reports of books and set the books and the people inside ablaze. ... The firefighters of the city use fire to destroy all books. ... An interesting thing to note about Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451's main theme of censorship has nothing to do with the plot of the story, but more to do with the editing of the book. ... Ray Bradbury has experienced or has realized many other circumstances having to do with censorship of his own literature as w...

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George Orwell, a profound literary figure in his own right, said: "the worst books are often the most important because they are usually the ones that are read earliest in life- (Hunt, 1). ... Hunt maintains that children's books should be displaced from the literary canon altogether (7). ... Such is the complexity of children's literature. ... This virtue is just one I will focus on, in consideration of length restrictions, but it's important to note that Little Women deals with a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas. ... So while unimaginative critics can dump children...

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For one thing, more literature is available for children and young people than ever before. ... Changes in society resulted in more realistic literature being published and former literature patterns, designed to be uplifting and to free the imagination of the child, were changing with the times. ... Authors began writing books about new lifestyles that interested youth. Personal and social problems often became the theme of the new books. ... Of course, within this plethora of controversial subjects are both good and bad books. ...

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They ask the DeLillos and the Updikes and the Styrons, but they don't ask popular novelists."1 The above quote aptly illustrates the incredible bias that exists in academia today regarding popular literature. ... Popular literature is usually read for escapism. ... The main forces for good in King's books are always nice guys and girls with problems, just like us. ... His marketing department also presumably creates the taglines for his books. ... In a way, King's books are literary chewing gum, or as he himself says " the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries." ...

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The Director explains, "They'll be safe from books and botany all their lives- (Huxley 22). ... Furthermore, both of these dystopian treatises portray a society that censors both thoughts and literature. ... Mond's grave tone shows that although art and literature are desirable elements in society, they are elements of instability. ... The censoring of literature promotes the control of thoughts by providing documentation of present events and the destruction of past records. ... Fanny, Lenina's friend, notes, "And you know how strongly the D.H.C. objects to anything intense...

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Within the changing meter of rhythm, song notes of various pitches were intertwined. ... Romantic composers often used books, poems, or plays as in inspiration for their music and incorporated the written word into musical pieces. The leading author of the Romantic Movement was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, whose books stress human passions, imagination, and freedom. ... This era was inspired by literature and the visual arts. ... By using lieder, tone poems, program symphonies, and other styles, music and literature were brought together. ...

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Some ways you might assess or take note of in readers" theatre is students" ability to get involved with the writing and development of the script. ... Language is the central tool and concern for Heathcote, who notes the crucial nature of communication in society and places communication at the center of the educational system. ... In Dramatics and the Teaching of Literature, James Hoetker (1969) contends that theatre increases creativity, originality, sensitivity, fluency, flexibility, emotional stability, cooperation, and examination of moral attitudes, while developing communication sk...

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By using the word 'mechanical' Raine is defining books as void or lacking of thought or emotion. ... Raines tenderness for the written word is apparent in his descriptive illustration of books, implying the pages are 'wings', connotes them as delicate, and though 'they cannot' fly, they allow us to soar. Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and h...

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By using the word 'mechanical' Raine is defining books as void or lacking of thought or emotion. ... Raines tenderness for the written word is apparent in his descriptive illustration of books, implying the pages are 'wings', connotes them as delicate, and though 'they cannot' fly, they allow us to soar. Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and h...

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Dave's purpose of writing these books was to tell the world, how he was treated like many other kids are treated in the families. ... One could say that A Child Called "It" is good literature if good literature is, in fact, supposed to illicit an emotional response from the reader. However, from a purely literary perspective, this book, the first of a trilogy about Pelzer's life, is not really "good" literature. ... Pelzer relies on "language that was developed from a child's viewpoint" he tells us in the author's notes, resulting in a straightforward "This happened, then t...

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One requirement stuck out most difficult to me and was most the most important, it was an essay, called your information literature essay, or just a typical research paper, without writing one you were not allowed to graduate. ... Stewart assigned a research paper about Western Civilization in the 16 hundreds, it was a chance for the whole class to get their Information Literature paper out of the way. ... I could use a past research paper from senior year and he could go in through the schools gradebook and have it count as the information literature paper. ... Checking out five books from ...

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Walt Whitman can be considered one of the greatest writers because of his great attributions to literature, one his different view of life and two his unique writing methods in which you can observe from many of his works. ... In several occasions with him being the editor of a newspaper he wrote and published good reviews and good notes anonymously to make himself look good. ... From the nineteenth century Literature Criticism one essay by Charles A. ... During this time he was not able to walk so most of the time was spent sitting in a chair close to the window of his apartment reading boo...

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Her books received many rewards and honors. ... Both books were selected as Honor Books in the Chicago Tribune Book World's Children's Spring Book Festival. Hinton enjoyed reading books as an adolescent, but was dismayed to find only a small segment of a teen-ager's life depicted in literature. ... A Saturday Review critic expressed a similar view, noting that The Outsider is "written with distinctive style by a teen-ager who is sensitive, honest and observant .""... Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. ...

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And the numerous amount of literature and plays he produced during each time period in his life. ... These works where "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note", a collection poems and "The Baptism" and "The Toilet", two early plays. In the PreFace to Twenty Volume Suicide Note" Amieri showed his sense of despair, alienation, and self - depreciation. ... During this transitional point in his life he wrote two books of serious fiction " The System of Dante's Hell", a novel, and "Tale", a collection of short stories. Baraka commented on the books in a interview with Kimberly Benst...

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Besides various marches, women wrote books and other types of literature to state the ignorance of women in society. For instance, "One the first feminist books was A Vindication of the Rights of Women written in 1762, by the British writer Mary Wollstonecraft. ... Crosby, who published a novel, The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families, affirms in her literature that, "intricate experiments by researchers say that children from affluent homes cared my mothers and nannies still displayed significant insecurity in their attachments."" ... I wanted to ...

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Orwell's Gripe Commenting on and criticizing literature is a common practice. Indeed there are entire books, classes and even careers dedicated to this very purpose. ... Arnold felt that the spread of education, an education which employed a fixed cannon, dedicated to literature that was established and recognized as great art, would lead to acceptably cultured masses. ... It is important to note that while Orwell takes shots at everyday language, political speeches, news publications, essays and pamphlets, but does not voice any grievances with fiction writing. ...

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It has not only become the milestone in the history of Asian American literature, but also become one indispensable part of American literature. ... It has not only become the milestone in the history of Asian American literature, but also become one indispensable part of American literature. ...

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She continued to note that, educating women would eventually make them good mothers and wives who can positively contribute to the development of the society. ... In her books Wollstonecraft talks about how women succumb to sensibility. ... Through her literature women have been able to get a say in developing the society as well as accomplish some equality with their men colleagues. ... She continued to note that, this superiority is depicted in the masculinity nature of men....

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In life things seem to "just happen," in literature all actions, interactions, speeches and observations are deliberate. ... Books written for enjoyment sometimes contain author's ideas; it is all in the intent. ... Almost all books show some form of this. ... Most of the greatest books ever written were written due to history. ... ON A SIDE NOTE NOT RELATING TO THE ESSAY but only to the topic DO NOT TAKE OFF !! ...

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A Room With A View Romanticism is one of the more popular styles of fine art and literature. ... A critical reader will note also that Forster uses Bloomsbury in A Room with a View (Forster 7). ... New York: Bantam Books, 1988. ... New York: Bantam Books, 1988. pg. vii-xx. ...

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(Literature: The British Edition p.8) Of these above-mentioned branches of the Indo-European family, two are of vital importance in the development of the English language, the Germanic and the Romance. ... (Literature: The British Edition p.8) The history of the English language can be traced back to the arrival of three West Germanic tribes to the British Isles during the 5th and 6th Century AD. ... (Lecture Notes N. ... (Literature: The British Edition p.8) Christian missionaries later brought over the Latin alphabet to Britain from Ireland and this is the alphabet that has remained as t...

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Having been an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous Lauren decided to attend her typical weekly meeting and spend the hour as though she were only an observer, taking note of the dynamics within the group. ... Upon entering there is a woman sitting at the front of the room with books, pamphlets and a basket. ... The author notes that there are many women with long-term sobriety, but the group encompasses women who have as little as two days sober, to women who have as much as thirty years sober. ... Throughout their literature Alcoholics Anonymous states, "There are no dues or fees for A.A. m...

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(p63) Also included are continuous descriptions of restaurant menus, audio technology and television and video units, each with their expense high-lighted (As Ellis notes through Bateman, Surface surface surface was all that anyone found meaning in. p375) It's a vacuous lifestyle that reflects the American Dream of equal opportunity and self-aggrandisement. ... Although both examples of modern American literature, it could be said that the novels are very anti-the-American-Dream, and serve the purpose of exposing the dark side through entertaining and satirical literature. ...

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