The texts from the first few weeks of class have painted the picture, using different themes, of what makes a modern text. ... Anderson therefore creates the idea of a modern small town text as one where your successes and failures are completely dependent on the people around you. ... This idea portrayed by Anderson and Masters is how small town life is being created and depicted in modern texts....

• Word Count: 604
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The thoughtful friend of Morrie Swartz also the author of Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom, expresses and comments on many issues throughout this text. ... Pieces of Repetition throughout the text are prominent pieces of evidence when proving Morrie's life views and ideology. ... At the beginning of the text, this is used to reveal the two sets of value systems being "core" and "capitalist". ... As the text progresses Mitch becomes ashamed of his values and begins to adopt Morrie's values system as his own. ... At the end of the text Mitch has embraced many of Morrie's tradition...

• Word Count: 1187
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Willy tells Linda that: "Chevrolet, Linda, is the greatest car ever built" (text, page 1019.) Later, however, they are discussing some bills that were paid, and when told about the bill to get the Chevy's carburetor fixed, he says: "That goddam Chevrolet, they ought to prohibit the manufacture of that car" (text, page 1020.) ... An example of one of these contradictions is when Willy tells Linda that "The trouble is he's lazy goddammit" (text, page 1010,) and then in less than a page says that "There's one thing about Biff - he's not lazy" (text, page 1010.) ...

• Word Count: 709
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Started in fall of 1996, Alabamas text books must include a disclaimer inserted, stating that evolution is a "controversial theory", accepted only by "some scientists". ... Even Macmillan/McGraw Hill whom publishes text books for schools, agreed to custom publish a version of its Changing Earth text that eliminates a chapter called "Birth of Earth", to accomidate schools, and agrees that there is complete scholary merit to it. ...

• Word Count: 585
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• Grade Level: High School

THE HISTORICALLY COERRET MESOPOTAMIA TOPIC: TEXT: Gilgamesh: IMAGE: Lyre from Uruk One of the earliest known and found literary works is The Epic of Gilgamesh. ... GREECE TOPIC: TEXT: The Iliad IMAGE: Contest of two Warriors The Iliad is the quest for individual honor and glory. ...

• Word Count: 430
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Beckett mentions this biblical allusion in a way of proving to the audience that even an old, sacred text that supposedly holds all truth for humanity, is based upon chance. ... It is shown throughout the text that there is a pattern of events that repeatedly occur. ... Waiting for Godot, is a play revolved around chance with the help of many literary devices to help convey a theme of meaningless life within the text. ...

• Word Count: 899
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In both texts, both protagonists have set out on courageous journeys and wanting to be heroic, in a way. ... Both protagonists in these texts have managed their journeys differently which has made them distinct from one another, as one was far more knowledgeable than the other. ... From these two texts, we have learned that our friends have sculpted us into who we are and that dreams do not always come true....

• Word Count: 845
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"Anna's Story" is a non-fiction expository text written by Bronwyn Donaghy. ... In this text we are given facts about drugs as well as the story of Anna's life and what caused the early end to it. ... In the middle is the information that turns the book into a non-fiction expository text. ... The way that Anna was portrayed as a victim of drugs and not placing any of the responsibility of her death on anyone else makes the text unbelievable for me. ...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The author, Marjorie Shostak, provides at the beginning of each chapter in her book a short introduction of the subject matter which precedes text in the actual chapters recounting Nisa's life. ... What I noticed particularly missing from the text is that it covers a mainly female viewpoint on life in a !...

• Word Count: 524
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

James Joyce's short story, "A Painful Case" depicts the life of a Dubliner, James Duffy, at a specific period in his life. However, hidden in the lines of the text, there lies a tragic love story, and the "Carpe Diem" lesson that once again is learned a few moments too late. In the text, the death ...

• Word Count: 488
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Who can tell me what reincarnation really is? Well, reincarnation is essentially the rebirth of one soul into another body. Think of it as transmigration (explain) This other body does not have to be human; it can consist of any life form. It all depends on the quality of deeds performed throughout...

• Word Count: 559
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

A complete understanding of all the texts we have read is essential in order to maximize comprehension of individual situations amongst our heroes. ... After the initial background of the story and characters developing in the text, we now move on to the main concentration of our hero, Gilgamesh: finding a teacher to help better his skills and round his abilities in to place. ...

• Word Count: 573
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

By around 1000 BC, written language was developed and people thought it important to write down oral traditions that were passed down from generation-to-generation.2 Through historical critical method, biblical scholars interpret ancient texts against the background of what we know of their historical settings. ... Biblical scholars also determined there must have been two (or more) authors of Genesis and that texts from these different authors were gathered, combined, edited and woven together to sound like one account. ...

• Word Count: 525
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the text, references are made to Grendel as "the walker in darkness" (36), and "the dark-death shadow" (29). ... The text refers to him as a "creature deprived of joy" (36). The text also refers to Grendel's dwelling as "his joyless home" (37). ...

• Word Count: 946
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Mother who gave me life How does the imagery of towels and linen develop the idea of changing and unchanging elements in the mother's life. Towels and linen, once introduced in the 5th stanza, become an extended metaphor for the mother's life and everything she stood for. When she died she was fo...

• Word Count: 1013
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

African American Pastoral Care by Edward P. Wimberly This text provided me with a new technique for pastoral care and counseling. Using personal stories and relating them to Bible stories, it is possible to demonstrate our position in the unfolding drama of God's creation. After reading thi...

• Word Count: 922
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Whaler English essay The world of a child is full of illusions, which help with the foundation of a secure and manageable understanding of its existence. Among others innocent ideas, they often think that nothing evil happens in the world that one day the little girl will marry her farther ...

• Word Count: 904
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Behind the plot of the story there was a great meaning of what life is all about and human nature. I is not only the main character searching for justice but about the world living one terrible lie. The book touches fragile aspects of crime, love, poverty, and the meaning of life and death. Sometime...

• Word Count: 263
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Let's begin with some text book terms of the eight fold path which include: 1. Right aspiration-which is to rid yourself of attachment and hate because the minds intentions are the key link. 2. Right speech is to not lie, or talk down about people because "bad speech" is instigation for wars or en...

• Word Count: 368
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Widowhood can occur anytime a married couple's life. However, it is more so for the man to die first than the woman in their later years of life. According to the text, men die an average of 8 years earlier than women and there are 4.4 widows for every one widower. But, in this article, we explain t...

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With moral teaching the youths do not learn anything, as according to the text; "Not only are the young unable to believe what they are told, but they seem also unable to believe anything else"(In Praise of Idleness- Russel p.134). ...

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The Yahwist account of creation story speaks of the creation of man and woman. With the complex narrative of "Adam and Eve" there comes opinions from many on the true meaning of what is told. But what is told is difficult to unravel. It is understood the answer, though, lies in the text. With vario...

• Word Count: 432
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the beginning chapter of the text, Millie's first few experiences with death are presented with immensely detailed visualisation, using only words that are available in this seven-year-old's vocabulary. ... (At the beginning of the text), Millie has a reasonable experience of death (through the loss of various wild insects), she is unknowing of what it is like to lose a relationship. ...

• Word Count: 924
• Approx Pages: 4

The Hellenic age was characterized by the high regard for the balance of life, and for moderation in achieving it (text pg. 57). ... His indomitable belief in an objective standard of mortality and intellectual order conflicted with The Athenians religious beliefs of Olympian deities (text pg.68). ...

• Word Count: 1232
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Text 1 from the Stimulus booklet "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, emphasises the positive side of change. ... The article talks about how teenagers spend all day together at school, then ring each other on their mobile phones when they get home or send a stream of text messages to each other while their parents pay the bills for this continuous contact. ...

• Word Count: 926
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School