Not long after young Tom - who was called "Al" in his earliest years - learned to talk, he began pleading with people he met to give him their explanation of how everything worked. ... His, father, Samuel, encouraged him to read some of the great literary classics, providing him with a ten cents reward for each book he mastered. ... Starting with the last book on the bottom shelf, he systematically read, or at least carefully perused, every book in the building. ... His splendid little newspaper that ensued was called the Weekly Herald. ... In the meantime, most of his extra income went to...

• Word Count: 3349
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Poverty did not prevent the parents from creating a comfortable and supportive home life for their children. ... Finally in the summer 1838 he established a private school in his home, with out of town pupils boarding with his mother. ... "Holdem's Dollar Magazine" called A Week "a rare work in American literature," and advised their readers "to procure it. ... Two things in particular disturbed some readers: "First, by what one reviewer called "Pantheistic egoism" or an unchristian outlook bothered them. ... But the travel narrative takes up less than half of the book. ...

• Word Count: 2638
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Now Eric plunged into finishing the book, and despite the fact that it took about 2 more years, it was exactly the book he had wanted to write initially. ... On his way home, he developed tuberculosis and had to stay in Morocco with the hope that it would pass. ... Shortly after the Second World War broke out, and Orwell signed up to fight but was judged unfit to serve, so he joined the BBC and worked in the Indian section as well as serving in the home guard. ... In 1946 he attempted to settle in the Scottish island of Jura, where he stated his last book, 1984. ... Indeed he said that t...

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

Green, Obi's boss, is illustrative of the white, English presence in Nigeria in the late 1950s (when the novel is taking place). ... Obi misses home and writes romantic, lyrical poems about Nigeria during the winters in England. ... On his return to Nigeria Lagos is almost a strange place and Umuofia an even stranger one. ... Also for the better reason that they were not as scared as the first generation of being called uncivilized." ... It is as if both Clara and Obi's language of the heart is the language of home. ...

• Word Count: 7844
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Chicago Bears are opening their new stadium for home football games in 2003. ... A father and son watching the game of football is a bonding experience that can only properly take place at the game. ... As the crowd gets larger and larger while the seats are more and more packed, this energy is then multiplied and cast back to the home field players. ... He knows that he is in the exact place he should be, watching the game of football. After the conclusion of the game, Jake and his friends all go to the bar to celebrate with other Bear's fans and talk about ...

• Word Count: 3278
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Arthur Miller portrayal of the Loman family places emphasis on the man struggling to achieve the perfection that is the American dream. ... He begins making a salary of $170 per week, he buys a nice home in the suburbs, and has two sons. ... It has seen countless reprisal performances spanning across the globe in such unlikely places such as China, and Japan for over 50 years. ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...

• Word Count: 5369
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School