- Make brief notes about context (specific situation surrounding a setting). ... - Make brief notes for characters (who? ... No generalizations/give proof. ... - Comma: brief pause - Semicolon: longer pause - Indentation: stop before starting again, gives importance to what is about to be said Essay Approach For the essay, approach the question by using the candy wrapper technic: - Introduction - Identify poems - State the relativity of the poems to the themes being discussed - Body - State meanings of text, structural relativity and literary devices (aAs long as it ties into the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is worth noting that visual images in the film will obviously stimulate the people's perceptions directly. ... To give the audiences the exact scenarios in the novel, the novel brings ideas vividly to the reader's minds by touching every character; however, the film basically cuts some scenes. ... This novel gives chances for the audience to make a good follow up of its themes. ... In short, it is wise noting that this movie ensures that the feeling s of the observers are controlled since the truth is that visual images brings forth a direct sensations, which its impact can lead ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the story Faulkner gives hints that eventually lead up to the shocking revelation of Emily's character. ... Critic Donald Akers notes in the story, Emily's overprotective, overbearing father denies her a normal relation ship with the opposite sex by chasing away potential mates. ...

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By examining the literature itself, the readers, and the writers, one can note the differences and similarities in the two types of literature In the poem, "A Study of Reading Habits," Philip Larkin talks of being unhappy both in his home and at school. ... They also want the writer to present the facts and to be able to verify and give an example of what he has written. ... They give descriptions of what they want the readers to see and feel. ...

• Word Count: 496
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Waves challenges the reader to step outside the realms of comfort and think beyond conventional writing to appreciate its giving nature. ... Another important note is that the book is written entirely through soliloquy. ... It gives a sense of extended poetry within the narratives, providing continuity in a book that may sometimes seem fragmented. ...

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The title, "Babylon Revisited" is an essential tool in building the theme of Fitzgerald's short story because it gives the reader additional insight into the life that once thrived in Paris. ... "He (Charlie) remembered thousand-franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred-franc notes tossed to a doorman for calling a cab. ... Fitzgerald uses symbolism to emphasize the emptiness Charlie is left with after the crash by giving his daughter the name, "Honoria". ...

• Word Count: 1051
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The title, "Babylon Revisited" is an essential tool in building the theme of Fitzgerald's short story because it gives the reader additional insight into the life that once thrived in Paris. ... "He (Charlie) remembered thousand-franc notes given to an orchestra for playing a single number, hundred-franc notes tossed to a doorman for calling a cab. ... Fitzgerald uses symbolism to emphasize the emptiness Charlie is left with after the crash by giving his daughter the name, "Honoria". ...

• Word Count: 1051
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" In the short story "Two Kinds", it is made clear early in the story that the family immigrated to America from China to give their children a shot at the American dream. ... Soon, her mother would give her nightly tests that would seemingly bore Jing-mei, which would eventually lead to her not trying and giving up on her mother's dream of her being a child prodigy. The conflict soon comes into play when after months of her mother giving up on the fact that her daughter is a child prodigy, while watching the Ed Sullivan show, had the dream that Jing-mei is going to be grea...

• Word Count: 813
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• Grade Level: High School

It's interesting to note the clown's cementation on the other characters and how the comedic wit and timing helps the visualization of the story. ... The clown's first scene reinforces the fact that he knows of his superiority in his intellect and what he does: "Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents." ...

• Word Count: 600
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the patient notes in their final interaction: "You were only shaken out from somewhere. ... Nonetheless, he is not unimportant; he is deliberately portrayed as a flat character to give rise to an anti-existential hero who is oblivious to his role in society....

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But it is also said the book itself is a fairy tale in that it uses fairy tale logic and has a fairy tale at the core since no women actually escaped from Chelmno as recorded in Author's note. ... However, the fictional happy ending for Becca is brought back to reality by the simple facts of the extermination that took place at Chelmno and the truth that history gives no true happy endings, as Magda said, "Truth is never tidy. ... The hopeful tone of the book is balanced in the Author's Note with a brief and sober look at the facts of Chelmno. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

However, this time I found myself sitting in front of a quietly humming computer, unable to immerse myself in the story because my chair was uncomfortable, the screen was giving of a mild glare, and the scrolling down I needed to do to read on was distracting. ... Instead of using quotation marks, the editor of this particular version chose to note speech with smaller fonts, indentation, and different spacing. ... However, I would just like to briefly note that I do enjoy reading fiction that is created specifically for the medium of hypertext. ...

• Word Count: 1023
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• Grade Level: High School

Shabaka's performance is within this room as he explores Mingus's past experiences and reflects on them in order to glean life lessons and give perspective about the recollected events. ... " Shabaka closes the play by having Mingus stand up from his wheelchair and dance allowing for the performance to close on a positive note while also showing resolution of Mingus's internal conflicts. ...

• Word Count: 815
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The factual nature of his first book and the relatively conventional narrative methods of his second give way to a much more imaginative account of Vietnam in Going After Cacciato (1978), the book that launched him to stardom. ... These same concerns are evident in his award-winning short-story cycle The Things They Carried (1990), powerful tales so much like memoirs that O'Brien feels compelled to emphasize in a prefatory note that what follows is "a work of fiction." ...

• Word Count: 781
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A great man by the name of "Martin Luther King" once said, "This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." ... Through out the story Orwell gives us a strong impression that he does have strong morals and values, which are in question at the time. ...

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It states: "The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eves." ... Then, as she gives in to her sister's persistence, she walks down the stairs with a new triumph in her eyes and as a "goddess of Victory". ...

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It is also quite interesting to note that although it is obvious that Scout is sometimes clearly not within the loop of things, her straightforward and word-for-word account of her experience helps me to discern for myself what is going on. ... In one of the climaxes in the story where Bob Ewell, the villain of the story attacks Scout and Jem (Scout's brother), Scout gives such a thorough account of the whole ordeal that I am able to figure out what is happening without any difficulties. ...

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Randle McMurphy: Hero to patients, confident, powerful, pretended to be sane in order to get into ward, con man, gambler, jail, messes with ward, gives patients courage, supports patients, huge conflict for R, lobotomized by R. ...

• Word Count: 970
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• Grade Level: High School