Paulsen spent much of his early life in Minneapolis, which is the setting for many of his books. ... For example, while Paulsen was doing research for Nightjohn (1995), a book about slavery in the South, he wrote two or three books during that time. ... Most of Gary Paulsen's ideas for his books come from events that happened in his own life. At first, Paulsen did not want to write about his own life because he feared that his life was boring, and the books about it would also be boring. However, after a friend encouraged Paulsen to write about his own life, his books became mor...

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L"Amour wrote more than one hundred books, including eighty-six novels, fourteen short story collections and one nonfiction-a chronicle of life on the American frontier. ... He was fighting professionally at the time, and knocked out thirty-four of fifty-one opponents during his light heavyweight career. ... There's no fun in their sex and nobody appears to be having a good time" (Long 265). ... He had no formal education, spent much of his youth wandering from job to job, and was over forty by the time he published his first novel. ... So many of L"Amour's heroes were kids bec...

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She pushed us to read chapter books rather than picture books. ... In class we read many books that were higher than our fourth grade level books; she knew that we had the potential to read challenging books, and we did. ... I remember when she was about to show us pictures for the first time. ... I loved to sing, and at the time I was an Avril Lavinge fanatic. ... I had to bug my mother to have me there on time, and she did. ...

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Gradually, he found his interest in reading fantasy books and particularly fascinated to Greek and Norse mythology. ... Writing has become a huge and important part of his life. ... Later then on, he worked as a full-time teacher in different schools. At the same time, he worked as an author of adult novels as a part time job. ... On the other hand, he also learns that there were advantages in teaching children through his work, rather than teaching them in one class at a time. ...

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During this unfamiliar and strange time in my life, my mom wanted me to have some kind of way to express my thoughts and feelings about the move. ... Caves, was probably one of the coolest and most respectable old dudes I've ever met in my life. ... Caves loved to assign the longest, most boring reading assignments out of our Robert Frost poem books. ... Throughout my life, I've filled journals, sketch books and diaries front to back, blessed with the ability to read and write my own thoughts and ideas out on paper whenever I feel like it. ... In my culture here in America, it'...

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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. ... "Hinton's fire-engine pace does not give the reader much time to manufacture doubts. ... Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints. ...

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During this time, many women were changing customary ways. ... Yet at the same time, she always made herself heard. ... Her life as a singly mother also affected her writing. ... Another aspect of life that Nikki had great influence on was politics. ... Her central ideas of all of these books are about black pride. ...

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John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath from personal life experience. ... One of the books that influenced him the most was the Bible, though he was never a religious man (O'Connor, pp 15-6). ... Salinas Valley was the background for many of his books and the home of the characters he wrote about (O'Connor, p10). ... If he had been more of a commercial writer, he would have been worried about the time of publication. ... Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men, Triangle Books, New York, 1938. ...

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He has written various books and essays such as "Days of Obligation" which is regarding on what does it mean to be Mexican American? ... He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, Time, Mother Jones, and The New Republic, as well as other publications. ... Jennefer Hernandez There, are great books that Rodriguez has written such as Hunger of Memory his first book published in 1982. ... His tone in both books are exactly the same expressing the way he feels. ... There are critics that focus on his literature as using the same plo...

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Language plays a very important role in my daily life. ... She used to read to me for hours when I was a little boy and she was the person who took the time to teach me to write my name. ... It just seems to be about as misunderstood as when I was in elementary school (a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away). All this isn't helped by the fact that Generation X seems to have given up on books. ... In closing, I believe that language is the life-force throughout all society. ...

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I read with equal parts joy and desperation, I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life" (Alexie, 18). ... Amy Tan's mother's English might have limited her possibilities in life but for me its the other way other way around. ... I no longer speak my native language 100% of the time when I'm at home because I've become so comfortable with English. ... " Also that "I would at time feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. ...

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The purpose of this story is to show how women need to maintain leisure time, money, and a room of her own so that she can become a writer. ... She looks in the card catalog for books written on the marvels and great things that women had written. ... Only in time will the freedom of the work force become truly equal. ... Being wealthy, having free time, and not having a lot of responsibilities gave the women the incentive to go out and do something on their own. ... She pulls a book off the shelve by Mary Carmichael called Life's Adventures. ...

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Although she spent most of her life in New Orleans, she is well known for her stories of Louisiana and her Cajun and Creole life. ... She began to read a medley of books now from Darwin to Sarah Orne Jewett, she felt it a necessity to help mourn the loss of her husband. ... She wrote very little up to her time of death in 1906. . ... It is an honored literary work as being far ahead of its time. ... She begins to realize for the first time that she is an individual. ...

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The man in the gray suit introduced himself as Principal Greg Shugrue, and begun the first of many speeches we would hear in the next three hours of our life. ... I didn't take advantage of my class time, I didn't gather much information, or any key facts and information. Nothing about Western Civilization in any time period interested me, and I certainly didn't enjoy the assigned topic. ... So I turned to my favorite teacher for help at which seemed at the time one of the most desperate acts of getting my essay done at the last minute. ... Sorting through books and online ...

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My next step in my writing process was to go down to the library and look for a couple books that had to deal with the right topic. ... I ended up coming home with nothing but a couple of books that looked good enough to get my mom off my back for a couple of hours. ... She has a tough timing handling more than one thing at a time, whereas I could handle multiple things at a time such as sports, schoolwork, and family. ... When she says "writing life" she means that she pays close attention to the world around her. My writing life is pretty dull compared to most. ...

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Soon Whitman entered the stage in his life in which he worked in many different occupations trying to survive the harsh time period in which he was growing in. ... Whitman's life, as thought by many authors, could have been affected by the events occurring around him. ... 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 books. ... Trough out his life Whitman not only surpassed the time in which he lived, the harsh critics over his work, but also the comments over his private life. ... From Noon to st...

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She is showing us what she values most about writing while at the same time artfully expressing her views on women and fiction. ... Her books will be deformed and twisted-. ... Terms such as "life,"" "reality,"" and "truth- are likely to be accepted and held up by any critic of her time, but how does Woolf understand them? ... Bennett, her predecessors at the time, for being materialists. ... He must attach himself to the things of life and to life itself. ...

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Indeed there are entire books, classes and even careers dedicated to this very purpose. ... Here Browning refers to the effects of private property, a new concept at the time. ... "She had lived, we"ll say, a harmless life, she called a virtuous life, a quiet life which was not life at all". ...

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Many students might think that college education is just about going to class and reading or studying books. ... Whoever follows the professors' suggestions, they will have a better grade in college and their life. ... Time is one of our most important resources, so we should manage our time effectively. ... Many students cannot manage their time, so they cannot hand in their homework and essays on time. ... Many students who know the importance of the rules and strategies use them both in college and their life effe...

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Dickinson's father was a prominent politician in Amherst and enjoyed an exciting public life and much popularity in their community. ... She did not agree witht he religion of her father, so he began to start censoring the books she read because they could potentially draw her away from his religion. ... This is when she started to live a life of seclusion. ... Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931 and spent the first years of her life in Ohio. ... For example, when I read her novel Sula, I had a hard time keeping all the characters straight, especially since it jumped ...

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However at the same time he blames himself for such feelings. ... But when he gets to know that the criminal who comes back to visit him at the risk of life is informed against and will be arrested, he guards and protects him so that the criminal can spent his last time happily. ... In the last years of his life he is clearly not happy. ... But it is closer to our age and life. ... Whichever of the books all grasp the attention of the reader tightly. ...

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Vonnegut, over time, has developed a very defined writing style. ... Vonnegut used this novel to tell, in a creative way, the details of his own life during this time. ... Dresdon was not a military target at the time. ... "Slaughter house Five" was by far the most succesful of all the movies based on his books, primarily because the novel was so great to begin with. ... Vonnegut's war experience and his tragic memories of what happened in Dresdon, during his time as a prisoner of war, influenced much of his own philosophies on life and in the way he wrote. ...

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From my earliest years, literature has always had a big influence on my life. ... I knew then that I was thankful for a short name because I had a hard time writing it! ... Bury told me that in order for me to get a grade I need to write half a page otherwise I will get a zero every time. ... Alas, looking back on my educational experiences, not only has school and my parents influenced my thought on literature, but the books themselves. ... Literature has had an influence on society since the beginning of the English language, and it will until the end of time....

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It also shows a person who is boring and unable to enjoy life. ... Arrangement A well arranged layout will indicate to you intelligent disposition on time and space, a good faculty of conception and distribution and organizing insight. ... If the beginning of the line is very close to the margin it shows a tendency to, or a necessity for, economy of time and money, and in extreme cases, stinginess. ...

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It also shows a person who is boring and unable to enjoy life. ... Arrangement A well arranged layout will indicate to you intelligent disposition on time and space, a good faculty of conception and distribution and organizing insight. ... If the beginning of the line is very close to the margin it shows a tendency to, or a necessity for, economy of time and money, and in extreme cases, stinginess. ...

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