At one time, she attempts suicide, but is unsuccessful. ... "Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. ... He is against books and believes they should be done away with, but at the same time he uses a book to harm Montag. ... It is far easier to live a life of seclusion and illusion "a life where the television is reality- (Reid 59). ... Since they aren't thinking, they need something to occupy their time. ...

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Some chap- ters dealt with areas such as chemistry that were unknown in Bacon's time. Jefferson saw this elaborate arrangement not as a rigid system but as a flexible model adaptable to the exigencies of time and circumstance. Since during his own life he was deeply involved in political and legal matters, these sections in his classification scheme were necessarily very detailed. ... This universe consisted of what could be learned about human activity through time (Civil History) and what had been discovered about the nature of plants, animals, and minerals (Natural History). .....

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In the beginning of the story, Montag is a dignified fireman who burns books of people who own them. ... Further into The Hearth and the Salamander, Clarisse makes Montag question whether or not he is happy with himself, his life as well as his love life. ... No one has time any more for anyone else. ... Montag dislikes the fact that Mildred spends most of her time involving herself in the technological aspects of life. ... Montag asks, "The first time we met where was it? ...

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Understanding the Distress of Children Who Suffer from Shyness Almost everyone has felt shy at some point in his or her life. ... When others could not understand the reason for my lack of zest for life, I knew all along that my shyness was the real problem. ... We were able to find children's literature books that address each of these types of shyness. ... "The absence of shyness has been recognized as an antisocial characteristic since at least the time of the ancient Greeks," (Seid, 1999, p. 43). ... Parents and teachers play a crucial role in a child's life, because of this, par...

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Independent reading needs to be a quiet time where students read by themselves. ... I think it is a good idea as well to allow students to borrow books to take home. ... Students will have a readers' notebook to write down their thoughts and feelings about the books they are reading. ... The amount of time students spend writing in these notebooks can vary. ... I will make sure that I am allowing ample time for my students to write in their notebooks at school and not making this a homework assignment. ...

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God will end creation in His own time, and inaugurate a new kingdom with the coming of his Messiah ('Annointed One'). ... In all the books, there is a great expectation of God's final and absolute delivery of His people from slavery. ... The purpose of life is to set apart all aspects of life for service to God, including eating. ... There are many sacred books in Hinduism. ... At the age of 29, Gautama saw suffering for the first time and decided to leave hom...

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Whatever the project may be, building dams or statues, the task was to be completed in set amount of time, at any cost, even human life. ... I offered him my leather shoes for my life and he agreed. A life here is worth no more than a pair of torn leather shoes." ... It seemed as though Stalin placed no importance on the value of human life. ... Louis Fischer, The Life and Death of Stalin. ...

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It was at this time that he came to know Countee Cullen, a faculty member of school who had been one of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance. ... Until that time, Baldwin had been working only on an unpublished draft of a novel, but in 1946 he published his first essay in the Nation. ... It was the nonfiction books - Notes of a Nation Son (1955), Nobody Knows My Name (1961), and The Fire Next Time (1963) - "that secured his reputation as an important American writer and social critic" (http://www.africana.com, pg. 1). ... The Fire Next Time consists of two essays in the form of letters, wi...

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Even figures like Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla had died less than 100 years before his birth, meaning the information surrounding these figures was by no means lost to the annals of time, as in the early books of Livy. These characters' actions and traits, as well as general themes of the time show up variously in Livy's books (especially 2 and 3), and shape the way Livy presents his history. The recurring topic of Livy's second and third books is the Conflict of Orders. ... But as he has seen in his own time, via Gracchus, cross-party respect has been banished from ...

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He overcame his past and ended up writing many great books. ... A big life filled with big books, full of great characters, an extensive amounts of plots, with bursts of great language." ... These would end up in his books. ... Most of his books were published in magazines. ... Pip decides to spend time with him. ...

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After fifty years, Spider-Man is as popular as he has ever been with a completed movie trilogy, a movie reboot scheduled to include at least four total films, starring in three different comic books, and being a major character in multiple Avengers comic books. ... Peter leaves his Uncle to run home by himself where a short time later a burglary occurs that leaves Uncle Ben dead. ... Guilt is an important theme in the Spider-Man comic books, and it is core to the concept of existentialism. ... Spider-Man faces guilt in near every issue as his personal life as Peter Parker frequently gets tang...

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About the Author Born on July 26, 1959 in Piedmont, Alabama, Rick was raised, along with his two brothers, in a life of poverty. ... He asked the publisher why anyone outside his relatives and friends would be interested in his life. ... One of his most poignant books is called The Most They Ever Had. ... But be mean to her dog, one time, and you will talk to lawyers. (web) Voice In all of his books, Bragg's voice is consistent. ...

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When these numbers are multiplied by twenty years time, the conclusion can be made that it took way less than Herodotus" first estimate of 100,000 men. ... According to Mystic Places Time Life Books there are many cases involving the solar system that can only be explained by the belief that extra terrestrials built the pyramids of Egypt. ... They would also have to have known the exact length of a year's time. ... Yet another fact that supports Time Life Books is that the three Pyramids of Giza are exactly aligned with the three stars on Orion's Belt. ... When these numbers are...

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Franklin carried this lesson throughout life. ... He borrowed many books from a local bookseller, and developed his own writing skills by imitating the style used by the professional authors. Around the same time, he noted that he befriended a "bookish lad" named John Collins, with whom he honed his debate skills via letters. ... It was this mentality, he believed, that helped him become such a success later on in life. ... [and] people become better acquainted with books." ...

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Songs and rhymes are used in Tolkien's books to forward the plot. ... The songs and rhymes in Tolkien's books have exceptional quality to them. ... Since he made up his own languages he used them wisely to enrich his books and gave the books something to be remembered for a very long time to come. ... Tolkien was a genius in many ways but the one thing that he had achieved in his life and the one that truly struck me and shocked me was how he had made up his own languages. ... The War of the Ring is his destined time to come forth from obscurity. ...

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Throughout Davy's life, he was a very famous celebrity in the United States. ... There are many books written about his life; biographies, his own autobiography, other factual books, picture books for children, and story books. ... Davy had never been away from home before in his life, so he left with a heavy heart. ... A short time after Davy returned home, he was to go to school. ... There in Baltimore, for the first time in his life, Davy saw ocean going ships. ...

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Major themes of the poem are the glory of war; military values over family life; the impermanence of human life and its creations. ... Tone of the epic varies from time to time when treating the glory of Rome; the epic is solemn and honorific. ... Both aspects of both books are worthy of mention. ... This was the theme of both books. ... And both books recorded these legendary journ...

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Attenborough knew of Woods by reputation but had not read either of the books. Woods suggested he might like to make a film on a combination of both books. ... In one way the ending of Biko's life was a tragedy, but his life, due to the publication of Woods' book, became an inspirational rallying point for black people in South Africa and throughout the African continent. ... Furthermore, it is propaganda as the blacks are shown as being good all the time and the white police as being completely bad. ... Cry Freedom is based on two books, by the same author, and because of this it l...

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This is reason why he was misunderstood in his own time people, merely read his books and dismissed them as nature books, it is the same reason that many of today's younger generation think of him as a hero. ... The president of Harvard at the time, Josiah Quincy, supposedly said to Henry, "You barely got in." ... During his stay at Harvard Thoreau spent a good deal of his time reading in the college library, the first good collection of books to which he had access. ... This time it was her father, who forbade the marriage, believing Henry to be too radical (Miller 25-26). ... It was...

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He made a list of possible products that could be sold on line, including books, magazines, music, among others and finally he decided to start selling books. ... In addition to this, customers can search at home a database of millions books, CD's, DVDs, videos, software, video games, lawn products and even a pan for your kitchen. ... The first of the products offered by Amazon.com were books, as we early noted, starting in July 1995. ... This technological revolution is changing the old paradigms about the workings of economics and furthermore our life styles. ... What we may think abou...

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This is an example of science fiction, which is described as fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets. ... Wells most notably wrote The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. ... Every person living in the United States has either read, seen, or at least heard of one of these books or films. ... Books could either be bought from a bookstore, borrowed from a library or friend, or like a lot of people, having their own private collections of books that are...

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She fell in love with it the minute the first time she saw him. ... She has a hard time trying to live up to Mrs. ... The Heroine has a hard time in the beginning, but by the time that the Manderley costume ball comes around she starts to feel a little bit better. ... Danvers tried to convince her that her life was not worth living, and she should kill herself. ... When he tells her this she has a hard time soaking it all up. ...

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During the time period that this novel was written the gothic novel was a main piece of literature that was read. ... He also suggests that these books are mindless; they include no effort or thinking to read. ... She brings into the novel two types of reading, books and letters, and reading people. ... The characterization may be weak in some areas, but it does allow us to see the life of people two hundred years ago. ... They lived their life through this romantic framework in their head and did not stray from it. ...

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As married couples sought out a life independent of kinship by moving to centers of community where employment allowed them to make a better life for themselves the good provider emerged as a predominately male role. ... The second event that helped keep women in the home was literature and books urging women to subordinate themselves to their husbands (Epstein/Easton 93). This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. ... As time progressed so did assumptions. ... Because masculinity was tied to the ability to be a g...

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Throughout Adolf's early life his mother feared losing him, even though he was very healthy. ... Two important events occurred during this time in his life. ... He continued to reread these books even as the leader of Germany; even giving copies of these books on fighting Indians to his field officers during the attack on Russia. ... Another interest of great importance surfaced at this time in Adolf's life . . . ... His former teachers and neighbors viewed him as a lazy uncooperative student only interested in reading fictitious books and drawing. ...

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