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As the mother of five children, Kitty’s life is chaotic, to say the least. With concerns for her oldest son and his lack of motivation, she is desperate to find something to light a fire in him. She’s also determined to contact David Simpson, the man claiming to be her brother, but her mischievous mutt has already devoured his letter...
Book ReviewPersonal Experience
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ā€˜Sigfried’s Smelly Socks!’ by Len Foley is a funny story for children from 4 to 7 years old. A small boy Siegfried is trying to find out what's stinking so bad about the book. Every page of it reveals a new answer to the question: where could the bad smell possibly come from? The book invites us on a journey...
Book ReviewLiterary Criticism
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ā€˜Stargirl’ is a novel by the author Jerry Spinelli. Jerry is an American writer that grew up in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and he now lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He decided to become a writer at the age of 16 after a poem he wrote about sports was published in a local newspaper. Jerry went to Gettysburg College and he got his...
Book ReviewLiterary Criticism
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ā€œMeaning, while a slippery concept, seemed inextricable from human relationships and moral valuesā€. Intending to find the ā€˜meaning’ of life, 36-year-old Paul Kalanithi pursues a career and devotes his life to a neurosurgeon. But everything takes a turn when the doctor turns a patient himself. The book is the journey of the author who was once an actor but now...
Book ReviewCritical Reflection
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Introduction Jared Diamond's seminal work, "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," offers a comprehensive exploration of the factors that have shaped the global distribution of power and technology throughout history. Published in 1997, this book seeks to answer the pivotal question of why some societies have historically been more successful in terms of conquest and development than...
Book Review
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Introduction 'The Notebook' by Nicholas Sparks is a poignant and captivating love story that has touched the hearts of readers around the world. Set against the backdrop of the 1940s, the novel follows the passionate and enduring love between Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson. This summary essay provides a concise overview of the key elements and narrative arc of 'The...
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ā€˜Jurassic Park’ is a sci-fi novel by Michael Crichton that explores what happens when dinosaurs are brought back to life through genetic engineering. Things are definitely spiraling out of control, but it is through this chaos that the conversation about man vs. nature emerges. Man vs. nature is a powerful theme in Crichton's ā€˜Jurassic Park’ as many of the characters...
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Introduction Anne Lamott's "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year" offers an intimate look into the transformative journey of motherhood. It chronicles not only the physical and emotional challenges that accompany the first year of a child's life but also the profound personal growth that Lamott experiences. Her narrative, infused with humor and raw honesty, provides a nuanced...
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ā€˜Abina and the Important Men’ by Trevor R. Gets, and Liz Clarke tells a story about a young girl who attempts to have her voice heard by people of higher class and status. However, her voice is constantly silenced and people with the agency are always the people in control of Abina’s life. In Abina's story, class, status, and agency...
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Reading ā€˜The Hate U Give’ by Angie Thomas shows readers the truth about what is happening in the world, but it mostly focuses on racism. This is important because it is an issue that seems indirect and most people hesitate to discuss this topic. This book brings the subject directly into the spotlight. It also tackles, unfair racial profiling for...
Book ReviewThe Hate U Give
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We describe propaganda as information used to promote a political cause, which is typically biased. Because the telescreens always convey propaganda, they inundate the citizens with information that confuses them. As a result, they cannot formulate anti-government thoughts. We can see its significance clearly in George Orwell's novel ā€˜1984’. It has a major impact on its readers and it makes...
1984Book ReviewGeorge Orwell
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The silence of the lambs I have read the horror book 'The Silence of the Lambs'. The author, Thomas Harries started his career reviewing crime novels while working as a reporter in New York. He made his debut in 1975 and has since become a best-selling author worldwide, primarily through the books on the refined psychopath Hannibal Lecter. Silence of...
Book ReviewSilence
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Many people have very different perceptions of what it is to be a man. Since history began, different cultures have had different perspectives on how to be a man and what a man is. Our culture’s perspective toward masculinity and femininity is harming individuals and society at large. Men and women are struggling to stay true to themselves because it...
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Why are we constantly unhappy? Why our daily life is so full of regret and anxiety? What is making true relationships so hard to keep? Tolle gives answers to these questions in his book ā€˜The Power of Now’. By his sayings, the most important thing that matters and the one we think about least is the present. All life is...
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Coney Island is no ordinary amusement park, but a place to experience all that society has to offer in one location. As John F. Kasson, author of ā€˜Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)’, wrote, ā€œthe popular resort quickly became a symbol not only of fun and frolic but also of major changes in...
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The criminal justice system is designed to keep the lower socioeconomic classes in their place and this disproportionately targets black and Hispanic people. Americans are still hypnotized by the fictional tv show Law and Order, and a large segment of the population really believes that this is how the system functions, with prosecutors and judges who have a genuine concern...
Book ReviewRacism in America
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Write an essay tracking Atul Gawande’s evolution as a doctor. His perspective on how to advise patients who have serious or terminal illnesses seems to change over time. Why and how does that happen? What experiences helped him to modify his approach? Include an analysis of how your own views about confronting terminal illness and old age have changed from...
Book ReviewPersonal Life
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Flannery O'Connor's short story A Good Man is Hard to Find is more than a thrilling narrative; it's a deep examination of the complexities of morality and human nature. Written in 1953, the story delves into themes that are both timeless and universal. Through a journey that takes a dark and unexpected turn, readers are drawn into a world where...
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Peter Fritzsche’s Life and Death in the Third Reich gives personalized accounts of the Nazis’ different approaches, rationales, and justifications for their actions in their relationship with the German people between 1933 and 1945. Rather than blaming the German citizens for allowing Nazi ideology, he focuses on the complex relationship between the German population and the Nazis. He argues that...
Book ReviewLiterary Criticism
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For what reason do a few students leave school prepared for success while others, maybe tied with the obligation of their debt and an un-useful degree? This leaves students asking why they wasted time with school, to begin with. Since the money-related emergency that hit twenty to thirty-year-olds particularly hard began, much consideration has been attracted to whether the school...
Book ReviewParty
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ā€œMost people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.ā€ is a quote by Sean Covey. It intends for people to listen not for the sake of it but for the reason to understand the other person. In the book 7 Habits of highly effective teens, Sean Covey intends to give modern-day teens...
Book ReviewHabitsTeenagers
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Every human story could become a tragic story if that story is told as a tragedy. According to Aristotle the protagonist of a tragedy has a flaw in character, a downfall of their own doing followed by a harsh realization of the tragic error before dying and this evokes a reaction in those who witness it, which is a pity....
Book ReviewMovie Summary
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ā€œA Wrinkle in Timeā€, authored by Madeleine L’Engle, tells the wildly crazy story of three young children, Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O’Keefe. This amazing adventure commences when young Meg a distant child who’s just trying to do the best she can, can't sleep because of the storm that's happening outside her bedroom window at night. She goes...
A Wrinkle in TimeBook Review
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols is a book that touches on topics of decadence and nihilism in figures, societies, and cultures. This book contains a chapter on Socrates, labeled ā€œThe Problem of Socratesā€. The chapter focuses on a critique of Socrates’ beliefs through Nietzsche’s views on Socrates’ philosophy on the value of life, dialectics, and reason. And this will...
Book ReviewFriedrich Nietzsche
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INTRODUCTION Speculative fiction is defined as a genre which encompasses many subgenres of fiction, where the authors included unrealistic or magical elements in the fictions. Speculative fiction is any fiction in which the ā€œlawsā€ of that world (explicit or implied) are different than ours (Neugebauer, 2014). Neugebauer also stated that the term 'world-building' usually goes hand in hand with speculative...
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