background of Moon Shadow and his family in the middle kingdom in China. It goes into detail about their struggles and reasons. In this chapter it introduces Tang town or china town. This chapter goes into detail of the family company. The company’s name was Peach Orchard Vow. The company had a feast for Moon Shadow’s arrival. This chapter had detail on how Windrider got his new nickname. Windrider shares his story of meeting the Dragon king. In the end of the chapter uncle gives Moon Shadow a carving of
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Study Guide King of Shadows by Susan Cooper For the online version of BookRags’ King of Shadows Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-king-of-shadows/ Copyright Information © 2000-2013 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Study Guide 1 Plot Summary King of Shadows by Susan Cooper is a tale about a young boy’s journey to overcome his devastating past in exchange for a hopeful future. Nat is an orphan who escapes into the world of
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"Harlem" Dried raisins‚ rotten meat‚ sags‚ and explodes! These are not very interesting descriptions‚ are they? "Harlem‚" (A.K.A. " A Dream Deferred‚") by Langston Hughes is a poem written about postponing or delaying a dream that you want to fulfill in your lifetime. Many people in the world today have put off their dreams for many different reasons‚ I know I sure had to. I always dreamt about graduating on time‚ not only for me but for my son aswell. I tried my hardest to balance between
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The photos of ‘Shadows’ on the opposite page are images taken by me and other artists of the different types of shadows you can get. With the images that I found on the Internet‚ the shadows range from those that are created by people to those created by objects. My favourite one is the one with expressions painted in the sand with a shadow of somebody’s face above it. I like this one because it’s simple but effective and one that you can recreate easily yourself. One of my other favourites is
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Ender’s Shadow is a novel that occurs in the future during a time of war between the humans and the Buggers‚ an insect-like alien species. The story begins in Rotterdam where we are introduced to Poke‚ a girl in charge of a group of street orphans‚ who encounters Bean‚ the protagonist of the book. At the time‚ Bean was merely four years old‚ but he is intellectually superior to all of the other starving children in Rotterdam. Thus‚ he tells Poke of a way to prevent the stronger kids‚ who are often
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“Harlem Hopscotch”‚ by Maya Angelou. The comparison in this poem is a game of hopscotch being compared to life. In life people are battling themselves to make it from the bottom to the top with other people watching‚ sometimes judging. In hopscotch you battle yourself to make it from the bottom of the triangle to the top‚ with people watching you play the game. Due to Maya Angelou using this metaphor rather than just talking about life’s ups and downs‚ gives the poem a unique style of writing. It
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“The Harlem of Inspired Hearts and Minds” The Emergence of the New Negro Terrance Baker Nicole Maurice Junior Moise Abstract: Langston Hughes wrote‚ "Harlem was like a great magnet for the Negro intellectual‚ pulling him from everywhere. Or perhaps the magnet was New York‚ but once in New York‚ he had to live in Harlem…Harlem was not so much a place as a state of mind‚ the cultural metaphor for Black America itself (Hughes‚ 1940)." With the words from the man that many
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Rose Cohen’s “Out of the Shadow discusses about a Russian Jew who immigrated to the U.S. for equality and opportunities. She provides her personal aspect of immigration in the late 1800s. It also addresses the effects of rapid growth of industry‚ population‚ role of women in the social and economic system and also the complications of religion and society in America. However our other textbook “Give me Liberty” by Eric Foner has a lot of similarities to Out of the Shadow‚ Foner talked about many
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BOOK REVIEW Novel : The Shadow Lines AUTHOR : Amitav Ghosh Awards : winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1989). Bibliography : The Shadow Lines(novel)‚ Wikipedia(Internet). Main Characters : Mayadebi‚ Tridib‚ Ila‚ May‚ Narrator‚ Nick‚ grandmother. POLITICAL SCENERIO : The novel is set against the backdrop of historical events: 1.Swadeshi movement 2.Second World War 3.Partition of Country 4.Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta CHARACTERS ANALYSIS : The characters in this
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Summary of Robert Denhardt’s book: In the Shadow of Organization The book focuses on the impact of individuals within organizations and how organizational efficiency or rationality is getting deep into our individuality. The author states that the modern organizations and the way their administration work are the results of heavily borrowed principles of rationality and objectivity from the sciences. It has resulted in a one-sided focus of placing the rational goals of the organization above‚
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