Susan Beth Pfeffer begins her action-packed “Last Survivors Trilogy” with an exhilarating‚ young adult sci-fi novel called Life as we Knew it. Once I read the first page of Life as we Knew it‚ I knew I was going to be hooked on this book‚ and I am. Susan Beth Pfeffer writes about a young girl named Miranda‚ who’s world changes when an asteroid knocks the moon out of orbit‚ causing multiple disasters that she and her family struggle to survive. Susan Beth Pfeffer uses lots of action‚ nail-biting moments
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Book report: The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins “Fire is catching! And if we burn‚ you burn with us!” This is a famous quote that you can find in the book “Mockingjay” written by Suzanne Collins. The first book of the trilogy called “The Hunger Games” was published on September 14th‚ 2008‚ followed by “Catching Fire” on September 1st‚ 2009 and “Mockingjay” on August 24th‚ 2010. The trilogy’s genres are adventure‚ science fiction‚ drama‚ and action. The type of this book is for young adults
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The New York Triology: City of Glass By Paul Auster City of Glass is a novel written by Paul Auster in 1985‚ and its one of the stories included in the series of novels The New York Trilogy (1987). One of the essential themes that recur in many of Austers works is the search for identity and personal meaning‚ and this is exactly one of the main elements of City of Glass. It deals with this detective writer‚ who descends into madness when he becomes a private investigator himself by mistake. In the
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The Pareto Principle (also known as the 80/20 Rule or the Law of the Vital Few) More than a century ago‚ an Italian economist by the name of Vilfredo Pareto observed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. Subsequently‚ others observed a similar phenomenon in other situations‚ e.g. 80% of sales come from 20% of customers‚ 80% of the rise (or fall) in the value a stock portfolio comes from 20% of the stocks‚ 80% of complaints come from 20% of problems‚ 80% of results are
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CLIT 7013 Postmodernism Student: Liang Dongli‚ Cherry (12912061) Instructor: Dr. Winnie Yee Date: Oct 17‚ 2012 A shifting self of a postmodern detective in City of Glass The City of Glass is an anti-detective novel that subverts the conventions of a modern detective story. The detective represents a de-centering subject that challenges reading. This paper focuses on the fragmented self of this character in the novel‚ and shows the destabilizing subject
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Love trilogy between Julius Caesar‚ Mark Anthony and Queen Cleopatra: Born in Alexandria in 69 BC‚ she may not have been particularly beautiful. Her portrait on coins of the time shows her with a hooked nose and manly features‚ though her voice was said to be alluring‚ and she was obviously of high intelligence and ability. She was not actually of Egyptian blood‚ but of Macedonian‚ descended from one of Alexander the Great¹s generals who had come to Egypt in the 300s BC and established himself
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Simon Drury Group P 9/27/2012 Tuesday 3:10 Kathleen Samson Paul Auster has said that The New York Trilogy is centrally concerned with “the question of who is who and whether or not we are who we think we are.” Use this remark as a point of departure for a discussion of the character Quinn –his presentation in the novel and his experience – in City of
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The Dilemma of the Postmodern Writer; (In case all assumptions had not been thrown out) The core idea of modern nothingness is best portrayed in Paul Auster’s City of Glass from The New York Trilogy. In the novel‚ the individual identity withdraws; the protagonist (shall he be called such) Daniel Quinn finds himself challenged by the inexplicable mysteries of his own analysis and identity. The main character divides‚ and here‚ New York is the acting catalyst in the progression. Characters‚
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Cited: Auster‚ Paul. The New York Trilogy. London: faber and faber‚ 2004. Ondaatje‚ Michael. In the Skin of a Lion. London: Picador‚ 1998. ”Post modernism in Literature” University College Utrecht . 19 Feb. 2008. http://www.ucu.uu.nl/hum331.phtml Sjöstrand‚ Jonas. Upplösning i staden. C-essay
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Fragmented selves: A Lacanian Reading of Auster’s The New York Trilogy Abstract: The concept of fragmented self was first introduced by Freud through his model of three part psyche‚ namely ego‚ id and super-ego‚ and later modified by Jacque Lacan‚ the famous postmodern psychoanalyst. The split of subject is one of the most appealing concepts in the postmodern literature. By assimilating the structure of unconscious to that of language‚ Lacan bridges between psychoanalysis and linguistics
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