I. Title of the book Memoirs of a Geisha II. Publication Information Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group‚ 1997‚ 448 pages. III. Genre “Memoirs of a Geisha” is classified as a History novel. It’s novel that has its setting a usually significant period of history and that attempts to convey the spirit‚ manners‚ and social conditions of a past age with realistic details and fidelity (which is in some cases only apparent fidelity) to historical fact. IV. Author of the book Arthur Golden V
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himself‚ the book entitled “Beyond Massa- Sugar Management in the British Caribbean 1770-1834‚” examines the daily operations on the plantation including the lifestyle of the superior Europeans and the enslaved Africans during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The book is inclusive of an in depth study of chattel slavery on the sugar estate of the British Caribbean. Also it is revisionism of previous knowledge as many contradictions of past events were made throughout the book with vital evidence
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Far from verity After taking time reading this eye opening novel “Lies My Teacher Told Me” written by Dr. James W. Loewen‚ the book has open my mind to American History and the reality of everyday life‚ for example on the topics of Helen Keller‚ the unbelievable truth of Woodrow Wilson‚ the exploration of Christopher Columbus‚ and the inverse truth of heroes and sheroes. To begin with‚ in textbooks I have read‚ Woodrow Wilson was seemed as one of the most important man and promising to the blacks
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Francisca Martinez Mrs. Smith Eng.9H Per.4 20 May 2010 Book Report 1. Things Fall Apart 2. Chinua Achebe 3. 209 Pgs 4. Tragedy 5. AP List 6. Although his father was a lazy man who earned no titles in the Ibo tribe‚ Okonkwo is a great man in his home of Umuofia. Okonkwo is selected by the elders to be the guardian of Ikemefuna‚ a boy taken prisoner by the tribe. For three years the boy lives with Okonkwo’s family and they grow fond of him. Then the elders decide that the boy must be killed. Rather
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My Poetry Book By Hans Page 1– Table of Contents Page 2 – Thoughts on poetry Page 3 – Similes Page 4 – Metaphors Page 5 – Personification Page 6 – Apostrophe Page 7 – Hyperbole Page 8 – Onomatopoeia Page 9 – Internal rhyme Page 10 – Imagery Page 11 – Alliteration Page 12 – Autobiographical Poem Page 13 – Acrostic poem Page 14 – “This Is Just to Say” Poem Page 15 – My Favorite Poet(s) My thoughts on poetry My favorite poems are jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
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Book Thief Characters Essay In every story the characters are the ones who captivate a reader. In Zusak’s novel “The book thief” he makes an effort to create characters with enough personality that they didn’t even need to be described. There are many attitudes and reactions that characters have trough out the book‚ and they give away who they really are. The characters seem so real that at a certain point‚ the reader could forget the characters are not real. One example of that “reality confusion”
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Thatcher Ulrich‚ Good Wives Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650-1750 (New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1983) The novel Good Wives is a study of the many roles women play in Northern New England from 1650-1750. The book is split into three sections; all named after biblical females who portrayed idealized feminine traits within New England society. The first part is named Bathsheba‚ which shows and explains the responsibilities and possibilities women had as a housewife
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usefulness of this text for those who wish to teach English but are not native speakers. The introduction to the text says that this text will be used to "acquaint [the reader] with the English words that are most frequently used". If the user of such a book is a beginning ESL learner‚ this introduction is clearly written for the instructor. On the bright side‚ the author draws attention to "a‚ the‚ of‚ for‚ and" and the difficulties that this may bring for an language learner. I am very appreciative of
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to try something new‚ so they switched the rings that they were wearing and tried again‚ “one-two-three-go! Said Digory. And then jumped” (43). This decision by Digory and Polly to go exploring now has huge impacts on the rest of the book and even affects the books to come. While adventuring‚ they stumble upon Jadis will later on become the “White Witch” in Narnia. Another decision that was made was the decision by Digory is to get a seed that would produce a tree to keep the queen away from Narnia
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Book review Charming tales of the growing-up years from India’s best-loved children�s writer For several decades now‚ Ruskin Bond�s inimitable stories about Rusty have enthralled and entertained children. Rusty is a quiet‚ imaginative and sensitive boy who lives in his grandparents� custody in pre-Independence Dehra Dun. Though he is not the adventurous sort himself‚ the strangest and most extraordinary things keep happening around him‚ and so the stories he has to tell are simply fascinating.
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