Authors Guild

Google has proposed an agreement with representatives of authors and publishers to host a massive digital library. This library will consist of mostly books published in the United States. Google will make digitally available new and old books. This catalog will include books that are no longer in print and “orphan” texts (books where the copyright owner is unknown or contact information is unavailable).5 The texts will be available through search engines, for individual sale as electronic-books

protagonist, went through levels of a guild that was responsible for torture. Each stage taught different requirements of the guild, but deprived him of knowing when he was getting taken advantage of or when people had wrong intentions towards him. Severian was deprived of women, which resulted in his vulnerability in love, this caused him to be easily manipulated, and taken advantage of by several characters throughout the novel. While being an apprentice of the tortures guild, Severian meets a woman by

For my report I read The French Revolution and the People by David Andress to learn what were the reasons causing the French Revolutionary War. The main thesis of the book is the known problems and reactions which affected the events and outcomes of the revolution in every stage, now everyone in France was affected by the revolution. I agree with the author’s thesis on many different levels. Since the multiple troubles the people had at that time did not originate just then but decades before.

ARTICLE 1 Elizabethan Acting Author(s): Alfred Harbage Source: PMLA, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Sep. 1939), pp. 685-708 The debate over the nature of acting during Shakespeare’s time has been there for a long time. As early as the 1950s there were speculations already of what took place on Elizabethan stages. What was the nature of Elizabethan acting? There was the controversial discussion that divided people into two schools of thought; the formalist and the naturalist. The naturalists argue that those

Title: The Way of Shadows Author: Brent Weeks. I have not read any other books by him Genre: The Way of Shadows is a fiction book. I do not typically read these kind of books, but i did like reading this book. Characters: Azoth is the main character who is poor and lives in the warrens with his friends Jarl and Doll Girl and their guild the Black Dragons. The Guild Fist Rat beats him and other people in the guild. Azoth doesn't want to be scared and wants to be a wetboy. He tries to become an

an author’s intent in analytical reading. Or, in regards to syntopical reading, the final project the reader is seeking to accomplish is often not brought to understanding, but merely a regurgitation of collected information. The way in which the author interdependently built each level of reading so

has always been seen as a reasonable approach to help cognitively impaired users with their autonomy. Presented in the paper, the author gives a brief overview about AT systems and how they have supported cognitive impaired people in their activities in their daily living (ADL). AT systems aims to provide real

Barak, who is a knowledgeable and experienced professor, with an experience in social work and business. The book provides information on how to ensure there is inclusiveness in the workplace. The author reveals that management has to ensure it successfully handles diversity in the workforce. The author argues that in the current workforce, which is diverse, the challenge is exclusion. The book has compiled extensive current information on social policy trends, legislative and demographic, as well

The Story of an Hour Authors of literary work have always employed stylistic devices to pass their message, Kate Chopin was no exception. She employs a number of styles in her book, the story of an Hour. Just like any author she achieves storytelling in a simple and straight forward manner. Some of the stylistic devices she uses are: description, internal monologue, authorial intrusion contrast, figurative expressions, symbolism among others. This paper discusses the use of stylistic features

person’s reason for enjoying fiction can differ but it is almost for the fact that fiction can make the reader feel as if they have been transported to another world. People read fiction for the curiosity and authors can state/make points mixed with their own creativity. In class, we discuss authors and their messages hidden through their story’s plot. The author’s plot is often just a background for what the writer is really trying to get out to his audience. In order to escape from the drama or