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    I read two books in the summer vacation - "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Joy luck Club". "The Count of Monte Cristo" is talking about that a sailor who name is Edmond Dantes will become the captain of pharaon and will also get marry with a pretty girl. Danglars and Fernand were jealous of the lucky of Edmond, and wrote a fake letter so Edmond was put into jail. When Edmond escaped from jail, he pretend the count of the Monte Cristo and began to revenge. Instead of "The Count of Monte Cristo"

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    Daniel Defoe: “The Education of Women” At a moment’s glance, Daniel’s Defoe’s 1719 publication “The Education of Women” looks to be quite progressive for the time period in which it was written. He makes a claim of policy, stating that women should be educated in order to better serve men as companions. It is his justification for his claim that falls flat when viewed under a modern lens – he cares little for the individual benefits a woman may receive from an education, instead focusing on how education

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    The novel by J.M Coetzee, Disgrace, outlines the shame placed upon a white, middle-class professor who is frowned upon for his sexual activity with a student and in turn, emphasizes a foul image of white men in post-apartheid South Africa.  The topic that has been chosen to discuss, is one that addresses the protagonist 's, David Lurie, understanding of the nature of the conflict to be resolved and the hurdles to be overcome.  Overall, this paper will allow the reader to visualize the way in which

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    Screenplays are meant to inspire the imagination and display a prevalent theme in an interactive and approachable manner. Monkey is a classic 16th century Chinese folk tale novel that mixes allegory, history, and satire into a chaotic but however meaningful adventure. As a combination of being a picaresque novel and a fold tale epic, magical realism is evident and plays a big role in the story. The allegorical nature of the characters and the anti-bureaucratic satire makes the novel more alluring

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    3.2 Torture and Into the Dark Chamber Coetzee’s novel Waiting for the Barbarians is often considered to be his most powerful work, because it offers a significant addition to the international discourse on torture in South Africa. For Coetzee, it represented a unique challenge to his literary craft, namely, how to present such an atrocity as torture in a novel without repeating it: For the writer the deeper problem is not to allow himself to be impaled on the dilemma proposed by the state, namely

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    compassion she arrange for Moll to be provided for. “...being not above three Years old, Compassion mov’d the Magistrates of the Town to order some Care to be taken of me, and I became one of their own, as much as if i had been born in the Place” (Defoe 8). While women’s innocence and instinctual maternal reaction may have reached the threshold for action, it’s unfair to speculate she wouldn’t have done the same be it a little boy. Regardless, being a girl

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    Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe” and Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” are both novels which focus on the nature of the middle-man, whether this refers to social position, severity of feeling, or even geographic location. One of the major points at which Swift most directly satirizes Defoe’s work concerns the underlying conventions of the these values, and their capacity to improve the lives and the minds of those who hold them. Throughout Robinson Crusoe, the novel’s protagonist learns of the truth of the importance

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    Timothy plan to survive on a island is correct. In the two articles stated that you should have fires, find some food, and make water. Some of the stuff the article said Timothy did those things. Timothy plan to survive on the island is correct because Timothy did the same thing as the article said such as they made a shelter, they obtain a source of water and food, and created a rescue signal. Timothy plan to survive was correct because he built a shelter to keep them safe. The book The Cay states

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    that it was "Written in the year 1683," when Moll would be about seventy years old. That means our girl would have been born in 1613 or so, which is around three years before everyone's favorite Brit, William Shakespeare, died. If we go by the date Defoe says the book was "written," rather than the publication date, safely assume that the events of the novel take place squarely in the seventeenth century.

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    Eve Moskovits better know as Eve Merriam was many things. She was a Mother, wife, and a scholar. She was also while on top of balancing life's challenges a poet and a writer. She wrote plays and poems for the young and old, everyone could find entertainment in Eve's work. Max Moskowitz and Jennie Siegel gave birth to Eve Moskovits on the 19th of July in the year 1916. They emigrated from Russia and moved to Germantown, Philadelphia. Here in the United States her parents owned multiple clothing stores

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