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“Wings of fire” by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Book review “Wings of fire” by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Wings of fire is an autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam covering his early life and his work in space research and missile programs. The book is very popular in India and is translated in many languages. Kalam was born in Rameswaram. The initial chapters of the…

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David Copperfield By Charles Dickens Book Review

Hard work never fails OR Share your happiness. It’s about a kid who went many hardships in his life and how he got his own place in this world. PLOT This story also tells about the Dickens life in the character named David Copperfield. In this novel Dickens drew his father’s picture as Mr.Micawber. The…

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Liberation And Fear In The Passage of The Narrative of Fredrick Douglass

In the passage of the Narrative of Fredrick Douglass, the author masterfully conveys two complimentary tones of liberation and fear. The tones transition by the use of diction and detail. The passage is written entirely in first person, since we are witnessing the struggles of Fredrick Douglass through his eyes. Through his diction, we are…

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Money

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L’etranger: The Book Abut The murder of The Arab

The murder of the Arab is clearly the central event of the novel. Camus placed it in fact right in the middle of the book. It is the last incident recounted in part 1, so its importance is underscored by a structural break in the story. It is related in one of the longer chapters,…

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Change

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Gulliver Houyhnhnms and Yahoos Animal Rationale or Rationis Capax

What do the Yahoos and the Houynhnmns stand for? What moral was Swift drawing from them? The answer to the second question depends on the solution of the first. One solution could be that the Yahoos represent man has he actually is, self-seeking, sensual and depraved, while the Houyhnhnms symbolize what man ought to be,…

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Study

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell’s

“Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell’s presents a negative picture, a society that is ruled by totalitarianism. The government that is created in the novel is ruled by Big Brother and that consist of three branches. “The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which…

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Power

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Black Boy By Richard Wright

Black Boy is a story written in first person through the black boy’s eyes. The story opens with the black boy cleaning eyeglasses at the sink during the morning hours before lunch. As the boy washed eyeglasses this day as all other days, Mr. Olin, a white man who ordered the black boy around hovered…

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Values

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Guide To Getting It On Book Review

Since the Victorian era the subject of sexuality has been carefully confined to the private arena of the home. Sexuality has been restrained to the function of reproduction. Sex has become something that people feel that they need to hide from others. During the past three hundred years sex has become associated with sin and…

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Lost Boy by David Pelzer

Could you imagine your own mother beating you, burning you, and treating the family dogs better then you? Quite unimaginable to me, but that is what David Pelzer had to go through. My book is the second of a three book series about the true story of David Pelzer. Ever since David was the age…

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Reading

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Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

Imagine this, a kid has lost both parents and is sent on a train, to be shipped off to a new family. The kid is sent to a farm where he gets harshly beaten and is starving to death. This kid is not the only one suffering, during 1854 to 1929, kids faced this every…

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Great Depression,

What Caused The Great Depression

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