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The World is forever in debt to China for its innovations. Ancient China was extreme advance and many of its discoveries are still in use today. This is what Robert Temple, the author of The Genius of China 3000 years of science, discovery and invention. The book is based on 11 main parts of Chinese…

The book that I have read chose to review is Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman. James ramsey Ullman was born in New York City in 1907. His highest-honored book was Banner in the Sky, but four of his books, including this one, were made into major motion pictures. The main characters of…

Interpersonal relationships are extremely important, because the interaction of the characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as they try to satisfy one another’s boredom, is the basis for the play. Pozzo’s and Lucky’s interactions with each other form the basis for one of the play’s major themes. The ambivalence of Pozzo’s and Lucky’s relationship…

Type of Work: Romantic narrative poem Setting Plymouth, Massachusetts; 1621. Principal Characters Miles Standish, a soldier and protector of the colony John Alden, his younger, bookish friend Priscilla, a young Puritan woman. On a spring afternoon in 1621, Captain Miles Standish, a short, powerfully-built man of middle age and a recent widower, stood in his…

“The Turn of the Screw” is largely a representational book. For the most part, I think it stands to characterize Victorian views of sexuality. The entire book seems to be sex related in one way or another. Everything that happens, from Miles being kicked out of school to the governess seeing ghosts, can be interpreted…

This book is based on Greek mythology. It is a total fiction but when we read, we couldn’t say like that. The book was carved by the author very carefully. It has all aspects of style like adventure, thrill, magnificence and lots of emotions. This book is the third part of the Percy Jackson series:…

Throughout Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible” the idea of hysteria creating moral decay is very strongly presented and links back to the hysteria of 1950s McCarthyism. This idea can be clearly seen through Miller’s interpretation and take on the 1962 Salem witch trials. The hysteria in Salem is very relevant even in today’s modern world….

Authors have a way of foreshadowing or giving indirect hints toward the reader, such as the language or the characters themselves. Charlotte Bronte, the author of the Victorian novel Jane Eyre, sets the story in a variety of places in England. Each one of these places have a specific meaning behind the name and with…

David Foster Wallace, an American writer, “Good People” is a short story which is based on two young Christian couple set at the park nearby the lake. The couples, Lane A. Dean and Sheri Fisher, faced with an issue of unplanned pregnancy, which creates a situation of fear, choice between right or wrong and religious…

In Ducan’s Reign Macbeth was a noble and highly respected figure in King Duncan’s reign. He lived a brave and honest life, serving the King and his country against evil. The Tragedy of Macbeth occurred when the weird sisters met Macbeth for the first time. An evil mind took over Macbeth, and he was doomed…