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The Schindler’s List is Steven Spielberg’s award-winning film, which illustrates the profoundly nightmarish Holocaust. It recreates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Nazi-occupied Kraków first dispossessed Jews of their businesses and homes, then forced them into ghettos and labor camps in Plaszów and finally resettled in concentration camps for execution. It is quite terrifying to think how far the Nazis were able to go with their murderous ideology. Which is the primary…

more out of reading if they are excited about it, not just forced to do it. It is important to make sure that kids do not form a sour taste for reading because of a mandatory reading assignment. Novels need to be both entertaining and informative. A book that is required to be read in high school should be written at a challenging reading level, possess a unique and intelligent main idea, and be entertaining to a high school audience. Billy Lynn’s Long Half Time Walk by Ben Fountain not only is…

Alice Munro, originally Alice Laidlaw, was born on July 10th 1931, in Ontario, Canada. As a child Munro found an escape in books when her schoolteacher mother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, Alice was ten years old at the time. (“Top 10 Things To Know about Alice Munro.”) And as a child she made up her own endings to stories like the Little Mermaid. She thought it was unfair how the Ariel to choose between the prince and her family. So she created her own ending. ("Alice Munro." Bio.com.)…

heartache, humanity at its most primal level, and how fragile the ideas of society truly are. The Road is important because it's one of very few novels that gives a raw, honest look at what the world would look like after an "apocalyptic" event. Many books consider things such as zombies or aliens as apocalyptic, but The Road hints very heavily at a real natural disaster. Born Charles Joseph McCarthy, Jr., Cormac McCarthy was born to Charles Joseph…

currently resides within Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bidart’s work includes Golden State (1973), The Book of the Body (1977), The Sacrifice (1983), In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (1990), Desire (1997), Music Like Dirt (2002), Star Dust (2005), watching the Spring Festival (2008), and Metaphysical Dog (2013). His awards and honors are varied ranging from the National Book Critics Circle Award to the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. If his myriads of titles weren’t…

27, 1902. He was the third child of Olivia Hamilton and John Ernst Steinbeck, He had three siblings Esther, Beth, and Mary. As a child, John helped on a farm and during the summers looked at the culture around him where he got the idea to write the book Tortilla Flat. John had three wives, Carol Henning (1930-1943), Gwendolyn Conger (1943- 1948) who which he had his two children with Thomas and John IV, and Elaine Anderson Steinbeck (1950-1968). Sadly Steinbeck passed away on December 20, 1968.…

Tim O'Brien’s Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award winning 1990 novel, The Things They Carried, takes place during the unsettling Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although O’Brien had received his undergraduate degree at Macalester College in 1968, his brilliance would never have been able to prepare him for what was to come. In the June of 1968 Tim O’Brien was drafted for military service, only a mere two weeks after completing his degree. During the course…

The world is full of challenges, obstacles, and difficulties. The human being is created in order to undergo difficulties, and overcome their obstacles. However, some people with a weak character cannot endure the difficulties of life, and even they do not attempt to deal with these challenges. On the other hand, the people whose character is strong enough, and who can hold on the life always make efforts to find a way through barriers in their life. They try to seek an opportunity in their…

Puc 1 Arthur Miller: Research Paper Arthur Miller was your average boy growing up in New York in the 1930s mid the Great Depression. Many things were against Miller while he was developing, striving to be a successful dramatist; but even with all of the factors that were stacked against him, Arthur Miller rose above it all and is remembered today as a world renowned playwright whose beliefs, his honesty and true perspective of man, allowed him to produce many works, like “All my Sons” and…

The Girl Who Won For most kids, growing up is pretty tough. For Julia Alvarez, it was even harder. The twisted paths of adolescence became blurred and incredibly confusing to Alvarez after she was, along with her family, forced to leave her native Dominican Republic for the strange United States. This culture shock was difficult to digest at the beginning, but then Alvarez became fueled by the bullies who taunted her accent and the missing pieces that being a “Dominican hyphen American” left in…