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    Daniel Huffman Camille Mustachio ENG 111- F19 16 November 2014 Identity: A Soldier’s Search Upon entering into the Vietnam War, the young men who were drafted, or volunteered, found themselves in a brother-hood of like-minded soldiers who arrived in Vietnam as trained killers, but who had never before taken a life, and left as broken men that had more questions than answers. They lived together, learned together, killed together, and for some, like Philip Caputo, faced death together, in a way…

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    Samuel Polanco AP English Mr. Alan January 29, 2015 Facing Your Truth When it comes to the aspect of reality in life, several people find it a challenge to adapt or deal with. Philosopher and writer Plato “When we start facing the truth, the process may be frightening and many people run back to their old lives. But, if you continue to seek the truth, you will eventually be able to handle it.” Reality mirrors the element of the truth, and the truth sometimes isn’t what people want to hear.…

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    My frequent trips to the eerily quiet school library started almost ten years ago, in my first grade class with Mrs. Yenser. Thick paperback novels, controversial science fiction, doomsday utopian societies, sappy romances, and even an educational biography every once in a while were some of my best friends throughout my elementary age. I flew through Tom Sawyer, the Alex Rider series, To Kill a Mockingbird, and several dozen other intriguing reads. Knowing I had become hooked on reading, many…

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    In 1971, she began teaching literature and creative writing at the State University of New York at Purchase as an associate professor. Morrison continued her successful emergence as a writer with the publication of her second novel, Sula (1973), it is a novel about a girl who lives in a small town in Ohio whose community is destroyed by World War I. It also shows the story of friendship between two African American women that begins in childhood and is damaged by the inability of the surrounding…

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    existence, individual identity and responsibility, and moral uncertainty. Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, Watchmen is twelve chapters, but was originally released as twelve separate books, then all collected and sold as a trade paperback later on. The story is set in 1985, and starts out with the murder of Edward Blake, who is revealed to the The Comedian, a superhero employed by the US government. One of our main characters, Rorschach, discovers this and believes he has…

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    Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy, and in 1929 in France and Australia (Geoffrey Robertson, 2010). The book is notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words. An edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in Britain in 1932 by Martin Secker; reviewing it in The Observer, Gerald…

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    BOOK REVIEW OF THE BOOK “THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN” BY PAULA HAWKINS • Publisher: Noura Books • First published on: 13th January 2015 • Format: Paperback • ISBN: 978-1-59463-366-9 • Length: 336 pages (US) • Price: INR- 500/- • Language: English • Copyright : Paula Hawkins 2015 About the Author – Paula Hawkins born on 26 August 1962 in Salisbury Rhodesia later moved to London and studied economics, philosophy and politics at Keble College,…

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    A July Novel

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    inclination to back away. The reason for this was simple: I was in Nashville mourning the death of my father. Or at least it felt like that at the time. I was actually sitting on a rock 50 miles outside of Billings, Montana, reading a tattered paperback that I had bought for five dollars at a gas station near Wilson, Wyoming. I was backpacking with a few friends who were napping under some fir trees. The spy novel—a genre not known for its intellectual depth––seemed just like another July book.…

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    Publications, 2002. Print. • Webb, Jonice, and Christine Musello. Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print. • Zayn, Cynthia, and M.S. Kevin Dibble. "Narcissistic Lovers: How to Cope, Recover and Move on Paperback – 30 Mar 2007." Narcissistic Lovers: How to Cope, Recover and Move On: Amazon.co.uk: Cynthia Zayn, Kevin Dibble: 9780882822839: Books. New Horizon Press, 30 Mar. 2007. Web. 12 Oct. 2015. If you have any other questions or concerns you can…

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    memoir The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust, Edith Hahn Beer describes how she survived WWII – and became the wife of a Nazi soldier who did everything he could to protect her. Published in 1999 by William Morrow Paperbacks, The Nazi Officer’s Wife received the 2004 Audie Award for Biography/Memoir. It was also made into a film which received widespread acclaim for its powerful, honest depiction of Jewish life during WWII. It was Beer’s debut work. The Nazi…

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