Series of children's books

In regards to children’s education, teachers play an important role. Since the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law in 2002, many people have been concern about children’s learning and academic achievement, especially parents and educators. In fact, teachers are always trapped in “teaching dilemmas” because each teaching method has different levels of pros and cons for students. Wiggins and McTighe (2005) suggested that for all of the choices that teachers have during a day of…

to intercept and change the real and the fantastic realm resonates throughout it as well. Tintenherz revolves around a book-loving girl Meggie, whose father Mo can bring any character or object of a book to life by his oral storytelling. Mo renounces and hides his ability, because his reading of a book named Tintenher once summoned a group of ruffians and took his wife into the book in return. The father and daughter have been on the run since, for the villains of Tintenherz, Capricorn and…

the United States in 2001, Collins became the public face of American poetry and embarked on an ambitious effort to insert poetry--not the teaching of poetry so much as the raw material of poems themselves--into American secondary schools. His own books have enjoyed a rare combination of popular and critical success, selling tens of thousands of copies and earning Collins large advance payments unheard-of for practitioners of poetic art. A distinctive feature of Collins's career is that his…

twenty years. Ahmed Sobhy's Al Motalakat or The Divorced Women talks about the suffering of divorced women in Egypt. There are certain social norms which they should follow. Otherwise, people would start gossiping about and backbiting them. In this series, the writer, Sobhy, attempts to change the way the society perceives and thinks of divorced women. He also tries to change the way divorced women perceive themselves. In Egypt, there are two types of divorce: revocable and irrevocable divorce.…

Novels and books also contain more negative connotations mental health that one might think. Exemplifying this would be the mainstream Harry Potter series, where in one book, Harry is cautioned to stay away from Sirius Black who is known as being “mad”. The newspaper warns the public that he is a danger to anyone opposing or confronting him whether “magic” or “muggle” (Sieff 253). Alongside novels are comic books, in which villains are often portrayed as crazed…

Towards the end of World War II, many colonized countries began rebellions against their imperial colonizers and some were successful in gaining independence. Most notably, India, was led by a revolutionist, Mahatma Gandhi, who sought and won the Indian Independence movement in British-ruled India. While the world saw this politically unstable atmosphere of colonized locations gaining their freedom; the populace of these imperial nations found themselves thrust into the ethical foray of granting…

ideals of a specific population. The historical mythology of the Old West of America, overlapping and conflicting stories render it impossible to write one definitive history of the Old West. To do so, the author must decide whether is history a set series of events that are recited in order, a set of morality tales reflected by thoughts and feelings of their witnesses who lived the tale on, it the legacy of the event in the act of remembering for the following generations. Is there a…

In “Song of Soloman”, Morrison tells a remarkable story reflecting the absence of a father figure in African American homes. Instead of looking at the absence of the black man in a blackm family, she depicts this men not as traitors or deserters, but as strong, exploratory spirits providing a solid foundation for their children, even if his absence affects them. Morrison introduces the imagery of flight, using this to capture a vast foreshadowing to the family’s changing aspects of “Song of…

basing this conclusion on my childhood alone. You told me about your plans about a month ago, and since then I have done some research on what “off the grid” means and what it entails. Besides finding a series of DIY videos, house images, and real estate market bids, I got a recommendation for a book on the subject, Off the Grid by Phillip Vannini and Johnathan Taggart. Yes, I am aware that the name is simplistic, but the content was surprisingly helpful in my…

Arriving at her great-uncle’s house in Saint-Malo after fleeing Paris, Marie-Laure is welcomed with “eggs that taste like clouds. Like spun gold” (121) and canned peaches that are “wedges of wet sunlight” (121). The consecutive series of synesthetic similes in condensed form creates a sensory explosion of sight, taste and touch heightened with the repetition of the melting ‘w’ sounds. This emphasis on light has an almost religiously angelic quality- as if the light is her salvation…