learns about the mass genocide of the Chineses in the far east. The beggining of the book is filled with statistics to give ample proof of the extent of the massacre of the Chinese. The Japanese soldiers followed a code of conduct while raiding the city that encouraged them to ravage literally everything in their path. Chang very clearly outlines the path the Japanese took to get to Nanking. She uses several personal accounts of Chineses citizens who lived through the ordeal to accurately describe
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symbolic work that shows many of the obstacles a Christian will face and hopefully overcome when seeking the Lord. The main character, a man uncreatively named Christian, feels a calling for Christ and sets out on a journey to seek the Celestial City, which represents Heaven. Throughout his journey, he meets many interesting people, all of whom are symbolic of something. It is interesting to see how Christian's faith evolves and becomes stronger throughout the story. With each situation he finds
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held its breath and the aviators met their separate fates in the air. *525 pages *Adult/Young Adult *5 copies available The Diviners by Libba Bray Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation. *578 pages *Teen *16 copies available The Paris Wife
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How far is language a tool of oppression in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’? Most dystopian novels contain themes of corruption and oppression, therefore in both ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ language is obviously used as a form of the states control, enabling dystopian leaders to remain in power by manipulating language to restrict free thought. Orwell and Atwood have utilized language as a key tool of oppression throughout their novels. The use of language is
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Territory. In 1863, Clemens would publish three papers for the Enterprise in Carson City, Nevada. In these three papers he would first sign as Mark Twain. Clemens would again return to the Mississippi River and seize an open riverboats pilot position. Reputation was stirring on Clemens for his sketches and articles are appearing New York newspapers and he was a correspondent for the San Francisco Morning Call. A local tale in Tuolumne foothills, California, where Clemens travel to start mining, about
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The Devil in the White City, a nonfiction novel written by Erik Larson, focused around the construction the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also referred to as The World's Columbian Exposition, Daniel Burnham, the architect responsible for building World's Fair and the serial killer who exploits the fair to find his victims, H.H. Holmes, the two men's lives are recreated. Larson uses juxtaposition, imagery, and figurative language to portray the opposing forces of good and evil in action during the
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Europe in economic starvation. The 'Islamic Curtain' shut out all trade of spices to the west. On the rare occasions that spice was available, only the extremely wealthy could afford to purchase it. It was not until the tenth century that sea-port city states like Venice and Genoa became alluring trading hubs. Spices and wealth trickled into their markets via ports from Arab traders. The Muslim hold on the markets were finally beginning to loosen. By the eleventh century CE, political regions
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themselves as a ride sharing company to make travelling around San Francisco streets easier. It was created by entrepreneurs Travis Kalanick and Garett Camp. In a span of a few years, their Uber smartphone application revolutionized travelling around cities for millions of people around the world (Telegraph). The idea came to light when Kalanick and Camp could not hail a cab on a snowy night in Paris in 2008. They decided to solve the problem by creating an application that would be as simple as pushing
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Some definitions of literary devices, techniques and style from searching via http://www.ferretsoft.com/ LITERARY DEVICES http://mrbraiman.home.att.net/lit.htm Literary devices refers to any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze. Both literary elements and literary techniques can rightly be called literary devices. Literary elements refers to aspects or characteristics of a whole text. They are not
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The Values and World Views of the Ancient Sumerians The Ancient Sumerians were highly authoritative and interesting people. Their system of beliefs and values set them apart from many other ancient civilizations. Each god had a different persona and function. Strict laws were set for their people and harsh punishments were believed in for those who did not follow the religion’s strict code of conduct. The beliefs of the ancient Sumerians were the precedent for developing civilizations to follow
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