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In the novel “Holes,” Louis Satcher effectively communicates several important themes about life, such as racial tolerance and intolerance, perseverance, and the connection between past and present. A good novel not only features exciting characters, an interesting setting, plot, and story line, but also conveys the author’s ideas and messages. Satcher achieves this by skillfully…

Ayvazo and Ward make the very astute observation that traditional whole-group teaching styles rely on the abilities of one teacher to differentiate between the various learning styles of some 20-30 students at one time (2005).  It is because of these inevitable differences between students who are in one class together that the idea of classwide…

“But think a big part of the reason I didn’t care about Corpora’s past was that I had one of my own. I knew all about regret. ” Come. There is a way to be good again” This quote is significant because it indicates that Ihram Khan has known Emir’s secret all these years, the…

The theme in William Blake’s “A Poison Tree” is exceedingly interesting. From the very beginning the voice of the poem is under question. Whether it is from the Masculine or feminine point of view, even though he uses “he”, it could still be interpreted either way. Since Blake did use “he” it should be taken…

Henrik Ibsen portrays a microcosm of 19th-century Norse society in his drama “Hedda Gabler.” Hedda, the protagonist, exhibits a mixture of masculine and feminine traits due to her upbringing under General Gabler and the societal mores imposed upon her. However, although this society venerates General Gabler because of his military position, his daughter Hedda is…

Chaucer’s Wife Of Bath, Allison, is a really interesting character. She about seems to be an early women’s rightist, but is non by her ain words. She has her ain autocratic positions on matrimony, Scripture, and hubby domination. Alison is one of the lone characters who really reveals herself openly, through her prologue. She has…

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published almost century ago and it showed the Americans the problems that existed in the early nineteenth century, the industrialization timeline. Sinclair’s target was the workers who were mistreated in various workplaces, such as the meat packing companies in Chicago, so that they may be treated fairly. Sinclair wanted…

In the book “The Chrysalids”, it shows how messed up the society there is, and is sort of a representation of our society now and back then. The similarities between the book’s society and our society back then and now are discrimination, fear and death/killing of the “minority”. Discrimination is a big factor in our…

I will pray for Romeo and will pray for Juliet all night in front of the Lord. What if had told someone about the marriage and the plan to fake Gullet’s death? Maybe they would still be with us. Romeo was such a troubled boy. First it was Rosalie then Juliet. All he wanted was…

            Perhaps winning the lottery is one of the events that could be tagged as “life changing.” Aside from the fact that an individual won the “moneybags,” the idea of how to handle a large amount of money could be pretty confusing because an individual would never know what to do next. Nevertheless, if I…