AP English Language and Composition Reading List GENERAL NONFICTION Ambrose‚ Stephen. Undaunted Courage. Follows the Lewis and Clark expedition from Thomas Jefferson‘s hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific‚ through the heart- stopping moments of the actual trip‚ to Lewis‘s lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. For readers who love detailed history. Barry‚ John M. The Great Influenza. A detailed description of the scourge of the "Spanish flu" of 1918 with interesting elements of the practice
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reading the works of Nikolai Gogol‚ T. A. Hoffman and Honore de Balzac (Frank). Fyodor left for college to train as an engineer in St. Petersburg‚ and while he was gone his ruthless father was murdered by his own serfs. Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov plot revolves around the murder of a tyrannous father by one of his sons‚ perhaps a reflection of Dostoevsky’s
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Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments values and ideals that had been generated by the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment‚ Reason‚ Science‚ and progress were still important words modern technology as electric lights‚ phonographs‚ and automobiles new view of the physical universe ‚ an appeal to the irrational‚ alternative views of human nature‚ and radically innovative forms of literacy and artistic expression shattered old beliefs Developments in
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The Book Market of Japan Breakfast Meeting October‚ 11‚ Frankfurt am Main Seiichi Higuchi Japan Book Publishers Association JAPAN Population 120‚000‚000 Area 370‚000km2 Population is not so small‚ compared to European countries. For example‚ Germany has 80 million people‚ France has 65 million etc. As the same situation of European countries‚ a trend of ageing is advanced. The percentage of people more than 65 years old is 20.8% in 2006. On the other hand‚ young generation has been decreasing
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The Characters of Hermann‚ Akaky Akakyevich‚ and the Underground Man and their conflict with the world around them In the present paper I plan to analyze the characters of Hermann from Alexander Pushkin’s "Queen of Spades"‚ Akaky Akakyevich from Nocolai Gogol’s "The Overcoat"‚ and the Underground Man from Dostoevsky’s "Notes From the Underground". The characters will be looked at from the perspective of a conflict each of them has with their surrounding reality. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going‚ the ones who walk away from Omelas." Background and themes : The central idea of this psychomyth‚ the scapegoat"‚ writes Le Guin‚ "turns up in Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov‚ and
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Jeremy Lahey Philosophy 120 Ethics Term Paper 11/27/12 Friedrich Nietzsche and Existentialism: Section I. Biography: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15‚ 1844 to Ludwig and Franziska Nietzsche in Röcken‚ in the Prussian Province of Saxony. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was named after King Wilhelm IV as the 15th of October was also his birthday‚ he turned 49. In the summer of 1849 Ludwig Nietzsche suffered nervous seizures which ended Ludwig’s life 10 months later on July 29th
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Introduction to English Studies (Eng 281) [pic] Sample Self-Reflective Essay #1 When I think of books‚ I can’t help but smile in anticipation of the journey I will embark upon from cover to cover‚ the secrets that will be revealed within their pages‚ the additions to my vocabulary I will collect as souvenirs‚ and the new avenues that will be excavated in the realm of my mind. Beginning as early as I can remember‚ books were read to me by my mother‚ my father and my sisters. The thrill of an outing
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Freedom and Life as we know it Freedom can mean a variety of different things to different people. To some‚ freedom may mean political equality‚ self-ownership‚ choosing what to believe in‚ or committing actions without restraint. However‚ how much freedom do the citizens of this world actually own? Fyodor Dostoyevsky gives his readers different perspectives about freedom in his story of The Grand Inquisitor on the Nature of Man‚ while Viktor Frankl insists that everyone has an inner freedom that
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Existentialism provides a moving account of the agony of being in the world. The spirit of existen- tialism has a long history in philosophy. But it be- came a major movement in the second half of the 20th century. Existentialism is not a systematic body of thought like Marxism or psychoanalysis. Instead‚ it is more like an umbrella under which a very wide range of thinkers struggled with ques- tions about the meaning of life. Much of the appeal and popularity of Existential- ism is due to the
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