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    Incarceron Sparknotes

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    Incarceron Book Summary Finn is a prisoner in the infamous prison Incarceron. He cannot remember his childhood‚ or his life before Incarceron‚ but he is a star-seer. Finn can see things no one out Incarceron has. Incarceron is a prison no one can enter‚ and that no one can leave. The Inmates live in dark cells‚ dirt cities‚ and harsh wilderness. No one has ever escaped from Incarceron except for a man named Sapphique. Finn plans on following the legends of Sapphique with his oath brother to finally

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    The Shining Sparknotes

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    The Shining‚ written by Stephen King is an American horror novel that focuses on Jack Torrance’s life as a recovering alcoholic and his off-season job at the Overlook Hotel. Stephen King himself has struggled in the past with alcoholism and was inspired to write the novel upon his visit to the Stanley Hotel in 1974. After the novel was published in 1977‚ King clearly sets up his reputation specifically as an author of the horror-genre. The novel immediately received enthusiastic praise while readers

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    The Viel Sparknotes

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    Who People Are Are people what they love or what they are told to love? The Viel written by Marjane Satrapi asks this question in her comic strip based on her own life in Iran. During “The Islamic Revolution” in Iran in 1979 plenty of transformations took place (343). Differences happened in Iran that Satrapi did not feel comfortable with. Similarities hold between her life and that of many children in every land. Revisions happen in a child’s life that have no relationship with that child being

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    Ondaatje Sparknotes

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    As Hana cares for the wounded soldiers‚ she witnesses gruesome injuries and horrific deaths‚ and these experiences are so traumatic that her personality is unable to recover fully. The omniscient narrator describes Hana’s work during the war as extremely disturbing and harrowing: “Nurses too became shell-shocked from the dying around them.... They would carry a severed arm down a hall‚ or swab at blood that never stopped‚ as if the wound were a well‚ and they began to believe in nothing‚ trusted

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    Sacajawea Sparknotes

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    “What was it like to be a captive? I can tell you I was soon sorry that I had asked the river what it was like to travel...For when I was given what I was given what I asked for‚ it was not something I wanted at all.” This is a story of the famous journey of Lewis and Clark with Sacajawea. At age sixteen she is already married‚ a mother and taken from her home community. Sacajawea must find a way to live her life‚ still being a child‚ and help navigate across America with strangers. She tells this

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    Sundiata Sparknotes

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    Mali may not be a location individuals typically think about or have a vast knowledge of‚ especially if it is knowledge on ancient Mali. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D.T. Niane is a fascinating collection of history and stories of ancient Mali told by a griot‚ which is a history keeper and storyteller. This book is centered around Sundiata‚ the son of Maghan Kon Fatta and Sogolom Kedjou. The compilation of tales shows the growth and evolution of himself‚ from being a small crippled boy who could

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    Disgraced Sparknotes

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    In the play Disgraced‚ by Ayad Akhtar‚ Emily and Amir’s friends Isaac and Jory call into question each other’s identities and values as they contradict each other’s views on Islam‚ racial profiling‚ and other cultural issues. Throughout the group’s conversation‚ the couple focuses on one other’s factual inaccuracies‚ preconceived notions‚ and moral judgments‚ calling into question their respective opinions and political ideologies. Akhtar uses Jory and Isaac’s questioning of each other’s credibility

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    The Destructors Sparknotes

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    Steven Dodd Professor Kang English 101 28May2015 Peace Meets Ciaos The short story "The Destructors" by Graham Greene collides with good and evil with the surrounds full of destruction. Many scholars have tried to decipher the mean behind this story and have all agreed that it is the best story that Green has ever written. With the knowing and shocking outcomes readers will ponder the nature of what is read. "Graham Greene portrays a world in transition‚ a society moving away from respect for

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    Ravensong Sparknotes

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    Many years ago the colonization in Canada has made a situation and condition that violated the right of indigenous people especially indigenous women. Some of the consequences of colonizer’s act are the violence that indigenous women are still facing. When the colonizers came to Canada‚ they constructed first nation as uncivilized and savages‚ and by this attitude toward them treat them as inferior to themselves. Moreover by laws and acts like Indian Act took many of their freedom and their rights

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    Glory Sparknotes

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    The movie glory depicts an oppressed people to a proud people they later on becoming the regime under white officers and they are challenged by racism and the fortunes of war. This essay will tell some major events in detail that happened in the film‚ from discussing shoes to the religious meaning behind the night before the assault on ft. Wagner. The story of the shoes is that the people that were sleeping in tents is that their feet severe bruises by the marching they did in the camp. The colonel

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