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    Short Summary: Anastasia is an exciting fictional tale partly based on the Russian Revolution and the real life Romanov family. The timely story begins in St. Petersburg‚ Russia in 1916 during a ceremonial celebration for the Czar of Imperial Russia‚ Nicholas. He and his wife had four beautiful daughters and a son‚ with the youngest daughter being Anastasia. Her grandmother‚ The Dowager Empress Marie is leaving for Paris and she gives Anastasia a music box and necklace as a goodbye present. That

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    INDONESIAN BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM CURRENT CONTENT AND REFORM* Agus Dharma‚ PhD Board Member from Indonesia Background 1. The vision of Indonesian education is the realization of educational system as a solid and authoritative social institution to empower Indonesian citizen to become intelligent persons that are able and proactive to stand facing the ever changing challenges of the era. They are bright (spiritually‚ emotionally‚ socially‚ intellectually‚ and kinesthetically) and

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    Monday‚ December 27‚ 2010 The Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century Introduction: In the eighteenth century the years after the forties witnessed a wonderful efflorescence of a new literary genre which was soon to establish itself for all times to come as the dominant literary form. Of course‚ we are referring here to the English novel which was born with Richardson’s Pamela and has been thriving since then. When Matthew Arnold used the epithets "excellent" and "indispensable" for the eighteenth

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    Traditions. 1st ed. Boston: Beacon‚ 1986. Bennett‚ Robert. Answers.com. 18 Nov. 2009. www.answers.com/topic/ceremony-novel-6. Huffstetler‚ Edward W. ""Leslie Marmon Silko ’s Ceremony: The Recovery of Tradition." American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 33.1. (2009): 160-161. Letcher‚ Bettina Havens. "Diss." In the Belly of This Story: The Role of Fantasy in Four American Women ’s Novels of the 1980 ’s. U of Rhode Island‚ 1991. Mitchell‚ Carol. ""Ceremony" as Ritual." American Indian Quarterly Vol

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    and contrasts between pre-and post-World War I England. As his popularity increased‚  Galsworthy  published other novels of the Forsyte series: Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918)‚ In Chancery (1920)‚ Awakening (1920)‚ and To Let (1921). Although  Galsworthy  is best known for his novels‚ he was also a successful playwright. He constructed his drama on a legalistic basis‚ and the plays typically start from a social or ethical impulse and reach a resolution after different viewpoints have been expressed

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    4. The novel from 1881 to 1914 Over the eighteen eighties there was a split in fiction. The first indication towards it was Henry James’ essay "The Art of Fiction" (1884)‚ which referred to the novelist’s calling as a "Sacred office". Besides‚ there appeared a stratification of fiction due to primary education for all. Parallel to this‚ novelists saw themselves apart from the public‚ as dedicated men. This new modern conception involved dignity and a sense of glory. Another change was from the three-volume

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    The significance of the title to the novel ‘The Pearl’. The novel ‘The Pearl’ by John Steinbeck is such a novel that really interest me as a reader. What is really appropriate is the title itself which incorporate ‘the pearl’‚ the essence of the story. The pearl is very significant to the title because without ‘the pearl of the world’‚ the story just would not exist. The novel could not stand by itself if the pearl is not found. We can also see that any story would not be interesting without conflicts

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    Pointless Charles Brockden Brown’s novel Wieland is famous as the first American Gothic novel. It was published in 1798‚ at the very end of the Eighteenth Century and just fifteen years after the end of the American Revolution. While the novel was written in a time still dominated by Enlightenment-era thinking‚ the novel questions many of the assumptions of the Enlightenment. The realizations of the limits of the Enlightenment become apparent as the book progresses. The novel offers the characters Wieland

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    In the novel The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian‚ the main character is named Arnold Spirit Jr. He lives on the Spokane reservation (rez) with his family‚ his best friend Rowdy‚ and the holder of wisdom Arnold’s grandmother. On the rez everyone calls Arnold; Junior. Junior wants to become something different then his parents. The concept of being different from the rest of his family and friends plays a significant part in Arnold’s life. He does not want to become another nobody on

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    Many novels are an allegory‚ a novel in which it has a literal meaning and a metaphorical meaning. Sometimes the literal meaning is important but many readers will lose the meaning of the literal part of the novel. This is especially true in the novel‚ Grendel. The zodiological and philosophical content in the novel‚ Grendel‚ have pushed out the whole other perspective of the novel‚ which is in Beowulf’s point of view. The first way the other perspective is lost by the philosophical and zodiological

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