Independent reading - Book review The notebook is a romantic novel by novelist Nicholas Sparks‚ which is based in a true story. It is considered a fiction book and has 224 pages. The novel opens in a nursing home when 80-year-old Noah Calhoun‚ "a common man with common thoughts‚" reads a love story from a notebook; it is his own story. Noah‚ newly returned from the war‚ is restoring a plantation home to its former glory‚ and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met 14 years earlier
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arrived at the tsar personally‚ he refused to meet with them. He believed all his people love him. At the end‚ many were left dead bleeding in the snow. “This event caused the revolutionary to spark.” (Doc 1) The tsarist was in
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is a time period in history roughly from 1500 to 1700 that is known as one where advances in European mathematical‚ political and scientific thought occurred. A “founding father” of the scientific revolution was a polish scientist by the name of Nicholas Copernicus‚ whose conclusion that it was the sun‚ not the earth that lies at the center of the solar system‚ was a direct contradiction to the church‚ which strongly believed the vice-versa or the Geo-Centric theory. (Merriman‚290) It was this initiating
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by the count and countess. When his mother died‚ Leo Tolstoy’s father put the children in the care of his cousin Tatyana Ergolsky. Nine years later Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy would also pass‚ making Alexandra Osten-Saken (Leo’s aunt) their legal guardian (Christian‚ R. F.‚ 1969). Their aunt took care of them for three years before she as well passed‚ though her time with the young
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The film The Notebook‚ written by Nicholas Sparks is a romantic novel that was turned into a film in 2004. Even though the novel and the movie have different endings‚ the movie was filled with romance‚ hard times‚ and fate. The story of two young lovers from two different backgrounds. In 1940 Noah and Allie meet at a carnival and Noah is immediately smitten. After turning him down constantly their friends lure them together. Noah and Allie spend the summer together‚ for Allie the summer was filled
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told” (Nicholas Lezard). Discuss this criticism of Atonement. When one reaches atonement‚ it means that they feel forgiven‚ regardless whether they are actually absolved for an offence or not. In Atonement‚ a novel of drama‚ war and romance‚ the author Ian McEwan characterizes the main character‚ Briony‚ as a very self-centered person. McEwan’s novel is self-referential when it is implied that the novel is one Briony wrote in order to reach atonement. Nicholas Lezard‚ critic for the Guardian‚ says
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where it all began in the early 1900’s with Nijinsky’s development of The Right of Spring the focus is on the involvement of individuals who took part in the creation and development process of the original costumes. This can be narrowed down to Nicholas Roerich as the designer‚ Igor Stravinsky who potentially provided inspiration for Roerich’s designs and finally Nijinsky himself. To look at and discover how Roerich was inspired and where the root of his designs developed from other than Nijinsky’s
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Being cheated by the foster care system‚ he turned into a bad kid. Echo suffered a trauma so severe that she can’t recollect any memory of the tragic event. Although in two totally different social classes‚ they find they have a lot in common and spark a heart warming romance. The story takes place in present day Kentucky (a small town much like ours). Most of the events in this book happen in present day senior year of Echo and Noah. Echo associates her self with more popular people. She even
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major European powers: France‚ Russia‚ Austria/Hungary‚ Germany‚ and Britain. The Russo-Japanese war and the significance of the Russians’ defeat had clearly sparked the desperate need for political and economic development in Russia. Furthermore‚ the spark that initiated Russia’s demand for industrialization was the Trans-Siberian railway- created tension between the public of Russia. In the book‚ The First World War by Michael Howard‚ he states: “…terrified that industrial development‚ however essential
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Since the state is an organised community of individuals who cooperate and coordinate to live under a single political structure‚ good governance is necessary. Nicholas Machiavelli contrasts Plato’s utopia attending a central problem of politics by practising power over individuals to achieve wellbeing to the state. This essay explores how philosophers approach the concept of power through the virtues shown in their respective works The Republic and The Prince. Both philosophers‚ Plato in the polis
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