intellectual work features acclaimed peer-reviewed essays‚ articles‚ chapters‚ reviews‚ conferences and award-winning books that present a historical focus on topics of identity‚ memory‚ religion‚ peace‚ war and women of both pre-modern and contemporary India‚ Pakistan and Bangladesh (Saikia 1). Her most recent book‚ Women‚ War‚ and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971‚ won the Oral History Association Biennial Best Book Award in 2013 (Saikia 1). This book recognises the marginalized and vulnerable
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In The Butter Battle Book‚ Seuss puts his satirical talents on full display. He transforms the cause of the senseless war into a trivial conflict over toast‚ putting a more comical twist on things. The battle is between two different races or cultures‚ known as the Yooks and the Zooks‚ who do not realize that they happen to be more alike than different‚ because they live on opposite sides of a long wall. The Yooks like to eat their bread with the butter-side up‚ while the Zooks like to eat their
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These themes showed specific examples of how blacks suffered during the civil rights movement. Moody often used food to remind readers of exactly how poor she actually was. Since her family lived on paycheck to paycheck‚ on most days all they ate was bread and beans. Every so often they were given the opportunity to eat leftovers from the white people her mother worked for. Food exemplified the wealth African American people did not have compared to the white people. At one point in the book her mother
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1 Sthefani Rojas Natalie Meyer Composition I 9/29/13 Who speaks two languages is worth two “To have another language is to possess a second soul.” ‒Charlemagne Coming from a different country is not easy for anyone‚ specially if you don’t know the language. Being in a place were everyone speaks a language that you don’t understand‚ and adapting to a place you must call home its probably one of the most scary and insecure moments of your life. One of the reasons for
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Cynthia Ung Ms. Ligator Honors English 15 November 2013 The Little Essay That Could- Open-book vs. Closed-book Eugene Nathaniel Butler once stated‚ “Some people cheat their way through life. They cheat on tests in school. Cheat on girlfriends/boyfriends then graduate to cheating on wives/husbands. They cheat on taxes and many times shortchange
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Markus. The Book Thief. Place of Publication: Alfred A. Knopf. March 2006. The reason‚ Type‚ and Setting: I selected this book because I had heard many good things about it from past teachers and students. I had planned to complete this book my sophomore year but never got around to it. The book falls into the category of historical fiction and is incredibly enthralling‚ and realistic. The majority of the novel takes place in Mulching‚ Germany while it was under Hitler’s rule. Plot: The book is narrated
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to Arms‚ Ernest Hemingway The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien Cold Mountain‚ Charles Frazier My Brother Sam is Dead‚ JL Collier African-American Beloved‚ Toni Morrison (mature themes) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‚ Maya Angelou Native Son‚ James Baldwin The Color Purple‚ Alice Walker (mature themes) Invisible Man‚ Ralph Ellison Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston Malcom X (autobiography- lengthy) A Lesson Before Dying‚ Ernest Gaines The Autobiography
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I think burning books is a very wrong act. Burning books is wrong because it is not only ruining hard work and dedication that the author put into it‚ but also‚ the author’s ideas and thoughts. When the nazi’s burned books about the Jews‚ I thought this was extremely cruel. It was bad enough that they killed millions of Jews‚ but burning their thoughts and ideas is something that people should be very ashamed of. My overall thoughts of burning books is that it is very wrong. I agree and disagree
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A lot of parents want their kids to read the book then watch the movie. But why? If you read the book‚ you have an image in your head of what the character looks like‚ what their voices sound like‚ and what the scene looks like‚ and usually it is pretty good. But when you watch the movie‚ all those images get shattered. When you read a book‚ there may be parts of the book that you really like that you would like at see on the TV screen. But then‚ when the movie finally comes out‚ the part you like
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Banned Books 3 Where Have All the Books Gone? "Books are dangerous. They make you think feel wonder . They make you ask questions (Weiss p.2)." At the present time‚ at least seventy-five books are being banned. This is hurting our culture more than it is helping. This has to be stopped; books cannot be taken off of the shelves at the rate that they are today. The books that are being taken off of the shelves are‚ for the most part‚ considered classics. The act of book banning puts limitations
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