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Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing.
The Washington Post described the book as a typical noir thriller containing "city boys with their dreams of 'tapping the source' through drugs or sex or surfing" and depicting "a world that is also fraught with touches of mysticism, as it is in [Robert] Stone and [Joan] Didion." The review continues by stating "Nunn stays cooler with tone and ...
CliffsNotes for Romeo and Juliet. CliffsNotes are a series of student study guides.The guides present and create literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. . Detractors of the study guides claim they let students bypass reading the assigned
Through the narrator's first-person account, we learn the story of the people and the events of iDEATH.The central tension is created by Margaret, once a lover of the narrator, and inBOIL, a rebellious man who has left iDEATH to live near a shunned area called the Forgotten Works, a huge trash heap where the remnants of a former civilization lie abandoned in great piles.
Joyland is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 2013 by Hard Case Crime. It is King's second book for the imprint, following The Colorado Kid (2005). The first edition was released only in paperback, with cover art created by Robert McGinnis and Glen Orbik. A limited hardcover edition followed a week later.
Richard, an English backpacker, is given a map to a hidden island beach by a mentally ill Scot going by the alias of Daffy Duck at a hotel in Bangkok.Daffy tells Richard about the beautiful island with a hidden lagoon and beach, located in the Gulf of Thailand, and shortly after leaving him the map, Daffy commits suicide.
The novel was published and released by Simon & Schuster on October 2, 2007, and is a companion book to the Uglies series. However, Extras differs from its predecessors in that its protagonist is fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, not Tally Youngblood. Tally is not the main character but still appears in the book's later chapters in a major role.