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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.
In 1956, "Moscow Nights" was recorded by Vladimir Troshin, [1] a young actor of the Moscow Art Theatre, for a scene in a documentary about the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's athletic competition Spartakiad in which the athletes rest in Podmoskovye, the Moscow suburbs. The film did nothing to promote the song, but thanks to radio ...
Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Austrian-Hungarian-born novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940.His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create.
Midnight in Saint Petersburg is a 1996 made-for-television thriller film starring Michael Caine for the fifth and final time as British secret agent Harry Palmer. [ 1 ] It served as a sequel to Bullet to Beijing , which had been released the year before, the two films having been shot back-to-back.
Gorky Park is a 1981 crime novel written by American author Martin Cruz Smith. [1] [2]Set in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Gorky Park is the first book in a series featuring the character Arkady Renko, a Moscow homicide investigator.
The analysis of the structural laws of literature should lead to the setting up of a limited number of structural types and evolutionary laws governing those types. The discovery of the 'immanent laws' of a genre allows one to describe an evolutionary step, but not to explain why this step has been taken by literature and not another.
Midnight was Dean Koontz's first No. 1 hardcover on the New York Times bestseller list. [1] Midnight includes a mixture of plots from the 1950s film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and H.G. Wells' tale The Island of Dr. Moreau. Koontz mentions both of these later in the novel. [2]
Yuli Daniel was born on 15 November 1925 in Moscow, Soviet Union, the son of the Russian Jewish playwright Mark Daniel and Minna Pavlovna Daniel. [5] In 1942, the 17-year-old Daniel lied about his age and volunteered to serve on the 2nd Ukrainian Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front during Eastern Front of World War II.