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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.
Mr. Popper's Penguins is a children's book written by Richard and Florence Atwater, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, originally published in 1938.It tells the story of a poor house painter named Mr. Popper and his family, who live in the small town of Stillwater in the 1930s.
Galatea 2.2 is a 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers and a contemporary reworking of the Pygmalion myth. [1] The book's narrator shares the same name as Powers, with the book referencing events and books in the author's life while mentioning other events that may or may not be based upon Powers' life.
The book examines both direct effects (whether change occurred) and indirect effects such as changes in public opinion, political organizing, and legislative action. Rosenberg maintains that the efforts made by women's rights, pro-choice, and civil rights activists to use the courts to produce progressive social change have not been very effective.
Many issues arise from a discussion of the differences and similarities between River of Earth and Grapes of Wrath.Critic Dean Cadle notes that these are the only books chronicling the demoralizing Depression years; Steinbeck's novel about the dust bowl/1929 crash/depression era, while Still is writing about traumas that span the existence of mountain people in America.
Little is known of Shakespeare's personal life, and some anti-Stratfordians take this as circumstantial evidence against his authorship. [37] Further, the lack of biographical information has sometimes been taken as an indication of an organised attempt by government officials to expunge all traces of Shakespeare, including perhaps his school records, to conceal the true author's identity.
Freshwater was a New York Times Notable Book, [12] was named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker [13] and NPR. [14] Emezi is also recognized as a 2018 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. [15] In 2019, Freshwater was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction — the first time a non-binary transgender author has been nominated ...
Truth, a small town in rural Montana, and Bright Water, a reserve across the Canadian–American border, are separated by a river. The first person narrator, a 15-year-old Native American youth, Tecumseh (named after the famous Shawnee leader), watches a strange woman jump off the cliff into the river that marks the border.