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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.
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.
The Lesson” is a first-person narrative told by a young, black girl named Sylvia who is growing up in Brooklyn. The story is about a trip initiated by a well-educated woman named Miss Moore who has taken it upon herself to expose the unappreciative children of the neighborhood to the world outside of their oppressed community.
Stillwater, a fictional panda in the 2005 book Zen Shorts. Stillwater, an animated adaptation; Stillwater, a 2021 American crime drama; Still Water, a 2011 bronze of a horse's head at Marble Arch, London, England "Still Water (Love)" and "Still Water (Peace)", 1970 songs by Four Tops
The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. [1] It was adapted as the Oscar-nominated motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. [2] The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, [3] the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana [1] along "the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row."
Sonnet 98 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the persona expresses his love towards a young man.
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.
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.