Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Changing Places (1975) is the first "campus novel" by British novelist David Lodge. The subtitle is "A Tale of Two Campuses", and thus a literary allusion to Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. It is the first novel in a trilogy, followed by Small World (1984) and Nice Work (1988), in which several of the same characters reappear.
A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists". [41] An early example is Thomas West's guide to the English Lake District, published in 1778. [42] Thomas West, an English priest, popularized the idea of walking for pleasure in his guide to the Lake District of 1778. In the ...
Rocky Wood describes People, Places and Things as "juvenilia" but with "clear hints of the King to come". [1] Michael R. Collings states, "In approach, content, theme, and treatment [the stories] clearly suggest directions the mature King would explore in greater detail". [10]
The story raised the issue of human existence and its significance, and the search for a goal of life, compared with the novel "Waiting for Godot" by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, Zaabalawi refers to the same idea, It is a wait and constant search for an idea that may be spiritual or existential and in the end it does not appear this idea ...
"Rinconete y Cortadillo" (or "Novela de Rinconete y Cortadillo") [1] is one of the twelve short stories included in Novelas Ejemplares, by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. It describes the comical adventures of two petty criminals as they travel to Seville and are then taken in by the city's thieves' guild .
The poem very loosely echoes and references Homer and some of his major characters from the Iliad.Some of the poem's major characters include the island fishermen Achille and Hector, the retired English officer Major Plunkett and his wife Maud, the housemaid Helen, the blind man Seven Seas (who symbolically represents Homer), and the author himself.