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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.
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.
The initial concept for the book was developed from a draft movie script that Djuna wrote about ten years before it was finally published as a book. [2] Djuna's motivation behind the novel was rooted in the exploration of Korea's relationship with other neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia, particularly as the country's growth has led to the surfacing of historic prejudices against it. [2]
A Fine Balance is the second novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1995. Set in "an unidentified city" in India, initially in 1975 and later in 1984 during the turmoil of The Emergency, [2] the book focuses on four characters from varied backgrounds – Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji, and the young student Maneck Kohlah – who come together and ...
The book's two central characters are Edward Mackley, an Arctic explorer who went missing during an expedition at the turn of the 20th century, and his great-grand-niece Julia, who lives a hundred years later. On a hot summer's day Julia begins sorting through the belongings she has inherited from her uncle, while trying to ignore the cracks ...
Goodbye, Columbus is a 1959 collection of fiction by the American novelist Philip Roth.The compilation includes the title novella, "Goodbye, Columbus," originally published in The Paris Review, along with five short stories.
On the Count of Three is a 2021 American dark comedy drama film directed by Jerrod Carmichael (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch.It stars Carmichael and Christopher Abbott as two best friends who make a suicide pact and spend their final day taking care of unfinished business.
Bhabani Bhattacharya (10 November 1906 – 10 October 1988) was an Indian writer, of Bengali origin, who wrote social-realist fiction. He was born in Bhagalpur, part of the Bengal Presidency in British India.