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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.
The story was adapted into a wordless 9-minute animated short film in 2008. [4] It was the diploma work of director Rishat Gilmetdinov for the Saint Petersburg State University for Film Industry and Television, supervised by Konstantin Bronzit and Dmitriy Vysotskiy, and won the "Best Student Film" award at the 2009 Open Russian Festival of Animated Films.
A No. 1 New York Times Bestseller, Once an Eagle has been a favorite of American military men and women since its writing. [1] The book appears on the Commandant's required reading list for all Staff Sergeants and Gunnery Sergeants [2] in the United States Marine Corps, and frequently serves as a text for cadets in leadership classes at West Point.
"About Love" was widely discussed by the contemporary Russian critics, but mostly in the context of the whole three-story cycle. The in-depth analysis came from Alexander Skabichevsky in Syn Otechestva [9] and Angel Bogdanovich in the October 1898 issue of Mir Bozhy, the latter seeing the story "as a kind of setting for the environment where ...
"Description of a Struggle" is one of Kafka's longer minor works and is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is narrated by a young man attending a party and tells of his "acquaintance" (as he is referred to in the story) that he meets there. The second chapter is the longest and is itself split into several sections.
A woman has been charged with attempted murder after a knife attack in Dover. Emergency services were called after a woman in her 50s was attacked with a large kitchen knife as she was walking in ...
The Life of an Amorous Woman introduces the first-person narrator, and the main character is an old woman who reflects on her past in the form of a confession addressed to those who are willing to listen. [5] She is successively wife, court lady, courtesan, priest's concubine, mistress of a feudal lord, and streetwalker.
By Doyinsola Oladipo. NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S.-based travel companies, from Marriott International to Booking Holdings are trimming their budgets and workforce ahead of next year as falling ...