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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.
Ways to Live Forever is a 2008 children's novel by Sally Nicholls, first published in 2008.The author's debut novel, it was written when Nicholls was 23 years old. [1]It won the 2008 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, 2008 Glen Dimplex (Irish) New Writers Award, 2008 German Luchs des Jahres and 2009 Bristol-based Concorde Children's Book Award. [2]
Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) [1] was an American writer of fiction and poetry. He is best known for his novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, first published in March 1969 in London by the recently founded small imprint Allison & Busby (with Ghanaian-born Margaret Busby as its editor), having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers, [2] and received much ...
The genus name Erysimum is derived from the Ancient Greek erysimon (ἐρύσιμον, Sisymbrium officinale [7] or Sisymbrium polyceratium [d], [8] the hedgenettle), itself from the word eryo meaning to drag [9] or eryso, a form of rhyomai (ῥύομαι), [citation needed] meaning "to ward off" or "to heal" in reference to its medicinal ...
The cover of The Wallflower volume 1 as released by Del Rey Manga in October 2004 in North America.. This is a list of the chapters that comprise the manga series The Wallflower, written by Tomoko Hayakawa.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), by Sam Greenlee, is the fictional story of Dan Freeman, the first black CIA officer, and of the CIA's history of training persons and political groups who later used their specialised training in gathering intelligence, political subversion, and guerrilla warfare against the CIA.
Given that the protagonists of the novel are Voodoo practitioners, the novel itself contains a great deal of Voodoo terminology. In the novel, Voodoo is an effective art: PaPa LaBas practices from his Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral, and at one point his assistant is taken over by a loa whom she has neglected to feed.
The sight of his wife's form makes Leontes distraught, but then, to everyone's amazement, the statue shows signs of vitality: it is Hermione, miraculously restored to life—or simply having lived in seclusion with Paulina for the last sixteen years. As the play ends, Perdita and Florizel are engaged, and the whole company celebrates the miracle.