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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.
All the Light We Cannot See is a 2014 war novel by American author Anthony Doerr.The novel is set during World War II.It revolves around the characters Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl who takes refuge in her great-uncle's house in Saint-Malo after Paris is invaded by Nazi Germany, and Werner Pfennig, a bright German boy who is accepted into a military school because of his skills in ...
The two sisters (Blue-Eyes and the renamed Red-Skirts) misbehave to come into possession of the box, only for the new mother with the glass eyes and wooden tail to be revealed as the beggar woman, who was in disguise. The children are swallowed by the woman's handbag that grows to a large size when she arrives at their house. The story ends ...
His dark torso and bright face are half-way between the visible and the invisible: emerging from the canvas beyond our view, he moves into our gaze; but when, in a moment, he makes a step to the right, removing himself from our gaze, he will be standing exactly in front of the canvas he is painting; he will enter that region where his painting ...
Prayers to Broken Stones is a short story collection by American author Dan Simmons.It includes 13 of his earlier works, along with an introduction by Harlan Ellison in which the latter relates how he "discovered" Dan Simmons at the Colorado Mountain College's "Writers' Conference in the Rockies" in 1981.
Illustration by Vincent Napoli to the first edition. The text says: "It was not a sight for sane eyes to see." The story focuses on a nameless narrator who, in addition to being a college student, hopes to make a living as a pulp writer of weird fiction. His earliest efforts at the craft are woefully inadequate and rejected by magazine editors.
Fresh from his rousing appearance at the Democratic National Convention, Stevie Wonder has dropped a song that couldn’t be more topical: “Can We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart.” The song ...
It marked Golding's re-emergence as a novelist, eight years after the publication of his previous book, the collection The Scorpion God. A dark and complex novel, it centres on Matty - introduced in chapter one as a naked child emerging horribly disfigured from a bomb explosion during the London Blitz in World War II. He becomes a ward of the ...