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The book is often used in the classroom for lessons on gender roles, intolerance, or general anti-bias education. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] To counterbalance inherent micro-inequalities in the classroom, William's Doll is employed as a method through which educators expose students to the concept of sex-stereotyping . [ 4 ]
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.
In this book we meet six of the ten men, four of whom we already knew. McCracken is the leader of the ten men and the most dangerous. Crawlings is the most careless (and has only one eyebrow). Garrotte is muscular, with a bushy beard. Sharpe is tall and wears glasses. In this book we meet Bludgins, one of the more eccentric of the Ten Men.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 73% based on 22 reviews. [3]Landau and Burstyn received praise for their performances. [4] Jennie Punter of The Globe and Mail wrote, "There are moments during Lovely, Still when it feels like you're trapped with Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn in a kitschy musical Christmas snowglobe that someone keeps shaking", but "Landau and Burstyn ...
Most of the small stories in the book expound on the depression and sadness wrought by watching oneself make bad choices: people watch their parents die again, drive drunk or cause accidents that severely injure others. At the end of the timequake, when people resume control, they are depressed and gripped by ennui. Kilgore Trout is the only ...
Advance to the Rear is a light-hearted 1964 American Western comedy film set in the American Civil War.Directed by George Marshall, and starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, and Melvyn Douglas.
Mansfield Park is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton.A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime.
The book, set in an unnamed, landlocked country at a point in the unspecified past, opens with the end of death. Mysteriously, at the stroke of midnight on January 1, no one in the country experiences death any more. Initially, the people of this country celebrate their apparent victory over mankind's longtime foe.