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  2. Political messages of Dr. Seuss - Wikipedia

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    Cartoon by Seuss criticizing the nationalist "America First" policy as being essentially Nazism. The political messages of American children's author and cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel, best known as Dr. Seuss, are found in many of his books. Seuss was a liberal and a moralist who expressed his views in his books through the use of ridicule ...

  3. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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    In a 1964 article, [5] educator and historian Henry Littlefield outlined an allegory in the book of the late-19th-century debate regarding monetary policy.According to this view, for instance, the Yellow Brick Road represents the gold standard, and the Silver Shoes (Ruby slippers in the 1939 film version) represent the Silverites' wish to maintain convertibility under a sixteen to one ratio ...

  4. A Modest Proposal - Wikipedia

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    A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child ...

  5. A Treatise on Money - Wikipedia

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    Publication place. United Kingdom. ISBN. 978-0-404-15000-6. A Treatise on Money is a two-volume book by English economist John Maynard Keynes published in 1930.

  6. The Giving Tree - Wikipedia

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    The Giving Tree is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. First published in 1964 by Harper & Row, it has become one of Silverstein's best-known titles, and has been translated into numerous languages. This book has been described as "one of the most divisive books in children's literature"; the ...

  7. A Room of One's Own - Wikipedia

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    OCLC. 470314057. A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. [1] The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge. [2][3] In her essay, Woolf uses metaphors to explore social injustices and ...

  8. It Takes a Village - Wikipedia

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    It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us is a book published in 1996 by First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton. In it, Clinton presents her vision for the children of America. She focuses on the impact individuals and groups outside the family have, for better or worse, on a child's well-being, and advocates a ...

  9. Steganography - Wikipedia

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    The same image viewed by white, blue, green, and red lights reveals different hidden numbers. Steganography (/ ˌ s t ɛ ɡ ə ˈ n ɒ ɡ r ə f i / ⓘ STEG-ə-NOG-rə-fee) is the practice of representing information within another message or physical object, in such a manner that the presence of the concealed information would not be evident to an unsuspecting person's examination.