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- A Century of Dishonor is a non-fiction book by Helen Hunt Jackson first published in 1881 that chronicled the experiences of Native Americans in the United States, focusing on injustices.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia.
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Famous Female authors Emily Bronte (1818 – 1848) One of the Bronte sisters, Emily is best known for her only novel Wuthering Heights (1847). Wuthering Heights is considered a classic of English literature. Emily also wrote poetry. George Eliot (1819 – 1880) English novelist who was one of the leading writers of the Victorian period.
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- The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560–1945 anna BRICkhoUse Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 366 pp. The achievements of Anna Brickhouse’s The Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560–1945 are many.
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- Melville Novels Essays-Today, Herman Melville (1819-1891) is celebrated as one of America's greatest ... At the age of twenty, Melville went to sea. The Confidence-Man-His Masquerade is the final novel of American writer Herman Melville, his ninth novel and his tenth book published in eleven years.
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- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). This is the novel that made Stowe famous. Stowe's book didn't start the Civil War, but it certainly helped change the course of American history. During her lifetime, the anti-slavery book sold three million copies and was translated into 37 languages. Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing (1859). Though Uncle Tom's Cabin was certainly Stowe's best known book, it was not her only one. Stowe wrote roughly one book per year for 30 years straight. Her novel The Minister's Wooing was a satiric reflection on Calvinism, the uncompromising Christian theology preached by her father.
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Colonel Sherburn In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author, Mark Twain wrote a scene about a man named Colonel Sherburn who manipulated an entire crowd on his own. He was able to manipulate the mob easily because they were not thinking for themselves, but he was.
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Will watering new cement help it to cure? Generally, concrete should be allowed to cure for at least 3 days before you build on it. This is dependant on the strength of the concrete you placed and the load you will place on the concrete. The concrete will reach it's design strength within 28 days, with very minimal gains after that time.he curing is the hydrating of the lime that sets up and develops its strength. Concrete will reach about 80% of its strength in 7 days. Almost 100% after 28 days. There are many kinds of concrete depending on the admixtures.
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- Will they say to Eru: At least I spilled no blood?  J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales J.R.R. Tolkien is for sure one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He is recognized by most for The Lord of the Rings, a three-volume novel cycle, and for The Hobbit, a children's book (in origin) published in 1937. His work was turned into movies, theater plays and even portrait tattoos.
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Words of Radiance Words of Radiance. Words of Radiance (abbreviated as WOR by fans) is the second book of The Stormlight Archive epic fantasy series written by American author Brandon Sanderson. It was published by Tor Books and released on March 4, 2014. In 2015, it won the David Gemmell Legend Award for best novel.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four Throughout its publication history, Nineteen Eighty-Four has been either banned or legally challenged, as subversive or ideologically corrupting, like Aldous Huxley 's Brave New World (1932), We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Kallocain (1940) by Karin Boye and Fahrenheit 451 (1951) by Ray Bradbury.he introduction to the Penguin Books Modern Classics edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four, reports that Orwell originally set the novel in 1980 but he later shifted the date to 1982, then to 1984. The final title may also be a permutation of 1948, the year of composition.
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- He is the editor and transcriber of The Story of My Life by Frederic Finnup; and the author of Lewis Cass and the Politics of Moderation, 1782-1866. The Cass biography was the runner-up in The Society of Midland Authors annual awards competition.
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- Wallace became so closely linked with Ben-Hur that he no longer went by General, but was referred to as Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur. In newspaper articles and at speaking engagements, he was sometimes just called Ben-Hur.ut it was in literature that Wallace truly made his mark. He is the only novelist honored in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol. With a life full of distinctions, none of Wallace’s accomplishments made such an impression as his novel Ben-Hur. In its writing, Wallace’s life was transformed.
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The Good Soldier Summary & Study Guide The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a novel about the nine-year association between two married couples. John Dowell is married to Florence; Captain Edward Ashburnham is married to Leonora; Florence and Edward are having an affair, with Leonora's knowledge.John does not find out about this affair until his wife's death.lorence and John Dowell end up permanently residing in Europe. For two months every year, Florence visits a health spa in Nauheim, Germany for medical treatment. They meet and become friends with another married couple, the Ashburnhams. Captain Edward Ashburnham and his wife, Leonora, have an arranged marriage.
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- [with object] 1 Succeed in persuading or leading (someone) to do something. ‘the pickets induced many workers to stay away’. ‘Nothing now would induce me to swap this life for a return to a sensible job and a mortgage’.
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- “And it should be a book to teach our emerging generations about the vigilance needed to keep our freedom—and to open their eyes to the evil that homegrown tyrants could inflict even on their fellow Americans.”. Just last summer, Robert Conquest, a great hero of the Cold War, died—on August 3.
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"What does the ""death before dishonor"" tattoo mean?" By the time of the famed Roman senator and historian Tacitus (AD 56 to ca. 117), the vow of “death before dishonor” had become ‘old-fashioned’ and something espoused by the barbari or barbarians such as Caratacus (chief of the British, who revolted against Rome).
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- Ferrante is the author of a half dozen novels, the best known of which is Days of Abandonment (I giorni dell'abbandono).
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- Topics: Entertainment › Literature › Authors, Culture. In 1886-'87, Edward Bellamy wrote the third-bestselling book of the 19th century, Looking Backward: 2000-1887..
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Editing and Proofreading Rates Editing and Proofreading Rates. Portrait of M. Diego Martelli by Federico Zandomeneghi, 1879. Zandomeneghi was an Italian Impressionist painter and a friend of Diego Martelli, a Florentine writer and art critic.
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- (Wrote under the name J. Hector St. John) French-born American fiction writer and novelist. Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur crèvecoeur was a Naturalized american citizen whose observations on life in-Pre Revolutionary america are still read. today
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Denise Levertov In 1940, when she was 17, Levertov published her first poem. During the Blitz, Levertov served in London as a civilian nurse. Her first book, The Double Image, was published six years later. In 1947, she met and married American writer Mitchell Goodman and moved with him to the United States the following year.
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- In the novel it is clear that hate had nothing to do with Ben-Hur’s survival, contrary to Arrius’ assertion. Instead, Wallace intended to show God’s benevolence through the compassion of strangers—one of the strangers being Christ, who gives Ben-Hur water and hope on his march to become a Roman galley slave.ut it was in literature that Wallace truly made his mark. He is the only novelist honored in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol. With a life full of distinctions, none of Wallace’s accomplishments made such an impression as his novel Ben-Hur. In its writing, Wallace’s life was transformed.
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Stephen E. Ambrose Ambrose appeared as a historian in the 1974 ITV television series, The World at War, which detailed the history of World War II. He served as the historical consultant for the movie Saving Private Ryan. Tom Hanks, who starred in the movie, said he pored over D-Day  and Band of Brothers in researching his role.mbrose's earliest works concerned the Civil War. He wrote biographies of the generals Emory Upton and Henry Halleck, the first of which was based on his dissertation. Early in his career, Ambrose was mentored by World War II historian Forrest Pogue.
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- A substantial portion of these short story collections is contained in Cheever’s opus, The Stories of John Cheever, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. Cheever was a struggling writer for twenty years before 1950, mostly writing fiction for the New Yorker magazine.bstract While it is firmly established that Pulitzer Prize winning author John Cheever honed his distinctive Cheeveresque writing style during the decade of the 1950s, no scholar or literary commentator has truly captured the essence of the motivating forces behind Cheever’s writing during this decade.
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Kevin Conrad The average normal core temperature is generally considered to be between 98.0°F (36.6°C) and 98.6°F (37°C) when measured orally and about 1°F higher when measured rectally. 1  American College of Emergency Physicians. ER 101: Vital Signs. 2  Hall JE. Body Temperature Regulation and Fever.