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The Celestial Jukebox
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

The Celestial Jukebox

Boubacar, a 15-year-old boy from Africa, moves to a rural Mississippi Delta town and soon visits The Celestial Grocery, the city center presided over by a cranky second-generation Chinese proprietor and his equally cranky jukebox. The tie that binds these lives is American popular music.

Hereditary Misery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Hereditary Misery

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-10
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  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut f r England- und Amerikastudien), course: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Southern Literature, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In times of the decline of the family as a social parameter we witness an unquestionable popularity of the family novel in American literature. Are authors writing desperately against the unraveling nuclear family, against patchwork constellations and second and third marriages? Is this merely nostalgic reminiscence, a longing for the long lost? In my paper I will argue that the portrayal of the family in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Cynthia Shearer's The Wonder Book of the Air is a rigid dissection of the pathological cycle of dysfunction, family often produces. It leaves every generation with the burden of the latter's failures and a lifelong struggle against reproducing revictimization

Hereditary misery: The dysfunctional family and multigenerational transmission in Jonathan Franzen’s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 23

Hereditary misery: The dysfunctional family and multigenerational transmission in Jonathan Franzen’s "The Corrections" and Cynthia Shearer’s "The Wonder Book of the Air"

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-06-23
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  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), course: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Southern Literature, language: English, abstract: In times of the decline of the family as a social parameter we witness an unquestionable popularity of the family novel in American literature. Are authors writing desperately against the unraveling nuclear family, against patchwork constellations and second and third marriages? Is this merely nostalgic reminiscence, a longing for the long lost? In my paper I will argue that the portrayal of the family in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and Cynthia Shearer’s The Wonder Book of the Air is a rigid dissection of the pathological cycle of dysfunction, family often produces. It leaves every generation with the burden of the latter’s failures and a lifelong struggle against reproducing revictimization

English for the Thoughtful Child
  • Language: en

English for the Thoughtful Child

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990-07
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Originally published in 1903, this book uses wonderful pictures to stimulate the child's imagination and lead him or her into writing. There are memorization assignments, oral compositions, written compositions and practice exercises. Useful as a second grade English text, but it is also very useful as a first course for older, reluctant writers. No teacher's edition necessary; everything you need is in the student text

The Greenleaf Guide to Famous Men of Greece
  • Language: en

The Greenleaf Guide to Famous Men of Greece

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989-11
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The study guide to accompany Famous Men of Greece, also published by Greenleaf Press. The Guide includes suggestions for how to set your study of ancient civilizations in a biblical context, as well as background information, vocabulary, and discussion questions. Also contains suggestions for supplementary assignments in children's versions of the Iliad and Odyssey, as well as selections from Plato.

Einstein's Jewish Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Einstein's Jewish Science

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-21
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

This volume intertwines science, history, philosophy, theology, and politics in fresh and fascinating ways to solve the multifaceted riddle of what religion means - and what it means to science.

Balletmaster
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Balletmaster

It was their sole encounter, but the sheer force and élan of Balanchine's personality, technique and genius held the young ballerina in total thrall from that day to this. As Moira Shearer observed his works over the years, she determined to set down Balanchine's extraordinary career and tempestuous life from a dancer's perspective. She researched his Russian youth, and the dazzling Diaghilev and continental years. She talked with key colleagues, ex-wives and impresarios as living background to her account of his hard-won triumphs with the New York City Ballet as the most innovative and important choreographer of this century. The story of Balanchine's life is here is full, the romantic destructiveness and willfulness along with the genius, but it is informal and distillate rather than compendious.

The Greenleaf Guide to Old Testament History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

The Greenleaf Guide to Old Testament History

This book outlines a program which will take you through the history of Israel by reading through the historical books, Genesis to Nehemiah, chronologically. Old Testament history is divided into 196 Bible readings (approximately 1 chapter each), along with some suggestions on how to cover the material and keep it interesting. For each reading there is a series of questions to help you focus on the significant details. There are also a number of background notes, and some suggestions for further study. This book won't answer all your questions, but it will give you a well-thought-out program of reading and studying the ancient history of Israel. This is intended as a first history course for the early elementary grades, though many parents are using it with high school students. Suggestions are given for supplemental materials for varying grade levels.

The Black Studies Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 501

The Black Studies Reader

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-05-15
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Famous Men of the 16th & 17th Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Famous Men of the 16th & 17th Century

Shearer provides 28 biographies of world leaders from the 16th- and 17th-centuries in chronological order.