A 2,800 word academic essay exploring the structure and the use of the first-person narrative voice in Ishiguro's acclaimed novel.

An immersive drama series exploring six turning-points in the career of the legendary statesmanWinston Churchill has gone down in history as the man who led Britain to victory in the Second World War. But his legacy was not always guaranteed, and his path to greatness was a rocky one. This fascinating series charts six watershed moments that shaped his destiny – from his youth, growing up in the shadow of his famous father, to his finest hour, when he returned from...

The Great Commission to Worship looks closely at the intertwining relationship between worship and evangelism as the foundation for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. Authors David Wheeler and Vernon Whaley cite Scripture to explain "The Mandate of Worship and the Great Commission" and then show how worship—in relation to the Great Commission—is formational, transformational, relational, missional, commissional, and reproducible. Each chapter includes five "life questions" f...

This book is your ultimate Marvin Gaye resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Marvin Gaye's whole picture right away. Get countless Marvin Gaye facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Marvin Gaye Handbook is the single and largest Marvin Gaye reference book. This compendium of information is th...

Biography was Samuel Johnson's favorite among literary genres, and his Lives of the Poets is often regarded as the capstone of his career. The central place of biography in his oeuvre is explored in this collection of nine original essays by leading Johnson scholars. Varied in their focus and approach, the essays range from a philosophical overview of Johnson's notion of the relation between life and art, to a detailed reading of the Life of Milton, to a speculation on th...

A 4000 word academic essay which explores Huck's moral development and rebellion against the society of the American South. Fully sourced with 8 secondary academic sources.

Originally published in 1995. Providing the most influential historical criticism, but also some contemporary pieces written for the volume, this collection includes the most essential study and reviews of this tragic play. The first part contains critical articles arranged chronologically while the second part presents reviews of stage performances from 1901 to 1988 from a variety of sources. Chapters chosen are representative of their given age and critical approach and therefore show th...

Harlem Renaissance history, Black cultural revolution, Great Migration, jazz age New York — the complete narrative of the New Negro movement 1919-1935: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Marcus Garvey, and W.E.B. Du Bois.They came by the hundreds of thousands — from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, from communities where Jim Crow was not merely law but daily negotiation with violence. The ones who changed the world came to Harlem. Between the end of...

Joe, a bright young American, fails to confront the reality of separation from his English scientist wife. His life's in a tailspin. When his wife unexpectedly returns center stage in his life, she is the pregnant concubine of a wealthy ex-terrorist, the target of assassins, and at the center of a spectacular demonstration of her consort's suspicious powers. Joe's struggle to unravel the mysteries surrounding his wife ensnares him in a world of suffering and violence as he becomes the unwi...

**In 1920, an entire people stood up and declared: our lives are worth celebrating, our culture has value, we are fully human and capable of anything.** Today that sounds obvious. Back then, it was revolutionary — and it exploded out of a few square miles of upper Manhattan. You've heard of the Harlem Renaissance. Maybe a name or two — Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington. But the textbook shrinks one of the most electrifying cultural explosions in history into a single paragraph, draining out ...

New Negro — Audiobook · Narrated by Ian Jansen. Listen time: 5 hours 28 minutes Harlem Renaissance history, Black cultural revolution, Great Migration, jazz age New York — the complete narrative of the New Negro movement 1919-1935: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Marcus Garvey, and W.E.B. Du Bois. They came by the hundreds of thousands — from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, from communities where Jim Crow was not merely law but daily negotiation with violence. The on...

'Contingency Plans' maps the body, the land, and the hollows therein, eager to determine their dimensions, carried along by possibility, to find that what once made us anxious is out of the question, and what has kept us awake now sings us back to sleep. Note to teachers: excellent for classroom use if you are teaching villanelles and sestinas.***"These are poems of great spiritual crisis and consequence, where the dark night of the soul is a rugged rucksack shouldered by t...