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A Study Guide for Selma Lagerlof's "The Outlaws," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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WHY A 56-MILE WALK FOR FREEDOM IN 1965 STILL CHALLENGES AMERICA TODAY
THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 WAS THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, FOREVER CHANGING POLITICS IN AMERICA. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, VOICES OF THE ERA, ALONG WITH SOME OF TODAY'S MOST INFLUENTIAL WRITERS, SCHOLARS, AND SOCIAL ACTIVISTS, COMMEMORATE THE STRUGGLE AND EXAMINE WHY THE BATTLE MUST STILL BE WON.
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A Study Guide for Selma Lagerlof's "The Legend of the Christmas Rose," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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Enjoy a timeless collection of classic Christmas tales, including: "The Royal Truffle Hunt" by Anthony Thorn, "A Christmas Dream and How it Came True" by Louisa May Alcott, "The Sabots of Little Wolff" by François Coppée, "A Christmas Guest" by Selma Lagerlöf, "Christmas Goblins" by Charles Dickens, "At Christmas Time" by Anton Chekhov, "The Heavenly Christmas Tree" by Fydor Dostoevsky.
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From Ecuador to Nigeria; Selma to Vietnam, Catholic sisters engage the world through Gospel values and make countless contributions to human development. On the Ground is a compilation of 23 of the finest reports and columns published during Global Sisters Report's first year. These stories, written by and about sisters, highlight the diversity of projects and people to which Catholic sisters have dedicated their lives. Through this lens, we learn...
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Montgomery's cultural heritage reflects two of America's most transformative struggles: the Civil War and the civil rights movement. On February 18, 1861, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederate States of America on the Alabama Capitol steps. Those same steps marked the final destination of the Selma–Montgomery voting rights march on March 25, 1965. The telegram to fire on Fort Sumter originated from the Winter Building on...
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During the hectic Christmas season, slow down with these heartwarming stories from some of literature's most beloved writers. In this collection, readers will discover lesser-known but tender stories and poems from classic authors they know and love. Each selection celebrates the beauty, mystery, and joy found in the season that commemorates Christ's birth. A Vintage Christmas includes stories from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne,...
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La figura de Tolstói, compleja y polifacética, fascinó tanto a sus contemporáneos como fascina hoy a quien se acerca a sus obras. El escritor, el pensador moral, el asceta, el conde, el terrateniente, el labriego y, por encima de todo, el hombre capaz de inspirar una sincera admiración en quien lo trató, se ven reflejados en estos testimonios de personas que lo conocieron, lo trataron o simplemente lo observaron durante años. Cada uno de ellos...
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march, this book offers inspiring words of wisdom on loving yourself as you truly are.
These thoughtfully selected quotations are the perfect way to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the first Pride march. Taken from throughout history and from a variety of voices, they celebrate everything the LGBTQ+ community has achieved, looking at inclusivity across the board and...
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Scandale(s) est le prétexte à un exercice de style qui a inspiré huit auteurs: Aziz Chouaki, YB, Rachid Mokhtari, Kamel Sif, Kamel Daoud, Wahiba Khiari, Chawki Amari, Ali Bécheur et Minna Sif. Un recueil qui décline sous différents tons et formes des situations de scandale à l'échelle intime, de l'individu, d'un groupe social ou de l'humanité. La famille Allou qui se noie dans une baignoire, lieu insolite et cocasse du crime , les jeunes...
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For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole, human race-along with whatever other labor they are performing. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere on the planet and in every culture. When this work is not economically prioritized, politically protected, or socially supported there are dire consequences for the whole of humanity,...
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A must-have book for every serious library, The Best Presidential Writing is a richly varied treasury of presidential writings: an ideal mix of the widely beloved and the freshly rediscovered, from soaring speeches and shrewd remarks to behind-the-scenes drafts and unpublished poetry, edited by Craig Fehrman, a rising young presidential scholar and the author of Author in Chief.
From the early years of our nation's history, when George Washington...
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It is curious that, despite the rapid growth of interest in Scandinavian literature through the English-speaking world, there has been up to now no book to represent one of the most brilliant fields of achievement, the Swedish short story. The work of Selma Lagerlof is well known and a volume of Per Hallström has appeared recently, but no attempt has been made to represent a group of the leading masters. The present collection, whatever its failings,...