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Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games is the first novel in a best-selling, award-winning trilogy that explores a future dystopian society.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional tale of the unlikeliest of friends: the son of a Nazi commandant and a Jewish concentration camp inmate.

1984

1984 is author George Orwell's dark vision of the future. Written while Orwell was dying, it is a chilling depiction of how the power of the state could come to dominate the lives of individuals through cultural conditioning.

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Characters’ lives are frequently shaped by forces, like class, gender, race, war, family dynamics, or financial concerns, over which they have no control. Discuss this statement.

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In the poem dreams by Langston Hughes.. the author uses phrases such frozen as the snow, life is a broken-winged bird and life is a barren field, that mean these phrases?

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in what ways did hellen's intelligence and talent serve her well? in what ways did hellen's intellegence and talent cause her frustation and rage?

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What happens to the lost necklace?

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Coul you tell me the chapter wise summary of the book "the story of my life" by Helen keller?

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What are 3 quotes from "To Kill a Mockingbird" (with page numbers) that reveal Atticus as a good parent, respected, knowledgeable, and tolerant?I am writing a 6 paragraph essay with four quotes per paragraph, thank you very, very much!

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Please explain the witches' chant "Fair is foul and foul is fair" in Act 1 of Macbeth.

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What would be a good autobiography start out sentence? Please give me a few.I just need a good introduction or opening sentence for my autobiography.

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what are 6 songs that relate to romeo and julietwhat are 6 songs that relate to romeo and juliet

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Who says the lines below in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and what do they mean? ...--O, there is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lieve see a toad, a very toad, as see him. (II.iv.186-189)

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1865: African Americans in Texas learn that the War between the States is over and that they are freed from slavery: June 19 becomes known as “Juneteenth”
1937: Sir James M. Barrie dies
1940: James Welch is born
1942: Patsauq Markoosie is born
1947: Salman Rushdie is born

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Othello by William Shakespeare
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1984 by George Orwell
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Odyssey by Homer
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