Essays Tagged: "Book"

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the paperless office?

ts.Another area that is conducive to a paperless office is such companies that put large volumes of books and papers on CD-ROM. A single CD-ROM can hold a whole room full of books. This cuts down on t ... of books. This cuts down on the physical space a company must devote to paper storage.3. How might book publishing change as the technology of the paperless office continues to develop? Will books be ...

(2 pages) 247 0 2.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

Some of the most lastingly delightful children's books in English are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass". Here are wh ... ngland":"Written by an eccentric Oxford don to amuse his little girlfriends, these two world-famous books are the best of all memorials of the Victorian love of nonsense. In them are elements of satir ... science, that is the author knows everything, but only through one character's consciousness. Other books in which author uses the same point of view are "Amintiri din copilãrie" and other nove ...

(1 pages) 98 1 3.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"451 Fahrenheit" by Bradbury.

In his book Bradbury shows his view of the future as he sees it from the 1950s. In the society, that Bradbu ... shows his view of the future as he sees it from the 1950s. In the society, that Bradbury describes, books are forbidden and with them - the right to think for yourself. The main character of the book ... the book is Guy Montag, who works as a fireman, but instead of putting out fires his job is to burn books. In the beginning Montag is happy with his job and his life, but as the story advances Montag' ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque.

wanted to "feel the same powerful, nameless urge" (171) that he used to feel when he turned to his books. Throughout the war, Paul had evolved slowly from day one, into an animal void of any emotion ...

(2 pages) 47 0 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk" by Thornton W. Burgess.

Wanted to have a little fun but soon learned his lesson.Overall I believe that this is an excellent book for children just beginning to read. The book is laid out into twenty-three chapters so it help ... the story can change so quickly at the start of a new chapter.There are eighty-seven pages to this book. So it is a pretty lengthy read for a beginninger. Some children might be a little intimidated ...

(1 pages) 25 0 0.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

The 3 revelations that Holden Caulfield comes to in "Catcher in the rye".

Holden himself say on the last page of the book, "D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about...If you ...

(3 pages) 54 2 4.3 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

An analysis of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", evaluating the symbols of the story. Titled: Symbolic Cogitations

In the modern world today, the media has rendered the generation of youth to a state in which books are frowned upon. In a frightening foreshadowing of what may result of this, Ray Bradbury's "F ... r in was conflicted with feelings of conformity and a longing to find the truth. Each symbol in the book represented a either a struggle or characteristic of Montag.The most important symbols were of ...

(3 pages) 44 1 4.6 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

As age increases books increase the content of Multiculturalism

As Age Increases, Books Increase the Content of Critical MulticulturalismAccording to McLaren (1994), a critical multi ... en (1994), a critical multiculturalism must include both difference and sameness perspectives. Five books obtained from a recent web site titled Fifty Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know and p ... to embrace multiculturalism and pass it onto >the universal child=. Unfortunately, some of these books fall short of the expectation this web site leads one to place on these books. The books desig ...

(12 pages) 87 1 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Advocacy:The Psychology of advocacy and how to examine a witness.

I have read two books which deal with trial advocacy. One was "The Common Sense Rules of Trial Advocacy" by Keith Ev ... teng ( 60 pages read). I had no idea how complicated a trial could be until I started reading these books. I have watched several episodes of 'The Practice' and 'Ally McBeal' and had based my opinions ... rial, though. It isn't as fun as it seems on television. I read so many fascinating things in these books and there are so many topics that I would enjoy writing about, but in this paper I will go ove ...

(9 pages) 37 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Analysis of the funeral scene in Albert Camus's novel 'The Stranger'

both of which he comments on in this scene. The latter one especially, as he mentions later in the book ("....it was the same sun as on the day of my mother's funeral...."), will affect him at the be ... nd the system will never let us escape these. This is what will happen to Meursault later on in the book, when he is in prison and he sees that he is trapped inside a mechanism. He realizes that he is ...

(3 pages) 19 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

t three main things should influence a scholar are nature, the mind of the Pas or more specifically books and action.I. Nature,"He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?" (296).Emer ... that the scholar is influenced by nature but he is the one that should state the nature's value.II. Books,"Books are the best type of the influence of the past, and perhaps we shall get at the truth-l ...

(2 pages) 50 0 1.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

American Cinema: How it has and will effect society.

to people since it came around a long time ago. It gave people another alternative to the radio or books, which where the only other sources of entertainment available to them at the time. It was a n ... g that can touch you or bother you, you are just there to enjoy a film.Viewing a film and reading a book are similar in so many ways; I think it would be simpler to list the things that they don't sha ...

(4 pages) 52 3 4.8 Mar/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

"Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

e, die, Jethro tries to figure out where he stands on the issues, and where his loyalties lie. This book uses Jethro to help us see the issues underlying the Civil War.In this book Irene Hunt took som ... the emotions, decisions and conflicts that were produced by the Civil War.I think that overall this book is alright. I am not completely interested in historical fiction either. It is not the most exc ...

(1 pages) 1728 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

All The Pretty Horses Settings

(2 pages) 5265 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Airplane

Airframe seems to be a book where you loved it for a reason while other people hated it for the same reason. And the reason ... hile other people hated it for the same reason. And the reason is? First, many people say that this book "lacked depth" or "was easy reading" or "there was no content". Some people like deep books, wh ... eople like deep books, while others don't. They are correct however in saying this was not a "deep" book, although, Cricthon does give you and shows you his vast knowledge on the subject of aircraft's ...

(1 pages) 3 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

An Abused Child Called "IT"

ple abuse other people? What happens to them, and what is their new personality? A very interesting book, A Child Called "IT" answers those questions in an excellent way. It deals with a child badly b ... hild badly beaten and starved by his unstable alcoholic mother. If you are interested in nonfiction books, that deal with sad but inspiring problems, then A Child Called "IT" is the book for you. ...

(1 pages) 16 1 3.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

451

Guy Montag was a fireman whose duty was to set fires but not just burn anything his job was to burn books. Everything was simple for Guy and for everybody else; books were for burning and also the hou ... of which they were hidden in.Guy loved his job he had done his job for ten years. He loved to burn books on the midnight run watching the pages burn with fire till they were no more. Guy never questi ...

(4 pages) 1146 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Alchemist's Door" VS "Seeds of Time"

The two books, which are to be compared here, are not very similar. However, there are still a few similarit ... period of time, they cannot be compared to one another, and yet there were similarities in both the books. Even though the stories are nothing alike, but the characters in both stories contain similar ...

(4 pages) 12 0 3.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Amazon.com Case Analysis

There has been a major development in the Book industry in the past few years that has created quite a commotion. This development was the onl ... y in the past few years that has created quite a commotion. This development was the online virtual bookstore. Until this time, the biggest problems facing bookstores was delivering the right amount o ... l this time, the biggest problems facing bookstores was delivering the right amount of books to the bookstores and alerting the customers of new titles that they would be interested in. Traditional bo ...

(3 pages) 71 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

"An American Tragedy" Book I by Theodore Draiser

ндрей 301а"An American Tragedy" compositionAs we read the first book of An American Tragedy we understand the might of the language and even the plot the author can ... t no one feels safe and the whole Clyde's life and dreams were at stake at the moment.So, the first book of the novel is overfilled with social context. We can easily see the trend of bourgeois standa ...

(2 pages) 2483 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors