Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: What Is the What, by Dave Eggers

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What Is The What is the fictionalized story of Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng. In the preface, Deng explains that the book, though based on his life, is called a novel "because many of the passages are fictional." Novelist Dave Eggers has constructed an exciting adventure story from Deng's memoirs.Deng is one of a grou... More..

Arts & Humanities > British Literature Book reviews: The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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In the greatest of the four novels his creator Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, Sherlock Holmes faces a formidable adversary in the legend of a huge, fearsome beast resembling a large dog prowling the forbidding and dangerous moor near Baskerville Hall. However, for him, the real "foe" against whom he pits his analytic genius in The... More..

Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: Another Country, by James Baldwin

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Baldwin's Another Country is Love "'How can you live if you can't love? And how can you live if you do?'" Vivaldo asks Eric. Hate is destructive. Love is salvation. Another Country is a novelistic essay, the main theme of which is the destructive power of hate and the saving grace of love. As in all of Baldwin's novels and es... More..

Arts & Humanities > American Literature Literary analysis: The character of Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin

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During the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, many young Blacks asked the question: why didn't our parents and grandparents fight back when old Jim Crow hurled insults at them? Why, they asked, were they so servile like Uncle Tom? Most of them probably hadn't read Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, a... More..

Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community Girls versus boys in the gaming community

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BELOW THE RIM: WOMEN'S BASKETBALLI no longer watch NBA games.The artistry of playing the game below the rim has, for the most part, been lost. Often the ball is passed to a teams star player who then plays one on one against the opponent's best defender. The dunk, when performed with skill, is beautiful, but when performed cl... More..

Arts & Humanities > American Authors Assessing Edgar Allan Poe's talent

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Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story to illustrate his proposition concerning "the mental features discoursedas analytic" (315). Although he regards the analytic features to be "in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis," in the prefatory remarks to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Poe nevertheless proceeds to... More..

Arts & Humanities > Horror, Mystery & Suspense Why Whodunit novels will remain popular as a mystery genre

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MEET "MAMA," DETECTIVEThis article introduces to readers of detective stories in the classical puzzle tradition "Mama," Black American amateur sleuth extraordinaire.In the 1980s, publishers finally began publishing detective/crime novels by Black American writers. One of those who wrote in the classically puzzle tradition was... More..

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