American Literature Summer Reading List Summer 2014 Belmont High School English Department The following list was complied from the recommendations of the Belmont High School English department and contains some of the best-known works of American literature. Each book addresses the American Dream and/or American identities. All entering 11th graders must read at least one book from the list below over the summer. Students entering English 11 Honors must read at least one contemporary AND one classic
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STUDY QUESTIONS Eli‚ Lilly 1998 (A): Strategic Challenges 1. What were the strategic challenges for pharmaceutical companies in the 1990s? 2. How did Lilly respond to these challenges? How does globalization allow Lilly to better cope with them? 3. Suppose that you are a top manager of a Korean pharmaceutical company. How would you formulate your strategy in the face of pharma giants’ (like Lilly) aggressive strategic moves toward globalization? Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
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Cited: Duckworth‚ George E. The Nature of Roman Comedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press‚ 1952. Print. Konstan‚ David. Roman Comedy. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press‚ 1983. Print. Roth‚ Ulrike. “Comic Shackles.” Mnemosyne 65.4 (2012): 746-749. Web. 8 December 2012.
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Chantal Levy 9.13.12 Essay: The Ghost Writer Let the real story of Anne Frank Live In the late 1950’s novel The Ghost Writer‚ written by Philip Roth brings the story of Anne Frank. The protagonist Zuckerman tries to find a new muse to find more meaning in his stories. Zuckerman meets Amy‚ a girl with a mysterious background who resembles Anne Frank in more way then one. She was the same age as Anne frank and they both are writers‚ she avoids speaking about her past‚ and lastly
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stop being me‚ that’s all there is to it". Tears came to his eyes. "It’s a hard thing to be a Jew. But now I understand what Mickey says- it’s a harder thing to stay one". He raised a hand sadly toward me. "Look at you." Defender of the Faith/ Philip Roth. The quote above is the part in the Defender of Faith which is a conversation between Grossbart and Marx. Grossbart asks Marx to go out of the army to attend the Passover dinner. Throughout the story we come to understand that Grossbart is taking
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This supposes a strong blow againstthe church and towards believe. Philip Larkin asks himself who will be the last to see the church before it deteriorates completely "some ruin-bibber" some "Christmas-addict" someone obsessed with church or someone just like him who has no believe or sympathy withthe church. For the poet‚ the church is the place of marriage‚ birth and death and believes that that causes people to become fanatic towards church because they see it as the place that marks the most
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starring Sean Connery is based on Salinger. * Leer fonéticamente * * Diccionario - Ver diccionario detallado * Salinger has influenced a whole generation of writers‚ among which notably include John Updike‚ Harold Brodkey and Philip Roth. * In 1939 he attended a course of short fiction from Columbia University and wrote film reviews for the student magazine. * Participated in the Allied landing in Normandy (1944) as an infantryman * In 1945‚ Salinger married a French
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foundation of their economy. The South relied on slaves to plant and harvest America’s biggest cash crop: cotton. “The cultivation of the great staple crops cannot be carried on in any portion of our country where there are not slaves” (Document B). Eli Whitney‚ an inventor born in the Northern state of Massachusetts‚ created the cotton gin in hopes to create less of a need for slavery. However‚ this plan backfired when plantation owners used Eli’s invention to harvest even more cotton which required
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Sometimes there are two novels that have the same theme‚ and sometimes they have the same plot‚ but in the case of the two novels‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ and the novel Goodbye Columbus‚ by Philip Roth they explore the same dynamics of the chase of the American dream. In both novels there are similar themes‚ they both use the idea of sex and money as a form of power. Both novels can relate to each other because the authors decided to show how the pursuit of the American dream may
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