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The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

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The Perfect Storm Quotes
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The Perfect Storm is a 2000 live-action film adapted from the book of the same title by Sebastian Junger. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and features George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, Karen Allen and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio....


Author Biography

Name: Sebastian Junger
Birth Date: 1962
Place of Birth: Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Occupations: Writer, Freelance journalist

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Biography of Sebastian Junger
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Sebastian Junger's 1997 book, The Perfect Storm, catapulted the first-time author to the sort of celebrity for which most writers hunger their entire lives. His book about a sea tragedy rode the waves of the New York Times bestseller list for months. The...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Perfect Storm Information
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The Perfect Storm (ISBN 0-393-04016-X) is a non-fiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by Little, Brown and Company in 1997. The paperback edition (ISBN 0-06-097747-7) followed in 1999 from HarperCollins' Perennial imprint. The book is...


News and Journals
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The African American Pulpit
The PERFECT Storm
07/01/2006: 2,782 words, approx. 9 pages
Acts 27:13-44, NIV When a gentle south wind began to blow, they thought they had obtained what they wanted; so they weighed anchor and sailed along the shore of Crete. Before very long, a wind of hurricane force, called the "northeaster," swept down...
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Multimedia Schools
The Perfect Storm.
10/01/2000: 2,222 words, approx. 7 pages
A Perfect Opportunity for Learning "From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggity beasties and all things that go bump in the night, Good Lord deliver us," intones an old All Hallows Eve prayer. We think of Halloween as a time of ghouls...
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AP News
Gold ends lower on profit-taking
1/4/2008: 509 words, approx. 2 pages
Gold prices ended an erratic session lower Friday, with traders cashing in profits following a disappointing U.S. employment report.Other commodities mostly fell as markets took a breather from a week of highs. Soybeans rose to a 34-year high before settling lower.An ounce of gold for...
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AP Features
Ga. Working to Become Leader in Vaccines
6/26/2006: 310 words, approx. 1 pages
Georgia is positioning itself as a national leader in the development and production of vaccines, members of the Georgia Research Alliance said Friday. The alliance, a nonprofit group focusing on improving economic development through scientific discovery, hopes to capitalize on...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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The Perfect Storm
1,559 words, approx. 5 pages
[In the following review, Bailey asserts that Junger "man-ages with considerable reporting skill to conjure up [the crew's] last hours," but complains that "Not all of Junger's information is vital to his task."]
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The Perfect Storm
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[In the following review, Ellis lauds Junger's The Perfect Storm as "a wild ride that brilliantly captures the awesome power of the raging sea and the often futile attempts of humans to withstand it."]
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The Perfect Storm
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[In the following review, Lehmann-Haupt praises Junger for "nicely pac[ing] his narrative" in The Perfect Storm.]
 
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Essay Grade: 78%
The Perfect Storm
523 words, approx. 2 pages
The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger, is a novel about a massive hurricane that hits the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts on the morning of October 30th, 1991. It shows the comparison between the waves of the storm and shroud of the sea, the destruction the storm caused and collapse mentioned in Moby Dick, and the changing of the world because of the storm's effects and of the sea continuing on as it had in the past.


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The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

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