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Kangaroo Notebook (novel) SOURCE: Iwamoto, Yoshio. Review of Kangaroo Notebook, by Kōbō Abé. World Literature Today 71, no. 1 (winter 1997): 228. In the following review, Iwamoto offers a mixed assessment of Kangaroo Notebook. Kobo Abe's last novel before his dea... Study Pack: 1 Criticism About 3 pages (889 words) in 1 product

Kangaroo (novel) SOURCE: "Water, Ships, and the Sea: Unifying Symbols in Lawrence's 'Kangaroo'," in The University Review, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1 October, 1970, pp. 46-57. In the following essay, Samuels surveys the maritime symbolism of D. H. Lawrence's novel ... Study Pack: 1 Criticism About 24 pages (7,262 words) in 1 product

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Critical thinking by Creative Teaching Press   The process of critical thinking requires you to ask more questions of both others and of yourself before a decision or determination is made. In order to successfully evaluate data in a critical manner, you must have a system in place t... Study Pack: 3 Essays About 869 pages (260,568 words) in 3 products

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Kangchenjunga The peak of Mount Kangchenjunga as seen from Darjeeling, India. () Mount Kangchenjunga (also Kinchenjunga), in the eastern Himalayan range, is the third-highest mountain in the w... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 11 pages (3,146 words) in 1 product

Kangxi Emperor The Chinese emperor K'ang-hsi (1654-1722) was a man of enormous personal vitality and exceptional administrative and military ability. He was one of the greatest emperors of the Ch'ing period. Born on May 4, 1654, K'ang-hsi was the third s... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 22 pages (6,617 words) in 1 product

Kanishka Kushan ruler Kanishka (flourished ca. 78-ca. 103 A.D.) controlled an empire covering most of India, Iran, and central Asia in the first and second centuries. With his conversion to and official support of Mahayana Buddhism, the religion un... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 19 pages (5,647 words) in 2 products

Yoram Kaniuk (BookRags) Yoram Kaniuk has been praised at home and abroad as, in the words of American reviewer Joshua Henkin, "one of Israel's pre-eminent novelists" (The New York Times, 4 June 1989). Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv on 2 May 1930, one of a generation... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,135 words) in 1 product

Kanji Extending as far back as 219 BCE when alchemist Xu Fu is said to have come to Japan with a shipload of Chinese youth, the presence, through the nineteenth century, of the Chinese in Japan has been characterized by flows from different regi... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 23 pages (6,916 words) in 1 product

Kanno Suga (1881–1911), Japanese political activist. Kanno Suga was born in Osaka. Her mother died when she was ten, and her father remarried a woman who was the proverbial bad stepmother to Kanno. At fifteen, Kanno was raped. She became acqua... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (238 words) in 1 product

Kano Eitoku Kano Eitoku (1543-1590) was a Japanese painter of the Momoyama period. Working in the bold, colorful style typical of the decorative screen painting of the 16th century, he was the leading artist of his day and one of the most influential ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 2 pages (483 words) in 1 product

Kanpur (2001 est. pop. 2.5 million). A major industrial city on the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh State in northern India, Kanpur was called Cawnpore under British rule, from the ancient town Kanhpur ("city of the husband"), referri... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 16 pages (4,662 words) in 1 product

Kansai Kansai is a region in central Japan extending from the Sea of Japan to the Pacific Ocean. It includes the Kinki Region in Honshu (the prefectures of Kyoto, Osaka, Mie, Shiga, Hyogo, Nara, and Wakayama), and more broadly is extended to Fuku... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 2 pages (451 words) in 2 products

Kansas City (1996 film) SOURCE: "Robert Altman: After 35 Years, Still the 'Action Painter' of American Cinema," in Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1992, pp. 36-42. In the following essay, Tibbetts discusses Altman's relationship to Kansas City, the cour... Study Pack: 3 Criticisms About 28 pages (8,334 words) in 3 products

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Kansas-Nebraska Act   There were many interesting aspects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Although it may not have been the intent of the originator to create a worsening situation between the sectional groups of the time, it did just that. Senator Douglas... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 2 Essays About 10 pages (2,932 words) in 3 products

Kantō region (2001 est. pop. 40.1 million). Located in the east central part of Honshu in Japan, Kanto contains the prefectures of Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, Kanagawa, Gumma, Ibaraki, and Tochigi. It has an area of 32,421 square kilometers. It is referred ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,222 words) in 1 product

Nobumitsu Kojiro Kanze Kanze Kjir Nobumitsu is one of the most important n artists in the history of Japanese theater. He wrote and edited many n plays, a third of which are still performed. Besides performing, Nobumitsu was also an important figure in the Kanze... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,501 words) in 1 product

Kaohsiung (2002 est. pop. 1.5 million). Kaohsiung (in Pinyin, Gaoxiong) is Taiwan's second-largest city. It is situated on the southwest coast of the island. The city was founded during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and was under Dutch ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,498 words) in 1 product

Kaon The K meson, or by its more preferred name, the kaon, is one of the family of mesons ( a class of particles heavier than leptons but lighter than baryons). The k meson has zero spin, a nonzero strangeness quantum number, and a mass of appr... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 11 pages (3,172 words) in 1 product

Kapirowitz Plateau The Kapirowitz Plateau, a wildlife refuge on the northern rim of the Grand Canyon, has come to symbolize wildlife management gone awry, a classic case of misguided human intervention intended to help wildlife that ended up damaging the a... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (693 words) in 1 product

Kapitan Cina The Kapitan Cina (Chinese captains) were Chinese individuals appointed by local native chiefs and colonial authorities in Asia to mediate with the heterogeneous migrant Chinese populace in their provinces and colonies. The honorific title ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (429 words) in 1 product

Kaplan turbine The term hydropower often suggests giant dams capable of transmitting tens of thousands of cubic feet of water per minute. Such dams are responsible for only about six percent of all the electricity produced in the United States today. H... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,303 words) in 1 product

Johanna Kaplan In her fiction Johanna Kaplan explores the Jewish experience in America, especially as it has been lived in New York City. Her concern is with the fully integrated, Americanized generation that grew up in the 1940s and 1950s. Jewishness an... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 6 pages (1,761 words) in 1 product

Jaan Kaplinski (BookRags) Jaan Kaplinski is one of the leading poets and essayists in contemporary Estonian literature; his works have gained recognition abroad and have been translated into several languages. Kaplinski belongs to the generation that entered the li... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 14 pages (4,264 words) in 1 product

Vasilii Vasil'evich Kapnist Vasilii Vasil'evich Kapnist achieved fame with a single masterpiece, the satiric five-act verse comedy Iabeda (Chicanery, 1798). A work of adroit rhymes and ingenious stagecraft, Iabeda continuously attracted audiences into the 1850s, when... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 11 pages (3,414 words) in 1 product

Kaposi's sarcoma   Kaposi's sarcoma (KS; pronounced kuh-PO-seez sar-KO-muh) is a very rare form of cancer (see cancer entry). The word "sarcom" refers to any form of cancer that affects muscle, bone, liver, kidneys, lungs, spleen, bladd... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 17 pages (5,021 words) in 2 products

Kara Dalkey Kara Dalkey's intricate fantasy fiction novels have attracted a devoted readership due to their blend of intriguing characters, otherworldly elements, and genuine period detail. Hailed by critics as a consummate storyteller, Dalkey weaves ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 9 pages (2,663 words) in 1 product

Karachi (1998 pop. 9 million). Before 1725 CE, Karachi, the capital of Pakistan's Sindh Province, was just a desolate geographic region, with the waters of the Arabian Sea lapping over it on three sides. It now boasts a population of over 9... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 27 pages (8,064 words) in 1 product

Karaite Judaism KARAITES. The Karaites (Heb., Qaraʾim; Arab., Qarāʾīyūn) are a Jewish sect that recognizes the Hebrew Bible as the sole source of divinely inspired legislation, and denies the authority of the postbiblica... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 30 pages (8,910 words) in 1 product

Karakalpaks The Karakalpaks (or Qaraqalpaq) are an ethnic group living mainly in the Republic of Karakalpakstan, which occupies the northwestern part of Uzbekistan, bordering Kazakhstan in the north and Turkmenistan in the southwest. There are approxi... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 8 pages (2,383 words) in 1 product

Karakalpakstan—Profile (2002 est. pop. 1.6 million). Karakalpakstan, officially the Republic of Karakalpakstan (Qoraqalpokiston Respiblikasy in Karakalpak, Karakalpakia in Russian), is an autonomous republic within the Republic of Uzbekistan in central Asia. It ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 9 pages (2,784 words) in 1 product

Karakoram The Karakoram Mountains extend 500 kilometers (310 miles) from India's Ladakh Himalaya, northwest through Pakistan to the Afghan Hindu Kush. The icy summits separate South Asia's Pakistan and part of India to the southwest fr... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,514 words) in 1 product

Karakoram Highway The Karakoram Highway, known to the Chinese as the Friendship Highway, is an engineering masterpiece. It is a stretch of highway that was built in the north of Pakistan, where some of the mountains extend to altitudes of seven to eight tho... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,629 words) in 1 product

Karakorum Karakorum (also known as Kharakhorin), located in Ovorhangai, Mongolia, on the Orhon River, was the thirteenth-century imperial capital of the successors of Genghis (or Chinggis) Khan. At its height, the city was a busy metropolis served b... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,904 words) in 1 product

Karakul (sheep) Karakul sheep, also known as Russian, Astrakhan, or Bukhara sheep, are mediumsized, fat-tailed, and one of the earliest domesticated sheep breeds of Central or West Asian origin. They are raised mainly for the lustrous black, curly pelt of... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (725 words) in 1 product

Karakum Desert The V. I. Lenin Kara-Kum Canal, which diverts about 40 percent of the waters of the Amu Dar'ya across the Kara-Kum Desert to southern Turkmenistan, flows for almost 800 kilometers and in 1973 irrigated 440,000 hectares of land mostl... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 4 pages (1,106 words) in 2 products

Karaoke   From its humble beginnings in a small town restaurant in Kobe, Japan, Karaoke has grown and is now recognised and enjoyed on a global scale. Considered by many as Japan's most insidious export since Godzilla, karaoke blossomed into a glob... Study Pack: 1 Summary, 1 Essay About 14 pages (4,326 words) in 2 products

Einar Kárason Einar Kárason is a prolific novelist whose works have been translated into Scandinavian languages, German, and English. He has worked in different genres, writing short stories, children's books, and three screenplays in collaborati... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 9 pages (2,783 words) in 1 product

Karate Karate is a modern Japanese martial art that developed in the early twentieth century and is based on traditional Okinawan unarmed combat techniques. Karate involves the use of punching, striking, kicking, and blocking to ward off an oppon... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 18 pages (5,405 words) in 1 product

Karbala KARBALA, a city located sixty-five miles southwest of Baghdad, constitutes the pivot of devotion for more than a hundred million Shīʿī Muslims. Although the estimated population of this palm-grove-laden city is approxi... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 9 pages (2,833 words) in 2 products

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul Jabbar (born 1947), formerly Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr. was one of the greatest basketball players to play the game at the high school, college, and professional ranks. Kareem Abdul Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor,... Study Pack: 1 Biography, 1 Summary About 30 pages (8,926 words) in 2 products

Kareev, Nikolai Ivanovich (1850–1931) Kareev, Nikolai Ivanovich(1850 stvo Leningradskogo universiteta, 1988.... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (0 words) in 1 product

Karel Čapek   Karel Capek is regarded as the most important Czech writer before World War II. He worked in many capacities: he was a man of the theater, a translator, a journalist, an essayist, a fiction writer, and an organizer of cultural activities. ... Study Pack: 3 Biographies, 12 Criticisms About 209 pages (62,588 words) in 15 products

Karen Blixen   Isak Dinesen was the pseudonym used by the Danish author Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962). Her stories place her among Denmark's greatest authors. Isak Dinesen was born on April 17, 1885, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, advent... Study Pack: 2 Biographies, 1 Summary, 37 Criticisms About 651 pages (195,244 words) in 40 products