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A Pair of Silk Stockings In the short story, A Pair of Silk Stockings, Kate Chopin introduces us to Mrs. Sommers, a thrifty and unselfish mother who knows the value of bargains. However, by the end of the story, having been subdued by the intensity of materialism d... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 2 pages (446 words) in 1 product

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Fiction by Evan-Moor Publishing The novel has long been considered a literary form existing apart from religion, even if religion as social and moral fact may enter into the lives of its characters from time to time. The belief that the novel, our term for a lengthy work... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1,484 pages (445,132 words) in 1 product

Paiute The Paiute (PY-yoot) tribe is actually many different bands distributed across a large part of the western United States. Paiute means "true Ute" or "water Ute." The Paiutes call themselves Numu, meaning ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 29 pages (8,811 words) in 1 product

Pak Kyung-Ri (b. 1926), Korean novelist. Pak Kyung-ri was born in the coastal city of Ch'ungmu in South Kyungsang Province. She started her career as a writer in the mid-1950s, with the publication of such short stories as "Kyesan"... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (231 words) in 1 product

Pakalitha Mosisili Pakalitha MosisiliPrime Minister (pronounced "PAK-a-leeth-a mo-see-SEE-lee") "Peace and stability are essential preconditions to economic development … Our geographical position within South Africa eliminat... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 11 pages (3,235 words) in 1 product

Pakistan   Pakistan is 310,403 square miles (803,944square kilometers) and is located in South Asia. In the east, Pakistan is bordered by India, to the west it is bordered by Afghanistan and also to the north. Iran is bordered on the southwest and t... Study Pack: 6 Summaries, 1 Essay About 166 pages (49,782 words) in 7 products

Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) was founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (1928–1979), former foreign and prime minister and first PPP chairman, in December 1967 to launch a political movement that successfully led to the resignat... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (464 words) in 1 product

Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson Study Pack: 1 Study Guide About 180 pages (54,130 words) in 1 product

Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh What makes Iqbal a conspicuous character in the book? Is it his knowledge about various cultures and manners? Is it his motivation to help others? Or is it the fact that he comes from a foreign country? Iqbal inherits all these unique chara... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Essay About 169 pages (50,603 words) in 2 products

Pakistan-administered Kashmir ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN SOLVING KASHMIR ISSUE One often wonders about a topic like when was the first man born? When was the first word spoken and since when have human beings been living into communities. These and other si... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 7 pages (2,107 words) in 1 product

Pakistani American Pakistan received its independence from British India in 1947. It was created on the basis of religious identity, so that Muslims from British India, which had an overwhelming majority of followers of the Hindu religion, would have a nati... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 38 pages (11,468 words) in 1 product

Pakxe Located in southern Laos, the Bolovens Plateau is a fertile plain that has historically served as a strategic site in civil and regional warfare. It is located between the Mekong River and the Annamese Cordillera foothills. The basaltic pl... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (626 words) in 1 product

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Reading by Creative Teaching Press   Numerous amounts of students label themselves as readers. Some may be classified under the category reluctant and underachieving readers while others go the extra mile and categorize themselves as avid and eager readers. As an individua... Study Pack: 4 Summaries, 2 Essays About 22,958 pages (6,887,318 words) in 6 products

The Palace Beautiful Study Pack: 1 eBook About 286 pages (85,895 words) in 1 product

The Palace of Darkened Windows Study Pack: 1 eBook About 242 pages (72,511 words) in 1 product

Palace of Versailles Louis XIV, France's Sun King, demanded a palace symbolic of his power and authority, a place that would awe the nobility of Europe. He turned to noted French architects Louis Le Vau (1612-1670) and Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 46 pages (13,827 words) in 1 product

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz SOURCE: “Mahfouz: A Great Novel and a Wanting Translation,” in Third World Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1992, pp. 187–89. In the following review, El-Enany discusses the various translation problems in Palace Walk. Naguib Mahfouz became... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies, 2 Criticisms About 240 pages (71,881 words) in 5 products

Palaces and Courts of the Exposition Study Pack: 1 eBook About 64 pages (19,260 words) in 1 product

Palamon and Arcite by John Dryden Study Pack: 5 Biographies, 1 eBook About 297 pages (89,229 words) in 6 products

Palate The palate is essentially the roof of the mouth. The front portion of the palate is constructed of bone (specifically two bones called the maxilla and the palatine) covered with a mucous membrane. Together these form the hard palate. The h... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 2 pages (732 words) in 1 product

Palau Republic of Palau Belau CAPITAL: Koror, Koror Island FLAG: The flag, adopted 1 January 1981, is light blue, with a yellow disc set slightly off center toward the hoist. ANTHEM: Belau er Kid. MONETARY UNIT: The US dollar is the official med... Study Pack: 2 Summaries About 33 pages (9,927 words) in 2 products

Aldo Palazzeschi Aldo Palazzeschi (nom de plume of Aldo Giurlani) began his literary career in search of a new mode of literary expression. Two literary/art movements,crepuscolarismo (twilight poetry) and futurismo, provided the tolerant atmosphere necessa... Study Pack: 2 Biographies About 51 pages (15,313 words) in 2 products

Pale Blue Dot SOURCE: A review of Pale Blue Dot, in Sky & Telescope, Vol. 89, No. 6, June. 1995. pp. 54-5. In the following review, Clarke offers praise for Pale Blue Dot, but objects to Sagan's reference to Wernher von Braun as a "Nazi-American." An hon... Study Pack: 3 Criticisms About 13 pages (4,010 words) in 3 products

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov The structure of Pale Fire provides its meaning and delight…. [Most critics] have used it as a way of unraveling the "plot"—what happens among the three principal characters, John Shade, Charles Kinbote, and Jakob Gradus—and, therefor... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 6 Biographies, 3 Criticisms About 398 pages (119,410 words) in 10 products

Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter SOURCE: "The Dreams Self in 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider,'" in Wascana Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Fall, 1979, pp. 61-79. In the following essay, Walsh explores the significance of Miranda's dreams in "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," noting allusions to fe... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 1 Criticism About 148 pages (44,362 words) in 2 products

Pale Rider Pale Rider is a virtual remake of the classic western Shane. The plot line follows a very similar format. A stranger rides into town and conflict forces him to act. In the movie Shane, the characters are typically good or bad. Shane is a c... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 7 pages (2,181 words) in 1 product

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro [A Pale View of Hills depicts the] present-day troubles and dark memories of Etsuko, a Nagasaki woman now living alone in England—in a strongly moody but ineffectually structured first novel. Etsuko is now alone, divorced; one daughter, K... Study Pack: 1 Study Guide, 2 Biographies, 8 Criticisms About 75 pages (22,505 words) in 11 products

The Paleface (1922 film) In one of his earlier comedies, "The Paleface," Buster Keaton captured a quality of wistfulness that marked him as one apart from the ordinary run of movie gag-grabbers. It is this same quality that has made Chaplin great. Keaton returns to... Study Pack: 1 Criticism About 3 pages (880 words) in 1 product

Marina Anatol'evna Palei Marina Palei emerged as an important prose writer during the years of perestroika, from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. A person of many talents, she writes prose, poetry, and criticism, as well as translates poetry from Dutch, Italian, ... Study Pack: 1 Biography About 12 pages (3,496 words) in 1 product

Paleoanthropology Central Asia, covering the territories of present-day Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, was home to numerous prehistoric cultures. Their development was characterized by three main stages: a food collection ... Study Pack: 4 Summaries About 39 pages (11,735 words) in 4 products

Paleobotany Paleobotany is the study of plants that lived in prehistoric times. It largely involves the study of fossils, that is, impressions of plant parts that have been preserved in sedimentary rock or coal. The most ancient plant fossils are of m... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 7 pages (1,948 words) in 1 product

Paleocene In geologic time, the Paleocene Epoch occurs during the Tertiary Period (also sometimes divided or referred to in terms of a Paleogene Period and a Neogene Period instead of a Tertiary Period) of the Cenozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon. Th... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 7 pages (2,153 words) in 1 product

Paleoclimatology Paleoclimate is the variation of the climate in past geologic times, prior to instrumental measurements. Paleoclimate is expressed by its parameters—paleotemperature, precipitation in the past, circulation, sea surface temperature (... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 14 pages (4,252 words) in 1 product

Paleoecology Paleoecology, the scientific study of ancient environments and the interrelationships of their plants and animals, and paleolimnology, the scientific study of evidence of ancient inland waterways, including lakes, ponds, freshwater marsh... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,740 words) in 1 product

Paleogeology A landscape is the cumulative product of interaction among dynamic geological processes over time. A region's topography and suite of characteristic landforms are, thus, clues to its geologic history. For example, the landscape of r... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 1 pages (358 words) in 1 product

Paleolithic PALEOLITHIC RELIGION. The term Paleolithic was coined more than a hundred years ago to distinguish the simple stone tools discovered in deep gravel pits or caves of the diluvial (or antediluvian) period from the polished stone tools of a l... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 29 pages (8,797 words) in 1 product

Paleomagnetism The first ever treatise on experimental science by thirteenth century scholar Petrus Peregrinus of Marincourt dealt with magnetism ("Epistola de Magnete"). However, direct observations of the geomagnetic field were not record... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 6 pages (1,662 words) in 1 product

Paleontology   Paleontologists study the history of life on Earth as shown in the fossil record. Fossils are the traces of organisms that lived in the past and are preserved in Earth's crust. Paleontology involves the identification and naming of ... Study Pack: 3 Summaries About 13 pages (3,796 words) in 3 products

Paleopathology Paleopathology is the study of the evidence of trauma, disease, and congenital defects in human remains. Archaeologists, geneticists, and physical-anthropologists, conduct paleopathology studies in order to evaluate the effects of disease ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 5 pages (1,504 words) in 1 product

Paleozoic In geologic time, the Paleozoic Era, the first era in the Phanerozoic Eon, covers the time between roughly 544 million years ago (mya) and until 245 mya. The Paleozoic Era spans six geologic time periods including the Cambrian Period (544 ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 4 pages (1,333 words) in 1 product

Palestine   YEHOSHUʿA BEN ḤANANYAH (first and second centuries CE), Palestinian tanna who taught in Jerusalem and later at Yavneh and Peqiʿin. Legend has it that when he was a child his mother carried him to the study hall so that... Study Pack: 2 Summaries, 1 Viewpoint About 128 pages (38,442 words) in 3 products

Palestine Liberation Organization How successful was the PLO in achieving its objectives towards Israel between 1967 and 1987? Since the end of the British mandate over Palestine in 1948, the Palestinian population who were forced to "flee" have required a certain body of ... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 33 pages (9,935 words) in 1 product

Palestine or the Holy Land Study Pack: 1 eBook About 358 pages (107,501 words) in 1 product

Palestinian nationalism Throughout the 20th century, Palestine consisted of a scattered group of people who shared a common purpose. Israeli forces suppressed Palestinians and gained control of Palestine's lost homeland. Palestinians were mostly Muslims and resent... Study Pack: 1 Essay About 9 pages (2,736 words) in 1 product

Palágyi, Menyhert (1859–1924) PalÁgyi, Menyhert(1859–1924) Menyhert (or Melchior) Palágyi, a scientist, literary critic, and philosopher, was born in Paks in west central Hungary. He studied science at Budapest, but his main activity there was as a ... Study Pack: 1 Summary About 0 pages (0 words) in 1 product