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Sunlight on the Grass: A Student Guide to the AQA GCSE Short Story Anthology
David Wheeler; Natalie Twigg
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2013
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'Sunlight on the Grass': Model Answers to the AQA Short Story Anthology
David Wheeler; Natalie Twigg
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2013
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Where the Grass is Greener: My First Lesbian Experience
Jennifer Jagger
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2013
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I Walk on the Grass: Things It Took Me 50 Years to Learn
Dierdre' R. Parker
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2013
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Leaves of Grass: American poetry collections
Walt Whitman
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2014
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Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades-the first a small book of twelve poems and the last a compilation of over 400 poems. The poems of Leaves of Grass are loosely connected and each represents Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass (particularly the first edition) exalted the body and the material world. Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it. However, much like Emerson, Whitman does not diminish the role of the mind or the spirit; rather, he elevates the human form and the human mind, deeming both worthy of poetic praise. With one exception, the poems do not rhyme or follow standard rules for meter and line length. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself", "I Sing the Body Electric", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking". Later editions included Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd". In popular culture Leaves of Grass plays a prominent role in the AMC TV series Breaking Bad. For example, episode 5.8 - titled "Gliding Over All" after poem 271 in the book - pulls together many of the series' references to Leaves of Grass, including the fact, noted in episode 4.4, "Bullet Points" and made more salient in "Gliding Over All", that the main character, Walter White, shares Walt Whitman's initials. Numerous reviewers have analyzed and discussed the various connections among Walt Whitman/Leaves of Grass/"Gliding Over All", the character Walter White, and the show Breaking Bad. Leaves of Grass plays a major role in the John Green novel Paper Towns. The 1989 film Dead Poets Society makes repeated references to the poem O Captain My Captain from Leaves of Grass, along with other references to Whitman himself.
Set in 1950s North Carolina, Anna Jean Mayhew's instant classic coming of age novel is a heartwarming, vividly transporting depiction of Southern life in the throes of segregation, what it will mean for a young girl on her way to adulthood--and for the woman who means the world to her... **Includes an updated discussion guide and new letter to readers from Anna Jean Mayhew On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her mother, and the family's black maid, Mary Luther. For as long as Jubie can remember, Mary has been there--cooking, cleaning, compensating for her father's rages and her mother's benign neglect, and loving Jubie unconditionally. Bright and curious, Jubie takes note of the anti-integration signs they pass, and of the racial tension that builds as they journey further south. But she could never have predicted the shocking turn their trip will take. Now, in the wake of tragedy, Jubie must confront her parents' failings and limitations, decide where her own convictions lie, and make the tumultuous leap to independence . . . Infused with the intensity of a changing time, here is a story of hope, heartbreak, and the love and courage that can transform us--from child to adult, from wounded to indomitable.
Deception: The grass isn't always greener on the other side
C. Bailey-Lloyd
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2014
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Apple in the Grass: and twelve short stories
Allen Dark
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2014
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This novella, Apple in the Grass, and collection of twelve short stories provide a variety of philosophical, amusing and serious tales in which path-finding people at various stages of life venture beyond their familiar spheres and pursue new adventures, ambitions and lifestyles. Their experiences are often thought-evoking and range from laughable to disastrous. The stories take place during a time period beginning early in the Vietnam War era and extending through the early twenty-first century. While exercising personal freedom, and living with the eternal problem of balancing freedom with risks and order, our people meet and interact with people from other spheres of life, often people with controversial views, and stumble into places where they encounter the dark sides of industrialism, unregulated capitalism, military power, human adaptation, lifestyle destruction, and the unsustainable nature of most modern grades of civilization. Several of the stories drill into sophisticated problems with humorous dialog. Excerpts from several of the stories provide a sample of the flavor of this book: ..."How did you learn about the boat?" "An Okinawan that works at the fish market where I shop told me about it." "Sounds like a good source to me. A man that knows a lot about fish must know a lot about boats." Boat from Naha ....Deep in their hearts, most of the regulars believed that civilization could be blamed on women...Left on their own, men would naturally choose to be nomads, hunt and eat what they kill, cook over campfires, sleep in makeshift dens in the woods, bathe when they accidentally fall into water, and in the end they would starve to death in squalor if not clubbed to death sooner. That is the way it would be if not for women. Turkey Shoot ...Young people are especially vulnerable to popular ambitions in their society. That's because ideas are contagious and infectious like a virus, and the younger a person, the weaker is the immune system for rejecting ideas and the more prone is the person to infection. It probably has to do with limited exposure to bad ideas and the young person hasn't developed a mature immune system that's resistant to all new ideas. Apple in the Grass ...Leon said..."We shouldn't oversimplify and think in terms of civilized or not civilized. There are grades of civilization. I would define a high grade civilization as a sustainable one where man is not the greatest source of danger to man. In my opinion, man has never achieved a high grade civilization"...Apple in the Grass "I think perhaps there is a strong centripetal force that's behind the concentration and accumulation of so much wealth and so many people in this city," Trip said, "and that force comes from a vortex created by unregulated capitalism." Apple in the Grass ..."I hope the city buys that Johnson farm," Frank said. "Yeah, me too," Bob said. "That's good ground out there. Deep sand and level. It'll make a good cemetery." "Lot's of new space to dig in. I heard it's over a thousand acres"..."It'll fill up in no time the way things are going." Long Days Iron Oak was a small Texas town northeast of Austin. Fifty miles from the outward creeping edge of the growing metropolitan area, it was not in danger of being swallowed anytime soon...Tom and Eva moved to Iron Oak from the west side of Houston where they had lived in a very large house. They moved soon after they gave away five hundred million dollars...Life in Iron Oak
In this Americana romance from the New York Times–bestselling author, a single mother returns to her Maryland hometown, and a lost love. Valerie Wentworth, a young woman from Maryland farm country, paid for her mistakes. Her grandfather saw to it. Her only real family, he disowned her after a fling with wealthy and cavalier horse-breeder Judd Prescott left her pregnant and alone. Afraid to tell Judd the truth, Valerie had nowhere to turn but the first road out of town. Seven years later, she’s come home for her grandfather’s funeral with her six-year-old son. One look at Judd, and she’s swept away by bittersweet memories. Yet he’s not the only reason she’s spending the summer in Maryland. It’ll give her son a chance to enjoy the rich green countryside, and ride the thoroughbreds on Judd’s farm. Still, Valerie can’t help wondering if she should share the secret of their child with the one man who could break her heart all over again.
