The Bodley Head Essays

  • Privacy Concerns in Information Computer Technology

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    Information Computer Technology has already played an important role in people’s daily lives. It is widely used in information gathering, communication and mutual operation. Modern people have been benefited from more efficient information flow, less cost and faster communication. However, every coin has both sides. ICT also has brought people’s lives some concerning issues at the same time along with advantages. One of the concerning issues is the personal privacy. In internet age, privacy, as

  • African American Mammies

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    These mammies often has their heads covered or wrapped, over religious, irrational, has greasy faces and has an oversized bodley figure such as giant breast. The first mammie to appear in front of an audience was in the 1914 short film, entitled Coon Town Suffragettes a blackface version of “Lysistrata”. That opened the door for

  • gatdream F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - Dreaming the Impossible Dream Great Gatsby Essays

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    123).   REFERENCES Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1970. Meyers, Jeffrey. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography. New York: Harper Collins Publishers,             1994. Priestly, J.B.. The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald. London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1958.

  • Women in Uruk and Greece: Wives, Noble, Whores, or Evil?

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    the mother. There is the wise and caring mother, Ninsun. Then there is the evil, Medea herself. Works Cited Mitchell, Stepehn, trans. Gilgamesh a new English version. New York: Free, 2004. Print. Euripides. Medea. Trans. Rex Warner. London: Bodley Head Limited, 1944. Print.

  • The Good Solider Essay

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    In the expansive list of Modernist literature there are many well-known works that have become much loved works in society. “The Good Solider” by Ford Madox Ford being one of these most notable works. First published in 1915 by The Bodley Head, “The Good Solider” is a pre-war period work and considered a pre-modernist novel, being written shortly before the period of high modernism that took place after the First World War, making one of the first radical and deliberate breaks from traditional Victorian

  • The Outsiders

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    The Outsiders INTRODUCTION: "The Outsiders" by S. E Hinton is an early novel based on two waring juvenile gangs, divided by economical and social background, the lower East side Greasers and the upper West side Socs. The novel is set in 1966 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is a novel written in first person by a 14 year old Greaser, Ponyboy Curtis who allows us an insight into the lifestyles of these distinct worlds. I chose the novel "The Outsiders" as a text for year 10 for the following reasons: It

  • Wolfenden Report

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    Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. London: Quartet, 1990. Print. Wildeblood, Peter. Against the Law. New York: J. Messner, 1959. Print. Wolfenden, John. Turning Points: The Memoirs of Lord Wolfenden. London: Bodley Head, 1976. 141-42. Print.

  • The Hacker Subculture

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    presented using prose. You can help by converting this section to prose, if appropriate. Editing help is available. (August 2008) Hacker magazines Main category: Hacker magazines The security h... ... middle of paper ... .... The Bodley Head Ltd. ISBN 0-370-31433-6. * Code Hacking: A Developer's Guide to Network Security by Richard Conway, Julian Cordingley * Kevin Beaver. Hacking For Dummies. * Katie Hafner & John Markoff (1991). Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier

  • Comparing the Women in Fifth Business and The Great Gatsby

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    realization about themselves. "She lived by a light that arose from within; I could not comprehend it." Fifth Business(pg. 52) Bibliography Davies, Robertson. Fifth Business Penguin Book 1996 Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby The Bodley Head 1975 *Note: Jung Theories and themes taken from class notes

  • Effects of War Exposed in All Quite on the Western Front, Bury the Dead, and Paths of Glory

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    Works Cited: Cobb, Humphrey. Paths of Glory, a Novel, Viking Press, New York 1935, new edition, Dell 1957, William Heinemann Ltd, London. Hynes, Samuel. A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture, London: Bodley Head, 1991. Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984. Shaw, Irwin. Bury the Dead. New Theatre & Film, 1934-1937. Ed. Herbert Kline. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanich, c1985. Stephen

  • Drugs, Cheating, and the Purity of America's Pastime

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    eliminating bonuses has the potential to significantly reduce the amount of users in the league. It is then, and only then that we can be prepared to fully eliminate the steroid problem as we know it today, remove the cloud of doubt over everyone’s heads, and return the game of baseball to the past glorification that it once knew, as the true American pastime.

  • The Role of Keyboard Instruments in Three Romantic Symphonies

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    The Role of Keyboard Instruments in Three Romantic Symphonies A discussion on the role of keyboard instruments in three Romantic symphonies: Neils Gade’s Symphony No. 5 in D Minor Op. 25 (1852), Camille Saint-Saëns’s Symphony no. 3, ‘Organ’ in C minor Op. 78 (1886) and Vincent d’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Air (Symphonie Cevenole) op. 25 (1886) The keyboard instruments have been largely associated with solo repertoire since its genesis. While rarely used in the orchestra, a keyboard

  • Rafael Trujillo: Dictator of the Dominican Republic

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    Caribbean dictator. New York: Macmillan.1966. Derby Lauren, The Dictator's Seduction: Gender and State Spectacle during the Trujillo Regime, Callaloo 23.3. Summer 2000, pp. 1112-1146. Diederich Bernard. Trujillo: Death of the Goat. London: The Bodley Head Ltd 1978.

  • Prostitution in Pompeii

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    Prostitution, as stated by Flemming, is known as a form of sexual activity, a kind of sexual style or category, and a form of economic activity, a way of making a living through the provisions of certain services, by behaving in accordance with, or falling into such a category (39). This definition, though, is controversial. While conducting research for this project, we found that most topics regarding prostitution and its affiliates were controversial. Each author gave a differing interpretation

  • Agatha Christie

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    Agatha Christie is one of the most popular female writers of all time. She has written over ninety-six novels. She has written several plays, and seventeen of her novels have been made into major theatre productions; and even following the theatre productions they were then made into motion pictures. Christie is known widely as the “Queen of Crime”. Her work is very familiar to most literary scholars due to their complexity and the mystery of the book; it keeps you guessing the entire book up until

  • The Concept of the Messiah within Judasim and the Development of the Messanic Tradition Within Christianity

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    Alan, (1958), an Introduction to the Theology of the New Testament. SCM press Ltd, London. Sanders, E, P, (1985), Jesus and Judaism, First Fortress press edition, USA. Savage, K, (1966), The History of world religions. A people of one God: The Bodley Head Ltd, New York Solomon, Norman, (1996), Judaism a very short introduction, Oxford University press, Oxford Silver, Abba, (1959), History of the Messianic speculation, The Macmillan Company, New York Telushkin, Joseph, (1996) Jewish literacy, William

  • The Metamorphosis of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front

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    The Metamorphosis of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque's protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More importantly, during the course of this metamorphosis, Baumer disaffiliates himself from those societal icons-parents

  • Environmental Degradation in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger

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    Introduction Aravind Adiga in his debut novel The White Tiger, which won the Britain’s esteemed Booker Prize in 2008, highlights the suffering of a subaltern protagonist in the twenty first century known as materialism era. Through his subaltern protagonist Balram Halwai, he highlights the suffering of lower class people. This novel creates two different India in one “an India of Light and an India of Darkness” (Adiga, p. 14). The first one represents the prosperous India where everyone is able to

  • Miles Davis And The Development Of Improvisation In Jazz Music

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    Abstract This essay is a discussion of how the way jazz trumpeter Miles Davis changes his way of improvising, looking at two pieces from different times. The solos in the pieces were transcribed by myself and then analysed in detail. From these analyses, several conclusions on the style of improvising were drawn, and then the conclusions from the two pieces were compared. The piece ‘New Rhumba’, showed how Davis was using his technical ability to create an impressive solo, but was also leaning towards

  • To Sir with Love: discourses, positions and relationships

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    Research Paper Identify and discuss professional issues in education evident in a film or a piece of young people’s literature in which a teacher plays a fairly cental role. This essay will critically analyse the discourses, positions and relationships, as well as certain individuals habitus’ (after Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1992, cited in Gale & Densmore, 2000), which influence the classroom of Mark Thackeray (Sidney Potier) in the film To Sir with Love (Clavell, 1966). Via this analysis, I argue