All That Glitters Is Not Gold
All That Glitters Is Not Gold

Author: Marcel Marshall

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 0805973575

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Set amid the natural beauty of the Caribbean island of Antigua, this creative novel details Te'Kare's struggles with her own weaknesses and the question of what she wants in life. Despite numerous lessons, Te' has a difficult time learning to balance her dreams with the truth of the adage that all that glitters is not gold. Her naivete leaves her susceptible to the wiles of a cunning and malicious scheme that threatens her very future as well as that of her longtime boyfriend, D'mitri Stanford.

All That Glisters Is Not Gold
All That Glisters Is Not Gold

Author: Stephen W. King

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2020-02-06

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1525559990

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After the death of his beloved grandfather, Lucas Bitterman discovers he and his family have inherited a priceless collection of twenty-dollar gold pieces minted in the early twentieth century. The will also stipulated that Luke is the sole protector of the collection’s crowning piece: a 1933 Saint-Gaudens Double Eagle, one of only a handful known to exist. With the help of a numismatist trusted by his grandfather, Luke learns that not only is the coin worth millions of dollars, it is also viewed as stolen by the federal government. It is illegal to own, impossible to publicly sell, and highly desired by both wealthy collectors and common street thugs. Fearing for the safety of his family, Luke is thrown into a dilemma. How can he deal with this problematic inheritance?

Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students
Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students

Author: Leung Che Miriam Lau

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-23

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 9811005826

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This is a teacher’s resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes. It includes forty innovative lesson plans with ready-to-use worksheets, hands-on games and student-oriented activities that help EFL learners achieve higher levels of English proficiency and cultural sensitivity. By introducing the plots, characters, and language arts employed in Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, the book conveys English grammatical rules and aspects like a walk in the garden; complicated rhetorical features such as stress, meter, rhyme, homonymy, irony, simile, metaphor, euphemism, parallelism, unusual word order, etc. are taught through meaning-driven games and exercises. Besides developing EFL learners’ English language skills, it also includes practical extended tasks that enhance higher-order thinking skills, encouraging reflection on the central themes in Shakespeare’s plays.

A Brief Journey in Discrete Mathematics
A Brief Journey in Discrete Mathematics

Author: Randolph Nelson

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-11

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 3030378616

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The goal of this book is to showcase the beauty of mathematics as revealed in nine topics of discrete mathematics. In each chapter, properties are explored through a series of straightforward questions that terminate with results that lie at the doorstep of a field of study. Each step along the way is elementary and requires only algebraic manipulation. This frames the wonder of mathematics and highlights the complex world that lies behind a series of simple, mathematical, deductions. Topics addressed include combinatorics, unifying properties of symmetric functions, the Golden ratio as it leads to k-bonacci numbers, non-intuitive and surprising results found in a simple coin tossing game, the playful, trick question aspect of modular systems, exploration of basic properties of prime numbers and derivations of bewildering results that arise from approximating irrational numbers as continued fraction expansions. The Appendix contains the basic tools of mathematics that are used in the text along with a numerous list of identities that are derived in the body of the book. The mathematics in the book is derived from first principles. On only one occasion does it rely on a result not derived within the text. Since the book does not require calculus or advanced techniques, it should be accessible to advanced high school students and undergraduates in math or computer science. Senior mathematicians might be unfamiliar with some of the topics addressed in its pages or find interest in the book's unified approach to discrete math.

Tolkien and Shakespeare
Tolkien and Shakespeare

Author: Janet Brennan Croft

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2007-04-05

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0786428279

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Tolkien and Shakespeare: one a prolific popular dramatist and poet of the Elizabethan era, the other a twentieth-century scholar of Old English and author of a considerably smaller body of work. Though unquestionably very different writers, the two have more in common than one might expect. These essays focus on the broad themes and motifs which concerned both authors. They seek to uncover Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien through echoes of the playwright's themes and even word choices, discovering how Tolkien used, revised, updated, "corrected," and otherwise held an ongoing dialogue with Shakespeare's works. The depiction of Elves and the world of Faerie, and how humans interact with them, are some of the most obvious points of comparison and difference for the two writers. Both Tolkien and Shakespeare deeply explored the uses and abuses of power with princes, politics, war, and the lessons of history. Magic and prophecy were also of great concern to both authors, and the works of both are full of encounters with the Other: masks and disguises, mirrors that hide and reveal, or seeing stones that show only part of the truth.

The Bard and the Bible
The Bard and the Bible

Author: Bob Hostetler

Publisher: Worthy Inspired

Published: 2016-08-09

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 1617958425

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365 Devotions pairing Scripture from the King James Bible and lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Includes little known history, curiosities, and facts about words introduced or used in new ways by Shakespeare.

Catholic Bible Dictionary
Catholic Bible Dictionary

Author: Scott Hahn

Publisher: Image

Published: 2009-06-16

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13: 0385530080

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More than a generation has passed since the appearance of the last major Catholic Bible dictionary. It has been a fertile generation for biblical scholarship, an eventful time for biblical archaeology, and a fruitful time for the Church’s interpretation of the Bible. It is time for a new resource. Scott Hahn, internationally renowned theologian and biblical scholar, has inspired millions with his insight into the Catholic faith. Now he brings us this important reference guide, written specifically for Catholics, which contains more than five thousand clear and accessible entries and covers a wide range of people, places, and topics. From Genesis to Revelation, the whole of salvation history is presented and explained in smart, easy-to-understand prose. Catholic Bible Dictionary is an invaluable source of information, insight, and guidance for Catholics and others who are interested in enriching their understanding of Sacred Scripture. Scott Hahn draws from two millennia of scholarship to create an accessible and comprehensive tool for deeper and more rewarding biblical study.

Tolkien's Poetry
Tolkien's Poetry

Author: Julian Tim Morton Eilmann

Publisher:

Published: 2013-03

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9783905703283

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Includes ten papers that deal with specific aspects of Tolkien's poetry.