The wild and undisciplined child depicted as Prince Hal in the two-part Henry IV grows to become a courageous and deft leader. Based on the life of its title monarch, Henry V chronicles the events surrounding the battle of Agincourt in 1415, part of the Hundred Years' War. In the centerpiece of the play, the Saint Crispin's Day speech, Henry praises the English forces with the well-known words: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."
Contents: Horizons in Post-Colonial Studies; Introduction; Placing Edward Said: Space Time and the Travelling Theorist; Nothing in the Post? -- Said and the Problem of Post-Colonial Intellectuals; Edward Said and/versus Raymond Williams; Worldliness; Orientalism as Post-Imperial Witnessing; Europe's Occidentalisms; The Evolution of Orientalism and Africanist Political Science; Post-Colonialism as Neo-Orientalism: Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy; The Site of Memory; Index.
Solving Word Problems for Life, Grades 6-8 offers students who struggle with math a daily opportunity to improve their skills. The book offers 180 math word problems. The first 30 focus on 6th-grade math standards, the second 30 on 7th-grade standards, and the last 30 on 8th-grade standards. There is also a section of more difficult, extra-credit problems titled "Hard-Hat Thinking". All of the activities are designed to strengthen basic math skills and problem-solving ability.
Native Americans have produced some of the most powerful and lyrical literature ever written in North America. This volume examines some of the finest Native American writers, including Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Sherman Alexie, N. Scott Momaday, Samsom Occom, Zitkala-Sa, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Yale literature professor Harold Bloom introduces this new edition, which also features a bibliography, a chronology, and an index for easy reference. This title presents a well-rounded critical portrait of an influential group of writers by examining their body of work through full-length essays.
