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Looking back : a book of memories
Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.
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Food for Thought: Nurture and Nature in \The Giver\
Lois Lowry's novel The Giver is usually addressed as a utopian/dystopian narrative. This essay adds a Food Studies framework both to the context of feeding the community and the reception of memories by the young protagonist in the story. The ontological ambiguities found in the novel allow the contemporary readers (and filmgoers) to raise questions about the importance of the choices and compromises we make, as well as to acknowledge that there are always consequences to our actions.
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Lois Lowry
\"Simple text and full-color photographs introduce readers to Lois Lowry. Developed by literacy experts for students in second through fifth grade\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Last Enemy: Reading Harry Potter as an Extended Grief Narrative
J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series is renowned for its magical story about adventure, friendship, and love, drawing extensively from the school story and bildungsroman literary traditions. However, the novels are most significantly, as the author herself states, focused on death, and therefore, offer a larger narrative of profound grief. Drawing from both literary and psychological studies, this article examines Harry's emotional growth as he experiences and copes with loss. It argues that Harry's grief narrative can be a source of bibliotherapy to readers as they navigate their own real-life trauma and bereavement.
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Post-apocalyptic Subjectivity and Nature/Culture Duality in Lois Lowry’s The Giver
The present inquiry endeavors to scrutinize the process of identity formation with regard to the Culture/Nature dichotomy within the milieu of Lois Lowry's post-apocalyptic dystopian narrative, The Giver. The antipodal forces of Culture and Nature are instrumental in shaping the social subjectivities of individuals. Lowry's post-apocalyptic dystopia portrays a society in which these antitheses are comprehensively epitomized. Our objective is to explicate the genesis of post-apocalyptic identities and to elucidate the representation of Nature/Culture within the social context of the aforementioned literary work. Furthermore, the polarity between power and resistance, which is of notable import to cultural studies, is nonexistent within this post-apocalyptic dystopia. Consequently, the establishment of identities transpires not at the site of contention between power and resistance, but exclusively through the ascendency of the imperializing power. As a corollary, the elimination of the recollections of those individuals who are unable to oppose the imperializing power is integral to the construction of homogeneous identities.
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Coming of age
This title examines the role and theme of the coming of age archetype in A Separate Peace, The Catcher in the Rye, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Giver, and The Fault in Our Stars. It features four analysis papers that consider the coming of age theme, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme.
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Can Residency Programs Detect Artificial Intelligence Use in Personal Statements?
To evaluate widely used artificial intelligence (AI) detectors' ability to identify ChatGPT's (OpenAI, San Francisco, CA, USA) use in personal statements submitted as part of the residency program application.
This qualitative analysis was performed to evaluate the ability of three different AI detectors to detect the use of AI in personal statements submitted as part of residency applications for obstetrics and gynecology. A total of 25 writings were selected and analyzed by GPTZero (Princeton, NJ, USA), Undetectable AI (Sheridan, WY, USA), and Winston AI (Montreal, Quebec, Canada).
In total, 25 separate writing samples of approximately 700 words were entered into three different AI detectors. AI-generated works had high rates of AI-detection, while classic literature samples had low rates of detection. Human-written personal statements before and after the availability of ChatGPT technology results were mixed, with results ranging from 64-100% and 3-100% of content appearing to be AI, respectively.
AI-chatbots have been shown to produce writing that may be indistinguishable from human work and may already be commonly used to create personal statements. It is unclear who is utilizing ChatGPT in their writing, and residency programs everywhere will seek a reliable way to detect unethical usage. This study shows that available AI detectors may be able to detect AI use in applicants' personal statements, but the use of invalidated tools may harm honest applicants.
Residency programs may be able to detect AI use in personal statements by utilizing AI-detection tools. Clear guidelines regarding the appropriate use of AI and authorship must be developed in order to maintain the integrity of student submissions.
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