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UnitFiveTheForceofNatureBarbaraGoldsmith1/91.BackgroundKnowledgeabouttheauthor

BarbaraGoldsmithisanotedauthor,historian.Herbest-sellingbooksincludeTheStrawMan,LittleGloria…HappyatLast,Johnsonv.Johnson,andOtherPowers:TheAgeofSuffrage,Spiritualism,andtheScandalousVictoriaWoodhull(soontobeamajormotionpictureproducedbyKathleenKennedyforUniversalStudios)andObsessiveGenius:TheInnerWorldofMarieCurie.SheistherecipientofmanyliteraryawardsandtwoEmmyAwardsforherwork.BarbaraGoldsmithhaslongbeenattheforefrontoftheefforttopreserveourwrittenheritage.SheisthedonoroftheGoldsmithConservationandPreservationLaboratoriesattheNewYorkPublicLibrary,andtheseDivisionswererecentlynamedinherhonor.ShehasdonatedthePreservationandConservationDepartmentstoNewYorkUniversityaswellasastate-of-the-artRareBookLibraryattheAmericanAcademyinRomeandatWellesleyCollege.2/9

BarbaraGoldsmithisdedicatedtoworkingforhumanrightsandthefreedomofexpression.ShewaselectedtotheAmericanAcademyofArtsandSciencesandtheCouncilonForeignRelations.3/9Ms.GoldsmithservedontheNewYorkStateCouncilontheArts,theCommissionforPreservationandAccessandthePermanentPaperTaskForceoftheNationalLibraryofMedicine.SheisaTrusteeoftheAmericanAcademyinRome,theNewYorkPublicLibraryandwaselectedaLiteraryLionatthatinstitution.BarbaraGoldsmithisamemberoftheAuthorsLeague,AuthorsGuildofAmerica,andPoets&Writers.ShewasafounderoftheNationalDanceInstituteandwrote"Jump!WhyDoIDance?”whichwasperformedattheWhiteHouse.4/9ContentofthetextThisnarrativearticleprovidesuswiththebackgroundknowledge,informinguswhythewriteridolizedMarieCurie.Itgivesustrue,descriptive,andimpressiveaccountsoftheheroine,focusingonthemajoreventsthathappenedtoher.Italsopointsoutthewriter’sunderstandingorassessmentofMarieCurie’slife----trulygloriousandtragic.5/92.Textexplanationsthisnarrativearticleischaracterizedbyanobjectiveandsomewhatdescriptivestyle.Itcanbedividedintothreeparts.Part1(Para.1-3)Part2(Para.4-13)Part3(Para.14)6/9Para.1-3ThefirstpartofthenarrativearticletellsusthereasonwhythewriteradmiredMarieCurieandoffersherassessmentoftheheroine.7/9Para.4-13Theseparagraphs,thebodyofthenarration,supplyobjectiveanddescriptiveaccountsofwhatMarieCurieexperienced,vividlyconcentratingonthemajoreventsthatshapedherlife.Theeventsarearrangedmainlychronologically,mostlyintheorderoftheiroccurrence.8/9Paragraph14Thisistheconcludingparagraphofthenarrativetext.Inthisparagraph,thewritermakesknownwhatshediscoveredaboutMarieCurieorwhatsheknewaboutherlife.Inotherwords,thewriterfoundoutthatMa