S. E. Hinton wrote ‘The Outsiders’ when he was sixteen years old. She did not just write the book‚ but she really felt it and lived it. While the author was writing this book she looked back and realized how important it was to have another life. One day‚ her friend was walking home and a couple of “nice” kids jumped out of a car and just started to beat her friend up because they did not like that he was a greaser. Hinton went home and started writing the story of the boy who was beaten up by rich
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that strong”. In Laura Hillenbrand’s nonfiction book Unbroken‚ Louis Zamperini demonstrated determination throughout his life to overcome difficulties in track all the way to surviving his Word War II bomber crashing into the Pacific Ocean where he was stranded for 47 day. Overall‚ Louis’s own ambition is what Hillenbrand highlighted throughout this book to tell his truly remarkable story. At the beginning of Louie’s life‚
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to find traces of him and be sure it’s his. In 1999 there was a sighting of an injured Sasquatch like creature spotted in the middle of a carnage‚ the killing of a large number of people‚ before the government came to take it away. Seeker.com says “… there would need to be tens of thousands of the creatures in North America alone. ‘Think about that for a second. Tens of thousands of Bigfoot living‚ breathing‚
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David Thoreau; this also greatly influenced his choice to wander off and live in solitude. Krakauer captures Christopher McCandless story with great finesse and empathy. Jon Krakauer does not want the reader to feel bad for McCandless‚ or make him or her think what Christopher did was a good or bad idea. He simply wants the reader to understand why Christopher McCandless did what he did. Krakauer is able to present a man‚once a stranger to the reader‚ as a man the reader feels like he or she
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Cultural Book Report Shelby Stansell Intro to Diversity for Education EDF 2085/ Section 020391 Professor Allison 25 February 2010 Our world is filled with various cultures that make it a beautiful place. When given the right tools children can see it that too. Many books and movies can show children how being different is great and help them learn about others’ cultures and lifestyles. Anansi the spider is a book that does just that. Anansi the Spider was written and illustrated
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novel is Ellen Raskin. During her book there were major events that took place. Somewhere such as being forced to go somewhere‚ and finding out clues to the bombings that took place in the book. The book has one big setting that takes place in the Sunset towers where all the people live.The main events where very important because these were the very places the setting of the book took place. The things that took place in the book where pretty shocking. In the book a bomb goes off and one of the things
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Machiavelli stated in The Prince that to rule a country well you have to be “ruthless” and have an “evil” mentally as a leader to proficiently run a country. Machiavelli’s perspective remains important and relevant for many reasons. One reason is‚ “Human nature has not changed. Hence‚ his insights about politics are still valid.” and another reason is‚ “Business is an important part of our modern life and businesses are essentially autocratic institutions that operate much like the Renaissance principalities
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The book that I recently loved was "Flipped" By Wendelin Van Draanen. Flipped is a fiction book and contains 212 pages‚ I started the book on May 2nd and finished it the week later.Wendelin Van Draanen was born January 6 in Chicago‚IL and is still living. Wendelin Van Draanen’s previous jobs was a fork lifter(a fork lifter is a person who works at a construction site lifting up heavy weights off the ground with a mechanical machine)‚high school computer teacher‚ and even was a singer in a rock band
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the story is when Winston breaks‚ shouting “Do it to Julia.”‚ in Room 101. Throughout the novel‚ Winston represents a natural human desire for freedom and love. However‚ when his drive and rebellion is broken‚ so is the faith of the reader in the nature of his character. Conflicts/Issues Highlighted: Winston’s opposition to Big Brother’s power is a major conflict. Throughout the story‚ Winston is constantly finding himself at odds with the government’s strict‚ socialist control. Winston represents
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Year 8 Book Report Back Through Time: Historical Fiction or Imagination These stories have some ‘real’ aspects but also have a fictional dimension. The setting might be from a real period of history but the author invents the characters and uses imagination. Your Task is to make a poster about your book. You must cover all the tasks below and you also need to speak about your book for one minute in class. Provide details of the title‚ author‚ date of publication and publisher Setting:
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