The title of the book introduces one of the main characters‚ Digory‚ who is the nephew of Mr. Andrew Ketterly‚ a minor magician. The story begins in London during the summer of 1900 where two children‚ Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer who live in a row of connected houses‚ meet while playing in their gardens and decide to travel through the passages in the attic to get into a vacant house and explore it. In place of discovering an abandoned house‚ the children find themselves to have appeared into
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MING (10) got into a serious accident and looses his sense of hearing. Because of the accident‚ Ming has to attend a school for children with special needs and starts to avoid his friends because he is afraid that his friends know he is deaf and dumb. Young Ming has to fight with extreme loneliness since then. 19-years-old Ming gets falsely accused of being a peeping Tom. While the girl’s brothers threaten him‚ MING’S MOTHER comes out to ask what’s happening. After listening to the girl’s accusation
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The caseworker at the foster care tells Bud and his friend‚ Bugs at breakfast that they found new foster homes for them. When the boys groan the caseworker tells them‚ although the nation is in depression‚ they are lucky to have foster families. Bud gets mistreated by his new foster brother named Todd. Todd shoves a pencil up in Bud’s nose‚ and claims that he got the pencil further in his nose than any other child before. As a reason‚ Bud runs away or as he says he is "on the lam." Bud wants
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A troubled Asian-American man seeks revenge on the men who severely beat up his brother and put him in a coma. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: JOHNNY‚ an Asian-American man‚ was adopted as a child and raised by his adoptive parents and his brother BENNY. Johnny loves baseball and often daydreams about the game. It comforts him. Disturbed by memories of his past‚ Johnny tries to move forward with his life‚ but his temper and anger get him into trouble. His therapist was helping him‚ until his therapist died.
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Glory During the American Civil War‚ the Massachusetts army engages Confederate forces in a bloody battle. Captain Robert Shaw is injured in the battle and assumed lost‚ but is found alive by a gravedigger named John Rawlins and sent to a field hospital. Shaw visits his family‚ and is introduced to Frederick Douglass. Shaw is offered a promotion to the rank of Colonel‚ and command of the first all-black regiment the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer army. He accepts the responsibility‚ and asks his
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Charley is a boy who was about to begin his freshman year of high school. He is writing his first letter to an unknown friend because he needs to let his thoughts out to someone. He begins his letter by telling how he lost his best friend Michael who passed away‚ and later learns that Michael had commit suicide by shooting himself. Charlie was devastated. Michael death makes him wonder if he also has “problems at home”. Charlie brother went away to college in Penn State and his sister is a senior
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Chapter 1 Summary Bryon and Mark start this chapter in a pool hall where they are planning to make some money hustling pool. They are only sixteen years old‚ so it is illegal for them to be in a pool hall with a bar in it but they are usually successful at hustling because they look so innocent. After checking for an undercover cop and not finding one‚ Bryon asks Charlie‚ the bartender for a CCoke. Charlie reminded him that he and Mark already owed for three dollars worth of CokeCokes and refused
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Despite the assumption that the United States has attained full democracy‚ there are still many incidences of biases. The main motive for Banaji Mahzarin R. to write the book was to bring to light the biases that people keep in their minds or brains as well as showing how those bits of knowledge about individuals and about their skin color‚ education‚ age‚ and religion can manipulate behavior. In the book‚ Karen Zach is presented to be training in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. She had always
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s book Dictee defies categorization‚ blending media such as poetry‚ historical texts‚ and images in order to form a combination of an autobiography and a work of art. The combination of mediums that form the book is not just a complication of Dictee--it is fundamental to the way we read and understand the work. Through the confusion inherent in approaching Cha’s writing and her use of text (for reasons as simple as the inclusion of French and )‚ the reader is allowed and encouraged
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t’s 2035 A.D.‚ where robots are everyday objects and are programmed to live alongside humans. Detective Del Spooner is called out to investigate the apparent suicide of the scientist behind these robots‚ Dr. Alfred Lanning. Spooner suspects that the death might not be a suicide‚ but the result of one of the robots. All robots are programmed by three laws‚ but Spooner starts to wonder if a robot can in fact feel emotions‚ and possibly murder. But if Spooner’s suspicions are true‚ he is going to have
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