ZAPP book report 11/24/09 ZAPP The Lightning of EMPOWERMENT‚ by William C. Byham Ph.D. and Jeff Cox presents a story of different problems that managers/supervisors face and how they deal with the problems. The book shows how an autocratic supervisor would deal with a problem compared to a participative supervisor would handle the problems. The story shows the contrast between a supervisor that ZAPPS (empowers) her employees and a supervisor that SAPPS his employees by his interactions and
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The Pearl By: John Steinbeck Book Report THE PEARL John Steinbeck was born in February 1902 in Salinas‚ California and died in December 1968. Steinbeck enrolled in Stanford University however he never graduated. After an unsuccessful try to establish himself in New York he returned to California to do what he did best: write. Steinbeck’s first novel was published in 1929 but his first critical success was achieved with Tortilla Flat which won the California Commonwealth Club’s Gold Medal
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Book Report Zealot by Reza Aslan is a meticulously researched biography that challenges the belief of one of the most influential and enigmatic spiritual leaders‚ Jesus. Reza Aslan examines Jesus through the perception of his era: first-century Palestine‚ an age of unrest and rebellions. Aslan‚ at the start of the book‚ reviews the attempts of a number of men who sought to overthrow the established order and free Israel. His belief was that Jesus
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LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING The novel takes place at a boys’ juvenile detention center situated in the dried up bed of a fictional lake in Texas. Most of the story is set in contemporary time‚ around the end of the 1990s. There are flashbacks to the town of Green Lake‚ which existed one hundred ten years earlier before the lake dried up. (Note: There is an actual Green Lake‚ one of the largest lakes in Texas‚ southwest of Port Lavaca‚ but the real town of Green Lake was all but abandoned after
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Book report THE GODFATHER The novel God Father is written by Mario Puzo. Mario Puzo is a professional writer from an Italian immigrant family. When he was young‚ he lived in a slum in New York with his parents‚ so crime may be a normal state of affairs where they lived. Yeas later when Mario became a professional writer‚ that part of experience gave him the inspiration about this famous novel---God Father. He also published some other books‚ but none of them was as popular as God Father. This
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In the movie version of “Boys and Girls”‚ there were many differences‚ such as the beginning. In the movie‚ we open into the scene where the first horse is shot. The girl and Laird are both watching‚ however another difference to the original short story is that Laird has an adverse reaction to the death of the horse. He runs out of the barn and away until his sister catches him and tells him that it was good that he saw‚ so he now knows what has to eventually be done in these cases. In the events
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Book Report On “GRENDEL” By: John Gardner Submitted By: Ian Gabriel Benetua Submitted To: Ma Graziella Sigaya Part I Setting: There are two main locations in which the story takes place. 1. Grendel’s Cave – A cave wherein Grendel stays to rest. He lives together with his mute mother. It was surrounded by the remains of dead carcasses and human bodies. The cave was dark and emitted a disgusting smell. Grendel was not happy living in such a place fit for animals. He thought of himself
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The book “Nativity”: ISBN 9780913441978‚ published in 2010‚ proves to be an engaging‚ yet informative piece. Written by‚ a Caribbean author‚ Lasana M. Sekou‚ the narrative of the poem is perfectly represented by its title. Sekou’s piece is concerned with the emergence‚ or birth‚ of a new culture through the oppression and enslavement of African people and the destruction of their civilisation‚ by the white Europeans. While the Europeans successfully managed to suppress the culture through their dominance
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boys will be boys Barbara Kantrowitz and Claudia Kalb’s‚ “Boys will be Boys” article‚ explains how after years of research on girls‚ boys must also be put under the microscope‚ in efforts to reach a further understanding of the adolescent male. The two authors start their article by pointing out‚ that boys and girls come from two completely different “planets”. They have two different “crisis points”‚ which are stages of emotional and social development‚ where things can go seriously wrong. Kantrowitz
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Divergent Book Report Divergent is a novel by Veronica Roth. This story happens in Chicago in the future. The city is separated into 5 factions based on personality traits. The factions are Abnegation(selflessness)‚ Erudite(intelligence)‚ Candor(Honesty)‚ Dauntless(bravery)‚ and Amity(peaceful). One day every year‚ all sixteen-year-olds take a personality test that will tell them which faction they are going to be in. After getting the results of their test‚ they have to decide if they want
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