cruelty of the war in Vietnam from his perspective. From the time he makes his decision to join the Marines in the beginning of the book all the way to making it to Vietnam as a Marine Scout Sniper. Among the Joseph T. Ward‚ Dave Young‚ Mike O’Grady‚ and Nick Herrera (whom all since childhood have been friends with Joseph T. Ward and decided to join the Marines with him) share six purple hearts. This novel shows a particular side of one of America’s most intense wars from a point of view rarely seen
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Book Report on Day to Day Economics Written by Satish Y. Deodhar Day to Day Economics is a well-known book which is a part of the IIM Ahmedabad business book series is written by a professor from IIM Ahmedabad Mr. SATISH Y. DEODHAR. It has been published by Random House Publications and was copyrighted in 2012 by Satish Y. Deodhar. About the Author Mr. Satish Y. Deodhar is an Associate Professor in the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He has written many books of which the most recent
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English Long Book Report Chan Hiu Tung Christie 4C (2) Title: Emma Author: Jane Austen Publisher: Pearson Education Limited What is love? How can we do to catch our own true love? I found the answer after reading the book‚ Emma. Emma‚ which talked about Emma Woodhouse‚ who is a beautiful‚ clever but with little spoiled girl. She is rich and she loves arrange marriage between her friends and neighbours in a village called Highbury. Unfortunately‚ she makes a lot of
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INTRODUCTION a. BACKGROUND This modern inspirational classic book entitled Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom has changed millions of lives. This book tells about the story of an old professor named Morrie Schwartz who is suffering from a disease called amyothopic lateral sclerosis (ALS)‚ it is a brutal unforgiving illness of the neurological system. And it has known no cure. Morrie’s doctor guessed he had two years left‚ but he knew it was less. But despite of knowing that
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was great. When Digory and Polly are in the wood between worlds right before they are about to jump into the pool to get home Digory decides to have fun and jump into another pool that will take him to a different world even though Polly doesn’t agree‚ “I’m not going to try any new pool till we’ve made sure that we can get back by the old one. We’re not even sure if it’ll work yet” (C.S. Lewis 39). Finally they manage to jump into an unknown pool‚ “they stood with beating hearts and rather and scared
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The book that I will be telling you about is called‚ “Red Sky in the Morning” which is by Elizabeth Laird. Elizabeth Laird wrote this book because of her brother Alistair. Ben plays the role/part of Alistair (Elizabeth’s brother). The other characters in the book are made up. The story starts in Anna Peacock’s house when Anna is 12 years old. Anna is really excited when her mother announces that she is going to have a baby. She felt that this was her chance to show everyone that she was grown up
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The name of the book I choose to analyse for this book report is Nativity. It was written by Lasana M. Sekou and published by House Of Nehest Publishers in the year 2010. The ISBN of the book is 9780913441978 and the soft cover edition of the book cost $140.00TTD. The English version of the poem has nine chapters (9) and consist of forty-one (41) pages. The main characters discussed in the poem were the enslaved Africans. The setting
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himself‚ the book entitled “Beyond Massa- Sugar Management in the British Caribbean 1770-1834‚” examines the daily operations on the plantation including the lifestyle of the superior Europeans and the enslaved Africans during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The book is inclusive of an in depth study of chattel slavery on the sugar estate of the British Caribbean. Also it is revisionism of previous knowledge as many contradictions of past events were made throughout the book with vital evidence
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Ryan Hill Mrs. Wheeler Business Tech 20 November 2014 Book Review By Colin Barker Homeland‚ John Jake’s formidable novel about the final explosive events if the nineteenth century‚ is the first in a series that will focus attention on a new “Jakes” family‚ the Crowns. Multiple characters and settings are the norm for Jakes; however‚ this story rivets primarily attention on Paul Crown‚ a young German immigrant. Paul leaves behind a Germany of cholera‚ poverty and political upheaval only to face problems
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IN BABYLON By George S. Clason ‘If thou have been in search of gold; then thou haseth found it.’ That’s how valuable this book is. The Richest man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason is hailed as a modern day classic and it gives it’s reader the feeling to have discovered a book which got lost in time with it’s ancient wisdom and proverbial style of writing. The book is set in Babylonian times and aims to bring forth solutions of problems that have been in existence since the inception of time
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