Margaret Walker’s novel Jubilee focuses on the life of a slave girl by the name of Vyry who gains her freedom at the end of the Civil War and sets out with her children‚ Minna and Jim‚ and husband‚ Innis Brown‚ to make a new life for their family in the Reconstruction Period. Walker’s awareness of the southern plantation tradition is made clear throughout Jubilee in the way that she debunks the negative tropes placed on the shoulders of African Americans by the nostalgic white writers of the South;
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Debby Shum 9B (12) Book report-Fiction Pre-reading task: Title: Flour Babies Author: Anne Fine Publisher: The Penguin Group Year of Publication: 1992 Post-reading Task: My comments: My favorite character is Simon Martin because he was willing to solve problems and found the final answer. He was mature and self-disciplined‚ always helping others‚ considerate and thoughtful to others. We should learn from him. The most interesting and memorable scene in the book is Simon hurdled all
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Book Report Whirligigs By: Paul Fleischman After getting humiliated at a party‚ Brent drives away drunk and decides to kill himself. Letting go of the wheel on the highway‚ he ends up killing someone else. He killed a girl named Lea. Her mom asks Brent to put up 4 whirligigs‚ one in each corner of the US. Since they were Lea’s favorite toys‚ they’re meant to be monuments representing Lea’s ability to make people happy. With wood‚ sum tools‚ a book on whirligigs‚ and a bus pass‚ Brent leaves
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Angelina Tambunan ACCT 508 Book Report ‘The Goal’ I. Summary The story takes place at a fictitious town called Bearington where the Uniware manufacturing plant of the UniCo Company is situated. Whatever products the plant manufactures was not mentioned in the novel. The plant is headed by the plant manager Alex Rogo who is also the lead character of the novel. The problems begin when one upset customer approaches Alex’s boss‚ Bill Peach about a very late order. Actually Alex’s plant has
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Lloyd Pye wrote a book called Everything You Know is Wrong. In this book Pye states that there are four different types of Bigfoot; the Sasquatch‚ the Abdominal Snow Man or Yeti‚ the Alma or Kaptar‚ and the Agogwe or Sedapa. In 1958‚ Jerry Crew‚ a man in Bluff Creek California‚ found giant footprints
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A Book Report on Mozart: A Life in Letters Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ known for being a musical genius since his childhood‚ was a brilliant composer of symphonies‚ concertos‚ and chamber music. Even after his death in December 1791‚ Mozart is still among one of the most popular composers to be written of. Mozart: A Life in Letters is a fascinating book that includes a set of his letters‚ providing a new understanding of his life story including his marriage‚ his relationships with
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The book I chose to write about for my book report was Hiroshima – by John Hersey. The publisher is Alfred A. Knoff and was published first in 1946 with 196 pages. The book was originally published in The New Yorker. This book tells the stories of six brave survivors on that tragic day on the 6th of August. On August 6th ‚ 1945‚ at exactly 8:15 in the morning the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. At that time the six characters were each doing there own thing. Miss Toshiko Sasaki‚ who was a clerk for a
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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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Book Report “Reading Nudge” These days‚ knowing ‘who customer is’ becomes more and more important in marketing. Then‚ to know precisely who customer is‚ is it enough to study marketing area based on the thought which is “human is rational”? As a marketer‚ I have been conducting lots of marketing project in my working area. But‚ as I conducted those projects‚ I felt that knowing customer is very difficult. It is because sometimes customer was very rational‚ but in other times customer was extremely
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an oppressive government or what it can do to a society. As George Washington once said‚ “A government is like fire‚ a handy servant‚ but a dangerous master.” This quote shows how a strong body can have two sides‚ they can be very helpful to their citizens or it could become overpowering and create conflict. Hence‚ dystopian stories show the dangers of an oppressive government. In the book The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the author shows an authority that takes total control over its citizen. For instance
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