GTRBC is a group book club started by Dina Burz‚ using her grandchildren and nieces as members. The project took off as a summer camp in her yard. When it started to get cold it when inside‚ then the group sessions changed every month from house to house of members only. Sometimes the group meets at the library‚ bookstores‚ and parks. The group consists of four members: Iya: Personality is very strong; she likes to take charge of the group by dominating the answers‚ conversation and reading. She
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Tough Stuff is a book for teenagers about all the hardships going through the teenage years. It is a book compiled by Kimberly Kirberger‚ Jack Canifield‚ and Mark Victor Hansen. They used a bunch of stories that readers sent in about their own personal experiences. This book covers many subjects such as‚ self-acceptance‚ family matters‚ tragedy‚ growing up‚ eating disorders‚ suicide‚ death‚ alcohol‚ and learning difficult lessons. I am not sure if I really liked this book or not. I thought
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Executive summary Book Binder’s club was trying to implement a focussed direct mailing campaign through use of database marketing and marketing models. Three different marketing models were developed using historical data of 1600 records and then the model was tested for efficacy on a holdout data of 2300 records. It was found the Regression and Logit (customer choice model) were most effective while RFM model failed to given any leverage above the random mailing campaign that BBC employed prior
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today. Starting with the two people I love the most is my parents‚ then is when every make believe thing is real like the gingerbread man‚ and now finally is the person who made me want to read all day every day‚ the person who doesn’t want to put a book down‚ I wanted to be just like Miss.King ‚ but sports‚ homework‚ school‚ and much more so right now I and a 5 because reading takes time and I don’t have all the time in the world to read‚ other thing come first. Now let me tell you about me reading
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on Christianity in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible is strongly evident throughout the novel. The narrative itself is divided into books’ that mirror those of the Bible‚ including: Genesis‚ The Revelation‚ and Exodus. Throughout the progression of the novel‚ the structure of the novel strays from a biblical reflection with the addition of new books’ which denote Kingsolver’s personal appellations. Kingsolver’s characters each represent a different attitude towards Christianity. This suggests
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issue and one most significant based story line in Song of Solomon written by Toni Morrison is the rooted system of racism among black people. There is an undercurrent of racism that happens to all of the characters. All characters shown up in the book have issues with racism. In general‚ racism happens between the human races such as between white and black. However‚ upon their different social classes‚ every different internalized racism is a part in their everyday lives. This could have affected
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Entry Section I: Significance of Title The Poisonwood Bible is a book about the reactions that can be made with the burden of collective guilt; to be specific‚ to our complicit guilt as citizens of the United States for the misconduct by our nation in the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible is an allusion of an event that triggers the life of a family to be burden with guilt in the Congo. The title of the book is what describes the whole book. The Poisonwood Bible is an increased prosecution of Western colonialism
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Nommo and the Bible A Comparison and Contrast of the Character Names in The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingslover writes a book entitled‚ The Poisonwood Bible that explore the effects one culture has on another. The four daughters; Rachel‚ Leah‚ Adah‚ and Ruth May‚ at birth are given names suitable and fitting to their personalities‚ as well as new Kikongo names which describe the girls’ attitudes towards the people in the Congo. A principal of the Congolese belief system‚ suggests that the girls
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consciousness narration. In the second part of the book‚ one of the chapters contains no punctuation. This method of writing is better known as stream of consciousness. In this chapter Sethe is the narrator and the reader is reading her thoughts. Personally‚ I found this method very effective because I could follow Sethe’s thought patterns and understand what she was thinking. Another example of effective syntax is in the third part of the book‚ the last chapter‚ "This (It) is (was) not a story to
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independence. The conflict emerges due to Nathans inability to understand Leah’s needs. His self absorption and lack of self awareness leaves him with the lack of being able to feel guilt. Leah practically worships her father in the opening chapters of the book‚ as shown in this quote when she is describing her father to the reader‚ “Not everyone can see it‚ but my father’s heart is as large as his hands. And his wisdom is great.” (42). She supports him and is very fond of him. Of course not everything goes
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