This book is about a mother raising a daughter with intellectual disabilities. Overcoming the obstacles of raising a child with disabilities and her main concerns family issues‚ social services‚ and experiences with caregivers. The mother is telling her side of the story about her daughter’s disability and how difficult and challenging it is to have a child with a disability. Rachel’s mother shares how she wants her daughter to be normal and be considered normal to others. Her goal for Rachel
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Flatland Chapter 1-2 Brief Summary By Samson Cantor Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott is a mathematical parody about imagining the entire world as a two dimensional plane. The book is a clever way of thinking about life in only two dimensions‚ where there is only length and width but not height. Flatland is a nation where everybody is a shape whose only perception is lines. Abbott allows the reader to understand this concept by imagining a penny being placed on a table. Looking down on the penny‚ the
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perfect number of quests preceding the achievement. Number nine seems to be crucial for Buddhist tradition and for the book itself. For example‚ monkey acquires the skill of 72 earthly transformations (7+2=9) (Wu Cheng’en‚ ch. 2). For one somersault‚ one can go 108 miles and the journey itself has 108000 miles (1+8=9) (Wu Cheng’en ch.14). Number nine represents perfection in the book and generally‚ in Buddhism. Even though one additional ordeal to the eighty preceding ones does not make a huge difference
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The Ghost of Graylock by Dan Poblocki is an exhilarating book with many mysteries and paranormal activity. A girl named Bree and her brother named Neil are two teenaged siblings who have a lot of curiosity in them. Although they don’t get along very much they both love each other dearly. Not too long ago their parents divorced and they moved with their two aunts named Claire and Anna in a small town called Hedston. That town has not too many mysterious people and stories that are roaming around
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Chapters OneThree Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. W. B. Yeats‚ "The Second Coming" Summary: Chapter One Among the Igbo . . . proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. Okonkwo is a wealthy and respected warrior of the Umuofia clan‚ a lower Nigerian tribe that is part of a consortium of nine connected villages‚ including Okonkwo’s village‚ Iguedo. In
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Bitter Fruit is a passionate‚ fast paced book about how the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) held covert operations in Guatemala that helped overthrow the democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. This was a time when the US was under a lot of pressure due to the Cold War‚ and because the US feared the spread of communism and the impact it would have on our economy‚ we started to spy on Latin American countries like Guatemala. At this time‚ Americans had invested over 60 million dollars
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host governments‚ and civil society to undertake a series of measures to address members affected by the humanitarian crisis. After being settled families still have to deal with the closed-mindedness of certain members of the public. Ahn Do‚ in his book‚ the happiest refugee talks about one of his experiences with racism “I first sensed there was something strange in the way he used particular words that even back then weren’t 100% okay in the classroom” Refugee children and their families are at
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attacks them and the Blarg is eventually destroyed and someone finds them and takes them out wes to find their parents and find them. I liked the end of the book and there was not a cliffhanger so I do not think there is going to be another book. I would rate this book to people who like a mix of graphic novels and sci-fi books and I really like
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With the help of these books‚ Mao started embrace of Marxism that attached great importance to mass power and social classes (Snow 1969‚ 155). The shifting of Mao’s mind into Marxism was a corollary. First‚ the social movements that Mao had experienced and witnessed the power
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Book Review < Industrial Sunset > The book ‘Industrial Sunset’ traces and compares the processes of industrial transformation in Canada and the United States. It explains the main issues in the history and the politics of plant closings during the period beginning and ending in the recession between 1969 and 1984 (High‚ 2003‚ p. 4). High (2003)‚ the author of the book‚ argues: … the Great Disruption was filtered through national contexts. In the United States‚ the fears and anxieties engendered by
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