Book Report Name of Book: The Stone Monkey Genre: Fiction Author: Jeffery Deaver Main Characters: Amelia Sachs Lincoln Rhyme Synopsis: A cargo ship holding a bunch of Chinese illegal immigrants is on its journey to New York where they will be working for riches and a better life. Each family has payed a hefty sum of money to be smuggled by a notorious criminal “snakehead”
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The Lady of the Angels fire was the worst school fire from Illinois history. This fire taught other schools in the future how to prepare for fires‚ and what is not safe to have in a school in the event of a fire. The fire killed many children and nuns in just two hours. It was December 1 1958‚ at 2:40 pm a small fire started in the basement of Our Lady of Angels School in Chicago‚ Illinois. The school was a two-story building and was recently remodeled. At the time the school was up to code with
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One beautiful September morning‚ Patti and Matt were getting ready for work. While giving her 6 mouth old son‚ Michael‚ a bath‚ her friend‚ Mary‚ called her and told her to turn on the news. When she turned on the news it was talking about hijacked planes crashing into the Twin Towers. The hijackers were terrorists‚ they hijacked four planes. Two landed in the Twin Towers‚ one landed on the Pentagon‚ and one crashed in the Pennsylvania Felds it was headed to Washington D.C. Leanna‚ Patti’s two
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saying. The book says that Semantics refer to the meaning behind a word‚ and their primary and connotative meanings. One great example from the movie was how Nell called Jerry her "gaw anja‚" or translated: "guardian angel." She got this from a passage in the bible about a guardian angel swooping down from the heavens. Nell took this as primary meaning of Jerry‚ coming out of nowhere to be her friend and help her. Jerry took it as the connotative meaning that he is strong‚ supportive‚ and helpful. Jerry
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In Josef von Sternberg’s film Blue Angel‚ female sexuality is defined through the character Lola Lola. The lead female character is captured using select subject-camera distances that seem to make her appear powerful and in control. The medium shots of Professor Rath and the full shots of Lola Lola during the first “falling in love again” performance are used to compare the emotional male character to the empowered female character‚ and therefore illustrate the evolving sexual identity of women.
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a journey through Frederick Douglass’ life as a slave‚ how he learned‚ and his escape to freedom from slavery. He was a slave who never knew his mother. He witnessed and bore the countless beatings‚ humiliation‚ and oppression that marked the existence of African-Americans of that era. He vowed to overcome‚ not just for himself‚ but for all the black men and women who were stuck in a life entirely not their own and a life without freedom. Fredrick
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Decorations for home There is no place like home. It is where you belong and where you will always go back to. Everyone in this world would dream of a beautiful home. Some may fancy a big modern three storey house with the touch of architectural design for the front look. Some may be really happy with one single storey old looking house with wide open space inside and simple looks from the outside. The smell of fresh new paint and wall furnish‚ the shiny wooden floor covering the terrace
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GUARDIAN ANGEL WORKED OVERTIME Living life to the fullest and achieving my dreams has always been the number one goal in my life‚ but one day I thought that my whole life was going to come to an end. I never knew that people could be so cruel. Who would want to bring fear to anyone‚ Considering where I live‚ one would have thought that this would not have been a shock. I guess I was too young to realize the harsh realities of the outside world. So let get to the point of
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In the movie Iron Jawed Angels‚ I viewed the more deeply about the troubles and conflicts that Alice Paul and Lucy Burns had to defeat to complete their most desired goal which was to help women gain Independence‚ and achieve the right to vote in a male based society. All of these hardships that they went through were so significant because it was women like Paul and Burns that helped get the law for women rights to pass‚ women gained so many of the rights and the freedoms that we have today
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Christopher Columbus: An Angel of Mercy becomes the Angel of Death Europe was a continent emerging from the darkness of the Middle Ages. The people had endured a long period of war‚ disease‚ and general strife. Europe was emerging from the Middle Ages with a new sense of confidence and self-worth. Europe’s achievements‚ however‚ led to ever increasing confidence. Christopher Columbus’s “The Journal of Christopher Columbus” documents his actions taken in the Americas as well as insight into his
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