important for the mind to develop in the best way it could. There is a quote saying that people who read‚ succeed. In my opinion‚ teenagers nowadays do not like to read books. There are many factors contributing to this fact. However there is still a small percentage of them who are still the bookworms. But still the majority of them do not like to read books. Among the factors that cause teenagers to not read books is that they are too tied to school related activities. School activities which are usually
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Summary Page for: CHAPTER 5 ART OF ANCIENT GREECE Context: Cultural Belief System (religion) / History / Social / Political / Economic / Geographical Greek art influenced Western civilization to present / city states=democracy first evolved-also abstract reasoning‚ inquiry‚ philosophy‚ drama‚ poetry‚ & history / rugged mountainous terrain / Greeks felt themselves superior & called all other people "barbarians"/ After Persian army was repulsed Athenians established a democratic government headed
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Chapter 1 - Christmas Eve • When the book opens‚ Arthur Kipps is sharing some fascinating thoughts about how he’s always been affected by the weather. • He describes how he came to live at Monk’s Piece and stumbled across it while out on a ride with his employer‚ Mr. Bentley. • Arthur is a solicitor and has worked with Mr. Bentley for many years. • Now he’s married to a woman named Esmé and lives in Monk’s Piece with her four children from a previous marriage; they have been happily settled for
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narrative chapters‚ there are intercalary chapters as well. These chapters are inserted between the main storyline of the novel. The intercalary chapters are helpful to the novel; the chapters provide insight on the setting and living conditions of the time period; they also give readers a better chance to connect with the novel by fully understanding the story. The first chapter of the novel is a prominent example of how the intercalary chapters help readers understand the setting. The chapter portrays
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Dr. Rios’s purpose in writing this chapter is to convince the reader that Tyrell and Jose‚ as well as many other gang members‚ had been trapped into joining the gangs or committing criminal activity such as selling drugs to provide for themselves‚ since the police could not provide them with what they needed. Tyrell is the first focus of the chapter and Rios goes into detail on the Ville‚ which is “a low income housing project on 66th Avenue and International‚” (45) known by many to be one of the
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Chapter one begins with the drought in Oklahoma and describes the dust storm and its effect on the people in the town. In chapter two‚ Tom Joad hitchhikes home .He spent four years in McAlester‚ an Oklahoma state prison‚ for killing a man in a drunken brawl. In the fourth chapter‚ Tom meets Jim Casy‚ an ex-preacher. Casy isn’t a preacher anymore and tells Tom about all of the lustful things he did when he was a reverend. They discuss his loss of faith and the problems that have reduced the homesteaders
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Chapter 1- Michael J. Roscoe‚ a multimillionaire from New York‚ is assassinated by a guy who goes by the name Sam Green. Chapter 2- Alex Rider follows two suspected drug dealers to a barge on the River Thames. Chapter 3- Alex hops into a crane near the barge and lifts the barge out of the water with the crane; the barge collides into a nearby conference center when it’s in the air. Chapter 4- Alex is taken to jail‚ but MI6 bails him out; therefore‚ he has to accept the proposal they give him
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Chapter 4: 1. Elie’s first impression of the camp at Buna was that it looked empty and dead as if an epidemic had hit. 2. Elie and his father have to work in a factory where they fix electrical circuits. 3. The Jewish dentist is caught stealing the prisoner’s gold teeth and was ordered to be hung. 4. The part of Elie’s body that is aware of the passage of time is his stomach because he goes a long time without getting anything to eat. 5. Idek accused Elie’s father of being lazy
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In chapters 7 and 8 in Enrique’s Journey‚ Enrique has finally made it to America. He is now living in the same house as his mother and has found a job in North Carolina. During this chapter I also found a few more key points that made me start to think about different aspect about coming to a new country. The first key point in the chapters with Enrique and his mother dealing with their kind of rocky relationship. Their relations begins well and then it begins to go up and down‚ almost like a rollercoaster
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better ability to lay out her thoughts and explain to the reader more efficiently her ideas. The chapters were fifty percent shorter as well‚ which helped the reading feel less drawn out and lengthy. The author did a better job providing examples from her life that related to the subject than Robinson did‚ although they were also rather lengthy. Creative Schools tended to have the examples seem more like tangents rather than supporting a point unlike this book so far. Although the Hooks’ experiences
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