Teenagers sentenced to death all because of violence and murder. No Choirboy is all about teens that try to find the easy way out; and along the way their path went wrong causing them to murder and violence. This book change my point of view on life by that easy and fast is not always the best way. This book has inspired me to further my education‚ because even though it is not easy to always go past of high school the effort is still there its better than a life of crime. The teenagers in this
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Dan Chaon’s Ill Will One of the darkest books of the year‚ Ill Will is a story you will never forget; it’s dark subplots are intertwined to unveil difficulties all humans face. “People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It’s called apophenia. It’s the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.” -Dan Chaon. Examining something as intricate as the human brain takes great meaning and caution; but when handled right‚ can be a powerful message. Writing with the
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Indigènes‚ or the forgotten heroes: Perhaps‚ the movie that provides a deeper representation of North Africans in the French context is Rachid Bouchareb’s Indigènes. The movie explores the experience of soldiers from North Africa and other French colonies in the continent. The story focuses exclusively on a group of North African soldiers who are fighting to liberate France from the German occupation during World War Two‚ but the nature of their patrimony is excruciatingly ambiguous. The characters’
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From the graph I can clearly see that Distilled water has a much larger concentration of water then the cell sap in the potato tissue. I can make this conclusion because the results show a big increase in weight of the potato piece. Meaning that water has moved from outside the potato into the potato due to Osmosis‚ proving that the distilled water had a higher concentration of water‚ as water moves from a high concentration to a low concentration. I can also see that the glucose
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Adichie’s protagonist Ifemelu‚ is a girl who travel from Nigeria to America for college. During her stay‚ she makes several accomplishments including a successful blog that talks about race relations and a prestigious award at Princeton. She has a few boyfriends during her time in America as well‚ each coming with their own good and bad times. While in America‚ she is not whole heartedly resistant to the American culture. The biggest issue for her is the void between people of different color. This
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The Sympathizer follows a nameless narrator‚ a communist spy working as a captain for a South Vietnamese General‚ beginning just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. The narrator is destined to be divided as a half-Vietnamese‚ half-French‚ American Educated‚ Communist sleeper spy working for the anti-Communists‚ raised with only his mother’s love. He most often plays the role of a loyal captain‚ who happens to be a spy‚ but he constantly reminds himself that the role is meant to be his reality. He
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I chose to write about The Ceiling. This story begins with the narrator attending his son’s birthday party and he remembers the day so well because it is the first day that he saw the object in the sky later referred to by the press as the Ceiling “The square was without blemish or flaw‚ no larger than a child’s tooth‚ and I could not tell whether it rested on the moon itself or hovered above it like a cloud.” (Thing’s that fall from the sky pg.103-104). The object continued to grow larger and larger
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The Brethren is a book about the evolution of the Burger Court during the years of 1969 to 1976. The Brethren takes readers inside the court for a fascinating view of how things really work: how justices build majorities for their points of view and‚ occasionally‚ how they lose them; how the chief justice can use his power to assign cases to impress their philosophy on the final decision; and the unique role played by the law clerks. This book is a balanced account of the inner workings of the Supreme
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Incarceron Book Summary Finn is a prisoner in the infamous prison Incarceron. He cannot remember his childhood‚ or his life before Incarceron‚ but he is a star-seer. Finn can see things no one out Incarceron has. Incarceron is a prison no one can enter‚ and that no one can leave. The Inmates live in dark cells‚ dirt cities‚ and harsh wilderness. No one has ever escaped from Incarceron except for a man named Sapphique. Finn plans on following the legends of Sapphique with his oath brother to finally
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The Shining‚ written by Stephen King is an American horror novel that focuses on Jack Torrance’s life as a recovering alcoholic and his off-season job at the Overlook Hotel. Stephen King himself has struggled in the past with alcoholism and was inspired to write the novel upon his visit to the Stanley Hotel in 1974. After the novel was published in 1977‚ King clearly sets up his reputation specifically as an author of the horror-genre. The novel immediately received enthusiastic praise while readers
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