The two books I read over the summer were Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan and The Maze Runner by James Dashner. The first book‚ Counting By 7s takes place in Bakersfield‚ California‚ and is about twelve year old Willow Chance who enjoys gardening‚ diagnosing medical conditions and the number seven. The story is about her journey through life after her parents died in a tragic car accident. Prior to the car accident Willow has to see Dell Duke‚ a student counselor‚ after being accused to cheater
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Persepolis: The Story of How Marjane Satrapi Remains an Individual In the early 1950s when Britain discovered Iran’s amazing oil‚ the shah‚ a western controlled puppet was put into power to control and nationalize this resource. During the late 1970s the citizens of Iran started to revolt. Marjane Satrapi‚ a young girl growing up in the daunting oppression of the Shah’s rule and then the perilious danger of the Iranian revolution remains an individual by learning from her parents‚ keeping a very
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Dear Jay Asher (author)‚ In the United States today‚ more than 11‚000 books have been challenged or banned. Many people disagree with how authors write about graphic topics like sex‚ drugs‚ partying‚ abuse‚ religion and much more. Although‚ what they fail to realize is how accurate these topics written about are to the everyday events in our lives. The banning of your book‚ Thirteen Reasons Why‚ is unreasonable and unfair because it focuses on suicide which is a growing issue today‚ emphasizes
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the book thief is a book about a Nazi family hiding a jew in their basement even though the consequence is death if they get caught. in the story a girl steals multiple numbers of books from the mayors house or anywhere she can find them. the girls friend Rudy is thought as an academic failure until he is involved in a after school program with boys his age. then he also is known as a great athlete after winning the 1500‚ 400 ‚ and more yard dashes in a row. Liesel also reads her stolen books to
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MUSIC VS. BOOKS 2 We live in the age of information; where our generation needs some sort of communication in various ways. Weather it may be through music or books‚ there are several variations on communication‚ just depends on how you want to target them in order to get the information across. Both music and books have similarities as well as differences. Each has its’ own advantages
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printed media only to seek for specific information‚ now with the aid of the internet; information retrieval can be much easier and time-saving. The revolutionary way which the internet offers triggers an intriguing question whether it will replace books or printed media as the main source of information. From my observation‚ I tend to believe that it will. My main reason is because it has so many advantages over printed media‚ which make the former (the internet) more preferable‚ more interesting
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------------------------------------------------- Fr. Randolf Flores‚ SVD “Listen!” An Exegesis of Sirach 3:1-16 I. Introduction The Book of Sirach (also called the Book of Ben Sira or Ecclesiasticus) is recognized and valued for its instructive and enlightening teachings. One particular value of reading and studying Sirach comes from the light its sheds on the role of Jesus as a sage. This is the reason why the Book of Ben Sira is very relevant. It is cited well on various discussions concerning family matters and relationships
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Books are very important to the development of a child because it not only helps them in school‚ but it also makes it easier for them to understand new subject matter. Reading is also important to an individual as it helps them to sort out relevant information from a pool of data that they may be presented with. It will also help a person to determine what they are interested in as they grow older. Books are important because they give us insight into stories and lives we otherwise wouldn’t be
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Who ban the books? Well the principal obviously‚ because she read one book and then wouldn’t have another chance to read another one. Another book that wouldn’t have the violent‚ killing‚ and abusive one. Just the books she likes‚ the book she’s interested in. Why did they ban books? Because I guess‚ the principal read one of the books from the library. The book she read is like child abusing‚ and suicide afterwards. And she didn’t like it‚ I guess it was too violent. Like slashing people’s body
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Did you know that one of the first books was printed in 1455? The first book was the called the Gutenberg Bible. It was written in Europe by Johannes Gutenberg. They were both handwritten and bound. The second book that is also considered the first book is the Epic of Gilgamesh. In 1878‚ the first movie was produced‚ even though it was only 15 seconds long it was still considered a movie. It was called the horse in motion. It was made by setting a camera to go of at certain times then putting together
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