The Killer Angels is a historical Civil War novel by Michael Shaara. The book follows the three day battle of Gettysburg‚ switching points of view from the generals of the North to the Generals from the South. In the beginning of the novel the Spy‚ sent out by General Longstreet reports back findings of Northern troops moving prompting General Lee to take action. Though he does not believe the spy‚ he has no choice but to take the spies word and begins to move the troops towards a small town called
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In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ Rebecca Skloot is searching for the identity of Henrietta Lacks. In the movie Antwone Fisher Antwone is in turn seeking his own identity. Discuss some of the parallels‚ similarities or differences between the book and movie. Usually when talking about a movie or a book‚ it hard to discuss the similarities and the differences. Because sometimes a movie can be more influencing than a book and vice versa. When I first started reading the book The Immortal
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Kyle Duncan 12-7-11 Book Report (Deep Zone) 3rd Block Plot Summary The characters are Thane‚ Ty‚ Troy‚ Tate‚ and Agent Sutherland. Ty is this story’s main character. Thane is his older brother and an NFL star. Ty meets Troy and Tate in Miami at the football tournament. Agent Sutherland is an FBI agent protecting Ty from the mob while Thane is away. The setting is in Miami and in the swamp. At the beginning of the story‚ they are at a football game‚ when Thane is going up for a touchdown
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Book Report TITLE: Call of The Wild AUTHOR & BACKGROUND: Jack Landon was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His best short stories are the Call of the Wild and White Fang. Mainly Landon wrote about animals‚ men and his stories were based off of life experiences. London lived his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. At the age of 17‚ he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. He changed his life when he was in a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it
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Book: Holy Land by D.J. Waldie In 1897‚ William A. Clark of Montana bought 8‚139 acres of farmland (near Los Angeles‚ California) from the Bixby family. Clark was one of the 10 richest men in America. He had been an architect of Montana statehood‚ he owned a silver mine there‚ and he eventually “bought” the Montana state legislature and became a U.S. senator. Clark also owned the nation’s richest copper mines in Arizona (when he died in 1925 he left an estate worth $200 million dollars).
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The Transall Saga Mark Harrison is a thirteen year old boy who is obsessed with hiking and backpacking. In the book The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen‚ Mark has finally convinced his parents to let him backpack by himself across an abandoned missile range and he couldn’t be more excited‚ until a strange blue light teleports him far into the future where the world has devolved into the days of swords and arrows. After‚ being in the new environment for a while mark begins to worry about
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Through this book‚ the author Scot McKnight uses his knowledge of the Christian faith to explain the plan that God has put in place of every person on earth. Throughout his book‚ McKnight gives many important insights into the power of the Holy Spirit and how it interacts with daily life‚ explaining the multipart system of possible alternative options for every single person that ever has or ever will exist. This book offers the reader the chance to interpret the words of a McKnight‚ as he teaches
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which is next door to a grand mansion owned by Jay Gatsby and across a bay from his vapid cousin‚ Daisy Buchanan. Although there are many complications throughout the novel the main conflict is that Mr. Gatsby has gained a vast fortune to win over his old love‚ Daisy‚ but his mysterious past and her husband stand in the way. The protagonist is Mr. Gatsby‚ a wealthy young man who is famous for the lavish parties he throws with the money he made through criminal activities and whose ultimate goal is to
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Freshman Composition 2 Professor: Feng-ming Chi 蕭湞燕 Pika final book report (draft 3) LAST LECTURE SUMMARY: Randy Pausch‚ a remarkable professor in Carnegie Mellon‚ delivered his last lecture and book entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" in 2007. Because he was diagnosed with terminal cancer‚ he was dying but he tried to leave what he wanted to educate his children in the future. After recalling his memory‚ he found that all meaningful things in his life were related to his childhood
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Book Report for the Catcher in the Rye By Jerome David Salinger Amy Zeng Mr. Poldiak 05/27/2013 Author Introduction The author of the Catcher in the Rye‚ Jerome David Salinger was born in New York in 1919. He is the son of a wealthy cheese importer. He grew up in a fashionable neighborhood in Manhattan. He graduated from Valley Forge in 1936 and attended different colleges. He published his first short story in 1940. He kept on writing when
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