The Plot: The story starts out that there was a contest in which you needed to spell the word EVEREST. You needed to find the letters from bottle caps and wrappers. If you spelled the word EVEREST you would receive a wild card to an entry level at boot camp, where the winner would join the American Junior Alpine Association for four weeks on intensive training and competition. And at the end the top four climbers would earn places on Summit Quest team ever to attempt the worlds’ tallest peak.…
Lyddie in a sense is like Rosa parks because they both stood up for what is right. I feel like people should never label someone as something. I felt bad on how hard the girls had to work. I feel as if they didn't care for girls because the mills was killing them also making them sick and so on. If you could would you change any parts of the book? How did you feel when you were writing this book? Were you trying to teach people a lesson through your book? Do you think there is going to be more parts because I would like to see Lyddie and her family reunite. The way you wrote this book was mind astonishing,…
The fiction book Solider Boys, was written by Dean Hughes in 2001. The book takes place during WWII and talks about the war life, struggles, and thoughts of the boys from the Hitler Youth and the Americans.…
|Title of the Book: The AMAZING DAYS of ABBY HAYES#1---every Cloud has a Silver Lining |…
In the book the author, R.J. Palacio talked a lot about the main character's background, 1st person narrator, and description. The book is about a fifth grader named Auggie who has a disease that makes his face looks deformed. Auggie has a big problem making new friends because whenever someone looks at him they always make some kind of face. Most kids that do, don’t actually tease him they just can’t help but stop and stare. Auggie once grew his bangs out just so he couldn't see what people looked like when they saw his face.…
Naré Maghann Konaté (also called Maghan Kon Fatta or Maghan the Handsome) was a Mandinka king who one day received a divine hunter at his court. The hunter predicted that if Konaté married an ugly woman, she would give him a son who would one day be a mighty king. Naré Maghann Konaté was already married to Sassouma Bereté and had a son by her, Dankaran Toumani Keïta. However, when two Traoré hunters from the Do kingdom presented him an ugly, hunchbacked woman named Sogolon, he remembered the prophecy and married her. She soon gave birth to a son, Sundiata Keita, who was unable to walk throughout his childhood. Despite his physical weakness, the king still granted Sundiata his own griot at young age; this was in order to have them grow together and provide constant consultation as was custom.[1] With the death of Naré Maghann Konaté (c. 1224), his first son, Dankaran Tuman, assumed the throne despite Konaté's wishes…
Paul’s uncle, Joe, and cousin, Joe Jr., are foils in this “lass struggle” that ultimately fractures the Crown family and forces Paul to leave his uncle’s home to find work on his own. The behavior and work ethic of Joe. Who is born to wealth and privileged in America, is juxtaposed with that of immigration Paul. Jakes portrayed Joe Jr. as spoiled and without focus especially when compared to Paul’s mature approach to life and work.…
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” This is a famous quote said by Marcel Proust. Books over the centuries have had an influential impact on the lives of many. Arguably, there are none more influential than children’s books. Children’s books contain important life lessons and teach many children the basic values they will hold for the remainder of their lives. Examples of the best range from the well-known Dr. Seuss books, to the always-popular Winnie the Pooh books. Although those are historically popular, The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister, is one that should be kept in mind. With it’s enticing illustrations, simple and descriptive context, and lesson it portrays, the children’s book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister should be considered for a spot on the “Top 100 Children’s Books” list.…
In the book Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix is about the Governments rules and restrictions about having more then two children and in this essay I'm going to describe the three characters and how they resisted the Government. The book Among the Hidden is about Government controlling the population by limited the number of children people can have and how one boy Luke survives bing hidden in his house his whole life. I'm going to write about three main characters and how they resisted the population police. They can change the future by opposing the government and population police by helping the shadow children. I'm going to write about Luke, Jen and Mr. Talbot and how they defied the Government and population police. Luke resisted by getting a fake I.D, Jen resisted by creating the shadow children chat room and Mr. Talbot resisted by sabotaging the population police work. Each characters had there own way to combat the suppressive Government.…
I read the book Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. The story begins in a small town in Sterling, New Hampshire. At the high school, you read about a routine day of students in classes. As a student runs out of class to leave for an orthodontist appointment a loud bang goes off in the parking lot, which turns out to be a bomb set off in Matt's car. The students are confused by the noise and gun shots are fired. Patrick, the only detective on the Sterling police force (which is just stupid to have only one), hears on his radio about the shooting at Sterling High School. Patrick sees several students on the floor, surrounded in blood. The boy is dead and has a gunshot in his head while his girlfriend, Josie wakes up and cant…
The novel I chose for my book report is Hero, by Mike Lupica. It’s a fantasy novel and one in a series of books by the author dealing with the superpowers and the struggle of good versus evil.…
1. Buddha established a framework where the Sanga and shifted their focus overtime from wondering to settled cooperative communal existence. This development gave householder disciples a fixed focus for patronage and it strengthened the Sanga. Buddha empowered his enlightened disciples to act on his behalf and they spread the word of the Dharma to anyone that would hear it. The lesson that was taught was a new religion to follow and spread. High Gods intervened to request that Buddha live on and share his doctrine because they assured him to teach people enlightenment and this inspired Buddha and the lesson that was bestowed upon the householders were the four noble truths to the eightfold path.…
Since we spend at least half our waking lives on the job, we ought to like what we do. Fun on the job, in fact, ought to be a precondition for our careers. Whether you work within or help create a working environment, that environment simply must be a place where fun is not only an acceptable but an encouraged attitude on the part of the people in your organization.…
When you have to fight everyone to survive, would you fight? Would you still fight if it meant fighting against your loved ones? Eliezer, a Jewish teen, had to experience the gruesome moments when son’s killed their fathers for food and families turned on each other just to survive. He experienced how people were dying and would beg for food and all they would receive was silence or an insult. You had to learn how to survive in a concentration camp and surviving meant only caring for yourself.…
The movie Little Buddha follows the story of a boy named Jesse who lives in Seattle and is said to be the reincarnation of a dead monk named Lama Dorje. The monks bring Jesse and his father to Bhutan where him and two other children are to be determined if they are really the reincarnation of Lama Dorje. There is also a second story going on in the movie which shows how Siddhartha left his fathers kingdom and became Buddah. The movie follows many of the topics on Buddhism that we covered in class and gives a clear vision to what all the guidelines Buddhists have to follow to reach complete spiritual enlightenment. Although the ending of the movie is pretty vague on some things it gives a pretty good felling of what the life of a Buddhist is like and how spiritual they are and in touch with their inner souls.…