The book I chose this week is called "Tjatjakaymatchan (Coyote) A legend from Carmel Valley" by Alex O. Ramirez and is a Native American tale about why the coyote calls into the night. I would categorize this book as fiction because of the talking coyote and fox. I decided to read this book because of my Choctaw heritage and it reminded me that many first people languages and stories are vanishing into the time because they not written down most of the time. The most interesting piece of information that I found was about why this book was published and it was because the writer's friends encouraged him to write down his memories of his Elders so that they would not fade into time. I also thought his illustrations were interesting because unlike…
The book that I would like to do for this book report is called Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. In this book it talks about a good story about a boy willing to do anything for a dog that he loves. While with the author some things that I found interesting is that she is best known for her children and young adult stories that are in fiction. Also before she even started writing she worked as a teacher and an editor before writing full time om 1960. This is very interesting because it shows that even though she didn’t start off as a writer she still had big success onto what she wrote and so on.…
As we look at our current economical status, we see how the global financial market is in turbulence due to changes in demographics. To subdue these changes Costco has constantly tried to pull in and retain customers. This allows them to keep a strong position in market share and acquiring profits. Costco is in the membership wholesale industry that provides merchandize at a much lower price than others. Although Costco is one of the biggest companies in the USA, there are many strengths and weaknesses in their strategy. Taken that Costco has many competitors, it must continue to respond to industry pressure through innovation. Considering the many accomplishments of Costco, there are many things they can improve on. Increasing profitability…
In the short story, “Your Question for Author Here”, by Kate Dicamillo and Jon Scieszka, Joe Jones faces a conflict with an author, Maureen O’Toople. Joe has to write a letter to this author for a school project, but he really doesn’t want to do this because he just doesn’t care, and is lazy about it as well. This was a person versus person conflict because Joe Jones was having a problem with Maureen O’Toople. In the beginning of the story, Joe was assigned a project by his literacy teacher that he didn’t want to do. All he wanted was answers from Maureen, but he was asking her for answers in a very rude way. Joe Jones said, “Please send a bunch of author stuff so we can get this over with”(101). This shows that Joe terribly doesn’t want to…
I chose the biographical nonfiction book With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen B. Oates. As one may guess, the book is about our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. I am generally interested in Abraham Lincoln anyways, and I have heard good things about this book, so I decided to read it for the extension project, which made me part of Oates’ intended audience.…
I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973," Susie Salmon tells us in the second sentence of The Lovely Bones. She shows us who did it—a neighbor everyone thinks is weird—and describes the horrible scene, a brutal assault and dismemberment in an underground hideout in a bleak winter cornfield. Sebold's triumph is in making Susie's voice so immediately compelling that we don't want to let her go, even after she's dead. We want to know what happens next. So does Susie.…
Pam Muñoz Ryan, has written over 25 books for young people including the novel, Esperanza Rising, winner of the Pura Belpre Medal, the Jane Addams Peace Award, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults, and the Americas Award Honor Book. Her novel,Riding Freedom has garnered many awards including the national Willa Cather Award, and the California Young Reader Medal. Her picture books for the very young and picture books for older readers, include the award-winning Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride andWhen Marian Sang, the recipient of the ALA Sibert Honor and NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award. She received her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees at San Diego State University. She now lives in north San Diego County with her husband and four children.…
Anne Bradstreet's The Author to Her Book describes the complex attitude of the author - specifically the attitude of an author towards her work. Through use of a controlling metaphor, that of a child, Bradstreet manages to convey all of her feelings towards one of her works.…
give the reader emotional devistation because if all the gothic elements such as the violence and the messed up religious elements. The short stories that she creates give off an uncongenial feeling and possesses the readers feelings towards the stories. Many of these stories have both violence and religious aspects to them. Fate plays a big role in the stories climaxes. Either the main character or the antagonists encounter what seems to be fate and start off violent but end up as if they saw the errors of their ways or felt as of a higher power has accepted them. In the end of AGMIHTF the characters encounter the anyogonist right after they crash. They meet him by fate. Fate is not always a good thing. Later on the violence in the story happens when the whole family is murdered by them. The antagonist in this story understands that what he did is not right and he can act as a Christ figure because he brought the thoughts of people out of them as if they were confessing something to him. In The Circle in the Fire the antagonists violently burn down everything around the barn, and then danced around it as if they felt like they needed to do and if a higher power has accepted them. The impact her endings give off are disastrous and thought provoking leaving the reader in awe.…
Sarah Orne Jewett: Changing Society Through Writing Sarah Orne Jewett had a challenging life, struggling with rheumatoid arthritis and the death of her father in the late 1800’s. Amidst these challenges, she continued to write excellent novels that challenged the customs of the time (GVRL 2009). A famous saying of hers states, “How seldom a book comes that stirs the minds and hearts of the good men and women of such a village as this” (GVRL 1997).…
THE GLENCOE LITERATURE LIBRARY Study Guide for The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton i Meet Virginia Hamilton could take a slice of fiction floating around the family and polish it into a saga. irginia Hamilton has won many awards and honors as a writer of fiction and nonfiction and a reteller of folktales. She is the first author to receive the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award for the same book—her 1974 novel for young people M.C. Higgins, the Great.…
Last year I read a book called hope: A memoir of Survival in Cleveland. I decided I wanted to read this book after I had heard the story of the girls that wrote the book on the news. There was 3 girls Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Amanda and Gina wrote this book and Michelle wrote her own.…
A fresh, personal, bottom-up approach to the women’s labor movement in the early 20th century…
I chose this book because (respond in at least 2 sentences): I choose the book 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas'…
I enjoyed the book of Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare because it was a story that. It never left me bored. It was intriguing. Another reason I liked it is it taught me about puritan life and what it truly was. There were many main characters in Witch of Blackbird Pond like Judith, Mercy, Kit, William Ashby, John Holbrook, Nat, Hannah Tupper, Matthew Wood, and Mrs.Wood. My favorite Character would be Mercy because she is so sweet and talented. She is so kind to everyone. Another reason I find Mercy enjoyable is even though she is disabled she still works as much as anyone else. I think the most surprising part of the book was when all the peaceful colonist burned down Hannah Tupper's house. I would recommend this book to…