a child soldiers like his friends traveling with him. Of course‚ because of the current state of his country‚ Beah is worried after the UN conference that he might be killed returning to Sierra Leone. Nonetheless‚ Beah feels leaving that if he died on the way back that he would die happy because he spoke up to try to help the practice of child soldiers. Given the young age of Beah when he is enlisted as a child soldier‚ it is understandable that he has trouble when he is entered back into society
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I’m talking about is the book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. The book is about a young married couple and their life. In the book‚ the wife ends up missing and make it look like her husband had something to do with it and tries to frame him. Gone Girl has many sexual scenes‚ has lots of profanity‚ and also is very violent. This is why I personally think that this book should not be allowed in our school library because of what it brings to the table. As I stated before Gone Girl has super sexual parts
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The Long Way Home an American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War‚ written by David Laskin‚ who graduated at Harvard with a degree in history and journalism. After he graduated at Harvard‚ Laskin went to Oxford University to receive an MA in English. The United States welcomes many immigrants from different countries. In the book‚ The Long Way Home‚ Laskin talks about twelve soldiers immigrating to the United States‚ and gives a background information on their lives‚ leading to them becoming
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On first impression while reading Ishmael‚ the fact a gorilla is teaching the reader about the human race is almost insulting. At second glance however‚ one realizes the primate has a better perspective on human action. Always viewing our civilization from afar‚ he is able to notice certain aspects of our nature that are so natural to us; we are blind to their destructiveness. Although some of Ishmael’s analogies may seem far-fetched‚ the points he makes with them are frighteningly true. The
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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to The Great War is a riveting tell-all of the hardships twelve immigrants endured on their journey‚ arrival‚ and duration in America during the Great War. Author‚ David Laskin‚ a Harvard graduate with a degree in history and literature‚ expresses his take on the “forgotten” war‚ justly representing the traumatizing immigration over to America‚ the fight to survive upon arrival and the milestone in their journeys‚ with the conversion into a
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I have a standard deal with my students that if they recommend a book to me‚ I will read it. One of my students recommended Ishmael by Daniel Quinn‚ which turned out to be my least favorite book ever. After the first half‚ I jotted down some of the reasons why. Here is a list of problems I have with the book‚ most of which are either logical fallacies or just rhetorical stunts that annoy me. replacing the progress fallacy with the doomsday fallacy Quinn argues against the assumption that things
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The character Ishmael in “Moby Dick” can simply be described as a young man the uttermost exceptional out of the crew‚ though his survival is unclear on behalf of that fact that he never had a direct adversary to overcome. Ishmael and I have quite a few things in common that would cause me to conclude that we can relate to each other‚ resembles myself and says something about me. While moving out to see out of some deep spiritual malaise and that shipping abroad a whaler is his version of committing
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Ibrahim had to prove his faith in Allah. God had granted Abraham a son named Ishmael after many years of deep prayer. When Ishmael reached (the age of) (serious) work with him‚ God decided to test their faith in him. Abraham had a recurring dream‚ in which God was commanding him to offer up for sacrifice – an unimaginable act – his only son Ishmael. Abraham knew that the dreams of the prophets were divinely inspired‚ and one of the ways in which God communicated with his prophets. When the intent of the dreams
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1. How did Ishmael Beah’s grandmother explain the local adage that “we must strive to be like the moon” (p. 16)? Why has Ishmael remembered this saying ever since childhood? What does it mean to him? • She explained it as we need to be good and always on our best behavior. This is one of the few things Ishmael has been able to remember since his childhood was destroyed. To him‚ it means there is still a piece of his childhood that has not been shattered by the war. 2. As Chapter 2 begins‚ we flash
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