English Book Summaries!!! Time travelers wife – Audrey Niffenegger The time travelers wife is a heartfelt science fiction mixed with romance that grabs your attention from the start! Henry Detamble has grown up with a genetic disorder in which he is able to time travel. The start of the novel starts with a perplexing conversation between Henry Detamble and Clare Abshire. Going out to dinner later that evening Clare revealed something that Henry did not know. ‘it’s because for you none of this
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In Chapter One of Freakonomics‚ “What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common‚” the authors accentuate the argument that there are three types of incentives and that these incentives impel people to act a certain way. As Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner explain‚ “An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.” The authors later explain the differing incentives‚ stating that economic incentives are those in which a person responds
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Final Seminar Chapter 2: The Fire‚ closely follows the story of the 6 survivors or hibakusha‚ immediately after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Each individual struggles to find a place of refuge amongst the chaos as spot fires cover the entire city. There is an emphasis on the wounded and suffering as many of the survivors themselves suffer cuts‚ burns or radiation sickness along with those around them. There is speculation over what may have caused such destruction to the city
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A Separate Peace Summaries Chapter 1 - Gene goes to revisit the high school that he attending during World War II. Gene then arrives at the tree that made him come back to the school which makes him think about Finny and the time when they became best friends. He recalls how he and Finny were the only ones who jumped into the river from the tree and how they were friends because they could match each other. Chapter 2 - Finny informs Gene that there was a bombing in Central Europe. A teacher comes
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the residence of Jeremiah de Saint-Amour‚ who had committed suicide because he feared growing old. The characters are Dr. Juvenal Urbino‚ the deceased‚ a police inspector‚ and a medical student. The scene begins with Dr. Urbino making observations about the room in which they found the body and then briefly observing the body as well. He quickly decides that there will be no need for an autopsy because cyanide leaves behind an unmistakable smell and Saint-Amour was too knowledgeable to have done
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Welcome to the Universe shares what Tyson‚ Strauss and Gott are most passionate about with the hope that it will be contagious and motivate us to explore the universe. The book is divided into three sections‚ one for each author to enlighten us with what they know and have dedicated years of their lives prior to learning. The book starts off the first section Stars‚ Planets and Life with Neil deGrasse Tyson including some chapters by Strauss. With his ability to make difficult concepts accessible‚ his oratory
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1770" In the beginning of chapter two‚ my favorite part‚ Nahin talks about the "constructions dealing with the square roots of positive lengths". He talks about the impossibility of doing a geometric construction. He says that i was invited to make solving problems easier and more possible. The i takes the place of the square root of -1 when writing out mathematical procedures. My least favorite part was the complex writing of the book. I enjoyed learning about the history of the mathematicians
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Mills’s Chapter 2 titled‚ Determination and Consciousness in Marx showcases the varying ways to which an individual or society defines themselves through the material and non tangible things in life. His literary piece‚ and more so‚ this chapter focuses on how people from different societies are classified or categorized based on the level or amount of wealth they own or attain through their attempt towards upward social mobility. For instance‚ this determined level of consciousness in the Marxist
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Everything is Illuminated In the book Everything Is Illuminated is about a young Jewish-American writer who attempt to research his grandfather’s life in Ukraine. Jonathan is attempting to find his grandfather’s shtetl‚ Trachimbrod. He only has a map and a photograph of a woman named Augustine‚ who is said to have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Jonathan’s guide on his trip is Alex‚ a young Ukrainian man. They are both twenty-one. Their driver is Alex’s grandfather‚ who claims to be blind
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Chapter 4: 1. Elie’s first impression of the camp at Buna was that it looked empty and dead as if an epidemic had hit. 2. Elie and his father have to work in a factory where they fix electrical circuits. 3. The Jewish dentist is caught stealing the prisoner’s gold teeth and was ordered to be hung. 4. The part of Elie’s body that is aware of the passage of time is his stomach because he goes a long time without getting anything to eat. 5. Idek accused Elie’s father of being lazy
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