The Author of this book (On our own terms: race‚ class‚ and gender in the lives of African American Women) Leith Mullings seeks to explore the modern and historical lives of African American women on the issues of race‚ class and gender. Mullings does this in a very analytical way using a collection of essays written and collected over a twenty five year period. The author’s systematic format best explains her point of view. The book explores issues such as family‚ work and health comparing and
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Newberry Honor book. This story takes place in the town of Buxton‚ Canada during the mid 1880’s. Elijah of Buxton is told in first person point of view with Elijah being the main character. Elijah‚ an eleven-year-old boy‚ was the first child born free in the town of Buxton. Cooter is Elijah’s best friend‚ but would sell him out in a second to save his own skin. The Preacher is actually just Zephariah‚ but he loves to exaggerate everything including his own name. Elijah was always considered a fragile
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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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A Child Called It A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. Dave was a survivor of the third worst case of child abuse in California history. He has recapped no some of his abuse in this book. David’s story was so sad but interesting cause of all the things that has happened. I would recommend this book to other people because it puts your life in a different prospective. The setting of this story is mainly at his house and his school. There are 5 main characters in this story and that is his
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wasn’t that close but still you miss them. This story is about two sister who have grown together in the same house. She both took care of each other. One sister was Katie and one was Lynn. Lynn took care of Katie since she was born.The title of the book is Kira Kira because this is where they life had started to change. Kira kira means glittering in Japanese. This was the first that Lynn every thought Katie when she was a child. “Lynn told me that when I was a baby‚ she used to take me onto our empty
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“A book is a gift you can open again and again‚” wrote Garrison Keillor. People read all the time. They read for information‚ for escape‚ for entertainment‚ for instruction‚ for guidance. They read recipes and tweets and texts. They read newspapers‚ blogs‚ and Facebook replies. In a recent survey by Pew Research‚ the number of people who actually read a book in the past year was 72 percent in 2015. I am one of those. As I consider my reading experiences‚ I realize they represent the journey I have
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Lichen Zhu MKT 452 Book report May 5‚ 2015 The managerial Odyssey is a book written by Robert L. Focazio‚ talks about several aspects a salesperson needs to pay attention on‚ such as motivation‚ self-control‚ guidelines of making sales‚ and notes to be a successful manager. This book has three sections‚ the first section called “three rules for the road”. The first rule Robert mentions is “ you have to have fun to become successful”. He thinks having fun is essential to success‚ and this would
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Elijah Pickens 6th / 7th period 3/25/13 The book I read was Son of Neptune‚ by Rick Riordan. It was 513 pages long. The setting of the book Son of Neptune primarily took place in Camp Jupiter in California. The book says‚ "The geography could’ve been anywhere in northern California." An example showing that it took place in Camp Jupiter is‚ "Thank you‚ Percy Jackson‚ for bringing me to Camp Jupiter."It is a camp for Roman demigods and it is basically New Rome. Demigods have one
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Lloyd and LeAlan’s take on the Ida B. Wells Introduction This book is called Our America: Life and Death on the Southside of Chicago written by Lloyd Jones and LeAlan Newman (1997). The nonfiction book is not part of a series‚ therefore it stands alone. Not only is LeAlan and Lloyd the authors but they are also the main characters in the novel. LeAlan and Loyd grew up in the inner streets of Chicago. They know from first hand what is is like to live here‚ because they both have lived here since
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The meaning of independence” is a book on the political journey of the three important men namely john Adams‚ George Washington and Thomas Jefferson‚ who were the first to seek independence for themselves and their country people. This is a beautiful book is written by Edmund S. Morgan in 1976. Who was also the writer of popular books such as Benjamin Franklin (2002) ‚ Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988)‚ which won Columbia University’s Bancroft Prize
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