The book that has had the most influence on me is called‚ A Quaker Book of Wisdom‚ by Robert Lawrence Smith. In my freshman year I was enrolled in a class called the History of Peace. The book was an optional part of the reading list. I will admit I didn’t read it that year‚ but when I cleaned out my locker‚ it was sitting there in a stack of books and I felt compelled to read it. Robert Lawrence Smith was a former headmaster of Sidwell Friends School in Washington‚ D.C. What I enjoyed about
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1. In Chapter 5‚ of Supercrunchers‚ "Experts versus Equations"‚ the author makes a great case for the fact that equations predict better than humans. What reasons does the author give that illustrate why a human cannot make predictions as well as an equation? Reason 1: the human mind tends to suffer from a number of well documented cognitive failings and biases that distort our ability to predict accurately. Reason 2: Once we form a mistaken belief about something‚ we tend to cling to it. We are
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English. Afi‚ a slave on the same ship as Amari‚ helps her get through tough times by talking to her. Amari finds her strength to get her through rough experience. After she arrives at the plantation she tries to save a baby from murder. She gets close to the other slaves‚ and makes a new friend‚ Polly‚ an indentured servant. Polly and Amari plan to make sure that Mr. Derby‚ the cruel and spiteful owner of the plantation does not know that his wife‚ Isabelle‚ the owner’s wife‚ had an affair with one
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Dear Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott‚ Ever wonder how to increase the graduation rates and set students one the right track with their education? Young students love to use technology and allowing students to use it in class will motivate them to do their work.I would like to introduce my opinion about digital natives to you. I believe that being a digital native can help a person in a variety of ways socially and educationally. Being a digital native can help a student‚ such as I‚ with
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Human society fears what they do not understand. When we observe something as unfamiliar we perceive it as a threat. This is what occurred in Salem‚ as dozens of people were hanged after being convicted of witchcraft. During Miller’s era Americans were persecuted by their own countrymen for believing in Communism. America feared Communism would take over the world just as the inhabitants of Salem thought evil spirits would overwhelm their mind‚ souls and eventually Salem itself. Fear can quickly
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A Review and Commentary On:A Time to Kill By John GrishamA Time to Kill written by John Grisham is a book that presents the high racial tensions in Canton Mississippi in the early 1990 ’s. The book opens with two young men‚ James Lewis Willard and Billy Ray Cobb‚ joy riding in their brand new yellow pick up truck decked out with Confederate flags. They speed though black neighborhoods throwing full beer bottles at people and houses‚ until they come across ten-year-old Tonya Hailey walking home from
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How to Write a Book Review Your opinion is important—don’t be afraid to voice it in a book review Writing a book review is not the same as writing a book report or a summary. A book review is a critical analysis of a published work that assesses the work’s strengths and weaknesses. A prominent reviewer can have a major impact on a book’s reception. Many authors strive to have their books reviewed by a professional because a published review (even a negative one) can be a great source of publicity
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Writing Resources Writing a Book Review View in PFD Format A critical book review is a thoughtful discussion of a text’s contents‚ strengths‚ and limitations. A book review should reflect your capacity to read critically and to evaluate an author’s arguments and evidence. Compose your review as you would any essay‚ with an argument supported by evidence‚ and a clear‚ logical structure. Initial Steps: 1. Read the book carefully‚ taking notes on material that you think may be relevant
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Essay: Katcinas Book Review by Matthew Sessions Peer Reviewer: Alison Wood Does the book review clearly address the Compliment guideline? In other words‚ does the book review tell you what the book’s author accomplished effectively and why? If not‚ what does the writer need to include? If yes‚ give the writer some constructive feedback about the strengths of their book review. You did really well in telling what Jesse Walter Fewkes does well in portraying in his book. I particularly liked that
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How to write a book review Perhaps the best way to offer guidelines on how to write a book review is to give you an example of the kind of instructions and guidelines we (i.e. the academic staff) would be given by journals who invite us to review books for them. So‚ here are the instructions given to authors by the ‘Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders’. “A book review should be an objective and tactful evaluation of a book. The review should offer logic and fact in support of its evaluations
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