The Temple of the Ruby of Fire Analyzed by Luis Angelo S. Guiang 1. Author: Geronimo Stilton 2. Lexile score: 392 3. Lexile of the Book: 440 4. Characters: Geronimo Stilton – A smart and timid mouse who does not like sports‚ editor of The Rodent’s Gazette. Thea Stilton – Geronimo’s sister and special correspondent of the Rodent’s Gazette. She is fearless and adventurous. Trap Stilton – Geronimo’s cousin who likes to play pranks on others. He eats a lot and he is the owner of the store
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In Bill O’Reilly’s thriller Killing Lincoln he opens the book with shifting point of views between Lincoln’s killer‚ John Wilkes Booth‚ and the front lines of the increasingly hostile Civil War. Taking place at the end of the war‚ O’Reilly goes into great detail describing the malicious battle between two famous generals. Robert E. Lee‚ general of the confederate army and Ulysses S. grant‚ general of the Union forces. Detailed plans for battle and battle strategies are explored for both the Union
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All Souls: A Family Story From Southie By Micheal Patrick MacDonald. (Ballentine Books under The Random House Publishing Corporation‚ 1999‚ 266pp. $14.00) Michael Patrick MacDonald saw hatred animated on a Friday in the early days of October. Some people were reading the newspaper in brightly lit kitchens. Some children were coloring with brightly hued crayons. Some fathers were getting into cars in front of their beautiful homes. But there were no crayons‚ bright kitchens‚ or fathers in
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deploy the architecture and landscape of enslavement on plantation and farms. 3- Fraser‚ V. (1990). The Architecture of Conquest: Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru‚ 1535-1635. New York; Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. This provocative book seeks to study the philosophy and practice of the colonial architecture of the towns‚ cities‚ and churches in Latin America‚ referring specifically to the Viceroyalty of Peru between 1535 and 1635. It focuses on the significant identity and characteristics
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SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK MARLEY AND ME Soon after their wedding‚ John and Jenny Grogan escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to a cottage in southern Florida‚ where they are hired as reporters for competing newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post‚ Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments‚ while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel‚ John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fire at the local garbage dump. When John senses Jenny
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happened in London‚ and how it completely changed glob view of urbanization. The book follows Dr. John Snow as he find the source of the outbreak and ultimately changed the way modern city-dwellers‚ city planners‚ physicians‚ and public officials think about the spread of disease and the development of the modern urban environment. His discovery was that the cholera come from contaminated water systems. The book also touches a lot on how urbanization is a positive and necessary trend for a healthy
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Night Journeys by Avi is a story‚ set in 1768‚ of a teenage orphan named Peter York who lives with Everett Shinn and his family in Pennsylvania. Mr. Shinn is the leader of the Quaker Community and the local Justice of the Peace. Peter‚ who has been promised by the Shinn family to be treated well in exchange for his horse‚ Jumper‚ and hard work on their farm‚ is presented with what he refers to as a great crisis. The details of this crisis are revealed as Peter becomes deeply involved in a manhunt
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The introduction used by Henkin was unique to the book. He utilized the story of Anthony Burns. A fugitive slave that was captured‚ Mr. Burns miraculously managed to write several letters from his jail cell in the state of Virginia‚ 1854. Mr. Burns managed to utilize the facilities postal system to communicate with his lawyer in Boston. Henkin used this story as a powerful introduction to the main portion of the book. The tome‚ The Postal age is broken down by Henkin into two distinct sections.
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Can you imagine what must have gone through the minds of the young soldiers who fought in Hitler’s army as Russia began its overpowering resistance of the Nazi from Russian soil? I couldn’t until I read Soldier X. Young Soldier X also known as Erik finds himself alone but alive in a long deep trench. Although he is a German citizen he speaks Russian and has Russian ancestry. Aware that the German war front is crumbling in Russia he continues to obey military instructions with the idea that he must
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Alonso Page 1Yolanda AlonsoMr. HackneyEnglish 10206/17/2016Help WantedIn the book “The Working Poor”‚ there is a chapter entitled “Work Works”‚ it expresses the idea that the United States acknowledges that not all people live the same lives. Some peoplehave lived tougher lives and do not have the same assets as their counterparts. Although people may struggle there are enough resources‚ and help to be successful in this country. Regardless of the circumstances or past problems individuals have
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