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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he Catastrophic History of You and Me is about a girl who died of a broken heart. The concept immediately drew me in-a broken heart? Really? I just had to see what happened. I immediately knew that it was going to be a love story. Basically‚ the book starts out with Brie after death. She knows she died‚ but she’s wondering why she’s still on Earth. After her funeral and everything‚ she ends up at a pizza parlor. At the pizza parlor‚ there’s a guy who introduces himself as Patrick. Patrick helps Brie
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Book 3 of The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill has been a devastating section to read. Despite of various hardships that Aminata faced throughout book 1 and 2‚ she still managed to outcome them. However‚ in this section there had been breath taking events that had truly diminished Aminata’s hopes and dreams. The kidnapping of Aminata’s daughter‚ May‚ and the death of Chekura had severely broken Aminata’s will to live. No matter how hard life got for her‚ she never mentioned about wanting to kill
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Jean Twenge’s book‚ Generation Me‚ focuses on the 21st century generation where the effects of Baby Boomers and Generation Me have changed our society. Jean Twenge‚ a psychology professor at San Diego University‚ has done numerous scholarly journals to explain the positive and negative characteristics of the Millennials in order for the society to understand the generation. In addition‚ she suggested simple solutions to explain how her readers can help the 21st century generation who believes in
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I chose the book‚ “Knock Me Up‚ Knock Me Down‚” by Kelly Oliver. She points out her view that pregnancy was once looked upon as shameful in the middle nineteenth century‚ but because of Hollywood films‚ we are now able to change the way of how society use to think about it. Because of Hollywood films‚ pregnancy is now looked as beautiful and cute‚ but it also shows our fear of pregnancy. This book could be written to a casual film viewer‚ but it is more directly written towards women or even feminists
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A place that is important to me Everyone has their place to go their place to be when they want to be alone. Everyone needs to be alone‚ at some point or another; it is just necessary. Even if it is the drive to work you can think‚ maybe not zone out like I like to do when I want to be alone‚ because that would be bad‚ but you have quite and peace. You are able to talk to yourself and not be judge‚ you can think what you are going to do for the rest of your life who knows what people do when they
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1. The title Look For Me By Moonlight is relevant to the novel because the main character Cynda would meet the mysterious man staying at there hotel whom she had a crush on at moonlight every night. It is appropriate because Cynda grew very fond of Vincent by these visits every night‚ which lead to the main conflict. 2. It was approximately seventy pages before the author captured my interest in this book. This occurred when Vincent first started staying at the Inn. The mysterious man made
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This powerful quote from Paul Coehlo’s The Alchemist‚ is just one of the book’s messages that changed me. In this story‚ Santiago‚ a young shepherd‚ decides to give up his current life and follows his dream of finding lost treasure. By reading Santiago’s adventures‚ I was given the words to describe something I had always felt‚ the power to make my life what I want it to be. Through this majestic tale‚ Coelho provides the title for a work of art‚ but leaves it to me to paint the picture for myself. The Alchemist speaks abou
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Book: Meet me in Istanbul Author: Richard Chisholm The book is about: The story begins on Heathrow airport in London. Tom is going to Istanbul to see his fiancée. In the plane he sits next to a man named Kemal‚ they get along very well and Kemal gives Tom his phone number and says that Tom can call if he needs something while he’s in Istanbul. Tom thanks him and the separate. Tom remembered where he was supposed to go to meet Angela his fiancée. The Park Hotel‚ Taksim Square‚ then they would
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Superman and Me Pronouns In the autobiography “Superman and Me‚” Alexie uses an interesting strategy to show how his position has changed in the society as a “smart‚” “arrogant‚” and “lucky” Indian. He uses the strategy of shifting pronouns to show that he was an outlier‚ very different from the rest of his peers‚ and able to “save his life” through hard work. This strategy helps the reader to view his position and role in the society through different perspectives. He sometimes uses the pronoun
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