Lord of the Flies By: William Golding The book I chose for this book report is titled‚ Lord of the Flies‚ and William Golding writes it. I chose this book due to the high amount of hype behind it. It’s a very mysterious book with many great symbolic twists added in‚ along with my liking of the type of book‚ especially the topic of this particular novel. It was published in 1954 by‚ The Berkley Publishing Group. There were a handful of main characters of the story. The protagonist is‚ of course
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planes‚ and WWII with that being said I chose the book The Blond Knight of Germany: A biography of Erich Hartmann by Raymond Toliver and Trevor Constable. It is a non-fiction story of the life German Luftwaffe ace pilot Eric Hartmann and how he became the greatest combat pilot of all time. II. Erich Hartmann flew for The Luftwaffe which was the aerial warfare branch of the German Wehrmacht during World War II. This is a more obvious theme of the book but is one that occurs more frequently than any
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Black Angels Particulars: Black Angels‚ a historical fiction book by Linda Beatrice Brown published in 2009 Main Characters: Luke- An 11-year-old slave who escapes hoping to head north and join the Union Army. Daylily- A 9-year-old slave who is freed by her owner while union troops are destroying the town. She runs into the woods with her grandmother and her friend but both her grandmother and friend die leaving her alone in the woods. Caswell- A white seven-year-old who’s mother goes into labor
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1. The woman in the photograph is Henrietta Lacks. She had seen the picture many times in magazines and science textbooks‚ on blogs and laboratory walls. Rebecca Skloot may start to write this book to know about Henrietta Lacks. She was staring at the photo for a long time and she always had wondered about Henrietta Lacks’ life story. Rebecca Skloot went to an alternative school after she had failed her freshman year at a regular public high school. She took a biology class at a community college
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20120625 Book Report Rifleman Dodd By C.S. Forester LCpl Barbaglia‚ Anthony General Support Platoon MTM Company 3rd Maintenance Battalion CLR 35 III MEF Rifleman Dodd is a very interesting book that tells a story of a young soldier who is separated from his comrades during the battle in the 1800’s. This book goes on to describe everything that Matthew Dodd had to go through in order to return back to the fight with his friends. Rifleman Dodd had ran into several problems during his journey
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Oliver Sacks From the outside‚ we all look roughly the same‚ but if you delve into the world of our minds some people stand out as subtly different. Oliver Sacks was a Neurologist and Author. He wrote several books including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat‚ Migraine and An Anthropologist on Mars. My favourite cases are some of the weirdest ones. For example‚ who would… or COULD mistake their wife for a hat. Dr P was a professor of music at a university. He frequently makes silly mistakes
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Book Report on "The Lost World" Characters: The main character in the book is Ian Malcolm‚ a middle aged mathematician and a little bit of an explorer. The man who set up the exploration‚ Richard Levine‚ is a rich and reckless yet well known adventurer who spends a lot of his time and money exploring different places around the world and helps at a middle school to give students of ideas of careers in science. Sarah Harding is a zoologist who was hired to possibly deal with some of the
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The Book Report of Robinson Crusoe Reading Defoe’s" Robinson Crusoe"‚ it lets me know that the importance of the courage and knowledge. He dares to insist his own dream in the face of his father’s objection. In addition‚ it’s not a coincidence that Robinson could survive in a no human habitation on the island alone for 28 years‚ but his wisdom and knowledge. This figure impressed me a lot‚ and his courage and wisdom become a monument in my heart! I would like to share some pieces of this book
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The Long Tail Book Report The definition of "The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson is that the more a society advances‚ the more companies will expand the diversity of their products to cater to specific groups of people instead of turning to the popular ’hits’ as the only product. And as more products become available‚ people’s taste will expand creating more markets. As the book quotes Kevin Laws for saying‚ "The biggest money is in the smallest sales" (Anderson 23)‚ meaning that there are a huge amount
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I. Introduction My choice for my book report is the lightning thief by Rick Riordan‚ it was called the lightning thief because Percy Jackson who is the protagonist of the story was accused of stealing the weapon of Zeus (the lightning bolt) Percy had two friends in camp half-blood namely Grover and Annabeth. These two people help our hero Percy in his quest to prove that he did not steal the lightning bolt from Zeus. There is also Luke‚ the real lightning thief‚ who acted nice to Percy in order
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