He tries to lure Daisy with his extravagant wealth. This caused Gatsby to throw a party for everyone‚ and invited Nick‚ and his cousin Daisy. Gatsby’s life is full of deceit‚ and lies‚ and misfortune when it comes to love. The moral of the story to me is that money cannot buy you love. This is expressed when Gatsby tries to get with Daisy. He has everything he wants‚ when it comes to money‚ however when it comes to love‚ he has nothing. Gatsby fails at his attempt to make Daisy love him. So Gatsby
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Freshman Composition 2 Professor: Feng-ming Chi 蕭湞燕 Pika final book report (draft 3) LAST LECTURE SUMMARY: Randy Pausch‚ a remarkable professor in Carnegie Mellon‚ delivered his last lecture and book entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" in 2007. Because he was diagnosed with terminal cancer‚ he was dying but he tried to leave what he wanted to educate his children in the future. After recalling his memory‚ he found that all meaningful things in his life were related to his childhood
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character throughout the book was definitely Big Mike‚ I love how complex of a character the director made him. Appearance wise‚ Big Mike looked big and tough‚ he was the type of boy that you would walk the opposite direction when you see him on the street‚ but when you see him in the movie you discover how kind hearted he is. A classic example of this is when Big Mike is first playing football and he doesn’t tackle anyone because he doesn’t want to hurt anyone. He reminds me of a giant teddy bear
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producibility. Zaroff is one of the best hunters in the world and that rainford serviced the 3 days and tricked Zaroff shows he was the better survivor. A man named rainford crashed landed on a island the island was inhabited by 1 man general Zaroff. In the book Zaroff is the greatest hunter of all time animals get to easy to hunt so he starts to hunt humans for sport. In the Most dangerous game the main character rainford crash lands on the island and heard gunshots.In the story rainford says "Somewhere
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Haley Krough Mr. Hallgren English II 4th 02-07-10 Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis wrote Elijah of Buxton‚ a 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
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Silent Spring 1. A. I was captivated with the way Carson began the book with the imaginary town that had suffered plagues due to pesticides. She then went on to say that these were based off real events that happened all over the country. Also it was fascinating how much Rachel Carson new about carcinogens and the ill effects of pesticides such as cancer and birth defects. This was at a time when this was not a wide spread fact. B. The protagonists in this novel are nature and the public
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as someone with ulterior motives so I need to make it very clear that I’m just a human being who wants to be friends with people. This was the clearest way I could understand how double consciousness worked for black people. Double consciousness to me is like watching a film of yourself and making sure that everything you do cannot be misconstrued as something else. How about for white people? Can any small act they do be misconstrued as oppression against other races? Of course there are explicitly
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Equiano’s tone of writing is humble. The purpose of the book is not for his own vanity or pride but to capture the power his faith which guided him through slavery until the point of his freedom. As the chapters unfold‚ Equiano establishes an authentic account of his plan to abolish the horrors of slavery by creating physical written text to illustrate the magnitude of the abuse and suffering slaves endured. The book maintains his reports of impassioned and emotionally centred rants against the
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Human Growth & Development | Book Report | | Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom What is the book about? Tuesdays with Morrie is a true story about sportswriter Mitch Albom and his favorite college professor‚ Morrie Schwartz. During Mitch’s undergraduate years at Brandeis University‚ he and Morrie form a bond that goes beyond a typical student/teacher relationship. After graduation‚ Mitch promises to stay in touch with his professor and
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Language Arts Book Report Name of the Book: A Reacher novel:61 hours by Lee Child. This title is related to the book because the entire book is a countdown recollection of events that leads up to the climax‚ where Reacher and Plato‚ the protagonist and antagonist fight. It begins with 61 hours before the main fight. Author: Lee Child. The main protagonist of the novel is Jack Reacher‚ an ex-military policeman that spends the majority of his time as a “nomad‚” wandering around the states‚ looking
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