The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green takes place in Culver Creek‚ Alabama. This book was pleasurable to read and is recommended. The exposition of the story begins when we are introduced to the main character‚ Miles‚ a very intelligent teen‚ who didn’t have any friends at his old school. He leaves his home in Florida to go to a boarding school in Culver Creek‚ Alabama. There‚ he meets his roommate Chip also known as “the Colonel” and Chips best-friend Alaska. Chip and Alaska are both extremely
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1. When the book first starts off the book talked about mr. Peabody and how he catches the baseball teem. This reminds me of when I was a little girl and played t-ball and soft ball. I could remember being Luton the field waiting for the ball. However‚ I wasn’t as expected about playing as Billy is in the book. I like to play the game to a point but standing out in the field I got bored and would play with my glove or in the dirt. 2. There is one part in the book were mr. Peabody teaches Tommy
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lost in a violent accident‚ and suddenly‚ the life she was accustomed to fades away with betrayal and abandonment from those closest to her. Now‚ she must go on a journey with her newfound friend‚ Brandy Alexander‚ and adapt to the changes‚ or as the book puts it‚ “When did the future switch
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Elizabeth‚ and although she rejects him at first with cold civility‚ throughout the book‚ both their character changes as they learn more about each other‚ and amidst many transitions‚ finally reach conjugal felicity in the end. 2) One of the themes in Pride and Prejudice is what a hasty first impression and judgment can mislead to. As it’s original title was “First Impressions”‚ there are many scenes in this book that show just how important and destructing a first impression may be. Just like
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and also a non-fiction writer in America. The book ‚ published in 2005 ‚ is more a autobiographical book than a novel because the whole story is based on the author’s personal experience with his beloved dog Marley. So ‚ the author John Grogan and his wife Jenny ‚ are also the leading characters in Marley and me . The book is such a hit that in 2008 a movie was adapted from it ‚ which also is very successful. Told in first-person narrative ‚ the book focuses on the 13 years that John and his family
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While a review along the lines of “Goal readers are now doing the best work of their lives” might seem like hyperbole for most books‚ it is surprisingly accurate for Eliyahu Goldratt’s book. Perhaps part of The Goal’s allure is the fictional novel format in which it is written‚ setting it apart from other books focused on explaining a method. The novel starts with its main character‚ Alex Rogo‚ struggling to create success for a manufacturing plant making some fictional product and a threat that
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twenty-seven years and his History‚ was left incomplete. Over the course of eight books‚ with a total of twenty-six chapters‚ Thucydides analyses‚ narrates‚ and debates the history surrounding this monumental event. With this book‚ modern historians can better understand the nature of these times and discover the essential background information needed to piece history together. Although Thucydides has attempted
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In the book‚”Bull Run”‚ it tells the story of multiple people’s perspectives in the American Civil War. Reading the book‚ I learned a lot about the horrors of the Civil War and what it was like trying to get into military and what it was like being in the military. In the book‚ there was a character named Gideon Adams who was black‚ and tried getting into the military. Normally‚ black people wouldn’t be allowed to join the military‚ but his skin was just light enough to get into the military‚ but
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It’s about 11:30 and Detective Tyler Moore is grabbing a cup of coffee as the elevator dings. He turns around‚ about to head back to his desk‚ expecting a wandering drunk or new victim‚ instead drops his coffee at the horrifying scene that had dropped out of the elevator and was now lying motionless and bleeding all over the hallway floor and wall. Snapping himself out of a thunderstruck state‚ he rushes over‚ adrenaline pumping‚ to the mud caked‚ figure barely covered with an even dirtier sheet
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worldwide as of this year. The book Disposable People is about this new form of slavery. Author‚ Kevin Bales tells stories varying from five different countries; Thailand‚ Mauritania‚ Brazil‚ Pakistan‚ and India. Through these stories we see how each country contributes to this idea of modern day slavery. Bales was on a mission to feed his curiosity to find out which circumstances and forces needed to be present for
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