The book I chose to read for my book report is called Spellbound by Janet McDonald. The plot starts with Raven living with her mother in the projects in New York City. Raven had a baby at sixteen and had to drop out of high school to take care of her baby boy‚ Smokey. She wants to be better than another high school dropout‚ project girl with few prospects. She wants to do it for her mother’s sake. Her baby’s sake. And for her own sake. She wants to show the ambition she has inside of her and to do
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Cultural Book Report Shelby Stansell Intro to Diversity for Education EDF 2085/ Section 020391 Professor Allison 25 February 2010 Our world is filled with various cultures that make it a beautiful place. When given the right tools children can see it that too. Many books and movies can show children how being different is great and help them learn about others’ cultures and lifestyles. Anansi the spider is a book that does just that. Anansi the Spider was written and illustrated
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Child Social and Linguistic Development in Nazi Germany As inspired by The Book Thief The language of 1939 Nazi Germany has taken a new tone‚ projected by a new voice of both pride and power‚ but laced with underlying blood and carnage. Yet‚ to the ears of a ten-year-old German girl named Leisel‚ these words are just a combination of letters that she can neither read nor fully understand. In Marcus Zusack?s The Book Theif‚ the time and place where Liesel lived and learned as a child had an instrumental
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Book Report On “GRENDEL” By: John Gardner Submitted By: Ian Gabriel Benetua Submitted To: Ma Graziella Sigaya Part I Setting: There are two main locations in which the story takes place. 1. Grendel’s Cave – A cave wherein Grendel stays to rest. He lives together with his mute mother. It was surrounded by the remains of dead carcasses and human bodies. The cave was dark and emitted a disgusting smell. Grendel was not happy living in such a place fit for animals. He thought of himself
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Nonverbal communication is usually described as the process of wordless communication through sending and receiving mostly visual symbols between people. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch‚ by body language or posture‚ or by facial expression and eye contact. Nonverbal messages could also be communicated through materials‚ objects‚ or artifacts such as clothing‚ hairstyles‚ and accessories. Speech contains nonverbal elements known as paralanguage. This includes voice quality
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which includes body movements‚ such as gestures‚ facial expressions‚ eye movements‚ and postures is known as body language‚ it is a very personal way of expressing yourself without words. One’s body language can carry a whole conversation without even saying a word. Sign language is an excellent example of this‚ another example would be when you talk with people nervously‚ you may continually shake your hands. If people pay attention to your hand‚ they may understand your body language. One can spend
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Party propaganda continuously‚ with no way for the person to turn it off or change the channel. Free thinkers are not tolerated‚ and the "Thought Police" are sent to capture the culprits. The Party is developing an official language called "Newspeak‚" whose goal is to simplify language by eliminating as many "extra" words as possible and reducing vocabulary to a small number of basic words‚ thus narrowing the range of thought. The protagonist of this story is Winston Smith‚ who works at the Ministry
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development‚ a book by Thomas Keenan‚ is an intriguing book that covers predominant issues in development of a child. The book is written well and it offers an exceptional covers of developmental psychology theories and techniques. Notably‚ the author has provided a grounding of principles which directs theory and research in modern child growth. Evidently‚ the book reviews research methods and theories which are quite significant in gaining substantial knowledge in developmental psychology. The book is wonderfully
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Book Report Date: Oct 2011 Name of the book: HATCHET Author : : Gary Paulsen Publishers : Simon Pulse Summary This book is talking about an adventure of a boy called Brian Robeson. He is thirteen-year-old. He is on his way to visit his father‚ a mechanical engineer in the oil fields of Canada. He fly to Canada with a single engine Cessna 406 bush plane. On their way to the airport‚ his mother gives him a hatchet. At first‚ he doesn’t want to wear it‚ but his mother is
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Book Report: Freakonomics Freakonomics‚ by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner‚ is an explanatory book that seeks to show the reader the truth behind economics through tying economic themes to pop culture ones. The almost guide-like book takes the reader on a trip that explains why people do the things they do and how it all relates‚ making comical connections like Sumo wrestlers to teachers. I found the book to be a delightfully enlightening piece of literature that taught me the ploys and tactics
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