Earth Book Report This book report is written for Humanities III‚ and the instructor Mr. Stiles. It is on The Good Earth‚ written by Pearl S. Buck. It contains 368 pages‚ and was published by The John Day Company. This book is historical fiction‚ and it has won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. As it was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932‚ it was an important factor in Buck’s winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. It is the first book in a trilogy
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The Vanishing Love -----Book report of Martin Eden The Introduction of Marin Eden Martin Eden‚ semiautobiographical novel by Jack London‚ published in 1909. The title character‚ Martin Eden‚ becomes a writer‚ hoping to acquire the respectability sought by his society-girl sweetheart‚ Ruth Morse. She spurns him‚ however‚ when his writing is rejected by several magazines and when he is falsely accused of being a socialist. Interestingly‚ Ruth tries to win him back after he achieves fame‚ but Eden
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stories Freak the Mighty and Stargirl may seem like very different stories. One is a story about two boys becoming best friends and the other book is about two teens dating. But‚ if we look a little closer we can see that they are actually very similar. They share the common theme‚ “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” We see this theme all throughout the book Stargirl‚ when everyone doubts and judges the protagonist‚ Stargirl‚ for being very different. On the outside‚ she is a very outgoing and unusual
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Integrated Montessori Center SY: 2013-2014 Book Report of The Trojan Wars Submitted by: Natasha Beatriz Ancheta III- Radon Submitted to: Teacher Orlando C. Pascual I. Introduction a. Biography of the Author Edith Hamilton was a well-known educator and author. She is recognized as the “greatest woman Classicist”. She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way‚ her first book‚ was published in the year 1930. Hamilton had not yet been to Greece and was only writing about Greek mythology through
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Short Summary Robert Walton‚ an English adventurer‚ undertakes an expedition to the North Pole. While on this expedition (which has been a lifelong dream of his)‚ Walton corresponds with his sister by letter. Amid the ice floes‚ Walton and his crew find an extremely weary man traveling by dogsled. The man is near death‚ and they determine to take him aboard. Once the mysterious traveler has somewhat recovered from his weakness‚ Robert Walton begins to talk to him. They two strike up a friendshipÃ
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chosen a book report for my research vignette as I believe that book reports may be the easiest choice of a paper type for the A. Douglas Smith Lodge of Research No. 1949 member who would like to present his first paper to the lodge and the purpose which the Worshipful Master assigned me these vignettes was to demonstrate the process for members. I have chosen this book from among several that I have read in order to illustrate that a book that is not thought of as a Masonic book may well
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Tolkien‚ later fitted as a trilogy. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien’s earlier fantasy book The Hobbit and soon developed into a much larger story. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949‚ with much of it being written during World War II. It was originally published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955‚ and has since been reprinted numerous times and translated into at least 38 different languages‚ becoming one of the most popular works in twentieth-century literature. J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Chrysalids John Wyndham Book Report Static vs. Change: Waknuk did not want to change anything about their society‚ and wanted to keep fighting Deviations until the whole society was pure according to the way church and they think god says it. For this reason‚ they had no progress. More and more deviations were created in the society as‚ Waknuk wanting to stay the same grew. Example: The Sealanders say that they are against the Waknuk people because the Sealanders accept change‚ but the Waknuk
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Frannzen Linares Thursday‚ October 14‚ 2010 Knowledge Summary of Source. Report #1 - Charlemagne Robert Folz. The Coronation of Charlemagne(Book)‚ first written in french in 1964‚ this book is now available in English translation. Robert Folz is well known for his monumental studies of the legend of Charlemagne in the Middle ages. Robert Folz was a French medievalist and a specialist in the Carolignan era; for this
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My book report is on the book ‘Maniac Magee’ by Jerry Spinelli. The reason why I chose ‘Maniac Magee’ is because I love Jerry Spinelli books. They’re always very good. ‘Maniac Magee’ is kind of a ‘warm-your-heart’ book. I’ll tell you a little about the story‚ but not a lot‚ because I don’t want to spoil it for you! The story is about a young boy that runs away from his new home and the few new friends he meets along the way. Some of the characteristics about Magee are that he is sad a lot
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