The book that I chose to do my report on is called Life in Prison by Stanley “Tookie” Williams. Tookie Williams was the infamous founder of the notorious Crip gang. The main objective of this book is to dispel some of the street myths surrounding prison life and to steer people away from crime. Tookie first learned about prison from his friend older brother named Rock. Rock spent most of his time in and out prisons. Rock described prison as a gladiator school where men go to prove their toughness
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Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero (Book Report) I. Book title: “Vanity fair: A novel without a Hero” II. Author: William Makepeace Thackeray III. Theme: Thackeray wants his audience to realize how vanity itself can affect how people act. It is mainly a story about two girls with different outlooks in life; entangled in problems that neither of them could face well. IV. Main Characters: Miss Barbara Pinkerton – presiding over an Academy for Young ladies Jemima Pinkerton – sister
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coming of age story‚ Charlie must question his conventional notions of what is right and wrong as he navigates small town morality‚ racism and hypocrisy.’ In the novel ‘Jasper Jones’ written by Craig Silvey‚ the main character Charlie Bucktin experiences many life changing events that occur throughout the novel‚ which makes Charlie dramatically change his outlook on life. During the novel Charlie slowly uncovers that life in Corrigan is made up of rumours and lies. Charlie learns a great deal about
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THE BOOK REPORT Message of the Mountain [pic] Submitted by Gertrude Beatriz Lim 6-6 Submitted to Mrs. Miriam E. Rana Message of the Mountain is a Christian fiction written by Matilda Nordtvedt. The book has 135 pages with 30 chapters. The story takes place in Bellingham‚ Washington in the early 1900s. It was settled‚ the Johnsons were relocating to Bellingham‚ Washington; since Papa cannot sustain the work in the country. John liked the idea of moving to the city
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Book Report on Angels and Demons --From Opposition to Unity I’ve recently finished re-reading Angels and Demons‚ this time in English. The book was written by Dan Brown‚ an American author of thriller fiction. Most people probably know Dan Brown first through his bestselling novel in 2003‚ The Da Vinci Code‚ and I couldn’t help but fell into the same practice. Similar to The Da Vinci Code.This book presents a story in which the protagonist‚ Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon was summoned nearly
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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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Zachary Roderiques Book Report on Maniac Magee Which of Maniac’s activities do you think are impossible? Why? Which do you think are possible but not probable? I don’t think any of Maniac’s activities are impossible because he is capable of learning how to do every single one of them. I think the one activity that may be possible but not probable is the tying of Cobble’s Corners knot‚ because over many decades no one else could ever accomplish this feat. Would you like a friend
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One of the most famous of these accounts is told in Night by Elie Wiesel‚ which is a biography of his tragic times in Auschwitz‚ Buna‚ Gleiwitz‚ and Buchenwald. There is speculation that Elie actually was not in the concentration camps due to the fact that some of his information is not exactly correct (Yeager). Though it would be extremely hard for him to have
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Book Report TITLE: Call of The Wild AUTHOR & BACKGROUND: Jack Landon was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His best short stories are the Call of the Wild and White Fang. Mainly Landon wrote about animals‚ men and his stories were based off of life experiences. London lived his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. At the age of 17‚ he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. He changed his life when he was in a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it
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Book Report – One Child by Torey Hayden. In One Child‚ author and educator Torey Hayden retells the story of being a special educator in 1980. Placed in a small room with a diverse group of students‚ Torey Hayden is not your average educator. Her students call her by first name‚ she gets emotionally involved‚ and she even takes the desks out of her small classroom. Yet despite the challenges‚ she and her students come together successfully and begin learning. The class is thrown for a loop
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