Gym Candy is a book written by Carl Deuker where it shows the ups and downs of the life of a football player‚ Mick Johnson. Mick Johnson was born into an athletic family of parents who were student athletes at the University of Washington. His dad‚ Mike Johnson‚ who used to play college football at Washington and made the NFL as a third-round pick to the San Diego Chargers out of college‚ got Mick into the sport of football at a young age. He taught his son all the fundamentals of the sport and got
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Zachary‚ M. 3. Author: Phillips‚ Michael‚ M. 4. Publisher: Broadway Books 5. Published: The Gift of Valor is the story of an ordinary young American‚ Marine Corporal Jason Dunham‚ who was mortally‚ wounded shielding his fellow Marines from a grenade. Dunham grew up in a working-class family in a small town in upstate New York. An indifferent student but an outstanding athlete‚ Dunham joined the Marine Corps right out of high school. The Marines fit him well‚ and he rose to the rank of Corporal
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Fight Club Book Report by Noga Livni Charles Michael Palahniuk‚ also known as Chuck Palahniuk‚ is an American novelist and a freelance journalist who was born in the early 60’. Fight Club – Palahniuk’s first novel which won many awards was also made into a film‚ directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt‚ Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter. Fight Club is the story of a young man‚ tired and frustrated with the way he runs his life – his nowhere-going job‚ his superficial relationships
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John Adams‚ by David McCullough The book‚ John Adams‚ by David McCullough‚ is a powerfully written biography of one of our nation’s greatest heroes. This biography explores Adams’ life in great depth‚ unveiling a side to his life unbeknownst to those who have never studied his life in great detail. Through diary entries‚ letters‚ and various other documents‚ the reader grasps a sense of what Adams’ day to day life was like‚ and is also able to grasp the enormity of his lifetime accomplishments
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the Khmer Rouge had invaded Cambodia after winning a five-year-long civil war. The Khmer Rouge came and forced all of the Cambodians out of their homes‚ took their money and more without explaining their reason. In the first chapter of book David Chandler’s book Voices from S-21‚ Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison‚ it talked about how after two weeks of fighting Dk (Democratic Kampuchea) had fled with all of their followers. On January 8 two Vietnamese photographers were drawn to a building
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Throughout the book “Founding Brothers” author Joseph J. Ellis writes about non-fictional events that have happened in the past. He mentions moments in post-revolutionary and inside the lives of the people known as our founding fathers. When seeing the order of the chapters you are able to see it going from bad to good just by the titles‚ they go from fighting in chapter one the duel to building a friendship out of it which is the final chapter the friendship. He first starts of the book by introducing
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Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska is a novel by John Green and is about a young man named Miles Halters. The book is set in Alabama at the boarding school‚ Culver Creek High School. Miles loves memorizing the last words of famous people and is looking to seek his “Great Perhaps” in his life. After moving into his dorm Miles meets Chip‚ or also known as The Colonel. The two moves the Colonels’ furniture into the boys’ dorm. Soon after Miles gets the nickname‚ Pudge‚ just to be ironic since he
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of J.curcas latex extract as potential antiparasite was tested against L3 H.contortus. In vitro anthelmintic activity of J.curcas was observed based on its ability to inhibit L3 H.contortus larval motility. Table## showed the larval inhibition (%) of J. curcas latex extract at various concentration against L3 H.contortus. To assess the anthelmintic performance of the plant‚ L3 H.contortus was exposed with the latex extract at concentration of 5mg/ml‚ 10mg/ml‚ 15mg/ml‚ 20mg/ml and 25mg/ml. The larvae
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On the other hand‚ in one of the many insightful historical comparisons made throughout this book‚ Davis sees the impact of today’s "neoliberal globalization" on Third World cities as very comparable to the ways in which nineteenth-century imperialism shaped rural life through "the forcible incorporation into the world market of the great subsistence
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Library Book Report Title: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Author: Ann Brashares Publisher: Random House Children’s Books © Copyright Date: 2003 # of pages: 336 Genre: Realistic Fiction Summary: Tibby Tomko-Rollins‚ Lena Kaligaris‚ Carmen Lowell and Bridget Vreeland have been best friends since childhood. In the beginning of their summer vacations‚ they find a pair of jeans that fits each one of them perfectly. They decide to share the pants as a magic symbol of their friendship
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