For the Historical Book Report I decided to read April Morning by Howard Fast. This book takes place in the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Adam Cooper‚ one of the main characters‚ is a fifteen year old who lives with his family in Lexington‚ Massachusetts. He is oppressed ( as the book says) by his father‚ Moses Cooper‚ which means to keep someone in subservience and hardship. Not only does Adam get watched over ‚ but his father questions whether or not his son is a man or not. This effects
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About the Gilbreth Family In the novel Cheaper By the Dozen written by Frank Jr Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey is a memoir about their family’s style of living. It talks about how the family worked together as a group helping each other out. It also mentions that the family has a family council in which people do different things like for example a few people are supposed to buy things for the family. If shows that a family should be for each other in everything‚ for example‚ in the movie
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Taylor Swan In Defense of Food Book Report In the book “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan‚ you will discover an abundance of information about what food is‚ what is considered food now‚ and how we are affected by this transformation of the western diet. The idea of how to eat well has been distorted many times by the industry and scientists throughout the United States. Essentially anything that has been man-made in a lab or factory is not something that your body should be ingesting
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exactly what happens in the book‚ which this report is about. The Whipping Boy is a fiction book by Sid Fleischman‚ Winner of the 1987 Newbery Medal. Sid Fleischman was born in Brooklyn‚ New York‚ on March 16‚ 1920‚ and grew up in San Diego‚ California. He wrote more than 60 books for adults as well as for children. The Whipping Boy is one of them‚ which has been made into a movie. The Whipping Boy is an 18th century European adventure story that is funnier than any book I have ever come across. However
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The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930’s lived. The novel tells of one family’s migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930’s. The bank took possession of their land because the owners could not pay off their loan. The novel shows how the Joad family deals with moving to California‚ and how they survive the cruelty of the landowners that took advantage
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October 11‚ 2013 Period 1 Maze Runner Book Report Thomas is the narrator and protagonist of the story. He arrives in the maze with no knowledge of who he is or was. He only remembers his name and nothing else about his life. Thomas proves to be brave and clever even though he only has a very limited memory of previous knowledge of the Maze. Since arriving in the maze‚ Thomas makes both friends and enemies and proves to be a leader among the other boys with him in the maze. Teresa is a
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Lichen Zhu MKT 452 Book report May 5‚ 2015 The managerial Odyssey is a book written by Robert L. Focazio‚ talks about several aspects a salesperson needs to pay attention on‚ such as motivation‚ self-control‚ guidelines of making sales‚ and notes to be a successful manager. This book has three sections‚ the first section called “three rules for the road”. The first rule Robert mentions is “ you have to have fun to become successful”. He thinks having fun is essential to success‚ and this would
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Kyle Duncan 12-7-11 Book Report (Deep Zone) 3rd Block Plot Summary The characters are Thane‚ Ty‚ Troy‚ Tate‚ and Agent Sutherland. Ty is this story’s main character. Thane is his older brother and an NFL star. Ty meets Troy and Tate in Miami at the football tournament. Agent Sutherland is an FBI agent protecting Ty from the mob while Thane is away. The setting is in Miami and in the swamp. At the beginning of the story‚ they are at a football game‚ when Thane is going up for a touchdown
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Another book that we have to read together as a class‚ ugh. Class readings were never a passion of mine‚ but Strength in What Remains was something different. The story of a young man escaping genocide‚ boarding a plane‚ and becoming a successful person in New York City amazed me. Which made me think; if he had people in his life which made a difference‚ are there inspirational people who pushed and influenced me? Little did I know that there were so many more people who impacted me than I thought
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Book Report for the Catcher in the Rye By Jerome David Salinger Amy Zeng Mr. Poldiak 05/27/2013 Author Introduction The author of the Catcher in the Rye‚ Jerome David Salinger was born in New York in 1919. He is the son of a wealthy cheese importer. He grew up in a fashionable neighborhood in Manhattan. He graduated from Valley Forge in 1936 and attended different colleges. He published his first short story in 1940. He kept on writing when
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