Perhaps the most striking part of Blood and Thunder is the famed and fabled Kit Carson himself. He begins the book as a duty-driven youth who is able to kill anyone or anything without a sense of remorse‚ likely because of his experiences with the harshness of life as a child. However‚ once he begins to have a family—a real family‚ one he raises and takes care of and looks after—he begins to shift. Carson begins to balk at some killings‚ even going so far as to decry the killing of indian warriors
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Brandon MacPherson 9/7/08 Gates of Fire The book I read during the summer for world history was Gates of Fire‚ written by Steven Pressfield. Essentially‚ this book is about the Battle of Thermopylae and the events that took place during those times. The author is trying to tell the story through one’s perspective. In this book‚ one learns of the conditions at the battlefield during war and how it was to go to war as a young man. This book highlights many details in the battles fought in
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took six years for Capote to investigate and write‚ and it put an incredible amount of pressure on Truman‚ so much so that he never published another book again. Even though in cold Blood doesn’t have a great ending‚ the book was worth reading because of the intriguing plot‚ dark tone‚ and the interesting characters. One reason for why I liked the book‚ In Cold Blood‚ is because of how good Capote portrays the characters. More than any other character‚ he does this with Perry. It is part of him to
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Elliot‚ J.H.‚ Imperial Spain: 1469-1716. London: Penguin Books‚ 1963. 423pgs. In Imperial Spain‚ J.H. Elliot examines the history of early modern Spain from the reign of the Catholic Monarchs‚ Isabella and Ferdinand‚ to the reformation of the Spanish government by the first member of the Bourbon dynasty. According to the author‚ at the start of the 15th century‚ Spain was internally weak‚ hopelessly divided and isolated
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Cartoons on Immigration is a book written by Lalo Alcaraz which encompasses his interesting opinions on immigration and America’s view of Latin Americans. Alcaraz attacks racists‚ politicians‚ and American society throughout his book‚ Migra Mouse: Political Cartoons on Immigration‚ and does a pretty good job of it too. Alcaraz’s book is certainly worth reading because it offers a new‚ fresh way to look at the ever-so perplexing topic of immigration. Alcaraz named the book Migra Mouse for a very interesting
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The Scorch Trials The Scorch Trials is a great book written by James Dashner and is a dystopian‚ young-adult novel and has 358 pages in total. The book starts out with the group of gladers waking up in a room and seeing that they didn’t have one of their fellow gladers. Instead they noticed that they had a different person who was a boy named Aris. They also noticed that Teresa wasn’t there and Aris was there instead of Teresa. Teresa was the last person that was sent into the glade and she was
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Stick Figure The book which I will be talking about‚ is an autobiography‚ Stick Figure‚ written by Lori Gottlieb. The setting of this book is Beverly Hills‚ in the year of 1978. The main character‚ Lori is an intelligent eleven year old girl. She is surrounded by people who live a lifestyle on being rich‚ doing diets and trying to be thin and surrounded by messages of the “perfect body” for women. Every female she comes across‚ from peer to adult‚ is on a diet‚ counts calories‚ avoids desserts
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whiskey. It was the same wrinkly green hand. I told Butler to give Xuan the money. Finally things were going according to plan. She asked me if I had anything that needed healing. I told her I only wanted her book. She threatened to kill me. I told her that I would save her if she gave me the book. She gave me a questioning look. Perhaps the affects of the holy water hadn’t started yet. I told her about it and she said I
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In this paper‚ I will be exploring the depths of the book titled “Values of the Game by Bill Bradley”. Values of the Game is a book about basketball and an athletes performance‚ but also is geared to males and females. When it comes to age specifics‚ the targeted age of this book varies because students of any age can relate from the information this book has to offer. With this particular book‚ Bill Bradley’s objective was to express the important qualities athletes have that helps them become
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The Author of this book (On our own terms: race‚ class‚ and gender in the lives of African American Women) Leith Mullings seeks to explore the modern and historical lives of African American women on the issues of race‚ class and gender. Mullings does this in a very analytical way using a collection of essays written and collected over a twenty five year period. The author’s systematic format best explains her point of view. The book explores issues such as family‚ work and health comparing and
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