韩佳利 Starry 131100024 Class A Metaphor‚ reality or illusion? ——A Book Review on The Hunger Games The Hunger Games‚ which is considered as the best science fiction of the American writer Suzanne Collins‚ won the first place of The New York Times best-seller list. The book‚ which is “brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced1”‚ is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen‚ who volunteers to participate in the Hunger Games‚ a fight to the death on live TV and has no choice but to make
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Austin Sheehan Mrs. Stitham English 10 Honors 10/24/14 Book Review for American Sniper – By: Chris Kyle (Autobiography) Before I start my book review‚ I would like to show respect to Chris Kyle‚ who died in an incident that occurred at a gun range in Erath County‚ Texas‚ where he and his good friend Chad Littlefield‚ were slain by a retired soldier “supposedly”‚ suffering from PTSD. I greatly appreciate his dedication and time spent protecting the United States of America. Overview: Chris Kyle
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premised on the fact that law has a critical function in all forms of social conduct. Though not the exact words of lecture McNeil‚ they were enough to help me to understand the importance of this course. Therefore upon her instructions to review the book “Slavery Law and Society”‚ I was most enthused‚ as I intended to read with an objective that would allow me to understand more about the laws of slavery and their impacts‚ the composition of society and to compare it with the society we have today
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Book Review on Urban Poverty B M Hasanul Banna International Islamic University Malaysia Urban poverty is the outcome of urban-bias development projects being predominantly financed by the external capital‚ either in the form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) or Aid. The urban-bias industrialization strategy performed as a pull factor for the rural unemployed. This strategy contributed to the expanding of urban informal sectors where unskilled as well as highly unorganized day labours remain
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BOOK REVIEW OF THE CHANGE MONSTER THE HUMAN FORCES THAT FUEL OR FOIL CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE AUTHOR: JEANIE DANIEL DUCK By: Rhonda Johnson MANAGEMENT 4426/G Spring 2007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Jeanie Duck‚ author of The Change Monster proposes a plan‚ which she calls the Change Curve‚ to deal with the emotional dynamics humans face when confronted with a major change. The Change Curve was developed by Ms. Duck after years of experiences dealing with
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A Summary of: The Science of “Muddling Through” By Charles E. Lindblom ------------------------------------------------- Public Administration Review‚ Vol.XIX‚ No.2 (Spring‚ 1959)‚ 79-88 I. Introduction This article discusses two different strategies for comparing policies. The first strategy‚ Lindblom entitles Root‚ or Rational-Comprehensive Lindblom refers to the second strategy as Branch‚ or Successive Limited Comparisons. After a brief explanation of the two systems‚ he goes on to
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Book Review written by Jaya Tripathi Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird is the story of a young Indian village girl who overcomes adversity and extreme hardship to ultimately live a full and happy life on her own terms. I first heard about this book when a parent expressed his concern about the (in)appropriateness of its selection as required text for 5th graders in a public school in the United States. The book was chosen‚ he was told‚ to educate the students about India. So
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conducted and come out with scientific conclusion in the subject of discourse or the subjection of investigation. The book‚ give lucidity foundation in the process of carrying out a scientific investigation in political science and other related social science field. We are ask to review from chapter 1-6‚ therefore the book will be reviewed chapter by chapter considering each chapter under review to appreciate the good works and criticize where the authors could not provide a clear understanding or where
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Running head: USING CHILDREN ’S BOOKS TO ENHANCE MULTICULTURAL Using Children ’s Books to Enhance Multicultural Education Using Children ’s Books to Enhance Multicultural Education Within elementary school classrooms‚ students learn traditional subject matter related to math‚ reading‚ science‚ social studies‚ and writing according to curriculum standards. What is not written in the standards of learning is what students should know about different cultures and ethnicities
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How to write a book review Perhaps the best way to offer guidelines on how to write a book review is to give you an example of the kind of instructions and guidelines we (i.e. the academic staff) would be given by journals who invite us to review books for them. So‚ here are the instructions given to authors by the ‘Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders’. “A book review should be an objective and tactful evaluation of a book. The review should offer logic and fact in support of its evaluations
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