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    Eagle Blue Book Review

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    to something that‚ we aren’t sure if we are capable of? In the book‚ Eagle Blue: A Team‚ a Tribe‚ and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska‚ written by Michael D’Orso‚ a basketball team of fourteen boys knew exactly how it felt. It is mostly breathtaking just to have that amount of pressure on you after realizing your team has won six state champions and the whole town is depending on you to win a seventh. Throughout the book‚ every statistic of the game had some meaning without realization

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    McMinn‚ Mark R. Psychology‚ Theology‚ and Spirituality In Christian Counseling. Carol Stream‚ IL: Tyndale House Publishers‚ 1996. The book opens dialogue with scenarios of Christian counselors faced with dilemma of approaching the subject of religion in the counselor’s office. The author presents an interesting case establishing a need to integrate spirituality‚ theology and psychology when dealing with religious issues in the counseling office (McMinn‚ 1996). Theology and Psychology are presented

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    Train to Pakistan‚ originally published in 1956‚ is not a very good book‚ but quite enjoyable much of the time. Khushwant Singh‚ less than ten years after Partition‚ in 1947‚ wrote a novel of less than 200 pages and still managed to create what’s probably best described as an uneven mess. Ideas‚ allusions‚ characters and bits and pieces of story float all over the book. There’s no denying that Singh‚ who has since become a famous public figure and intellectual in India‚ prefers to lecture rather

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    Fields of Fire Book Review

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    Tyler Yancey American History‚ Period 1 Fields of Fire 2013 February 22 Review of Fields of Fire Fields of Fire by James Webb is a historical novel first published in 1978 that takes place in the year 1969 during the Vietnam War. Although there are many characters that are significant to the story‚ the novel focuses mainly on three marines who find themselves in a platoon with each other; Robert E. Lee Hodges‚ “Snake‚” and Will “Senator” Goodrich. Webb gives the reader a great‚ detailed background

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    School Violence A Current Controversies Novel A Book Report Book Edited By: Lucinda Almond The Book: Lucinda Almond (Book Editor) School Violence – A Current Controversies Novel Farmington Hills‚ Michigan: The Gale and Greenhaven Press‚ 2008 232pp. $27.50 0-7377-3796-4 Whether it is the classic bullying that occurs on a daily basis or a distraught student entering a school with a gun‚ there is a wide spectrum when it comes to the degrees of school violence. The National Criminal

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    woman meeting an old friend from her native land‚ in New York‚ after several years. Upon further reading‚ the novel has resilient records of feminism in the protagonists Agatha‚ Evadne‚ and Gwennie. The three are emasculated by poverty‚ neglect‚ and abuse. Living in a masculinized country the three women refuse to succumb to their struggles of life. These powerless characteristics of the three young women are overcome after immigrating to New York and Canada. The first reflection of feminism is ‘Gatha’s

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    Prize winning memoir “Angela’s Ashes” written by Frank McCourt is a phenomenal tear jerking memoir written about Frank’s childhood growing up in extreme poverty. What were most memorable about this book were Frank’s poverty‚ perseverance‚ and humor. You’ve never seen real poverty until you’ve read this book. His father‚ Malachy McCourt‚ is an alcoholic who uses all of the dole money (welfare) to get drunk‚ leaving his family with no money for a whole month which unfortunately happens quite frequently

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    Hunger Games Book Review

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    Everyone has heard the saying that winning is not everything. In Suzanne Collin’s bestseller‚ The Hunger Games‚ it redefines that saying. In the novel‚ North America has been through some apocalyptic disasters and is known as Panam with twelve districts that are ruled by the Capitol. Each year the Hunger Games are held as a reminder of the bleak past and that the Capitol is still in control of the citizens of Panam. One girl and one boy between the ages twelve and eighteen from each district are

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    Genghis Khan Book Review

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    Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World attempts to portray Genghis Khan and his legacy in a new light. To do this‚ Weatherford breaks the book down into three sections. He explains the rise of Genghis Khan and his life ideologies in the first and the expansion and military effectiveness of the Mongol Empire in the second. The theme of the third section and the overall most important focus of the book is the impact of the Mongols on the world. Weatherford believes Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

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    empires were destroyed by European Powers‚ and in result the former colonies became independent. In the book Voices of Decolonization‚ written by Todd Shepard‚ many issues were examined in relation to the decolonization process. Issues such as race‚ the cold war‚ international institutions emerging‚ and national self-determination arguments were explained very clearly in this book. The issues of new international institutions and national self-determination were very important during this time frame

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