1491‚ which was published in 2005 by Vintage Books‚ is a subversive study that immensely alters most people’s understanding and knowledge of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. The nonfiction historical novel by Charles C. Mann explains about a new generation of researchers’ conclusions about the history of Native Americans before the arrival of Columbus. Mann uncovered many of the untold facts that have never been taught in traditional school. The primary point Mann is trying
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Please Don’t‚ Hit Me Baby One More Time! As an avid sports fan I have been highly troubled by the recent headlines to plague the NFL in recent months. It seems as if every week a new player is being accused of domestic violence. In the past these accusations have seemingly gone unnoticed as the player gets punished behind the scenes and continues playing the game we love to watch. However‚ now as the league is taking the horrific issue of domestic violence far more seriously we are starting to
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position. These points are; how Anton matured over time‚ how his surrounding places changed after the war‚ and how Anton held onto the events that took place in Haarlem‚ even though he as well as the places around him changed. Over the course of the book‚ Anton showed a significant amount of growth‚ from his childhood in Haarlem‚ all the way until he had reached an age that surpassed his own father in years. Anton was married
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Malcolm Gladwell is a self-reflection provoking book in which the author takes us by the hand and guides us through our mind on the unconscious side of things. To blink is to perform beyond the speed of light; a brief‚ rapid movement that is done in a quick flash and is typically unnoticeable. The book relates to this action through the examination of our minds and how we unknowingly react to high speed and on the spot situations. The thesis of the book is to convince a simple fact: that decisions made
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The Goal The Goal‚ by Eliyahu Goldratt is a novel focused on the challenges and improvement of operational efficiency. The book is about Alex Rogo‚ a thirty something year old‚ probably has an undergraduate degree in engineering and an MBA. He is married with 2 children‚ working as an executive for UniCo for the past 15 years. He began his career as project engineer‚ now works as a plant manager of manufacturing factory in Bearington‚ his home town. His boss is Bill Peach‚ division manager at the
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Lord of The Flies by William Golding Introduction As a child I would close my eyes and dream of magical adventures in a fantasy world. With this allegorical novel‚ William Golding brought my childhood imagination back to me. Below is a review of Lord of the Flies written in 1954. About the plot In Lord of the Flies‚ the action takes place in the midst of a nuclear war. A group of British boys find themselves stranded‚ without adult supervision‚ on a tropical island of the Pacific Ocean after
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in a hospital after being shot at five times by the assassins. Michael‚ his youngest son‚ saves his life in the hospital and in the meantime Vito’s eldest son Sontino takes over the family business. The book starts with the wedding of Don Vito Corleone’s daughter. In the opening part of the book‚ Vito seems to be a very kind and ethical person. He listens to the requests of different people even on the day of his daughter’s wedding. He comes across as a man of moral values as he refused to kill a
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My knowledge of World War One was solely built on the works of European writers‚ which I had a chance to read in high school and university. The books such as All Quiet on the Western Front by German writer Erich Maria Remarque‚ Death of a Hero by English poet Richard Aldington‚ Doctor Zhivago by Russian novelist Boris Pasternak and The Good Soldier Švejk by Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek shaped my view on the subject‚ giving me a chance to see the history from many different perspectives. However
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“This book…will try simply to tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped shells‚ were destroyed by the war” (Remarque Preface). All Quiet on the Western Front‚ written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ tells a story of a young soldier‚ as he and his friends fight for the German army during World War I. The novel is narrated from the point of view of Paul Bäumer. He is nineteen years old and‚ like many of his classmates‚ he joins the German army. The story follows as they fight through
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Macbeth is the shortest tragedy ever to be written by William Shakespeare. He wrote this play for King James I‚ who was a largely active supporter of the theatre. The king watched many productions and soon Shakespeare’s company was called ‘The King’s Men’. In honouring the king‚ Shakespeare used King James’s I history to create characters and pieces of the plot for the play. He named Banqou after an ancestor of the king‚ who ties into Banqou’s prophecy of his children becoming kings‚ the ‘child’
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