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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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    Asus ROG Gladius Review The ROG Gladius is one of the best selling mid-range gaming mice of the Asus brand. The slender design‚ minimal features‚ and above-average performance makes it famous for FPS and MMO games. Asus ROG Gladius Mouse Review In 2006‚ Asus founded a division known as the Republic of Gamers becoming one of the top sellers for gamers. ROG distinguished itself by manufacturing to motherboards‚ screens‚ laptops and so on. Only recently have they added keyboards and mice to their

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    Colton’s parents when he reveals that he took a trip to Heaven while he was in surgery. III) “Heaven is for real” focuses on Christian faith and belief. The book addresses that Heaven is real‚ God is real‚ Jesus is real‚ and even Satan is real. This is done through Colton’s experience in Heaven while undergoing his surgery. The book addresses people to be strong in Christian faith and in Jesus. The Burpos family has been deeply affected by their son’s visit to Heaven. Colton’s experience gave

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    Sexual Shame Book Review

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    The book makes a calculated approach to address the fate of queers in the hands of gay rights activist. He turns his readers from the belief that gay marriage rights solve the problem of queers. During the first chapter‚ he seeks to explain about sexual shame. Sexual shame he claims is used to incriminate and discourage things that at private morality look just right. He goes further to define normalcy as just a common statistical range. He then claims that by this definition then we are not compelled

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    the years immediately preceding the settlement of 1670‚ as well as those that immediately followed‚ as a direct result of‚ the Stono Rebellion and their respective relationships to the black majority that existed in the colony. Wood introduces the book as possibly the first real study of this black majority and its impact on the colony in its earliest years. Wood also proposes that many preceding social-historical studies of colonial South Carolina generally ignore or discredit the significance this

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    In 1903‚ Jack London wrote his best selling novel‚ concerning the life of a sled dog that travels throughout Alaska‚ the Yukon‚ and the Klondike. Throughout this book Jack London uses personification to illustrate the dog’s viewpoint. London describes what adventures the dog encounters after being kidnapped from his Santa Clara Valley home to be taken to Alaska as a sled dog to help men pursue gold in the gold rush of 1897. Buck‚ is the name of this sled dog who experiences his primitive life style

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    Book Review a Love Affair

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    Love Affair addresses the lack of objectivity surrounding the 2009 presidential election. This book is very witty and brings about many unanswered questions. Bernard Goldberg points out many obvious truths that are avoided by the mass media outlets. Goldberg was spot on with all of the facts‚ which brought the reader to think on a different level. Goldberg stayed on subject throughout the entire book with many different aspects of information proving his point. He goes over many of the clever things

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    Book Review on Imagining India

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    INDIA‚ BY ITS PEOPLE 39 Imagining India : ideas for the new century/ Nandan Nilekani; New Delhi: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books‚ 2009. (38-61‚ 158-175‚ 256-282‚ 363-383 p.) INDIA‚ BY ITS PEOPLE IN DELHI THIS Monday morning‚ it is chaos. Despite its pristine new metro and expanding highways‚ the city can barely contain the morning hubbub‚ the swarm of people all trying to get somewhere. By the time I reach Kaushik Basu’s home—set a little apart from the highway‚ on a quiet street

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    Seth Wein 11/17/12 English- Mrs. Katz The Odyssey Book 14 The Odyssey Book 14‚ by Homer‚ is an excellent book because it shows readers what Odysseus meant to the people of Ithaca and how influential he was as a person. We have learned a lot about Odysseus from previous books and we know all about his many different characteristics such as his ability to lead and his warrior-like mentality. The author’s goal for this book was to show readers what impact Odysseus made on society at that time

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    The Lake House You talk‚ you die. By James Patterson The author‚ James Patterson‚ is a great writer that conjured up this novel. It is the second book of the series to When the Wind Blows. This man is most commonly known for his series of Alex Cross. Patterson wrote this book with a changing point of view. He mainly wrote it in third person but for many chapters‚ the story was in first person from Frannie O’ Neil’s point of view. The genre presented in this work is science fiction because of

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