Review of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak It seems sometimes like the market for young adult literature is written down to the readers‚ almost in a condescending manner. That is why a book like The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is so refreshing in this sea of cookie cutter romances and fantasies. While classified as a young adult novel‚ it deals with very serious themes. The book’s cover comes printed with this label: “It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has
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Emma Conley Mr. Hyrcza Critical Book Review April 22‚ 2014 God: The Evidence: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World In Patrick Glynn‚ God: The Evidence: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World (New York: Three Rivers Press‚ 1999) v-169 we find the discussion of God’s existence. In this book‚ Patrick Glynn explains the way he went about finding God‚ and what he thinks to be proof that God exists. He writes his beliefs and everything he took into
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Bailee Elizarraras Sociology 100 Animal Farm 11/4/14 The book Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ plays on the sociological ways how overseeing government has total control over society. In the book‚ Gorge Orwell begins with the introduction of Mr. Jones; a farmer who over works his livestock. This aspect reflects dictatorship and through history‚ people in the society of a dictatorship have relatively short stands‚ as the animals do after a secret alliance is decreed between all of the animals
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J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: Harper Collins‚ 2005. Print. The authors of Freakonomics‚ Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner‚ were very clear in the fact that they did not want their book to simply revolve around one single theme‚ thus making it difficult to discern a distinct thesis statement or theory. Some may perceive this type of approach as a weakness‚ but I believe it is the appropriate method for the subject matter at hand.
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Melinda Kimball Middle school psychology November 15‚ 2014 Book Review: Mean Little Deaf Queer Terry Galloway Mean Little Deaf Queer‚ is set in the 1960’s‚ right after some of the world’s worst wars. Their household was one of many games‚ and tense feelings. Her mother and sisters teamed up against her‚ while her father stood off the side and always had ‘more important things to do.’ Terry’s family is a military family and due to her father’s status‚ they moved around a lot‚ and her story begins after she moved from Stuttgart
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Priscilla Pittman ENG 262 Book Review 25 Tuesday 2012 The Metamorphosis Imagine yourself awakening to find that you simply aren’t; aren’t yourself that is. Such a situation happened to Gregory Samsa when he woke from uneasy dreams one morning to find himself changed into a giant bug. The story of Gregory’s misfortune begins with a climax‚ the transformation from human to insect and then slowly descends from there to Gregory’s ultimate death. The author‚ Franz Kafka‚ born in Prague grew
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Drive – a Book Review I have not plagiarized on any aspect of this assignment The most important points of emphasis in this book There are a few important points that are emphasized in Pink’s Drive‚ one of the most important being that the operating system our society runs on today needs a serious upgrade. His metaphorical uses of Motivation 1.0‚ 2.0‚ and 3.0 put it into perfect perspective for exponentially growing‚ technologically centered recent generations. Just like a well built computer
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Book Review of "Goal" 1. What is the problem? Alex Rogo was a plant manager at the Barrington Plant of Uniware‚ a division of UniCo. One day Bill Peach‚ division vice president visited his plant and found that there were lots of problems with schedule arrangement‚ quality‚ cost & inventory control in his plant. These problems had already made the organization lose money. At last Bill gave Alex three months to improve‚ otherwise‚ the plant would be closed. Three months?! That was all Alex Rogo was
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This summer I read the book Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw. The genre of the book is fiction and realism. Pygmalion is about a flower girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ who meets Henry Higgins‚ who is a professor. Eliza hears Higgins bet Colonel Pickering‚ Higgins friend‚ that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess at a party. Eliza takes up his offer and learns how to speak English perfectly. Many complications come along the way as the story progresses. In the end‚ Eliza leaves Higgins house and marries Freddy
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Of course Thorin is one of the most important character of this book‚ the entire book evolves around this very proud dwarf. Thorin is the one besides the very wise Gandalf with the most knowledge and intelligence about the mountain‚ Smaug and the treasure. Something that none of the dwarves could predict were the very many difficulties and setbacks they would have to challenge on their way to the treasure. Throughout the book Thorin is often described as a stubborn‚ bulging and stern dwarf but
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