Summary: Book 12 Odysseus returns to Aeaea‚ where he buries Elpenor and spends one last night with Circe. She describes the obstacles that he will face on his voyage home and tells him how to negotiate them. As he sets sail‚ Odysseus passes Circe’s counsel on to his men. They approach the island of the lovely Sirens‚ and Odysseus‚ as instructed by Circe‚ plugs his men’s ears with beeswax and has them bind him to the mast of the ship. He alone hears their song flowing forth from the island‚ promising
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The Wealthy Barber Description From the beginning of the book I learned that it is very important to live the golden rule of wealth. The golden rule is to invest at least ten percent of your income for long-term growth. If you follow this rule it will make you a very wealthy person. During the middle of the book I found the scenario with Roy and Brain really interesting. They are brothers and they decided to buy a house together and fix it up and rent it out‚ they made it seem really simple
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Adam Bede Book Summary Adam Bede is a young workman of twenty-six in the town of Hayslope in Loamshire. He is the foreman of a carpentry shop where his brother‚ Seth‚ also works. The novel opens in the workshop with an argument among the men about religion. We learn that Dinah Morris‚ a Methodist preacher with whom Seth is in love‚ will speak in the village that evening. Seth goes to the prayer meeting and afterwards proposes to Dinah‚ who refuses him. Meanwhile‚ Adam has gone home and found
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The title of my book was Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes and it was a fiction book‚ published in 2003. Soldier Boys was during WWII in Germany and Brighman City‚ Utah. It tells the story of an American and German teenaged boy. They join the war and fight in the battle of the Bulge. Spencer Morgan on the American side and Dieter Hedrick on the German side. Dieter at the age fifteen got promoted from the Hitler Youth to the German army. He wants to prove to everyone that he is brave and that he can go
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Hope Solo My Story By Hope Solo‚ was written to entertain the reader. The main purpose of this book was to get Hope’s story out there so she sounds like a mean person with no feelings. Hope Said some things that were rude about one of her teammates because she wasn’t started in an important game. Hope had a meltdown and he could be one of the reasons she wrote this book. Hope was upset and embarrassed the whole entire team. Her teammates hated her and the girl who she thought she was close to
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“All Summer in a Day”‚ by Ray Bradbury is about a girl named Margot who comes to Venus from Earth. The other kids are jealous of her and lock her in a closet because she remembers and misses the sun. At the heart of jealousy is an insecure person who doesn’t have something they need or want‚ which can lead to criticism‚ scrutiny‚ and hatred. The other kids would criticize whatever Margot said‚ no matter if she was right or wrong. For example‚ she was telling the others about the sun once‚ how it
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My book report is about the very well written novel‚ ALL RISE FOR THE HONORABLE PERRY T. COOK by Leslie Conner. The book begins with a new guy brought in to begin anew. A man by the name Big Ed given to him by Perry‚ talks to Wendell telling him about and how Warden Daugherty does things and expects no more trouble from him or anyone else. Big Ed is one of the inmates but he as been there slightly longer than Perry and his mom and he is trusted to introduce newer inmates to the facility and
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Freedom’s Children‚ a book taking place throughout the civil rights movement‚ shows the pain and stuggle that African Americans had to endure simply because of the color of their skin. In the text‚ thirty African-Americans who were either young children or growing teenagers give their first hand accounts of racial discrimination. Using information from the first hand accounts of participants in famous struggles that took place in Arkansas‚ Alabama‚ and Mississippi‚ Levine‚ the author‚ is able to
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Legal studies summary book. Preliminary course. Part one‚ The Legal System Basic legal concepts Meaning of law: Enforceable rules of conduct which set down guidelines for relationships between people and organisations in a society. Customs‚ rules‚ and law: Customs are habits or traditions that have been developed by a society over a period of time. E.g. shaking hands. Rules only apply to certain groups or communities. E.g. school. They are not enforceable by the state. Laws
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perfect day when no one will disturb you from deep meditation and relaxation. I expect my ideal day to be spent with my friends and family. I am dreaming about having a perfect day somewhere in India or Goa‚ the place‚ which is not spoilt by civilization. I would probably wake up around 10 a.m. and tuck into a delicious Indian breakfast or pancakes with lots of jam and different kinds of fruit. Later on‚ I`d lie in a hummock‚ sipping fresh coconut milk through a straw and reading a good book. Then
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