Book Review 1st Semester Section 1: The book I read‚ The Ferguson Rifle‚ was written by Louis L’Amour. This book is in a Western form and is full of suspense. I really enjoy reading books by Louis L’Amour‚ because they are full of action‚ and there’s never a dull moment. I have read a few of his other books before reading The Ferguson Rifle; however‚ this book amazed me and was a very good book to read. One reason I love reading books by Louis L’Amour is the way he uses imagery and makes you feel
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Aileen Viscarra Period 3 May 10‚2018 Book Report The book I chose to read and take my annotations is called “The Girl I Used To Be” written by April Henry. This book is about a girl name Ariel‚ who loses her parents. Fourteen years ago‚ as Ariel’s parents were all going to the forest to cut a christma tree for the holiday‚ but they never came back home. When later that day 3 year old Ariel was found at a Walmart nearby. It takes the authorities time to find out that she is the daughter on the
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In the book‚ Control‚ by Lydia Kang‚ a girl goes on a mission to save her kidnapped sister and with the help of modern science she is able to track her down. This book relates to the article “For the Future” because both of these selections deal with the new outlook on technology and how we use it in our everyday lives. Control deals with two sisters who lose their dad and then are forced into a orphanage. Not long after‚ older sister Zelia’s younger sister Dylia is kidnapped and Zelia goes on
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My book is called “The Escape by Hannah Jayne and it is a fiction book that is based off of murder. The protagonist in my book is named Ado and he is a high school senior that is always quiet and left alone. He can get along with people but he choses not to socialize with anyone. He has one friend but they separated once they got to high school and never really talked or hung out anymore. So one day they have a camping field trip and decide to go running off in the woods where they are soon viciously
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This book is inspired by just such a cross-cultural encounter as that between Kamal the border raider and the Colonel’s son of the Guides. In the first chapter the author recounts a conversation that he‚ a biologist studying bird evolution‚ had in New Guinea in 1972 with Yali‚ a local politician preparing his people for self-government‚ which culminated in the searching question ‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [goods] and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had
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Guest‚ Kenneth J. Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age. New York: W. W. Norton & Company‚ 2017. This book Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age by Kenneth Guest explores the expansion and development of Anthropology throughout the years. Reading this book shows the progress of culture anthropology presenting how to understand and engage today’s world. Using the skills provided in the reading will show insight how anthropologist can analyze and build experience around the
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It wasn’t very common but Damian offers the only complete book. Written in the late 11th century‚ he wrote about what he calls the “sins against nature”. Those sins include masturbation‚ mutual masturbation‚ interfemoral intercourse (between the thighs) and anal intercourse‚ the complete act against nature. He
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The novel the Book of Salt by Monique Truong is a story about Binh‚ a vietnamese chef for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas‚ who undergoes numerous life difficulties such as discrimination‚ language barrier‚ and ethnocentrism in a foreign land‚ France. The author uses the symbol of salt to depict Binh’s life. He leaves his homeland of Vietnam for France and works as a chef for Gertrude Stein and ALice B. Toklas. The narrative continually shifts in time and place‚ switching between Saigon‚ Paris
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This novel goes through the story of a woman named Henrietta Lacks. The book is based of her story that started with a cancer that was discovered in her when she thought she was possibly pregnant because of a feeling of a knot on her cervix. Although she wasn’t pregnant they did find out she had a cervical cancer. Little did she know that some of her cancer tissue was removed and sent to George Gey’s lab in Hopkins. The scientist there‚ one named Gey ‚ have been trying to get human cells to divide
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In the middle chapters of the book‚ “Just Listen‚” the location stays the same in the city of Lakeview in her home and school. However‚ the time moves forward into the school year as well as backwards in the past to further explain future events. Moving forward‚ the mood changes to hesitant and tense. The author intensifies the mood by revealing the drama that began the feud between the main character‚ Annabel‚ and her ex-best friend‚ Sophie. For example‚ Sophie believes that Annabel had relations
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