Number the Stars Lois Lowry is the author of Number the stars. She published her book in 1989 by Random House in New York. Her books have a variety of styles and content‚ but they all have the same general theme‚ such as‚ number the stars is set in a different culture and era but all her books tell the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings. Lowry has written 20 novels and she has won the Newberry Medal award twice (Lowry‚ Lois Lowry-Bio). She also tackles
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Book Review written by Jaya Tripathi Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan Homeless Bird is the story of a young Indian village girl who overcomes adversity and extreme hardship to ultimately live a full and happy life on her own terms. I first heard about this book when a parent expressed his concern about the (in)appropriateness of its selection as required text for 5th graders in a public school in the United States. The book was chosen‚ he was told‚ to educate the students about India. So
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Book Review #2 How History Exposes the System By: Nicholas McGee (w1073395) History 320 Fall 2012 How History Exposes the System A significant portion of African-American history in the western new age democracy of the Americas over the past four hundred years is a reminiscence of stories from the years when African-Americans were used as slaves on the plantations or farms of affluent‚ white farmers. One intriguing story of slavery and the struggles with it was written by a guy named Melton
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Book Review - Shanghai Gone This book is a harsh criticism China’s housing reform system for destroying its own people‚ written by the author who observes China from liberal’s point of view. The author‚ Qin Shao wrote for those people who want to learn about the large-scale housing revolution in China throughout crucial experiences that citizens have gone through. It criticize the demolition and relocation system‚ questioning the level of morals. In introduction‚ he gives concretely negative
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The Spartacus War Strauss‚ Barry NY: Simon & Schuster‚ 2009 Copyright © Reed Business Information‚ a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ISBN-13: 9781416532064 March 05‚ 2013 The Spartacus War By‚ Barry Strauss Sparta is a gladiator and slave best known for leading the slave rebellion in Italy against the Rome in 73-71 B.C.
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Race and Revolution: A book review American Revolution remains the cornerstone of Democracy the world over. It has helped shape the History of the world and its perception of Freedom‚ democracy and Human values. However it is a historic anomaly that the abolition of slavery‚ then rampant in the various states of U.S.A as slave-ownership or slave trade‚ did not coincide with its independence but actually took more than a century to take effect. This question is often glossed over in the historic
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Innovation is the key in business. However any new strategy‚ be it on price or service is immediately known by competitors and replicated. Copying is inevitable. This means that the only real competitive edge is the relationship you have with your employees and your customers. If your employees trust you‚ respect you and believe in your goals then all the other factors like good customer service‚ product quality‚ pricing‚ marketing and delivery comes automatically. This book is all about how to create
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Nyeri Bevans Period 5 English 3 Honors April 22‚ 2013 Their Eyes Were Watching God The main character Janie Crawford grows through four of the five stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Personal development. Janie starts off in a sense of survival mode‚ since Nannie is the one who makes major personal and financial sacrifices in order to make Janie’s life better than her own and her daughters. Even though life is “good” for Janie she really has no sense of who she is an individual. When Janie begins
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BOOK SUMMARY The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit‚ blistering suspense‚ and questionable morality‚ told by the most volatile‚ captivating‚ and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights‚ by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier‚ Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but
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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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