The book‚ The Terrorist’s Son‚ written by Zak Ebrahim‚ made me feel bad for Z’s family because their life is also ruined because of their father’s actions. However‚ I grew up seeing the horrific terrorist scenes on the news and in movies that make me question Z’s family. Is this book just one unique story‚ or do all families not know of the terroristic plan and do all people in this situation chose a different path? My first question is does the family of the terrorists truly not know that their
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The Hunger Games The title of my book is called The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. This book is about a sixteen-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen who takes her sister’s place in order to participate in the annual Hunger Games‚ where she fights to the death in an arena on live television. The only way to win is to be the last one living in the arena which brings fame and fortune‚ whereas losing brings certain death. What I liked the most about this book is the author’s style of writing that
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In his book Forgotten Fire‚ author Adam Bagdasarian investigates the Armenian Genocide through the eyes of a twelve year old Armenian boy named Vahan Kenderian. Through Vahan‚ the reader experiences the atrocities committed during the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Turkey. The Turks‚ who were Muslim‚ viewed the Christian Armenians as inferiors and treated them as such; under Turkish law‚ Armenians had nearly no rights‚ no fair justice in Turkish courts‚ could not bear arms‚ and were taxed far higher
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The Boys in the Boat Dear Ms. Davis‚ I hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing summer. The book that we had to read called “The Boys in the Boat” is very interesting. The book relates to the course I will be taking this year in many ways. The reason I am writing this essay is to inform you about how this book relates to the class. For example as I was reading the coach said that rowing is difficult and will take every ounce of effort in your body. This relates to the class because there will be days
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Through this book‚ the author Scot McKnight uses his knowledge of the Christian faith to explain the plan that God has put in place of every person on earth. Throughout his book‚ McKnight gives many important insights into the power of the Holy Spirit and how it interacts with daily life‚ explaining the multipart system of possible alternative options for every single person that ever has or ever will exist. This book offers the reader the chance to interpret the words of a McKnight‚ as he teaches
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The book “The Lightning Thief” is about a boy named Percy Jackson. Percy Jackson is a demi-god and is convicted of stealing Zeus’s master lightning bolt and only has ten days to return the lightning bolt before it’s too late by: Rick Riordan. The story of “The Lightning Thief” takes place in the modern USA from Las Vegas to New York. The main characters in the book are Percy Jackson the son of Poseidon; Annabeth the daughter of Athena and Grover the satyr that protects Percy Jackson and also Luke
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space granted to Jews. Three of us read books written by Perl‚ and the other two read books about other Zionists at the time‚ or other rescue attempts from the Holocaust. We were able to look at primary source documents such as his passport marked with a J‚ which is included in our exhibit. Overall‚ we relied on information from his books as well as the other books we read. When choosing books‚ we wanted to have other opinions available‚ so we read books by David Ben-Gurion‚ who had opposing views
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Journal 2 In this roller coaster of a book‚ I am currently on page 326 out of 537. The author of this book is Ellen Hopkins. When I started this book I thought it was just another story about a teenager that didn’t have any friends but that all changed when she went to Nevada. Throughout this journal I will be visualizing‚ predicting and questioning. To kick off this visualization‚ the first thing that really stood out and made me really think about what I was reading was when the main character
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The book Founding Brothers was written in a way that anyone could read. Even people who are unfamiliar with the American Revolution would feel comfortable reading this book and have a good understanding of what happened during that time period. The author‚ Joseph Ellis‚ explains throughout the book the conflicting interpretations of the meaning of the American Revolution as well as the influence it had on the early history of the United States of America. Ellis resisted choosing one side over the
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and the three men who worked tirelessly to help him fulfill his hidden potential‚ is an award winning book full of controversy and . An undersized horse who was difficult to train which lead to his trainers losing hope and giving up on him. Three men took the challenge of training this horse which leads to Sea biscuit becoming one of the greatest race horses to ever take part in the sport. The book‚ written by Laura Hildebrand‚ who began her writing career in 1938‚ became a film in 2003 Sea biscuit
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