This book report is being written for Mr. Reynold Bassant‚ lecturer for Comparative Literature. The book which was carefully selected is New Moon‚ it was written by Stephanie Meyer‚ one of the most promising new authors of this century. The book has 563 pages and was first published in hard cover by Little Brown and Company in September 2006‚ in the United States of America. After mass circulation and the sale of two million copies‚ the book became the New York Times Number One bestseller for 2007
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strategy of generals. Many books discuss the inner working of commands at Division and Army levels‚ but few detail the day to day life of the soldier. Stephen Ambrose’s book does that and more. It explores the how the everyday people that were drafted‚ worked in elite outfits like the 101st Airborne did‚ in World War II‚ defeat an enemy like the well trained German Wehrmacht and S.S. All the while pushing the theme that there was no need for there to be a single hero‚ or for one person to take
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Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers is about a young black male named Riche Perry from Harlem who enlists in the Vietnam war to try to help his single mother with bills. But due to misfiling he is sent into combat which he is not mentally ready for and does heavy soul searching into the meaning of life and why he is here. The story takes place in Vietnam several months between 1967 and 1968 during the Vietnam war at an American base at Chu Lai in South Vietnam. The narrator of the story is Richie
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Algorithms * An algorithm is a list of instructions * An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure * Example: A Recipe for baking Cookies 1. Prepare the Ingredients 2. Preheat the Oven 3. Mix ingredients together 4. Put Batter on Baking Sheets 5. Bake in the Oven 6. Take out from Oven 7. Eat the Cookies Computer Algorithms: To write a computer algorithm: * You have to tell the computer‚ step by step‚ exactly what you want it to do. The
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Air Pollution is one of the most worrying problems of our time. This problem surfaced during the industrial revolution. The great industrial revolution brought about many positive changes to the world; better transportation‚ cheaper products‚ and a better life. However‚ with it’s riches came the price‚ pollution. At the beginning of the industrial revolution‚ no one paid any attention to the problem of pollution. As the science‚ progressed people started to realize this problem. Air pollution
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over our justice system shows that there are still flaws in our judicial structure and there are mountains still to be conquered. First‚ one of the points that Fortas made struck me as ingenious when it was explained in the latter part of the book. Fortas started describing the ruling on Betts vs. Brady to Justice Harlan. "Betts didn’t go on the assumption that a man can do as
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The Chrysalids John Wyndham Book Report Static vs. Change: Waknuk did not want to change anything about their society‚ and wanted to keep fighting Deviations until the whole society was pure according to the way church and they think god says it. For this reason‚ they had no progress. More and more deviations were created in the society as‚ Waknuk wanting to stay the same grew. Example: The Sealanders say that they are against the Waknuk people because the Sealanders accept change‚ but the Waknuk
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Born to Fly is a book about a girl named Bird McGill who lives in a small town. She and her father are very close to each other because they both share a common interest. They both love flying airplanes. Bird is pretty good at flying them but still working on how to land them safely on the ground. But when her world falls apart because the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor which sends her dad to fight in the war‚ her life will change in ways on clear to her now. After her dad has be gone for awhile
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The book I am reading for my book report is Catching Fire‚ the second part of the Hunger Games. The Austhor of Catching Fire is Susanne Collins. The book Catching Fire is a very good book‚ it emphasis’s more on the characters rather than the plot. Catching fire has many different scenes in many different places‚ but two of the zones are important for the characters‚ which is District 12 and the Guarter Guell arena. There are 8 important characters in Catching Fire. Katniss Everdeen‚ is the
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To some people the words "Book-report" mean rent the movie and write a report on that. Yes‚ it is easier to watch a three-hour movie rather than read a 536-page book. With most books turned movies‚ though‚ the book is far too detailed to fit everything. This is how it is with the book The Green Mile and the movie The Green Mile. There are similarities but‚ there are also a lot of differences between the two. The main parts of the book and movie are alike: Coffey being caught with the two
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