This becomes clearer in the Epilogue‚ when readers know Artemis better and he becomes a sympathetic character. CHAPTER 1: The Book Summary At a cafe in Ho Chi Minh City in summertime‚ Artemis Fowl is waiting with Butler‚ his loyal butler and bodyguard‚ for a lead. Fowl is worried that‚ like Butler’s tip to Cairo‚ this is a wild goose chase. Butler‚ however‚ insists the
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In the first chapter of Freakonomics‚ the authors of the book used a quote that in my opinion best describes the whole idea of the chapter. That quote is “a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for” by W. C. Fields. This quote perfectly summarized the whole chapter’s idea incentives‚ the idea that incentive “is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing” and how incentive “is a bullet‚ a lever…‚ [and] an often tiny object with astonishing power to
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Chapter 3- Came the Knight from the Fjord -THIS IS WHERE WE STOP! WE HAVE REACHED OUR DESTINATION… A tall man screamed to the rest of the people walking behind him. He spoke in the Fjiordian dialect‚ a rough language‚ which immediately led people to believe that those who spoke it were perhaps barbarians. The group of people was made up of children‚ women‚ men‚ slaves‚ freemen‚ warriors and nobles and all had just in the Dra left the Fjord territory for new settlements in the Drakenlands. The reasons
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Howard Zinn A People’s History of the United States Chapter Four Summary Chapter four of A People’s History of the United States‚ by Howard Zinn is about how Britain’s aggressiveness in government allows their tightening on the colonies. Because of their need for raw materials to balance their economy‚ their control over the colonies becomes stronger in order to obtain these raw materials. The colonists perform a series of rebellions in order to overthrow this British rule. To lead these
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In “Engaged Pedagogy” the first chapter of “Teaching to Transgress: Education as a practice of Freedom” bell hooks walks us through her philosophy of pedagogy with a chapter that manages to serve as a powerful introduction to her book. In chapter one‚ Hooks manages to introduce her view on pedagogy‚ her inspirations and her experiences within the academia as a student and a professor and how it helped formulating her philosophy. In the first part of the chapter‚ Hooks introduces “Engaged Pedagogy”
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Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness‚ Love‚ and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean. The main reason I wanted to read this book is the concept behind it: every element is unique and has had a unique role in history and society. It is such a clever idea to write a book that outlines the uniqueness of each element and the roles that each one has played in our daily lives and the lives of those before us. And like I was expecting‚ every element did
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1. This book takes place in New York around the year 1855 to about 1889 when many immigrants from all over the world came to North America. In Jacob Riis’s book he breaks down the immigrants in to different race groups. This book is also about the overcrowding and the unhealthy living conditions of the tenement and how there community changes to become a healthy place to live and work. 2. The author Jacob Riis proved that the saying ‘’one half of the world does not know how the other half lives
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Sophia’s War pages 255 to end of the book In chapter 62 Mr. Smith told John Andre that they should start going on foot. Smith said Andre has a pass by General Arnold. Sophia was walking when he went to an old she was intending to ask if she was going the right way and for food. It turns out that she was going the right way. Smith and Andre got on a horse in started on foot or horse. Andre was also in civilian clothing to disguise himself. The horse had a badge that read the USA. Sophia
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Reading The Sopranos - Chapter 3 – ‘What has Carmela ever done for Feminism’? Introduction Feminism in a simple definition refers to women’s movements‚ and feminism is a subject that is on going which has become a forum for debate in relation to television and film. My main focus will be feminism in the television series ‘The Sopranos’ which will be used as a case study to examine the theory of feminism plus psychoanalysis and how it’s inflicted on the screen. An academic book that I have selected
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Freakonomics Chapter 1 Summary In chapter one of Freakonomics‚ Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt describe how when incentives are strong enough‚ many usually honest people from different walks of life will cheat in order to gain financially or climb the ladder in their careers. The authors define an incentive as “a means of urging people to do more of a good thing or less of a bad thing.” This chapter covers three varieties of incentives: Economic‚ Social and Moral. Economic incentives motivate people
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