The Awakening By: Kate Chopin Part I Reading Journal: Chapter 1-13 1. Plot summary of these chapters. The story starts off with Mr. Pontellier and a talking parrot on the porch. The parrot begins yelling at Mr. Pontellier who leaves to go read his newspaper elsewhere. He describes that the newspaper is a day old but he is just now reading it because he was gone in New Orleans. Mr. Pontellier observes his two sons playing in the yard with their nanny. After a while‚ Edna Pontellier and a boy named
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simultaneously on all. Despite being extremely confusing for those who are not pre-exposed to the various terms and concepts‚ Eli Clare’s ‘Exile and Pride’ is an appropriate addition to queer literature. The purpose of this book however is up for debate. As it currently stands as an addition to queer literature it serves its purpose well. If the book was intended to educate readers on disability politics then it also serves its purpose but is hindered by its medium and the language utilized to conveys
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Book Arrangement: The God Delusion has 374 pages separated by Ten Chapters‚ each with several smaller parts. Every three to five pages‚ another issue arising from religion is addressed and proven to be a problem easily solvable by decreasing the amount of religion in the world. Each chapter commences with a quote from a famous‚ credible source introducing the main point to be discussed in the chapter. At the conclusion of the book‚ there are multiple tools to help the reader better understand the
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about certain topics and also to creating some curiosity about such an interesting and developing decade. Every chapter of the book was interesting‚ however the one that most caught my attention was Chapter Four‚ “Popular Culture and the Culture Wars.” We live in a culture where technology is one of the most important factors and it was extremely interesting for me to read a whole chapter about innovations that happened in the 80’s. Significant developments that were introduced during this time that
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Chapter Summaries Children of the Sea: 1) Two narrators in which they do not say their names in the book are in love and write to each other. 2) The female narrator in the book is mad because his father opposes her love for the man. 3) She finds out that he father gave up all his possessions to protect her from the macoutes. 4) The female narrator’s family finds out that their neighbor was killed by the macoutes. 5) The male narrator who was a member of the youth federation fled
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Justin Currie Professor Hinde History November 25th‚ 2010 Andean Worlds 1. Kenneth J‚ Andrien. Andean Worlds: Indigenous History‚ Culture‚ and Consciousness under Spanish Rule. 1532-1825. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press‚ 2001. Print. In his book‚ Andean Worlds: Indigenous History‚ Culture and Consciousness under Spanish rule. 1532-1825‚ the author‚ Kenneth J. Andrien‚ examines the Spanish invasion of the Incan Empire (called Tawintinsuyu) in 1532. This invasion brought cataclysmic
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Chapter Eight Summary of Zoobiquity Chapter eight‚ Grooming Gone Wild‚ of the book Zoobiquity by Barbara Natterson Hororwitz and Kathryn Bowers‚ was about the grooming habits of both animals and humans and how sometimes they can be taken too far. The main theme of the novel overall would be how animals can help solve human social issues. The chapter opens with an anecdote to “Feather Picking disorder” where birds picked at their own feathers even though it caused them pain. She connects the
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In Chapter 4 of Freakonomics‚ the main subject is the question on why criminal activity has declined so rapidly at such a sharp rate in time. This chapter goes in depth and explains the relevance between abortions and the impact it had on society. While crime is still going on today the overall statistics of criminal actions has decreased at such a high numbers many questions were asked on how and why this has happened. This chapter goes into detail on the 1990’s in which one big law was passed that
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“The Road to Assisi” is a biography of St Francis‚ written by Paul Sabatier. This piece of literature is a nonfiction biography. It centers on the themes of religious life and the significance of the Franciscan order. “The Road to Assisi” is about the life story of St Francis. Francis was born into a family of cloth merchants in the late twelfth century. Much to my delight‚ he was well known for his pranks and mischief around town. He left his family to follow God and to rebuild the church
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Summary: Chapter 1 Katniss Everdeen‚ who tells her story in the first person‚ wakes up. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister‚ Prim (short for Primrose)‚ asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. The area where she and her family live is called the Seam‚ and it’s part of District 12. They are at the edge of the district‚ which is enclosed by a high fence‚ and Katniss often crawls under the fence and enters the woods outside‚ where
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