Book Review: Tom Boellstorff Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human Boellstorff questioned whether it was possible for a virtual world to be subject to the same ethnographic techniques and analyses as locations and communities are in the real world. As a leading ethnographer studying gay and transgendered cultures in Indonesia‚ Boellstorff brings a significant amount of experience and expertise to this field of work. He proposed the question – was it possible
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Hiroshima - John Hersey Book Report – Natalie Kirby Hiroshima by John Hersey is a collection of biographies from six survivors from the bombing of Hiroshima. John Hersey wrote this book as an essay at first‚ but then the New York newspaper made a big deal out of it and how good it was. So a few months later he got it published. The setting of this book is in Hiroshima‚ Japan during the bombing (1945) and after the bombing. John Hersey wrote this book to tell what these six people were doing when
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Thee Book Report By:Jacob Richard Date:10/6/2014 The title of the book is The Roar. The author of the book is Emma Clayton. It’s a Fantasy‚Science Fiction‚ Thriller‚and Young-Adult fiction. The Roarwas nominated for the Carnegie and the Yorkshire Coast Award in two thousand and ten. It was also in Texas Library Association’s Lone Star Reading List in two thousand and ten ‚ and also USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List‚ U.S.B.B.Y stands for United States Board on Books for Young
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realized that the thug life was no longer for him‚ and that gangs were a problem on society and the "Afrikan" race(page 382-383). In his book "Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member"‚ he tells of his life story and how he came and left the gang life. For thirteen years he was a member of the Eight Tray Gangsters‚ a set of the Crips‚ and throughout the book he explains‚ sometimes in full detail‚ the life he led while in the gang and his many times in jail and prison. These life stories he
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Book Report Date: Oct 2011 Name of the book: HATCHET Author : : Gary Paulsen Publishers : Simon Pulse Summary This book is talking about an adventure of a boy called Brian Robeson. He is thirteen-year-old. He is on his way to visit his father‚ a mechanical engineer in the oil fields of Canada. He fly to Canada with a single engine Cessna 406 bush plane. On their way to the airport‚ his mother gives him a hatchet. At first‚ he doesn’t want to wear it‚ but his mother is
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OCS Book Report War‚ Sebastian Junger 09 May 2013 War is the account of reporter Sebastian Junger’s time spent with the men of 2nd Platoon‚ Battle Company‚ 2nd Battalion‚ 503rd Infantry Regiment‚ 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Korengal Valley‚ Afghanistan. The reporter spent time with the unit between 2007 and 2008. Junger focuses on the psychological effects of war on the men who fight it. “The core psychological experiences of war are so primal and unadulterated‚ however‚ that they eclipse
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In the book Night by Eliezer Wiesel‚ is about how he and his family was before and after they were placed in a concentration camp. Eliezer talks about how the concentration camps and the conditions they were facing had affected him and the other jews‚ gypsies‚ etc‚. Eliezer knew what was going to happen‚ if he and the other refugees give up hope of survival during the years or months they have been in a concentration camp. In the late year of 1944‚ after‚ being placed in the synagogue‚ the jews
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We all need to grow up someday to continue life. To Kill a Mockingbird shows coming of age experiences as an enormous part of this novel. It shows how things cause situations and feelings‚ how young adults face the reality of first-hand conflicts‚ and how these situations affect them. Scout and Jem undergo conditions to help them mature in the book. The encounters help them bloom throughout the novel with noticing the components and point of views involved in the situation. To begin with‚ the
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The book I chose to read for my book report is called Spellbound by Janet McDonald. The plot starts with Raven living with her mother in the projects in New York City. Raven had a baby at sixteen and had to drop out of high school to take care of her baby boy‚ Smokey. She wants to be better than another high school dropout‚ project girl with few prospects. She wants to do it for her mother’s sake. Her baby’s sake. And for her own sake. She wants to show the ambition she has inside of her and to do
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18 March 2013 Lost in Death The title of the book that I read was Everlost. The genre of this book is fantasy. The book was published in 2006. The author of this book is Neal Shusterman. Shusterman was born on November 12‚ 1962 and grew up in Brooklyn‚ New York. He still writes today and recently came out with the sequel to the book called Everwild. Neal is also a screenwriter and television writer. This story takes place in a place called Everlost. Everlost is a world between life and death
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