Brandon MacPherson 9/7/08 Gates of Fire The book I read during the summer for world history was Gates of Fire‚ written by Steven Pressfield. Essentially‚ this book is about the Battle of Thermopylae and the events that took place during those times. The author is trying to tell the story through one’s perspective. In this book‚ one learns of the conditions at the battlefield during war and how it was to go to war as a young man. This book highlights many details in the battles fought in
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future could be like if we continue to do as we do today. If all we do is sit around all day watching TV we don’t create relationships and friendships‚ we lose them. In the world of Fahrenheit 451 your best friend is your TV. You miss out on all good things in life because you’re too busy not thinking about life‚ communicating with others‚ and you’re not actually feeling. You try so hard to not feel‚ and it isn’t a good thing‚ because you start to lose your sense humanity. This book is warning us that
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Takumi and Alaska. Alaska is everything Miles isn’t‚ she’s beautiful‚ interesting‚ complicated‚ fascinating and fun. The book is divided into two parts‚ before and after. The event that splits the book up is to much of a give-away for me to say unfortunately. The before part is mostly about the gang hanging out‚ they smoke‚ drink and do pranks while the after part of the book is much more about somethings else‚ but I can’t give away that either. John Green writes in a very simple language. There
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path led to his parents committing him to a mental institution from which he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20.[ Coelho later remarked that "It wasn’t that they wanted to hurt me‚ but they didn’t know what to do... They did not do that to destroy me‚ they did that to save me." At his parents’ wishes‚ Coelho enrolled in law school and abandoned his dream of becoming a writer. One year later‚ he dropped out and lived life as a hippie‚ traveling through South America‚
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Fahrenheit 451 Introduction: The author of the book Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury. The setting is in the 24th Century and the point of view for this book is 3rd Person Limited. Body: The title relates to the book because Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper ignites. Three major characters: Guy Montag- Is a protagonist that takes great joy in his work as being a fireman. He thinks that books will fill the empty void in his life. He encountered Faber at a park and soon seeks him
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Cheyenne Hughes October 1st‚ 2012 IGCSE English Literature Paper 1: Prose In the book “Of Mice & Men” the two main characters are George and Lennie. The setting of the story seems to be set back in the early 1900’s or the late 1800’s by the dialect they use. The two characters have a unique relationship. The first character is a small quick man with strong features his name is George. The other man is very large with a shapeless face and is also quite slow his name is Lennie. Throughout
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The Rhetorics of Sin By Mary Jannette L. Pinzon A Book Review in Communications 3 SUBMITTED BY: Frances Abegail G. Quezon SECTION: THX – 1 SUBMITTED TO: Ms. Mary Janette Pinzon DATE: October 4‚ 2012 . The book The Rhetorics of Sin is mainly about the influence of Manila Archbishop‚ Jaime Cardinal Sin. It is written by Mary Jannette Pinzon
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private life matters. This book highlighted the importance of family and demonstrated the common experiences everyone goes through with growing up. It was nice of them to share their personal stories‚ I mostly loved it because with most of their issues I could relate to‚ and being able to relate to something always makes it easier to comprehend. The colorful pages are jam packed with photos from childhood and beyond‚ there are some major messages from this book that grabbed me some are ‘to just be happy
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Book Report on "The Lost World" Characters: The main character in the book is Ian Malcolm‚ a middle aged mathematician and a little bit of an explorer. The man who set up the exploration‚ Richard Levine‚ is a rich and reckless yet well known adventurer who spends a lot of his time and money exploring different places around the world and helps at a middle school to give students of ideas of careers in science. Sarah Harding is a zoologist who was hired to possibly deal with some of the
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11 Birthdays is an amazing book written by Wendy Mass. This book is about a girl named Amanda who gets stuck in the WORST Birthday ever. Everything is going wrong on the day that is supposed to be the best birthday ever. And to rap it all up‚ the worst party ever. And it Never ends. But then she figures out she’s not the only one. Amanda has all the rights in the world to be Annoyed. First‚ the day that Amanda had at school was unbearable. So many things happen and she gets so annoyed. She is
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