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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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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Book Report: The Judgement of Paris The Judgement of Paris: Manet‚ Meissonier‚ and an Artistic Revolution contrasts the lives and artistic struggles of two painters against the backdrop of life in Paris. In the 1860s Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in Europe. His fame was built on his thoroughly detailed‚ realistic depiction of historical subjects. Meissonier sold his works for record prices and could afford to spend years working on them (he took 13 years to paint Napoleon’s
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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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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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Nineteen Minutes I read the book Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. The story begins in a small town in Sterling‚ New Hampshire. At the high school‚ you read about a routine day of students in classes. As a student runs out of class to leave for an orthodontist appointment a loud bang goes off in the parking lot‚ which turns out to be a bomb set off in Matt’s car. The students are confused by the noise and gun shots are fired. Patrick‚ the only detective on the Sterling police force (which is
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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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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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took six years for Capote to investigate and write‚ and it put an incredible amount of pressure on Truman‚ so much so that he never published another book again. Even though in cold Blood doesn’t have a great ending‚ the book was worth reading because of the intriguing plot‚ dark tone‚ and the interesting characters. One reason for why I liked the book‚ In Cold Blood‚ is because of how good Capote portrays the characters. More than any other character‚ he does this with Perry. It is part of him to
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The Speed of Trust Identify five to ten most important ideas from the book and explanation of why they are important. One of the most important ideas is “The 4 cores of Credibility”. It talks about the different cores such as integrity‚ intent‚ capabilities and results. Integrity and intent are character cores‚ and capabilities and results are competency cores. The first core is Integrity. Stephen Covey‚ the author‚ talks about how integrity is more than just honesty. It has three parts to it‚
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