Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is set in a future where Earth has been involved in a 50 year long war against an alien force‚ known as “Buggers”. Earth’s three ruling parties‚ the Hegemon‚ Polemarch and Strategos form an International Fleet to fight the “Buggers”. The International Fleet created the Battle School to train the most gifted children‚ with the best strategic minds to fight in the IF. Children were chosen because having been raised on video war games their decisions are intuitive‚ decisive
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Devil in the White City Erik Larson’s non- fiction best seller portrays murder‚ magic and madness that occurred at the fair that changed America. The construction of The Columbian exposition began in 1891 and if on time was to be finished by 1893. This gave world famous architect Daniel Burnham a little over two years to achieve the impossible. There were other problems than just building the fair‚ there was corruption and decay in the city which made things more problematic. The
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Devil in the White City Since the fair was introduced‚ the reader could predict the immensity and great work of this attraction. Not only were many new inventions created‚ but also many ideas were inspired by this fair. Because of the great success and its original ideas‚ I believe that the World’s Fair “had a powerful and lasting impact on [Chicago’s‚ the world’s and] the nation’s psyche.” From the beginning‚ Chicago was introduced to the reader as a place that was only known for its smell that
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Title: The Raft Author: S.A. Bodeen Pages:231 Girl named Robie and she’s 15. Max is a point and he’s almost 20. She lives on an island midway atoll in the middle of the pacific. She is going to go she her aunt in Hawii. So she gets herself a plane ticket to Hawii to see her aunt‚ and no one knows that she is going. She gets on the plane and they crash. They fall into the middle of the ocean and no one knows that
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The author of this book is Rita Williams-Garcia. The title of this book is called P.S Be Eleven . The genre of this book is Historical Fiction. The setting is 1968 Brooklyn‚ New York. The setting impacts the character because they spent a long time with the Black Panthers that now Big Ma really doesn’t like how they stand up for their things. You will be exploring many fascinating characters including Big Ma‚ Uncle Darnell‚ Pa‚ and Mr. Mwila. Big Ma is the grandmother of the 3 sisters. She is kind
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The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War H.W. Brands’ book was a pretty solid read. It provided a different outlook on the Cold War‚ as it sought to show that it was not merely an American victory over "communism" and the Russians. There was far more to the Cold War than most Americans would care to admit‚ but Brands puts it out there for the reader to take in. Brands’ purpose for writing this book was to inform the reader of actions taken before‚ during‚ and after the Cold War. After
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The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making Roy Y.J. Chua Xi Zou Working Paper 10-034 Copyright © 2009 by Roy Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Running Head: Effects of Luxury Goods The Devil Wears Prada? Effects
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The Devil Wears Prada is a book that contains many ethical dilemmas. I will first summarize the plot‚ and then point out the ethical problems. The main character‚ Andrea‚ is hired at Runway‚ a very well-known‚ well-established magazine company. She was hired to take Emily’s spot‚ and Emily was promoted to the position above her. The two jobs are very similar but the main difference is that Emily gets to go to Paris for a major fashion banquet with their boss‚ Miranda. Emily often speaks of the
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Women Struggling for Freedom in the Face of Oppression Nefissa in the Innocence of the Devil by Nawal El Saadawi‚ Zabeth in A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul‚ The Mirabal sisters in A Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa‚ and Zaynab in Karnak Cafe by Naguib Mahfouz all struggled for freedom against their oppressive environments. Nefissa struggled in obtaining her freedom in Egypt where men told women how to behave. Zabeth struggled in her journey through the harsh physical environment of Africa
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1. In the movie “ The Devil Wears Prada‚” a differentiation between in-group and out-group behavior is clearly defined. Andrea is an aspiring journalist who gets a job as second assistant to Miranda at a high fashion magazine. This would be a dream job for someone who is in to fashion‚ but Andrea could care less about fashion‚ as apparent by her attire (per the looks she was getting from Miranda and her peers while at work). Though she does not “fit in” and does not want to‚ she is willing to suffer
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