The book that I read this quarter was Stung by Bethany Wiggins. It is about a 17-year-old girl named Fiona Tarsis who lives in a world where being stung and bearing the mark means you live on the wrong side of the wall. During desperate attempts to save the rapidly declining bee population‚ a new line of super bees were created. Genetically modified to resist all pesticides and engineered to have a more deadly and venomous sting‚ the GenMod bees became the new hope for the future of the bees and
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is a true hero. Ender is a true hero. Coming as a weak‚ sensitive child‚ he transforms into a person who practices nonstop strategies and maneuvers until they are just simple natural instincts. He shows leadership‚ courage‚ fearfulness‚ and trust. Odysseus is no hero. Even though he won the Trojan War‚ he returns with a massive amount of his men dead just from his journey to and from Troy. He shows his brutality‚ foolishness‚ and no sense of gratefulness and honor. Ender expresses kindness
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“ Then I held the power button on my controller to open Mixer and watch his broadcast. He was playing Minecraft with his friend swordguy069. They were playing on their private survival world. They were getting ready to go to the End and fight the Ender Dragon. After watching them for awhile I asked in the chat if I can help. They said yes‚ so I opened up Minecraft and accepted their invite. I joined the world and found their house. Their house was made of oak wood planks‚ the entrance was a cool
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times in this book. Multiple times Ender worries that he is like Peter‚ his brother. Ender’s sister and friend‚ Valentine‚ assures him that he isn’t like Peter and that he is better than Peter. While Ender is a combination of both personalities‚ his personality fits Valentine‚ since he was incredibly remorseful when he killed the Buggers. Ender‚ while resembling both Peter and Valentine‚ is also different than both of them. Ender is like Peter in many ways. Ender is very violent towards people he
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Eng 088 Book Essay 11/25/13 Transformation Essay Ernest J. Gaines writes a novel‚ A Lesson Before Dying. The story takes place in Bayonne‚ Louisiana in the 1940’s. Jefferson a black man is accused of a murder he did not do and is called a hog by his defendant lawyer. Mrs. Emma‚ his godmother‚ wants Grant‚ Jefferson’s cousin‚ to teach Jefferson how to be a man before he dies. Grant is a black man living in the south as a teacher who wants to run away. He is an inconsiderate
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Grant Wiggins life crisis’ seemed to take up a huge role in A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. Grant’s main focus was to make Jefferson into a man before he was electrocuted to death in prison. I am not saying that Jefferson was not changed from a “hog” into a man‚ but I believe that Grant was the one who became the bigger man. Therefore‚ I strongly believe that Gaines wrote this book about Wiggins; rather than Jefferson. Grant Wiggins improved as a person greatly in A Lesson Before Dying
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I see myself laying down and looking at the sky. It looked like I was in heaven. When I got up I saw a house. I went inside and saw a paper. It said that my mission is to kill the Ender Dragon. I didn’t know a thing about Ender Dragon. I searched the house and looked at the world. the world was made up of blocks. Not one block or two blocks. Thousands of them. Haphazardly I realized that I was in mine-craft. A game that I used to play this game when I was seven years old. I thought that it was only
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by Orson Scott Card‚ Ender grew from a 6 year old boy who relied on his family‚ into a well capable‚ strong leader who was preparing to lead the human race to victory in the war against the buggers. Ender has grown to be a leader because of the friends and allies he made‚ The enemies he defeated‚ and through his distinguished actions through the impossible tests the teachers throw at him. Ender becomes a strong leader through the allies that he made whom eventually becomes friends. Originally‚ Ender does not have many friends
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Rebekah Manning D. Noblitt IB HoA 10/22/14 Ella May Wiggins and The Loray Mill Strike of 1929 Extra Credit Ella May Wiggins was a native of Sevierville‚ Tennessee‚ but her impact on the world took place here in Gastonia. Ella and her brother started careers as mill workers at a very young age after the death of her father. At the age of twenty Ella married Johnny Wiggins; he‚ like her father worked in the timber region. Johnny and Ella soon left the mountains of Sevierville and head
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just like Lincoln‚ Grant faced racial discrimination by breaking down the white man’s prejudice. Not like any other colored people in the society‚ Grant he went off to college and achieved a college education even though he is a black man. Grant Wiggins became a teacher just because that is the only vocation that an educated black man can do in the south. “ I am not [a] great [teacher]. I am not even a teacher” (254). He despises being a teacher and strongly desires to escape its fate as a black
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