Plot Summary The plot of To Kill a Mockingbird revolves around main character Scout Finch. She lives with her father‚ Atticus‚ and brother‚ Jem. Atticus is a widow‚ and Scout has no mother. The family resides in a fictional Alabama town called Maycomb‚ which is in the grips of the great depression. Even though many in the town are struggling‚ Atticus is a lawyer with a strong work ethic and a good client base‚ so the Finch family is doing pretty well - at least when compared to many of the other
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John Doe Mr. Teacher Nickel and Dimed Summary Barbara Ehrenreich‚ author of Nickel and Dimed‚ is an award winning columnist and author of twenty-one books. Although she has her doctorate in science‚ she is well known as a journalist and muckraker. She has been featured in The New York Times‚ The Washington Post‚ and many other publications. Ehrenreich pondered how unskilled‚ uneducated‚ and untrained workers can survive and thrive in the American workforce with minimum wage incomes. She was
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Summary about The Perils of Obedience Obedience is something everyone has to follow growing up. Whether it is parents‚ grandparents‚ teachers‚ or even a manager‚ society implements a process of obeying people in charge. People often wonder how far someone will go to avoid disobeying authorities about a controversial topic. Throughout the article “The Perils of Obedience” by Stanley Milgram‚ a Yale psychologist‚ people become aware of the necessity to obey higher authority no matter what pain they
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Book Summary Beginning chapter one with citing one of the ten commandments‚ “Thou shall not steal‚” Wayne Grudem sets the stage of what is about to come; a black and white analysis on how having business success does not necessarily make you fall short of being a “good” Christian. As a well-known‚ very credible Christian theologist‚ one may wonder why Grudem would venture out to right a book solely about business. “Business for the Glory of God‚” looks at business ownership‚ profitability‚ money
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Bashar H. Attiya Mrs. Newbegin StepUp-Reading 10-21-2013 VANISHING VOICES BY RUSS RYMER Citation Rymer R. (2012). Vanishing Voices. National Geographic‚ July 2012. Summary The writer started his article by describing a group of people called Tuvans‚ who lives in a remote area in the Republic of Tuva‚ in Russian Federation. The importance of this group came from the fact that they are speaking Tuvan‚ a language consider by linguists to be among a group of languages that are
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Kindertransport By: Olga Levy Drucker English 10A Sorenson 6th hour By: Tylor Robinson Book Summary for Kindertransport Olga is a young jewish girl living in Germany when Hitler begins his dictatorship. She doesn’t understand why‚ she loses everything when she’s sent on a refugee train out of the country. The Kindertransport saves many children.After she arrives in britain‚ she moves from house to house and school to school. Then‚ she receives word from her parents that
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Summary of Clock Speed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage by Charles H. Fine Introduction In order to conduct a scientific study‚ you set a baseline then introduce changes in order to understand the impact of the change. Unfortunately‚ the rate of change‚ or clock speed‚ in many studies (human evolution as an example) is too slow for one person to have time to introduce multiple changes and measure the results. Biologists have found by studying fruit flies (a rapid
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Comparative Summary * Health care financial environments most common are for- profit‚ not-for-profit‚ and government funding. This paper identified one entity from each of these health care financial environments‚ described the financial structure of each financial environment‚ identified policies unique to each financial environment‚ identified financial management practices prevalent in the financial environment‚ and explained why effective financial management is more difficult in health
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Part B: Summary In his article ‘Fossils Fuels Improve The Planet’‚ Mr Alex Epstein’s main claim was that fossil fuels are not dirty energy as they have created clean‚ healthy and liveable human environment. He also concluded that unlike fossil fuels‚ solar and wind energy - dubbed as cleaner energy - are expensive‚ unreliable and not abundant. He began by arguing that fossil-fuels-powered technologies and facilities have enabled humans to live in the most clean‚ healthy and liveable condition in
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Executive Summary Ready For Zero ENT526 Introduction to Entrepreneurial Behavior Professor Alison Kemper Elevator Pitch Today a large some of the world’s population live with financial debt. Whether it is a credit card‚ car loan‚ student loan‚ or a mortgage‚ most adults in the developed world of all backgrounds‚ and all types of incomes often find themselves in some form of financial debt. There are multiple factors that lead people into debt. Some individuals
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