Venice find your destiny‚ find Scorpia" Scorpia‚ the 5th installment of the swift-paced and best-selling ’Alex rider’ series by Anthony Horowitz‚ does not disappoint in any manner. In some aspects I personally would consider it the best book of the series so far. The book‚ similar to the others in the series‚ is focused on Alex Rider and his life as a teenage spy‚ and how he deals with the issues sharing a double life. Scorpia begins on a school excursion to Venice‚ whereby Alex Rider‚ former teenage
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Book Report : The Cay 2006 The Cay is a breathtaking novel of Theodore Taylor . Though the book was written more than 30 years ago ‚ it still remains very popular and became a classic piece of American literature . It was a landmark work for its author ‚ because it won 11 literary awards ‚ including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award . The genre of the book is action ‚ adventure and young adult fiction .The main characters of the book are Philip Enright Junior ‚ who is also the narrator of the story
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Fahrenheit 451‚ written by Ray Bradbury‚ fabricates a futuristic fellowship where it is illegal to be in possession of a book or books. If our civilization permits a guild of individuals to regulate what is appropriate to read‚ the world Bradbury had envisioned may become true. A book that has been challenged with censorship is Tiger Eyes written by Judy Blume. Davey Wexler‚ along with her mother‚ Gwen‚ and her little brother‚ Jason‚ has just attended the funeral of her father‚ Adam‚ who was
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Harron defied the odds and transformed this controversial work from hardcover to the big screen. Remarkably a huge success‚ the film captures the weaving‚ often-satirical‚ themes of the book‚ while staying true to the not so hidden horrors of a 1980’s New York yuppie turned serial killer Patrick Bateman. Where the book gave readers the eyes and insight of a warped Patrick Bateman‚ the movie displayed a more outward perspective‚ balancing the darkly comical with hints of insanity that built toward the
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The Boy who couldn’t stop Washing written by DR. Judith Rapoport‚ published by Penguin books in 1989‚ containing 292 pages‚ deals with obsessive compulsive disorder. Dr. Rapoport is a psychiatrist who specializes in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In this‚ book she reveals new drug treatments‚ new methods in diagnosis and behaviorist therapies. This is done through the study of her patients and their disorders. Rapoport has revealed this secret disease and hopes to bring and understanding
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Although in both movies and the book "Frankenstein" is portrayed as a monster there are many different perceptions about of him. In movies the monster will not stop at anything he was only out to hurt or destroy others as appose to the book where he tried to make friends and find someone to cherish and love. The book and movie both show different characteristics which the monster possesses and how they directly or indirectly relate to one another. In the movie‚ "Frankenstein" has a green complexion
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party throughout the remaining part of the journey. One of those type of characters‚ is named Beorn. Beorn is a character that appears in the novel named The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. There is a remake of the book in a movie version called The Hobbit and it is directed by Peter Jackson. The book was originally published during the year 1937. The movie of The Hobbit was released in the year 2012. In the movie‚ Gandalf‚ Bilbo‚ and the dwarves meet Beorn in a dramatic way in which Beorn chases them to
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Book Response Overall‚ I found Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster by Warren Buckland‚ to be a very informative read. Going into the book‚ I really did not know much about Steven Spielberg. I was aware that he had directed some of my favorite films‚ such as Catch Me If You Can‚ Saving Private Ryan‚ and War of the Worlds‚ and that the name Spielberg is synonymous with the Hollywood blockbuster‚ but really never considered taking a deeper look into Spielberg’s
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In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief‚ love can be seen throughout the book. Love by definition is “ an intense feeling of deep affection". However‚ love isn’t necessarily an intense feeling of deep endearment. There are conflicting types of love such as friendship love or family love. In “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak‚ the Nazi’s are in power at the time and the citizens of Germany have to withstand the austerity’s that come alongside with their position in power. The characters have to learn to love
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Another great example is when the director adds a scene with Ms Phelan admitting to Skeeter that she found out about her writing the book. In this scene‚ she shows her how she is pleased and is more accepting towards her‚ unlike the way her character in the book was portrayed. Foremost‚ the
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