Train to Pakistan‚ originally published in 1956‚ is not a very good book‚ but quite enjoyable much of the time. Khushwant Singh‚ less than ten years after Partition‚ in 1947‚ wrote a novel of less than 200 pages and still managed to create what’s probably best described as an uneven mess. Ideas‚ allusions‚ characters and bits and pieces of story float all over the book. There’s no denying that Singh‚ who has since become a famous public figure and intellectual in India‚ prefers to lecture rather
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recovering bodies in the worst of situations. His supplementary or secondary purpose was to tell the story of his diving operations at Guadalcanal and the humorous stories of the life and liberties of an enlisted sailor during a time of war. The book serves primarily as a narrative of memoirs by Raymond‚ who was a junior enlisted diver during World War II and rose to the ranks of Commander throughout his Navy career. Raymer’s main argument or emphasis conveyed was of the many hazards that were
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AP US Founding Myths: The Stories that Hide Our Patriotic Past Most of the historical events that are taught today are merely fabrications of what really happened many years ago. These fabrications soon turn into myths because they are continually passed on incorrectly‚ but yet people still believe them to be true. Founding Myths: Stories that Hide Our Patriotic Past is filled with many historical happenings that people believe are true‚ and the actuality of what really happened as well
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Jasper Jones Craig Silvey ISBN: 978-0-375-86666-1 in Australia by Allen & Unwin‚ Crows Nest‚ 2009 Murder?! Mystery?! Who?! All are questions asked and answered in this book. Late night through the woods they make their way a to a large tree and from this tree hung a girl.In this small australian town Jasper was known as the trouble maker so then and there if they would have call the police Jasper would probably be in jail within an hour. Laura Wishart was the murdered‚ her death was the mystery
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Identify the founding theorists of management and then discuss the major schools of thought under which their theories can be classified. The founding theorists of management are Frederick Taylor‚ Max Weber‚ Henri Fayol and Mary Parker Follett. Taylor’s theory is classified under Scientific Management‚ and he was known as “the father of scientific management”. Scientific management can be defined as the scientific determination of changes in management practices as a means improving labour productivity
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There are numerous books that depict the lives of wage-earning women in Canada; however works on self-employed women are uncommon. The Business of Women- Marriage‚ Family‚ and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia‚ 1901-1951‚ was written by Melanie Buddle in 2010‚ under UBC Press. In The Business of Women‚ Buddle attempts to highlight the key features of entrepreneurial women in the 1900’s in Western Canada‚ exploring how and why women entered the business world. In this book‚ Buddle examines case
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to him as their new dictator. Ironically‚ this story ends with life for the animals becoming worse than it was when humans were in charge and they wish for things to be back to the way they were years earlier. Scenes: My favorite scene from this book can be found in Chapter 4 (54-60) which takes place a few years after the original animal rebellion. Mr. Jones‚ the former owner and head farmer of Moore Farm‚ learns of its new prosperity and how comfortable the animals have become. Thinking himself
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Charles John Huffham Dickens was born on February 7‚ 1812. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Dickens. John Dickens was a clerk and he didn’t make much money. At fifteen‚ Charles found employment as a clerk‚ while he studied shorthand at night. His sad experience in the factory haunted him all of his life. He shared it only with his wife and his closest friend‚ John Forster. but it later became the inspiration for his novels - “David Copperfield” and “Great Expectations”. Oliver
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(D’Arcy‚ 71). With Paul D’Arcy there is no such hindering sentiment. His book‚ The People of the Sea‚ Enviorment‚ Identity‚ and History in Oceania “‚ covers the maritime dimension of Remote Oceania’s history for the period from 1770 until 1870. The study emphasizes Pacific Islanders varied relationships with the sea as evolving processes during a crucial transitional era” (D’Arcy 1). In judging his reason for writing this book‚ D’Arcy states that “surprisingly little research has been conducted on
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Number the Stars Lois Lowry is the author of Number the stars. She published her book in 1989 by Random House in New York. Her books have a variety of styles and content‚ but they all have the same general theme‚ such as‚ number the stars is set in a different culture and era but all her books tell the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings. Lowry has written 20 novels and she has won the Newberry Medal award twice (Lowry‚ Lois Lowry-Bio). She also tackles
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