The Author of this book (On our own terms: race‚ class‚ and gender in the lives of African American Women) Leith Mullings seeks to explore the modern and historical lives of African American women on the issues of race‚ class and gender. Mullings does this in a very analytical way using a collection of essays written and collected over a twenty five year period. The author’s systematic format best explains her point of view. The book explores issues such as family‚ work and health comparing and
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First of all‚ I read the first book of the Credence Curse series age ago. So‚ I don’t really remember what happened in the first book‚ but the main storyline does continue from book one. It would be best to read the first book before reading When Lightning Strikes. Lighting is half-witch‚ half-fae with the power of empathy‚ because her power she has trouble keeping close relationships with people. When she was younger‚ her power actually gotten her in serious trouble. Not only that being a Credence
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When they were inside the plane should have the Stephen and Dad done what they have done or should they have done something else? (pg. 28-29) Personally I believe that they should have done something else. In the story they let free the slaves. Not only that‚ they also took the car keys from the slavers and gave it to them and used 3 rifle shots to make the slavers not shot them. Stephen and Dad could have killed the slavers and taken all their stuff. Considering the slavers have a car‚ slaves
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She sets out in this book to tell the true story of Burr‚ as a dedicated soldier‚ an active politician‚ and occasionally as an innocent bystander to the mischief of his enemies. She shows us that Burr was not just the man who shot Alexander Hamilton and was tried for treason
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Elijah Pickens 6th / 7th period 3/25/13 The book I read was Son of Neptune‚ by Rick Riordan. It was 513 pages long. The setting of the book Son of Neptune primarily took place in Camp Jupiter in California. The book says‚ "The geography could’ve been anywhere in northern California." An example showing that it took place in Camp Jupiter is‚ "Thank you‚ Percy Jackson‚ for bringing me to Camp Jupiter."It is a camp for Roman demigods and it is basically New Rome. Demigods have one
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As part of the summer reading assignment this year‚ I read the book Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this documentary-style book‚ he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor‚ rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the purpose of telling the stories of the children who lived in these parts of the city. He dedicated his work to those children and it was his goal to inform readers that slums were in fact in existence and
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Night Hoops‚ the book‚ is written by an author who includes sports in all of his published books. Carl Deuker is the author of Night Hoops. Carl Dueker is one of my most favorite authors‚ and I will continue to read his published books. In this book there are many themes such as; teamwork‚ dedication and friendship. Nick Abbott‚ the main character in the book is a sophomore in high school. He has a passion for basketball and deeply loves this sport with hard fought blood‚ sweat and tears. In my
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the main character in my book middle school is james and this book is written by James patterson he is a very independent boy who just likes to sit at home and do nothing all day hes a calm‚kind‚boring person but when it becomes summer his parents send him to a camp called camp wannamorra and he doesn’t want to go to but when he gets there out of all the cabins he gets the worst one called the muskrats with all the kids who gets picked on and thats makes him feel like he’s gonna have a long summer
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The title Fat Catsby expresses Gatsby’s extraordinary wealth. Gatsby is a very wealthy man who has most of everything that he wants. However‚ a man named Nick‚ and his cousin Daisy come along‚ and he sets eyes on her. He tries to lure Daisy with his extravagant wealth. This caused Gatsby to throw a party for everyone‚ and invited Nick‚ and his cousin Daisy. Gatsby’s life is full of deceit‚ and lies‚ and misfortune when it comes to love. The moral of the story to me is that money cannot buy you love
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In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ Rebecca Skloot is searching for the identity of Henrietta Lacks. In the movie Antwone Fisher Antwone is in turn seeking his own identity. Discuss some of the parallels‚ similarities or differences between the book and movie. Usually when talking about a movie or a book‚ it hard to discuss the similarities and the differences. Because sometimes a movie can be more influencing than a book and vice versa. When I first started reading the book The Immortal
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