Warcross by Marie Lu is an exciting story that takes place in the near future. The book seems to take place 10-15 years from now‚ when everyone is obsessed with a virtual reality video game called Warcross that is played on a device called the Hololens goggles. One day‚ when Emika Chen‚ a bounty Hunter‚ accidentally hacks into a Warcross championship tournament‚ she thinks she will be arrested. But instead‚ the creator of the Hololens goggles and Warcross is impressed with her skills and recruits
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The Way of Shadows Summary Setting The story takes place in Cenaria City‚ the capital of Cenaria‚ which is located in the fictional land of Midcyru. Cenaria City is split into two halves‚ the Warrens and the East Side. The Warrens are full of cheap prostitutes‚ brothels‚ orphans‚ beggars‚ muggers‚ and slums. The East Side‚ though still infested with crime‚ is where the richer middle and upper class live. Cenaria is ruled in a Monarchy‚ with a single king ruling the land and power passing on
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perseverance (Duckworth 8). She believes this trait to be the most important‚ one that indicates the effort a person will put into their goals‚ how much they are willing to endure‚ and how successful they will be in achieving their goals (Duckworth 6). In her book‚ titled Grit‚ Duckworth discusses the trait in psychological terms‚ exploring how to measure grit in people and how it contributes to the success people experience. While the
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The writing of the book of memory is not lettered but is written in “signs and symbols”. Additionally‚ its contents are concise. The contents of the Book of Memory are akin to an ekphrasis. Just as an ekphrasis points to artwork without being the artwork itself‚ the book points to knowledge without being the knowledge itself. The Book of Memory is reminiscent of Plato’s theory of the forms being learned and committed to memory
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Unbroken is about Louie Zamperini‚ an olympian who has to join to join the army and fight in world war 2. Louie later gets captured by the Japanese and gets abused in the POW camps for two and a half years. This book is broken into five parts and the part one is about Louie early childhood. “At five‚ he started smoking‚ picking up cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten.” Louie childhood was rough‚ he was know for making trouble and always getting in fights with his bullies. Louie was the
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As I reviewed the book Black Boy by Richard Wright‚ I have noticed that the author’s main interest is in Language and World Affairs as he paid much attention to human conditions of the twentieth century. Keen focus/ literary theme was on the life and history of the author which stimulated insights and thoughts of the cultural occurrences of the period. The story tabulates the author’s life growing up as a poor African-American‚ highlighting the struggles and obstacles that were trite for that group
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After reading the book “Picture This” by Molly Bang‚ I have learned more about the details that go into creating a picture for a picture book and how certain aspects effect how the reader perceives the picture. One theory or point I thought that was very interesting is how the picture can give the reader certain emotion. The author tells us that she decided to use different colors in order to give off a certain mood she wanted to portray to the reader. For example‚ she decided to make the trees black
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Poisonwood Bible: Book Five – Exodus Book five is appropriately called Exodus‚ because Orleanna finally reaches her lowest level and leaves Nathan. After Ruth May dies‚ she feels that she just needs to keep moving‚ taking the girls with her. The women set route to Leopodville‚ Leah gets sick and is nursed back to health be Anatole‚ who she later marries. Rachel escapes with Axelroot on his plane‚ while Orleanna and Adah try to make it to the Leopodville via ferry. As they try to make their way
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into any animal in the real world or the Gourd he chooses. He is the son of King Dor and Queen Irene and the little brother of of Princess Ivy. The book begins with Dolph‚ a 12 year old boy going on a Quest with Marrow Bones to find the great magician Humfrey‚ who had been missing. Dolph and Marrow go to Good Magician Humfrey’s castle (like in all the books) to see if there’s anything that would give them clues to his disappearance. In a hidden room they find is a message that reads Skeleton Key to Heaven
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The book ‘Major in Success’ by Patrick Combs is essentially a self-help book for college and life. Along with providing many real life success examples‚ Combs does a good job in anticipating the arguments against his ideas and answers them. ‘Major in Success’ has some great advice as well as some major flaws. The ‘aim for the stars’ mentality is good in fairy tales‚ but in today’s cut throat job market‚ job searching individuals have to pull out all the stops. Combs does not go into
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