AP World History Extra Credit Book List I encourage you to expand your knowledge and interests by reading books for extra credit. It is possible to receive up to 40 extra credit points per quarter (excluding the 4th quarter)‚ but you will have to earn them. Each book review is worth 20 points unless otherwise noted. Any book assigned for another class (ex. English) will no longer be eligible for extra credit for that year. Book and Film Review Format Write a minimum of a four-paragraph review
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they want. People have chances to take second chances that have been laid out in front of them‚ but they decide not to take the chance. “We only had two things to survive [an AK-47 and a big package of cocaine]” says a former child soldier named Ishmael. He knows what it’s like to get a second chance from the horrors that he had caused. The world today is a jungle and we as people get a second
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Catholic Christianity versus Islam November 30‚ 2007 Catholicism has been around for along time although it has evolved over the years. Some Catholics are more liberal and accepting of new beliefs while others remain true to the original doctrines. The Roman Catholic Church traces its history to Jesus Christ and the Apostles‚ (Roman Catholicism‚ 2007). The Roman Catholic’s are the largest group under Christianity in the world. Some of the customs of the Roman Catholic Church came from Doctrines
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While Abraham was in the Old Testament and familiar‚ I did not fully understand the beginning of the Islamic religion to be derived from Ishmael‚ Abraham’s first son and the role that Muhammad played. It was interesting to learn of the similarities of the beginning of Islam and Christianity in the context of how different parts have been interpreted and passed down throughout the years.
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and attitudes of other human beings". - Dictionary of Literacy Biography Alain Leroy Locke was on born on September 13 1886 in Philadelphia ‚Pennsylvania to Mr. And Mrs.Pliny Ishmael Locke and Mary Hawkinns Locke‚ as the only child he grew up in Philadelphia and attended Central High School and attended the Philadelphia s School of Pedagogy‚ and later on in Locke life he attended Harvard in 1904 where he graduated in 1907
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away…I stand here alone here upon an open sea‚ with two oceans and a whole continent between me and the law.” Starbuck is one of the noblest characters of the crew‚ and the only one with the will or ability to stop Ahab. However‚ earlier in the novel Ishmael says of Starbuck‚ that his courage could withstand “winds or whales or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world‚" but not the crazed mind of "an enraged and mighty man." This is a permanent quality of Starbuck’s character and evidently
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able—if we employ it—to discern truth from falsehood. Muslims also believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed at many times and places starting with Adam and including Sheath‚ Noah‚ Abraham‚ Ishmael‚ Isaac‚ Jacob‚ Joseph‚ Job‚ Moses‚ Aaron‚ David‚ Solomon‚ Elias‚ and Jesus‚ However‚ God’s final message to man was revealed to Prophet Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel‚. All of them come with the same message through different times and places
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Thesis Statement Abraham’s narrative in the relationship between Abram and Sarai focuses on God’s righteousness and fidelity rather than Abram’s righteousness as the paragon of faith through J view. Abram’s commitment to hurt Sarai When he was about to enter Egypt‚ he said to his wife Sarai‚ “I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance; and when the Egyptians see you‚ they will say‚ ‘This is his wife’; then they will kill me‚ but they will let you live. Say you are my sister
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Title “Take them there. I don’t want him to lie in the darkness tonight.” (Fast 195) Adam Cooper is told by his mother Sarah Cooper to take candles to the church so his father will not lie there in the dark. This book took place in Lexington Massachusetts on April 19th 1775‚ the red coats marching in a solid column through towns destroying them. The three minor characters in this book are Sarah Cooper‚ Granny‚ and Ruth Simmons. “Adam‚ he loves you. You’re his son.” (Fast 23) Sarah is a little confused
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religions. Jesus ultimately serves as the unifying bridge between the two religions‚ covering up all the confusion and misinterpretations about Christianity. “The Qur’an speaks of Jesus as a member of a group of prophets that includes Noah‚ Abraham‚ Ishmael‚ Isaac‚ Jacob‚ Job‚ Jonah‚ and others” (pg. 117). Muslims acknowledge the fact that Jesus comes from the same lineage of the group of prophets listed above‚ therefore it wouldn’t make sense to put him on a pedestal above the rest. All of these prophets
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