“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.” (Hillenbrand p.34) Louie Zamperini was a young and rising track star. He was dreaming about the Olympics‚but that didn’t go as planned. It is 1943 in May Louie Zamperini’s plane had crashed in the pacific ocean during WW||. Ahead was thousands of miles of ocean with attacking sharks‚thirst‚and starvation/. He was caught by someone not very pleasant. But do it go away? Find out by reading unbroken By:Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken has 298 fascinating pages
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The book I read was `A Child Called It’ by Dave Pelzer. The book is an autobiography of Pelzer. He writes about his struggle to stay alive in a home where he is treated like a slave and an animal. The book begins with the people at Dave’s school finally report Dave and his condition to the authorities. Then he tells us about his past when he still lived in a happy‚ normal family. Dave had a mother‚ father and 2 older brothers. While his Father is at work as a fire fighter‚ his mother turns to alcohol
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Cathy Quineche HIST 1301 Amy Denton 46 Pages Book Report About The London Packet Thomas Paine arrived to America in November of 1774. During this time America was experiencing great conflicts with England‚ these conflicts would later result In the American Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin advised Paine to move to America‚ and after he had lost wife‚ kids‚ and job that he did. Paine took a job editing The Pennsylvania Magazine‚ and also began writing anonymous articles. He wrote articles such
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Hills Hoist (1945) Born in 1902 in Knoxville‚ Adelaide‚ Lance Hill was a motor mechanic‚ manufacturer and designer of the rotary clothesline‚ a popular household device of the 1950’s. Growing up in Adelaide‚ he was the second oldest child of Alfred William Hill and Lillian Ethal. As he grew up‚ he helped out with the family business of a bacon and meat canary‚ where he obtained thereafter‚ a steam engineer’s certificate‚ refrigeration and general engineering skills and later opened his own motor
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Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska is a novel by John Green and is about a young man named Miles Halters. The book is set in Alabama at the boarding school‚ Culver Creek High School. Miles loves memorizing the last words of famous people and is looking to seek his “Great Perhaps” in his life. After moving into his dorm Miles meets Chip‚ or also known as The Colonel. The two moves the Colonels’ furniture into the boys’ dorm. Soon after Miles gets the nickname‚ Pudge‚ just to be ironic since he
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assortment of eclectic anecdotes and interviews collected throughout his career as a journalist. The book itself revolves mainly around pop culture and perception. At first it may seem that every story in Klosterman’s book is very different in its own right; that is in fact true‚ but they also have quite a few similarities in regards to their themes. Perception is primarily one of the main themes throughout the book. The stories collected are of vastly different people who do different things‚ but they all
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Through A Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe By: Jane Goodall Anna Kate Dykes 5/8/16 Biology Introduction Through a Window tells of Jane Goodall’s adventures in the jungles of Rhwanda and western Tanzania. She went on this expedition to find and observe chimpanzees in their natural habitat. They also went to the slopes of Rwanda’s volcanoes for a-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to encounter mountain gorillas in their own habitat. They spent four days looking for chimpanzees
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The Hunger Games By Landon Courtney The Hunger Games was written by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games generates suspense‚ action‚ and science fiction‚ and a form of dictatorship. The setting is in Panem‚ formerly North America. Part of the book is in District 12‚ near the Appalachian Mountains. It is set in the future. Katniss Everdeen is the main character in the Hunger Games. She is sixteen years old; she is determined‚ loving‚ and caring. She has straight black hair that is usually braided
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Tub “Despite Tub’s eye wound he never so much as stumbled‚ and I felt for the first time we knew and understood each other; I sensed in him a desire to improve himself‚ which perhaps was whimsy or wishful thinking on my part‚ but such are the musings of the traveling man” (page 102) This quote is showing how Eli showed his love for Tub and that he felt like he knew what he was going through. Tub is a weak‚ sad‚ beat up horse that they drag along their quest. Eli comes off as weak‚ compared
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Angie Mitchell ENG 1101 Dr. M. Fowler Happiness What is life really about? Is it about money‚ or who drives the fanciest car‚ who sells the most albums or who has the most respect? Happiness has many different meanings. It is defined according to a person’s personal perspectives. Each individual describes his or her feelings in ways that cannot be compared to others. Happiness originally means the inner
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