The story of Grains of Sands is a fabulous story of a man named Benson M. Karanja. Leaving Kenya at the age of 35 years old‚ Dr. Karanja faced many ups and downs to end up being the president of the Beulah Heights bible college. Dr. Karanja’s journey throughout this book demonstrates the parable of faithfulness‚ obedience and humility. His character through difficulties and hard time as properly shows his ability of leadership. A model by his faith and educational achievements‚ Dr. Benson Karanja
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In 2013‚ Paul Kalanithi’s world was flipped upside down: he had been diagnosed with stage 4 Lung Cancer. He went from treating others‚ to others treating him. The way that he had previously looked at life had vanished and has was now seeing it with completely different eyes. In the beginning of the book he talks about his upbringing and how he was the child of two Indian immigrants. He was born on April 1‚ 1977 in New York. Kalanithi goes on to discuss his schooling achievement including where he
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Pretty Girls Book Report Pretty girls was written by Karin Slaughter and is 394 pages long. The book is about a college girl that was taken away from her family it so happens that more girls are kidnapped then boys. They don’t know where she is or what happened to her and the police department can’t even find out what happened to her. The family fell apart and the sisters grew so far apart that they didn’t even talk to each other in seventeen years. When they finally come back together they put
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The Imitation Game follows the story of mathematician Alan Turing and his life revolving around cracking enigma. The movie opens in post World War II England after a break in at Alan Turing’s home. The story of cracking enigma begins as Mr. Turing’s interrogation begins. Throughout the flashbacks into cracking enigma the movie shows the audience further time jumps to Mr. Turing’s childhood. In Mr. Turing’s childhood he is bullied and harassed‚ but when he meets Christopher and is introduced to cryptography
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MAIN IDEA: Shello Bines is a young man with a deceased father who lives with his stepdad and mom. He dislikes them and often sneaks out to get high and stargaze. He becomes increasingly involved with an assassination squad‚ a group aiming to overthrow the government. Sharing Bines’ beliefs‚ he eventually becomes a member of the team. One day‚ they devised a plan to dismantle the government by eliminating all political leaders. This sparks a conflict with the hierarchy‚ leading to a war between the
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A whole generation has grew up with a bright screen and a quick dopamine release and have gotten used to it. In Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows”‚ Carr noticed a change in his own ability to concentrate. "I’d sit down with a book‚ or a long article‚" He told NPR‚ "and after a couple of pages my brain wanted to do what it does when I’m online: check email‚ click this chronic
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In Is Google Making Us Stupid?‚ Nicholas Carr argues that people are more interested in instant gratification when they take in information than they are in critically thinking about it. He states that people adapt very quickly to new technologies and incorporate aspects of said technologies into their perception of the world‚ so inventions such as the computer‚ which are developed for the purpose of fast rapid information transfer‚ influence the rate at which people evaluate information. It is more
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a part of our primative selfs? Human brains are not hardwired to be able to think undistracted or to be completely immersied in one thing that you cannot be aware of your surroundings. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “The Deepening Page” by Nicholas Carr the author explains the rise in value of undistracted reading and the how technology took away that skill but brought us closer to our primal way of thinking. Reading is an abnormal skill that takes training and practice. It is not something
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Book Analysis: “The Longest Ride” “The Longest Ride” by Nicholas Sparks is a novel that tells two love stories. The first is that of Ira Levinson a 91-year-old widower and his late wife Ruth. Ira’s story starts with him trapped inside a car following his accident‚ which rolls his car off the edge of a two-lane highway‚ due to harsh weather conditions. Stuck in the vehicle it starts to snow and he soon finds himself dehydrated and loosing blood. As this occurs Ruth‚ who had been dead nine years
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March 14 1917‚ Nicholas II fell from power‚ there was lots of reasons but my three main reasons are; The State of the Army and how they weren’t ready for war‚ The Role of the Duma and how they wanted the Tsar out of power‚ and Rasputin how he had control over Nicholas’s wife Rasputin was a peasant from Siberia‚ he was a holy man that clamed he had the power to heal the sick and predict the future. This came in handy when he found out that the Tsar’s son Alexis has hemophaelia‚ that’s a disease
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