I. Introduction My choice for my book report is the lightning thief by Rick Riordan‚ it was called the lightning thief because Percy Jackson who is the protagonist of the story was accused of stealing the weapon of Zeus (the lightning bolt) Percy had two friends in camp half-blood namely Grover and Annabeth. These two people help our hero Percy in his quest to prove that he did not steal the lightning bolt from Zeus. There is also Luke‚ the real lightning thief‚ who acted nice to Percy in order
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scared of change. The crystal merchant is an example of a life that is unfulfilled. Santiago then meets the Englishman in a warehouse. The Englishman is also on pursuit of his Personal Legend. The Englishman is very well educated and loves to read his books. The Englishman knows a
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“The sky was the color of cat vomit” is the first sentence of the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. The hook sentence of Uglies already shows Tally’s pessimistic view of things. Uglies is set in the future because it is a dystopian book‚ also because it is a negative way of seeing the future. In this book characters are born looking “ugly” until their 16th birthday where they get mandatory plastic surgery. After the surgery they are called “pretty” and will live somewhere called New Pretty Land where
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blindspots‚ therefore‚ nobody is “good.” With this in consideration‚ making the world‚ and this campus a better place is difficult‚ but there are ways to bring humanity closer to unity every day. The selection of “good people” to be in the title of this book is for two main reasons. The first reason is they used it as a play on words. There is no single human being on the planet that is exempt from judging others at
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S. E. Hinton wrote ‘The Outsiders’ when he was sixteen years old. She did not just write the book‚ but she really felt it and lived it. While the author was writing this book she looked back and realized how important it was to have another life. One day‚ her friend was walking home and a couple of “nice” kids jumped out of a car and just started to beat her friend up because they did not like that he was a greaser. Hinton went home and started writing the story of the boy who was beaten up by rich
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All businesses have the same goal. Just like all business‚ the goal of a manufacturing organization is to make money. As the book begins‚ it is clear that the UniCo plant that Rogo runs is in dire need of improvement. None of the orders are getting out on time and the plant is on the verge of being shut down. There are 3 operation measurements Rogo can use to improve his plant. The first is to sell more products. This examines if the throughput goes up. The second is to look at if the company
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Doomsday Book‚ Fact or Fiction? In our day and age‚ movies and novels are passed off by many as history. Movies like Troy‚ U-571‚ and Enemy at the Gates (it can ’t get any worse than that) are historical inaccurate and at times horribly offensive. One must be dubious towards any form of entertainment with historical "facts" put out‚ be it a book or a movie. On the contrary‚ Connie Willis does a relatively good job of portraying the past in the Doomsday Book. She writes about traveling in time to
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with some fatal flaws‚ and the author points out every trait in full detail. What makes this biography so interesting is Jon Krakauer’s dedication to discovering what truly happened to Christopher McCandless. When Krakauer started writing his book‚ he knew nothing about Christopher’s life or what happened to him after he disappeared. Krakauer followed the trail Christopher left across the country and interviewed any person he interacted to piece together the story of Christopher McCandless
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games. The book is continuously rhyming accompanied by humorous art work that gives the story a kind of flow. Want a little bit of a challenge? Try answering a number of math questions asked throughout the book. The math used consisted mainly of patterns if not basic math of a 3rd grader. Fractions were mentioned but as any 3rd grader would be our main character was terrified of them. So much so that he may have considered answering the question in French instead of math. Overall the book seemed good
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The book i read was “ The Outsiders” by S.E. hinton. The protagonist was Ponyboy Curtis‚ a fourteen year old greaser‚ with long greasy hair. He wears jeans‚ t-shirts and a leather jacket. Ponyboy liked his gang ‚ school ‚ sunsets ‚ movies ‚ reading and his best friend johnny. He hated the Socs because they were the rich kids with all the breaks and his brother Darry because he bossed him around after his parents died. Greasers were the tough poor kids. Ponyboy changed in many ways throughout the
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