ALICIA KEYS Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25‚ 1981)‚ known professionally as Alicia Keys‚ is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Keys released her debut album with J Records‚ having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records. Keys’ debut album‚ Songs in A Minor‚ was a commercial success‚ selling over 12 million copies worldwide.[2] She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001.[3] The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in
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Percy‚ being the only known child of one of the big three gods‚ who is still alive‚ is being disturb by the fact that he might be the one who will either save Olympus or totally destroy it. While in the camp‚ Percy meets Tyson‚ his half-brother who is a Cyclops. Because of Tyson’s true nature‚ Percy becomesa little bit shameful of him. When their camp is later attacked by a traitor of their kind‚ they discover that thetree which protects the camp was poisoned. In order to keep the camp safe‚ Annabeth
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Millions of people died in the horrors and destruction of World War 2. Millions more experienced horrors they didn’t know existed. Children‚ young and innocent‚ were no longer the pure beings they once were. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak takes place during this dark time‚ and there were many bombings‚ deaths‚ and pain for everyone one living in this time. Many characters in the book are exposed to scarring events that will forever change them. The narrator of the book is death itself‚ and he goes
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The novel‚ The Book Thief‚ shows the destruction of literature and writing‚ as dramatized by the burning of Jewish creative and intellectual products in a book burning to commemorate Adolph Hitler’s birthday. From learning how to read‚ Liesel has come to discover many things she never knew before‚ such like how important it is to express oneself. It seems like words are basically the main thing that keeps her alive in the bleak world and that keeps her to encourage others in this chaos caused by
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book project was Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan. The main character in this book was Percy Jackson his father is Poseidon the god of the sea and his mother is a normal human. In the book he discovers more of his abilities he inherited from his father and he learns to like his half-brother Tyson. Tyson is also a son of Poseidon‚ but instead of a human he is a Cyclops. He is younger than Percy and embarrasses Percy all the time. Although he is not smart he is incredibly strong like all other Cyclops
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answers that she gave me. Recently‚ she has read the entire Harry Potter series and the Percy Jackson series. This was surprising to me because when I was her age I wasn’t reading these types of books and I haven’t met any 11 year olds who have. These book series are lengthy chapter books that follow the story of two teens who live in a magical world. The Harry Potter series has seven books in total and the Percy Jackson series has three.
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works of Rick Riordan 2. Question: because I want to find out how he portrayed the different characters of Greek mythology in his “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series 3. Significance: in order to help my reader understand how pop culture influenced different modern retellings of Greek mythology Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series focuses on a modern retelling of Greek mythology through the life of a demigod. The characters he chose to use for his series
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LIGHTNING Lightning is a massive electrostatic discharge caused by unbalanced electric charges in the atmosphere‚ and resulting in a strike‚ from a cloud to itself‚ a cloud to a cloud or a cloud to ground‚ and accompanied by the loud sound of thunder. A typical cloud to ground lightning strike jumps a 5 km (3 mi) gap through the air.[1] A typical thunderstorm has three or more strikes per minute at its peak.[2] Lightning is usually produced by cumulonimbus clouds based 5–6 km (3-4 mi) above the
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through tragic wars and hostilities‚ even through tragic times beauty has shown as a light in the hardship of brutality. This is a recurring theme in the novel “The Book Thief” written by Markus Zusak‚ beauty and brutality occur in the characters Liesel‚ Rosa‚ Death revealing the confusing ways of society and humanity. Zusak won the 2014 Edwards Award for “The Book Thief”‚ which occurs in “machine” Nazi Germany. The society is facing the hardship of Adolf Hitler‚ who is trying to create a perfect world
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The Book Thief is a novel by Markus Zusak about a girl during World War Two who becomes a foster child after her mother abandons her. In this novel‚ the basic theme is love. Love is everything. Love is in our minds and in our hearts. In this book there are two ways love happens‚ when it sneaks up on you like a due date for an essay or full frontal force like a threatening hurricane. Sometimes we do not realize that we love someone until its too late. Sadly we see this tragedy of losing the people
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