The book I chose for my report is Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution by James E. Crisp. In my book‚ Crisp follows the Texas Revolution along with the battle at the Alamo which took place between 1835 and 1836. He tackles the questions of why and how myths are made and shows how the environment around someone can influence attitudes that people develop about certain historical events. Crisp also challenges are beliefs of history and wants us
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In my opinion‚ monster is a general designation of groups nonhuman organisms. Almost of monsters have different characteristic than human being‚ such as tail‚ buck teeth‚and sharp claws. Because those inevitable origin‚ it can be seen monsters are inborned. Most of them called monster because they are the antithesis of human’s life‚ human’s benefit‚ or human’s wish. Some of them utilize weakness of humanity to kill people or plunder valuable things. Such as vampire‚ dragon‚ Different bad person
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The novel I chose for my book report is Hero‚ by Mike Lupica. It’s a fantasy novel and one in a series of books by the author dealing with the superpowers and the struggle of good versus evil. The main character of the book is Zach Harriman 14 year old boy whose father recently died in a plane crash. His father worked for the secret service. Zach starts to investigate his father’s mysterious death. He is told by a “friend of the family” named Mr. Herbert that he has supernatural powers‚ and his
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Dracula Book Report Author: Bram Stoker Title: Dracula Rating: Excellent Reading Level: Hard Number of Pages: 363. With the notes and commentary: 394 Summary: Dracula is a novel about 6 comrades scheming to exterminate Count Dracula in revenge for killing the love of both Quincey Morris and Lord Godalming‚ Lucy Westenra. They soon find they are dealing with a bloodthirsty vampire‚ and their plot turns into a race for whom is able to survive‚ Count Dracula‚ or them. Their story is
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ZAPP book report 11/24/09 ZAPP The Lightning of EMPOWERMENT‚ by William C. Byham Ph.D. and Jeff Cox presents a story of different problems that managers/supervisors face and how they deal with the problems. The book shows how an autocratic supervisor would deal with a problem compared to a participative supervisor would handle the problems. The story shows the contrast between a supervisor that ZAPPS (empowers) her employees and a supervisor that SAPPS his employees by his interactions and
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When reading about history‚ one comes across a rather unfortunate number of mass killings. From the slow destruction of the Native American peoples‚ to the brief but devastating Holocaust‚ to modern terrorist attacks‚ history books tell of atrocity after atrocity. If one were to ask a random person on the street‚ he or she could probably provide a decent explanation of any of these events. After all‚ humanity has a fascination with violent and horrific acts‚ so if people remember anything from high
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Cockroach Book Report By: James Cockroach‚ written by Rawi Hage‚ published in 2008 by House of Anansi Press Inc.‚ tells the story of a new immigrant who comes to Montreal‚ Canada to escape his war torn country back home in Iran. We see Canada through the eyes of the unnamed protagonist throughout the novel who struggles financially‚ and emotionally‚ battling the cold Canadian winter‚ and ending up in special care after a failed suicide attempt upon arriving to Canada. Through his extremely
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Chains Summer Reading and Book Report In the year of 1776‚ America was much different than it is today. Back then‚ we were ruled by the British Royal Family‚ and we only had a total of thirteen colonies. Chains was based in the time of slavery and of the Revolutionary War. Isabel and Ruth were slaves for Miss Finch; in her will‚ Miss Finch wrote for the sisters to be freed once she had passed. After the funeral‚ the will could not be acquired. Now the girls were slaves‚ not free. After
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Submitted by: CHARACTERS CHAPTER | CHARACTERS | DESCRIPTION | 1 | Brida(protagonist)Magus of Folk | -She is a twenty-one year old Irish girl who wants to learn about magic.-He is a Teacher of Tradition of the Sun who was known and respected by the tradition. He has gray hair and is about twice the age of Brida. | 2 | BridaOwner of the bookshopWicca | -He owned the bookshop and was eager to help Brida in finding a teacher.-She is a slim‚ elegant‚ serious-looking woman who teaches Brida about the
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Book Report: The Goal This paper is a book report on the novel entitled The Goal written by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox. The 40-chapter book is actually a business book written in the form of a novel that makes it interesting to read unlike other business textbook. As a novel‚ the book is entertaining but at the same time‚ very informative for management or accounting students as well as for the real-life company managers and CEOs who wanted to apply different managerial practices
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