Of course Thorin is one of the most important character of this book‚ the entire book evolves around this very proud dwarf. Thorin is the one besides the very wise Gandalf with the most knowledge and intelligence about the mountain‚ Smaug and the treasure. Something that none of the dwarves could predict were the very many difficulties and setbacks they would have to challenge on their way to the treasure. Throughout the book Thorin is often described as a stubborn‚ bulging and stern dwarf but
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the horrible luck Chicago‚ Illinois‚ has had regarding the hosting rights. Three years prior‚ the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the city the right to host the third Olympics. Be that as it may‚ the 1904 games did not take place in Chicago as planned. Instead‚ Saint Louis‚ Missouri‚ captured the rights to host by threatening to host a similar
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The Unwinding is the perfect title for this book. It portrays and revolves around the sad and unsettling history of the last four decades in the United States. His topic is the fall of the structure of the national government. Packer makes remarks regarding the unraveling of unspoken agreements about the limits to Wall Street’s greed‚ about what a congressman would or wouldn’t do for the right price‚ about what a company owes its workers‚ and what the wealthy should contribute in tax. As Packers
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Kent price‚ political science 490 Dave egger’s book The circle discusses how invasive modern technology has become. He notes are willingness to accept and adapt to new technology as commonplace. The book was eye opening to my social media presence and to be cautious about how much I share. The book was easy to read but I felt it had to many plot holes. Mae Holland is a recent college graduate ready to move on to better opportunities. Having grown tired of the monotonous life she was living
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In Dr. Newsom’s article about the book of Daniel‚ she provokes the reader’s thoughts with the riveting question: “What is this book saying about the relationship between God and human political power?” In our country now‚ masses of people are actively working to protest and resist bans‚ laws‚ toxic pipelines‚ and discriminatory practices in our justice systems- almost every week in Minneapolis‚ MN‚ a protest makes the news‚ with citizens making an effort to show solidarity and resistance against
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“The Outsiders” is a novel written by S. E. Hinton in 1967. The story is set in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ in 1965. The book follows two rival groups‚ the Greasers and the Socs (short for socials). The groups are divided by the economic status of their societies. The main Characters are Ponyboy Curtis‚ Sodapop Curtis‚ Darry Curtis‚ Dally Winston‚ Two-Bit Mathews‚ Steve Randle‚ and Johnny Cade. Ponyboy‚ Sodapop‚ and Darry are three brothers that look out for each other after their parents died in a car crash
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The main theme of The Jungle is the evil of capitalism. Every event‚ especially in the first twenty-seven chapters of the book‚ is chosen deliberately to portray a particular failure of capitalism in Sinclair’s view‚ inhuman and violent. The slow total destruction of Jurgis’s immigrant family at the hands of a cruel and unfair economic and social system shows the effect of capitalism on the working class as a whole. As the immigrants‚ who initially possess an idealistic faith in the American Dream
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The summer of 1871 was very dry‚ leaving the ground parched and the wooden city vulnerable. On Sunday evening‚ October 8‚ 1871‚ just after nine o’clock‚ a fire broke out in the barn behind the home of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary at 13 DeKoven Street. How the fire started is still unknown today‚ but an O’Leary cow often gets the credit. The firefighters‚ exhausted from fighting a large fire the day before‚ were first sent to the wrong neighborhood. When they finally arrived at the O’Leary’s‚ they
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Conduct Book Reflection You never get a second chance at a “first impression”; unless you’re told by a book how to make that impression. Pride and Prejudice is an extremely clever piece of literature written by Jane Austen in the early 1800s. She pokes fun at the times and criticizes the odd qualities which made this time period unique. Today‚ many of the viewpoints made in this book have remained the same‚ and some have developed and stretched as ideas. Austen’s take on conduct books for example
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The Protector The Protector‚ is a Christian Fiction book written by Dee Henderson. While reading the beginning of the book‚ I thought the book was just going to be a boring book about a firefighter‚ but after reading the entire book‚ I realized that there was much more than just the story of a firefighter. I really enjoyed how the author‚ Dee Henderson‚ portrayed Jack O’Malley‚ the firefighter‚ and his family of seven orphaned and abandoned teens who became a family‚ and changed there sir to O’Malley
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