46 Pages Book Review Liell‚ Scott. 46 Pages‚ Thomas Paine‚ Common Sense‚ and the Turning Point to American Independence. Running Press. Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. 2003. Imagine having a front row seat‚ or better yet‚ a hand in what is considered to be the one of the greatest moments in history. Scott Liell is able to provide his audience that experience through his written account of the spectacular events that led to the signing of The Declaration of Independence. The author’s
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BOOK REVIEW “LIFE OF CHRIST” by NT Wright Prepared for: SIBKL SOLID Prepared by: Michael Sin Date: August 12‚ 2013 Email: psmichaelsin@gmail.com Lecturer: Rev Dr Tan Soo Inn I A VERY ODD SORT OF KING Indeed‚ He was a very “odd sort of king” that we are studying on. But what is more important is that we‚ as Christians‚ need to understand what was going through the mind of Jesus‚ what did he think he was doing and what was it all about. Why did a “king” come to serve‚ to be tortured‚ died and
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The Hunger Games Susan Collins Copyright date: October 1‚ 2008 Genre: Science fiction The Hunger Games book review North America has been destroyed and is now run by the powerful Capital and is divided into 12 districts (district 13 has been destroyed due to a rebellion). In district 12 ace hunter Katniss Everdeen‚ a 16 year old girl‚ carves out a meager existence for herself‚ her younger sister Prim and their widowed mother. In order to keep the 12 districts aware of who runs the county‚
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A review based on the book entitled Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds The book is all about how to approach presentation design as a visual aid rather than a document. Rather than do a review of the book‚ on how presentation developers might apply some of the rules. Presentation Zen was the book that bridged the gap and helped me understand that PowerPoint (or any visual aid for that matter) shouldn ’t be a means of present lots of information‚ but rather a way to
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Michael Honick After my first week of the Summer Bridge Program at Penn St-Abington‚ I learned a lot about the differences between high school and college. I really understand in high school that you must be there during the allotted hours‚ success rides on the teacher‚ and that we can get away from not reading the text for class and in college you have more freedom‚ harder courses‚ and longer hours of studying. We learned how to become an efficient and effective learner. What I learned from
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the key tenets of the Australian identity‚ however what ensued at Cronulla in 2005 is a smear upon our egalitarian ideals. It is in this light that the documentary sets out to explicitly highlight how fragile race relations remain in Australia’s multicultural hotpots. Though The Cronulla Riots: Day that Shocked the Nation (2013)‚ may appear to directly appeal to a narrow target audience of Sydney-siders‚ it also effectively touches the broader Australian community and provokes our perception of Australian
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Autumn Lusty Ms. Boretsky American History Honors 15 November 2016 Founding Brothers Book Review Founding Brothers‚ whom the author is Joseph Ellis‚ had six sections that are used to show how the leaders of the Revolutionary Generation reveal their uncertainty about the ability of the new republic to survive and the two issues that threaten the nation‚ slavery‚ and the parties’ differences. The book is focused on Aaron Burr‚ George Washington‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ James Madison
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Austin Smith Book Review Killing Lincoln This past month I have been reading Bill Oreillys killing Lincoln. This book shows Lincolns process of ending slavery and dealing with the civil war. The book tells the story of our president trying to do good things‚ while John Wilkes Booth is planning to do a really bad deed by killing Lincoln. This book shows us that Lincoln had a lot on his plate dealing with the Civil war and the criticism from the south. He was obviously not supported in the
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Book Review 1 Slave Country: American Expansion and The Origins of the Deep South Adam Rothman Cambridge‚ Mass. : Harvard University Press‚ 2005. 312 pages Slave Country Slave Country‚ is a book on early America and it tells the story of the rapid growth of slavery in the newly formed states. Slavery slowly disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. But‚ at the same time‚ the country’s slave population grew‚ new plantation crops
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“A Child called it” Book Review In the autobiography “A child called it” written by Dave Pelzer is a timeline of Dave’s life as a young child and demonstrates the abuse he went to before he is rescued. This book was released in 1995‚ he has written 15 other books 3 of his books are a sequel to “a child called it”. This book show the devastating and disgusting events in one of the most severe child abuse cases in Californian history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer‚ who was brutally beaten and starved
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