In Donovan Campbell’s Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage‚ Leadership‚ and Brotherhood‚ he concentrates on the themes of love and unity. He focuses on his experience as an infantry leader during the war in Iraq. The book revolves around Campbell’s leadership over his forty-man platoon. Joining for patriotism and a desire to lead‚ Campbell explores the emotional attachments he felt through the journey of war. The book opens with Campbell on his first day as a platoon leader. His group
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Nick W. In the Lake of the Woods Analysis In the Lake of the Woods was a convoluted mystery novel with no definitive ending. At the end of the book‚ it is uncertain whether or not John killed Kathy or if she is still alive. Throughout the book‚ the author sprinkles chapters of evidence to deepen the mystery and reveal more details as to infer what might have happened on the night of Kathy’s disappearance. The main character John‚ the failed politician‚ is slowly revealed throughout the story to
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The book that I have chose is Rosa Parks: My Story. The book was composed by Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins. In Rosa Parks: My Story‚ it talked about Rosa Parks life growing up in the South during the early 1900s. While Rosa was growing up her family did not tolerate injustice‚ so she grew up without accepting the abuse. When she got older she ran into couple encounters with white children who would try and bully her‚ however‚ she would not back down and would even defend herself if necessary. Since
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The jungle of Papua New Guinea‚ or PNG‚ is so dense it would take a healthy man with a machete a week to travel three miles. It took Dylan Barstow’s grandfather two weeks to be found by villagers after an airplane crash by the Sepik River‚ on the north side of PNG. His grandfather‚ in Jungle of Bones by Ben Mikaelsen‚ was flying an aerial missions in WWII when he and the crew of the bomber Second Ace crashed. Dylan and his Uncle‚ Todd‚ have set off on an expedition to find the wreckage of the plane
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Olive Penderghast‚ a 17-year-old girl lies to her friend Rhiannon about having a date to get out of an uncomfortable camping trip. She spends her whole weekend in the house‚ listening to a card she received. When she gets back to school the following week‚ Rhiannon presses her to own up to her losing her virginity over the weekend‚ so Olive lies to seem cool. Marianne‚ a prissy and strict Christian at their school‚ hears their exchange and spreads the rumor like wildfire. Olive gets cleaning the
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A World in Black and White What measures the value of a human life? In The Power of One‚ the state of South Africa sets barriers on which lives would be measured at a higher value. These instances rooted from the union of South Africa by an all-white parliament (Britannica‚ “South Africa Act”). The standard of living would slowly decline for those of color and their descendants. These changes were made evident by many characters in The Power of One. Peekay‚ the protagonist‚ would come to
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“Lupita Manana” is a book that explains the hardships and courage of a young girl who has to cross the border in order to support her mother and her siblings in Mexico‚ along with her brother‚ Salvador. Her Father dies and her mother doesn’t have enough money to maintain everyone of basic needs‚ so Lupita goes on a journey that will bring complications and bravery in order to give her mother what she needs in order to survive. Lupita goes through what many people are doing today‚ which is to work
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In the Douglas Sirk’s film version of Imitation of Life‚ Sarah Jane rejects her own family. She goes great length to disguise her mixed race. Not only does she rejects the herself but she rejects the people who love her. She struggled with her identity and effort to fit in. In the film everyone fits in‚ but she the outlier in the film‚ In school she was bullied for her race which caused her to not claim she was black. She faces identity problems as a kid which eventually led to the action she takes
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A mother and daughter can never give up on one another. This love can never be discarded. Love is not just handed out to everyone who asks‚ or a stranger.. A bond between a mother and daughter is so different and inseparable‚ that it cannot be easily lost. It it is not easy to give up on a loved one. Claire and Mia Fontaine did not give up on each other‚ even in the darkest of times. The two’s journey really have have seen from hell and back. Claire and Mia Fontaine wrote Come Back‚ after Mia’s
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The novel Miracle In The Andes is a true story that took place in 1972. A uruguayan flight with 45 passengers had crashed in the Andes leaving only 33 alive after the impact. Survivors continued to die from injury‚ starvation and a surprise avalanche. After a total of 72 days in the Andes the survivors were rescued‚ Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa climbed through the Andes in search for help for themselves and the rest of the survivors back at the fuselage. A total of 16 out of the 46 people survived
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