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    The book‚ Among the Barons‚ is set in a place where the government doesn’t allow a third child.Luke Garner (one of the main characters) was hiding from the Population Police for 12 years.Until‚ Luke got the identity of Lee Grant‚ a Baron‚ and was sent to a all boy boarding school as Lee.This thrilling book was written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and the genre of this book is Mystery.This book is amazing and it always has so much action and suspense going on throughout the book. The main characters

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    America’s Great Potato Baron Eric Schlosser’s biography “Fast Food Nation: Why the Fries Taste Good” explains how this invention started out of a simple potato by a man named John R. Simplot who was raised on a farm‚ un-educated and by his own account‚ left home at a young age. According to Eric Schlosser’s claim‚ “John Richard Simplot‚ America’s great potato baron‚ whose seemingly inexhaustible energy and willingness to take risk built an empire base on French fries” (Schlosser par. 2). The

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    Vicky Leo A trail of unknown Footsteps on the highest mountain My Name Is Leo‚ Vicky Leo Hi my dear cat friends my name is Leo‚ Vicky Leo. I am the publisher of ‘The Times of Fish’‚ the most famous newspaper in Cat Island. It was a dark night and I was in my office reading the newspaper ‘three whales beached again at Catatonia beach.’ Oh Suddenly I looked up at the CLOCK it was 11:55 pm I figured it out that it was time to go home. At last I reached home so cozy and warm home. I took a hot bath

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    D. Rockefeller: The Great American Industrialiser‚ Entrepreneur‚ and Philanthropist During the 18th and 19th centuries many industrial revolutions took place and modernized the American way of life. Advances were made that forever remodeled the landscape of American economics‚ industry‚ and politics. These innovations and advancements‚ however‚ did not come without much strife and toil. The innovators of the American Industrial Revolution were visionaries of their time. John D. Rockefeller was

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    In the novel‚ Lincoln’s Grave Robbers‚ Steve Sheinkin uses the setting of Illinois‚ Springfield in the early 1700’s to communicate the theme of mystery and thriller. this demonstrated through the main character’s Luis Swegles‚conflict. The struggle between Luis Swegles and his conflict on trying to find the robbers of Lincoln’s grave; this begins when the cops find out when and what time the criminals are going to steal Lincoln’s grave. When Kennaly try’s to steal lincoln’s bones oneos his helpers

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    Italo Calvino’s "The Baron in the Trees" is the story of an Italian boy who leaves his aristocratic childhood home in favor of the expanse of adjoining trees that cover the surrounding town and countryside and lives the remainder of his life in the world he finds there. His name is Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo‚ and he applies his ingenious and free-thinking perspective to finding ways of continuing to learn‚ innovating both for the betterment of his own lifestyle and for the people who live below him

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    Simon Baron-Cohen and Sally Wheelwright conducted an experiment involving 2000 families that lived in the United Kingdom. Half of these families had a child with autism. Autism is a developmental condition in which individuals have difficulty communicating and interacting with others and display obsessive behaviors. Autism limits one’s abilities to read others’ emotions and to form relationships‚ which in turn may reduce one’s chance of having children and passing on one’s genes (Baron-Cohen). When

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    Andrew Carnegie: The Charitable Captain of Industry During the time period after the Civil War and nearing the twentieth century‚ America’s economy was in prime position to be molded – all America needed was someone to come along to mold it. Businesspersons like Cornelius Vanderbilt and entrepreneurs like John D. Rockefeller were prime examples of exactly whom America needed to take charge of the economy at this time; however‚ there was one man who was not only a self-made steel tycoon and one of

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    John D. Rockefeller & The Standard Oil Trust Lexile 1170 Name: Period: John  Davison  Rockefeller  combined  business  intelligence  with  a  ruthless  personality  to  amass  one  of  the   largest  personal  fortunes  in  United  States  history.  By  taking  advantage  of  the  public’s  demand  for   refined  oil‚  he  became  one  of  the  richest  and  most  infamous  men  in  America.  Rockefeller  is

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    Dale Carnegie starts this book out with one of the biggest steps to making and keeping genuine friends. As a human being you want to have a group of people that you can call friends. These people will stick with you through the thin and thick and always have your back. You and your friends need to have a level of respect. Dale explains that you don’t want to bite the hand that has been there for you. This means that there are right times and wrong times to criticize someone. You don’t always want

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