Freshman Composition 2 Professor: Feng-ming Chi 蕭湞燕 Pika final book report (draft 3) LAST LECTURE SUMMARY: Randy Pausch‚ a remarkable professor in Carnegie Mellon‚ delivered his last lecture and book entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" in 2007. Because he was diagnosed with terminal cancer‚ he was dying but he tried to leave what he wanted to educate his children in the future. After recalling his memory‚ he found that all meaningful things in his life were related to his childhood
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Vanity Fair A Novel without a Hero (Book Report) I. Book title: “Vanity fair: A novel without a Hero” II. Author: William Makepeace Thackeray III. Theme: Thackeray wants his audience to realize how vanity itself can affect how people act. It is mainly a story about two girls with different outlooks in life; entangled in problems that neither of them could face well. IV. Main Characters: Miss Barbara Pinkerton – presiding over an Academy for Young ladies Jemima Pinkerton – sister
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The book that I chose to do my report on is called Life in Prison by Stanley “Tookie” Williams. Tookie Williams was the infamous founder of the notorious Crip gang. The main objective of this book is to dispel some of the street myths surrounding prison life and to steer people away from crime. Tookie first learned about prison from his friend older brother named Rock. Rock spent most of his time in and out prisons. Rock described prison as a gladiator school where men go to prove their toughness
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Equiano’s tone of writing is humble. The purpose of the book is not for his own vanity or pride but to capture the power his faith which guided him through slavery until the point of his freedom. As the chapters unfold‚ Equiano establishes an authentic account of his plan to abolish the horrors of slavery by creating physical written text to illustrate the magnitude of the abuse and suffering slaves endured. The book maintains his reports of impassioned and emotionally centred rants against the
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Human Growth & Development | Book Report | | Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom What is the book about? Tuesdays with Morrie is a true story about sportswriter Mitch Albom and his favorite college professor‚ Morrie Schwartz. During Mitch’s undergraduate years at Brandeis University‚ he and Morrie form a bond that goes beyond a typical student/teacher relationship. After graduation‚ Mitch promises to stay in touch with his professor and
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Language Arts Book Report Name of the Book: A Reacher novel:61 hours by Lee Child. This title is related to the book because the entire book is a countdown recollection of events that leads up to the climax‚ where Reacher and Plato‚ the protagonist and antagonist fight. It begins with 61 hours before the main fight. Author: Lee Child. The main protagonist of the novel is Jack Reacher‚ an ex-military policeman that spends the majority of his time as a “nomad‚” wandering around the states‚ looking
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Mistakes are inevitable and sometimes these mistakes we make bring hurt onto others. Everyone has been deeply hurt at some point in their lives‚ possibly though a friend‚ a family member‚ or maybe even a cheating partner. How can we allow ourselves to forgive these people for all the hurt they have caused us? Wiesenthal is a Jewish victim in a Nazi concentration camp In The Sunflower who becomes forced to decide if a dying SS solider deserves his forgiveness. In the end‚ Wiesenthal invites us to
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first sparked by a book I was required to read in high school‚ Brave New World. For my class I was required to do a little research on this book‚ and as I was searching the Internet I came across a website on designer babies. Although Brave New World is not a book about designer babies‚ the altering of human genes described in the book is a concept very similar to designer babies. The possibility of a society made up of genetically altered humans‚ such as the one in this book‚ is becoming very real
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Title: The Call of the Wild Author Jack London Setting Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley where he spends his days and nights including eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. Characters: The Main Dogs * Buck –a proud and powerful dog‚ half St Bernard and half shepherd dog‚ who begins life on a comfortable Californian estate as a family pet‚ yet soon changes when he is stolen and sold to work as a sled dog in the frozen North. * Spitz- Buck’s archrival and original
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