Kids grow up reading books like Cat In The Hat‚ to Dork Diaries‚ to The Hunger Games‚ and so on. One of the highest levels you with reading is high school. High school can also be the area where students will decide they do not like reading‚ making it the downfall of their reading. If teachers want to stop this from happening‚ reading more mature books is a great solution. In this case‚ teachers should be able to teach questionable books because students learn about these subjects‚ either way‚ these
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Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction novel written by Ray Bradbury in the 1950’s. The book is set somewhere in the United States in the future past the year 1990‚ as the book states there have been two atomic wars since 1990. Despite it possibly being set in what is modern times today‚ the story seems to be stuck in the 50’s‚ with life revolving around television‚ women being treated as their husband’s property‚ and advances such as mechanical hounds that administer poison. The main character in
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German University in Cairo Faculty of EMS Department: Mechatronics Prof. Dr. Imam Morgan Mechanics II (ENME 402) Assignment (2) Name ID Group Grade Signature Dead Line: Thursday 11/4/2013 -1- Problem (1) A tractor-trailer is traveling at 90 km/h when the driver applies his brakes. Knowing that the braking forces of the tractor and the trailer are 16 kN and 60 kN‚ respectively‚ determine: (a) the distance traveled by the tractor-trailer before it comes to a stop‚ (b) the horizontal component
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Complete the case studies for this week. Review the case studies below in the textbook. Prepare a one-page report for each of the following case studies: * Case Study: Martha Stewart’s Lost Reputation‚ pg. 34 * Case Study: Texaco: The Ecuador Issue‚ pg. 41 * Case Study: Where Were the Accountants?‚ pg. 44 Ethics Case: Martha Stewart’s Lost Reputation In June 2002‚ Martha Stewart began to wrestle with allegations that she had improperly used inside information to sell a stock investment
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Theme Theft is a central theme for the novel The Book Thief‚ by Markus Zusak‚ because of the time in which it is set. War is a power struggle‚ and a battle for dominance over people and territory. Hitler was stronger than the German people‚ and convinced them through his powerful words to treat those who did not meet his idea of perfection as inferior. Liesel’s somewhat trivial theft acts in juxtaposition with the larger theft of innocence and purity that Hitler causes. Hitler stole the lives
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happening to him PLOT Far into the future‚ where humans have started exploring the universe more vastly‚ humans encounter a alien race the book calls “buggers”. Eventually there is a outbreak of war between the two species‚ and the military starts recruiting kids to be able to train and fight them when they mature. This is where Ender comes in. The book starts off casually explaning the normal life of Ender‚ mentioning his family life with his brother Peter and sister Valentine‚ and some
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Adventures of huckleberry Finn by Mark twain. The reason I chose this book was because it sounded adventurous. I had always heard about the adventures of tom sawyer and I wanted to learn about his best friend huckleberry Finn. The setting took place down south along the Mississippi river. lots of ships and ferry boats traveled along this river. There were many islands in the middle of this river. Huckleberry and Jim lived on Jackson island for a little while. The main characters
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their work to target audiences. With regards to The Book Thief and All the Light We Cannot See‚ my initial response after reading them was that they were remarkably similar‚ what with their World War II settings‚ their female protagonists‚ the theme of abandonment‚ etc. This sparked my interest and led to my desire to examine how the different age groups of each novels’ target demographic
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English Book Project Book Review Book: Unwind by Neal Shusterman An astonishing and at the same time disturbing read. Took me some time to get into‚ but from then on I was hooked. The world Shusterman created felt so vivid and real‚ it almost scared me. Thought-provoking and highly original. I haven’t read anything like this ever before. Also‚ it contained one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever read - not on a graphic level‚ but more due to the fact that what exactly is happening is
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Why Books Are Becoming Obsolete Books are slowly becoming irrelevant. With the growth of the technology and the Internet are slowly becoming obsolete. The number of books American read is in a decline. Reading is a simple‚ quite entertainment that does not feast to many people as exciting. With the advancements in technology‚ the use of books is no longer in greater need than is past years. With the introduction of electronic reading devices‚ like the Amazon Kindle or the iPad in recent years
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