Book review The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks Nicholas Charles Sparks was born on 31. December 1965 and is an American author. He lives in New Bern‚ North Carolina‚ which also is the setting for most of his novels. Sparks met his wife Catherine during the spring of 1988 in California. They married the year after and settled down in New Bern‚ where he wrote his first published novel The Notebook. The two are still living in New Bern with their three sons Miles‚ Ryan and Landon‚ and their twin daughters
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The Book of Job The Book of Job illustrates a question that has been asked countless times: “Why do innocent people suffer?” Job was a man of great wealth‚ and blessed with a huge family of seven sons and three daughters. Job was not only an affluent family man‚ he was also defined as being “blameless and upright and feared God and shunned evil.” Despite Job’s righteousness‚ he encountered great loss and tragedy. Although a direct answer is not provided for why innocent people are allowed to suffer
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Critical Book Review 1. Introduction “Death ends a life‚ not a relationship”‚ a quote taken from Tuesdays With Morrie‚ p. 83. The past year has been a very difficult one for my family and I‚ as my Grandmother passed away. Being very close to her‚ this departure was an extremely sad one. In the months following her passing my Mother had suggested that I read a book‚ titled Tuesdays With Morrie‚ as it had always been a favourite book of hers‚ and it’s theme was appropriate for the particular
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* Mundane Wisdom Book review of “The Alchemist” Regine Carlo N. Alvarez BSBA-FTM/ I-2 The theme of the phenomenal novel “The Alchemist” written by Paulo Coelho revolves around dreams‚ symbols‚ and adventure. It tells of a young shepherd named Santiago who travels around Andalusia and once dreams of a treasure hidden in the pyramids of Egypt. It is a book full of wisdom and life lessons used to achieved one’s dreams and fulfill self-happiness. The story opens in the
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to describe The Book of Job. This Old Testament piece of wisdom literature plays out like a great play‚ on Broadway‚ which includes suspense‚ heartache‚ a want for justice‚ a whirlwind of a climax‚ and a feel-good resolution that leaves the audience content yet somewhat puzzled at the same time. What was the story all about? How can a man who exemplifies “virtue and faith‚ ” as spoke by God in Job 1:8‚ suffer so violently? Where was the “wisdom” in this piece of literature? Job is chock-full of
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Tasin Islam TYWLS of Astoria Humanities 8-2 June 08‚ 2012 WII Book Review W The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Tears would gather into your eyes‚ as you end a story of a nine year old boy named Bruno. The book‚ The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ‚ may have to be the most saddest fiction story taken place in the time of World War II. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was written by John Boyne.The story is about Bruno and his family during the time of World War II. Bruno’s father
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Book Review: The Swerve After the destruction of the Roman Empire‚ Europe lost its entire intellectual and cultural luster it once had. The illustrious works of literature sitting in public libraries all across Rome rotted away and burned to ashes. A millennium later book hunter Poggio Bracciolini enters a secluded monastic library hidden in the Alps and brings to life one of the greatest philosophical poems written to this day‚ Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). Stephen Greenblatt
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How do the Book of Job and the Labourers in the Vineyard demonstrate that God’s justice is not our own justice and that our rationality does not confine God’s freedom and wisdom? The journey we take in life can be based on how we perceive what is right‚ what we are free to do‚ and our knowledge of things. Reasonable behaviour and thinking‚ also known as our rationality‚ can be distinguished from how God’s justice‚ freedom and wisdom. Is it possible that our own moral values can differentiate from
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Who Packs Your Parachute? On July 11‚ 2011‚ In Who Packs Your Parachute?‚ Gratitude for each member of your team critical for success I recently read about the ordeal of US Navy jet pilot Charles Plumb‚ whose plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile on his 75th combat mission. He parachuted out but was captured and spent six years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He somehow survived the nightmare and now teaches leadership! Years later‚ when Plumb was at a restaurant‚ a man came up
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Drive – a Book Review I have not plagiarized on any aspect of this assignment The most important points of emphasis in this book There are a few important points that are emphasized in Pink’s Drive‚ one of the most important being that the operating system our society runs on today needs a serious upgrade. His metaphorical uses of Motivation 1.0‚ 2.0‚ and 3.0 put it into perfect perspective for exponentially growing‚ technologically centered recent generations. Just like a well built computer
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