A Farewell to Arms In the fictional novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway there are many characters throughout the book‚ however six characters stood out the most. The narrator Frederick Henry is an American‚ who served as a lieutenant in the Italian army to a group of ambulance drivers during World War I. The next major character is Catherine Barkley; she was an English nurse and shortly became Frederick’s wife. Rinaldi is an Italian surgeon who is a very close friend of Frederick. Count
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many books and editorials. His books include; The New England Mind in Transition: Samuel Johnson of Connecticut (Yale University Press‚ 1983)‚ School For Soldiers: West Point and the Profession of Arms (Oxford University Press‚ 1974)‚ Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (W.W Norton and Company‚ 1993)‚ After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture (W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2002)‚ and American Sphinx: The character of Thomas Jefferson (New York‚ NY: Vintage Books‚ 1998)
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John Adams‚ by David McCullough The book‚ John Adams‚ by David McCullough‚ is a powerfully written biography of one of our nation’s greatest heroes. This biography explores Adams’ life in great depth‚ unveiling a side to his life unbeknownst to those who have never studied his life in great detail. Through diary entries‚ letters‚ and various other documents‚ the reader grasps a sense of what Adams’ day to day life was like‚ and is also able to grasp the enormity of his lifetime accomplishments
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themselves Gladers‚ and have made a community in which each is assigned to a task belonging to different departments headed by a Keeper. The Glade is surrounded by a gigantic Maze in which mechanical creatures called Grievers roam at night. This book called the mace runner by James dasher is mainly about Thomas the main character is brought into a place known as the Glade‚ with no memories of his past life except of his name. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open‚ Thomas finds himself
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Victoria Conrardy Mrs. Lord A.P. English 11 February 21‚ 2013 AP Book Project Part One Introduction 1. Title-Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is significant because Ehrenreich does explain how many do “survive” off of minimum wage which really is not much. 2. Author-Barbara Ehrenreich is seventy-one years of age and is a widely-read and award-winning columnist and essayist‚ and author of 21 books which include: Blood Rites; The Worst Years of Our Lives; and Fear of
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financially unstable however‚ that soon changed after he became a famous journalist in the late 18th century. Being an advocate for the poor immigrants‚ he began to write about the plight of the immigrants living in the United States. This document is from a book that Riis has compiled about the immigrant’s horrid living experiences by illustrating the poor living conditions in the slums of New York City in the time period between the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. As there were more immigrants
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Brandon MacPherson 9/7/08 Gates of Fire The book I read during the summer for world history was Gates of Fire‚ written by Steven Pressfield. Essentially‚ this book is about the Battle of Thermopylae and the events that took place during those times. The author is trying to tell the story through one’s perspective. In this book‚ one learns of the conditions at the battlefield during war and how it was to go to war as a young man. This book highlights many details in the battles fought in
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took six years for Capote to investigate and write‚ and it put an incredible amount of pressure on Truman‚ so much so that he never published another book again. Even though in cold Blood doesn’t have a great ending‚ the book was worth reading because of the intriguing plot‚ dark tone‚ and the interesting characters. One reason for why I liked the book‚ In Cold Blood‚ is because of how good Capote portrays the characters. More than any other character‚ he does this with Perry. It is part of him to
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Cartoons on Immigration is a book written by Lalo Alcaraz which encompasses his interesting opinions on immigration and America’s view of Latin Americans. Alcaraz attacks racists‚ politicians‚ and American society throughout his book‚ Migra Mouse: Political Cartoons on Immigration‚ and does a pretty good job of it too. Alcaraz’s book is certainly worth reading because it offers a new‚ fresh way to look at the ever-so perplexing topic of immigration. Alcaraz named the book Migra Mouse for a very interesting
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The Scorch Trials The Scorch Trials is a great book written by James Dashner and is a dystopian‚ young-adult novel and has 358 pages in total. The book starts out with the group of gladers waking up in a room and seeing that they didn’t have one of their fellow gladers. Instead they noticed that they had a different person who was a boy named Aris. They also noticed that Teresa wasn’t there and Aris was there instead of Teresa. Teresa was the last person that was sent into the glade and she was
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