OCS Book Report War‚ Sebastian Junger 09 May 2013 War is the account of reporter Sebastian Junger’s time spent with the men of 2nd Platoon‚ Battle Company‚ 2nd Battalion‚ 503rd Infantry Regiment‚ 173rd Airborne Brigade in the Korengal Valley‚ Afghanistan. The reporter spent time with the unit between 2007 and 2008. Junger focuses on the psychological effects of war on the men who fight it. “The core psychological experiences of war are so primal and unadulterated‚ however‚ that they eclipse
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Contagious Book Report Introduction: Why Things Catch on The book begins with a restaurant story of Howard Wein that moved to Philadelphia over in March 2004. Wein is trying to open a restaurant in the downtown of Philadelphia. He realized that had good food and great atmosphere was not enough to be successful and be stand out in the crowded area filled with competitors. He decided to serve his food with the best and freshest ingredients‚ and the response turn out to be incredible. It created
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This paper examines the diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder as demonstrated by David Pelzer in his autobiographies A Child Called It and The Lost Boy‚ with a focus on the latter book. Dave is the son of alcoholic parents whose mother severely abused him while his father turned the other cheek. Dave has been subjected to torturous mind games‚ starvation‚ and physical abuse so horrendous that he is left scarred‚ bruised‚ and nearly dead. The staff at his elementary school eventually takes action
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oppressive government. In the book The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the author shows an authority that takes total control over its citizen. For instance‚ Jonas‚ the young protagonist‚ learns that he is unable to make choices due to the law of equality. The Elders‚ the leaders‚ make all the decisions. They also decide the future of every individual in the society. They keep a watch on every kid ever since they were born. Later on‚ in
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The book I chose for my report is Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution by James E. Crisp. In my book‚ Crisp follows the Texas Revolution along with the battle at the Alamo which took place between 1835 and 1836. He tackles the questions of why and how myths are made and shows how the environment around someone can influence attitudes that people develop about certain historical events. Crisp also challenges are beliefs of history and wants us
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Dracula Book Report Author: Bram Stoker Title: Dracula Rating: Excellent Reading Level: Hard Number of Pages: 363. With the notes and commentary: 394 Summary: Dracula is a novel about 6 comrades scheming to exterminate Count Dracula in revenge for killing the love of both Quincey Morris and Lord Godalming‚ Lucy Westenra. They soon find they are dealing with a bloodthirsty vampire‚ and their plot turns into a race for whom is able to survive‚ Count Dracula‚ or them. Their story is
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ZAPP book report 11/24/09 ZAPP The Lightning of EMPOWERMENT‚ by William C. Byham Ph.D. and Jeff Cox presents a story of different problems that managers/supervisors face and how they deal with the problems. The book shows how an autocratic supervisor would deal with a problem compared to a participative supervisor would handle the problems. The story shows the contrast between a supervisor that ZAPPS (empowers) her employees and a supervisor that SAPPS his employees by his interactions and
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of View: First person - The point of view shifts with the narration from Robert Walton to Victor Frankenstein to Frankenstein’s monster‚ then back to Walton. Protagonist: Victor Frankenstein Antagonist: Frankenstein’s monster Plot: The book begins with letters written by Robert Walton‚ an explorer‚ who writes to his sister back in England. He tells about his adventures while at sea. The crew finds Victor Frankenstein‚ near death‚ floating on ice. Walton takes him aboard and in his letters
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When reading about history‚ one comes across a rather unfortunate number of mass killings. From the slow destruction of the Native American peoples‚ to the brief but devastating Holocaust‚ to modern terrorist attacks‚ history books tell of atrocity after atrocity. If one were to ask a random person on the street‚ he or she could probably provide a decent explanation of any of these events. After all‚ humanity has a fascination with violent and horrific acts‚ so if people remember anything from high
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LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING The novel takes place at a boys’ juvenile detention center situated in the dried up bed of a fictional lake in Texas. Most of the story is set in contemporary time‚ around the end of the 1990s. There are flashbacks to the town of Green Lake‚ which existed one hundred ten years earlier before the lake dried up. (Note: There is an actual Green Lake‚ one of the largest lakes in Texas‚ southwest of Port Lavaca‚ but the real town of Green Lake was all but abandoned after
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