and private life matters. This book highlighted the importance of family and demonstrated the common experiences everyone goes through with growing up. It was nice of them to share their personal stories‚ I mostly loved it because with most of their issues I could relate to‚ and being able to relate to something always makes it easier to comprehend. The colorful pages are jam packed with photos from childhood and beyond‚ there are some major messages from this book that grabbed me some are ‘to just
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AP “Book Report” 1. Title of the work: Gone with the Wind 2. Author and date written: Margaret Mitchell and written during the Civil War Era. 3. Country of Author: Georgia 4. Characters: Scarlett O’Hara - She is a pretty southern belle who grew up on a Georgia plantation of Tara right before the beginning of the Civil War. She is selfish and futile just like her dad‚ but also seeks to please her mom‚ Ellen. Flirtatious and headstrong protagonist in the novel. Rhett Butler- Scarlett’s third husband
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“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.” (Hillenbrand p.34) Louie Zamperini was a young and rising track star. He was dreaming about the Olympics‚but that didn’t go as planned. It is 1943 in May Louie Zamperini’s plane had crashed in the pacific ocean during WW||. Ahead was thousands of miles of ocean with attacking sharks‚thirst‚and starvation/. He was caught by someone not very pleasant. But do it go away? Find out by reading unbroken By:Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken has 298 fascinating pages
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The book Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina is historical fiction which is loosely based on real people. The book discusses the trials and tribulations of the Coal War in West Virginia and the surrounding areas. The book takes place during the late 1800s and the early 1900s. Storming Heaven is written from perspectives of different characters. This gives the reader a broader perspective of the events of the time. Since the characters are both male and females the readers learn to understand the struggles
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Lloyd and LeAlan’s take on the Ida B. Wells Introduction This book is called Our America: Life and Death on the Southside of Chicago written by Lloyd Jones and LeAlan Newman (1997). The nonfiction book is not part of a series‚ therefore it stands alone. Not only is LeAlan and Lloyd the authors but they are also the main characters in the novel. LeAlan and Loyd grew up in the inner streets of Chicago. They know from first hand what is is like to live here‚ because they both have lived here since
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The Perfect shot is a book written by Elaine Marie Alphin. The setting of the book takes place in a small town in Indiana called Willisburg. The setting impacts the plot because Brian has a friend named julius which is one of the only black kids in town gets pulled over by the cops for making a wrong turn and he he did not receive a ticket the police officer took him to jail and this event changes juluis very much. The point of view of the book is first person because Brian is the one who is telling
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The Hunger Games” Book Review “The Hunger Games” is a the first book in a fantastic series of three books written by Suzanne Collins. It takes you into the life of a scared but quick-thinking‚ brave girl named Katniss Everdeen who learns how to survive on her own from a very young age when her father died in a mining accident. From that day on‚ she took care of her little family (mother and little sister‚ Prim) as well as herself by hunting in the woods of District 12 everyday with her guy friend
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eliminate stress and declutter your mind in the book Declutter your mind. The book features four different ways to declutter your mind; declutter your thoughts‚ declutter your life obligations‚ declutter relationships‚ and declutter your surroundings. After I read this book I decoded the way I should live my life. I should think more positive and look on the good side of things‚ not always seeing the dark side. Getting back to stress‚ I could benefit from this book‚ because it will help me declutter my life
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The Devil’s Arithmetic‚ the book and the movie‚ all of their similarities and all of their differences‚ in one whole paper. The book and the movie were very much alike‚ but they did have their differences and those similarities and differences are what we are going to be talking about in this essay. To start out with‚ we are going to talk about the book which was made first. In the book the story begins with Hannah and her mother arguing in front of Rosemary’s house‚ and Hannah wishes that her mom
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in October 2005. Choosing this book came down to the captivating graphics and title on the cover of the book. This book tells a story a horrifically traumatized young man‚ Grubbs Grady‚ who after witnessing the brutal murder of his parents and older sister‚ learns of a haunting family secret and is forced to face the same terrifying creatures that literally tore his family apart. Grubbs Grady and his uncle‚ Dervish Grady‚ are seen as the main characters in this book because of the amazing mental
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