Outside Reading Project The Last Olympian The Last Olympian tells a story about the war that happening between the Titans and the Gods. In the 4th series‚ the Great Prophecy were announced and stating that when a child from the eldest gods turn 16‚ s/he will make a choice that will determine the fate of the world. The story begins with Percy being sent on a mission to destroy Kronos’s ship (Princess Andromeda). However‚ they failed to kill Kronos and Percy found out that something horrible is going
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The book I decided to do my book report on is The Last Olympian‚ written by Rick Riodarn. This book is set in Manhattan. There is a camp of halfbloods‚ or people with one mortal parent and one immortal parent. The titan lord‚ Kronos‚ has just been reborn and is trying to kill the people at Camp Halfblood. The main characters of the book are Percy‚ Annebeth‚ Nico‚ Luke‚ Kronos and other assorted campers. Luke had been taken over by the titan lord‚ Kronos. He was trying to
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Paragraph #1 The Last Olympian is written by Rick Riordan. It was published in 2009. It is the continuation of The Titan’s Curse. It is the final and fifth novel in The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It is a fantasy and adventure novel on Greek mythology. The story takes place in modern day New York. Percy knows that as soon as he turns 16 he will have a choice in which he will have to decide to save the world or not. So he leaves with Camp Half-Blood for battle. Kronos is wanting to take
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In the story “The Birthmark” written by Nathaniel Hawthorn‚ the author sets a dark and cold mood of hatred through Aylmer and Georgiana’s relationship. Aylmer especially has hate towards the birthmark which leads to his change of attitude towards Georgiana. When Aylmer says‚ “a defect or a beauty shocks me” hurts Georgiana because she believes “you cannot love what shocks you” (Hawthorne 219). The quote implies that the birthmark is a part of Georgiana and Aylmer cannot love her for her true self
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Ramirez‚ Gisselle Salvador‚ Jenny Period 5 11/7/14 Hermes: The Olympian God Who was Hermes/Mercury? Hermes was a messenger of the gods. Hermes is usually pictured with winged sandals and hat‚ wearing a toga‚ holding his well known staff. He was the link between the past and the present‚ the herald of Zeus and Hades. He was the god of commerce‚ travel‚ and invention. “Hermes was the cunning‚ streetwise god...he made the first lyre from a tortoise shell... a guardian of wandering things.. and
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Leonardo da Vinci painting “The Last Supper” is the famous magnum opus in “High Renaissance”. And different with the other “The Last Supper” he uses a brand new overall management which let the Jesus and his disciples sit together both in the face of the audience. The Jesus sit in the center of the table and his disciples separate on both side of him‚ the window behind the Jesus reflect the light on the Jesus which stand out him with other people. All his disciples were the symmetric distribution
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In Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” there are …………………… such as the Duke’s different emotions‚ the poem style Browning uses‚ and how the Duchess is seen as a symbol. The poem focuses on the many different feelings of the Duke. The Duke is seen as very controlling over all things. He is controlling over the painting and the curtains. The Duke uses his ability to control by making others do things‚ so he always gets what he wants. The Duchess also had no power since the Duke controlled‚ even
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Finally coming to an end (three favorite stories) All together this school year has went by like a flash‚ it ended before it even began. In English class we have read many stories‚ poems and letters‚ many of which I didn’t care for. Do you ever look back on your years of high school and say that you didn’t learn anything or even liked anything all those years. My senior year went like a flash of lightning‚ it went crazy fast. The one thing that I will remember most is all the reading I had to
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The Last Storyteller Before the Europeans colonized America different tribes of Native Americas appointed storytellers to keep the tribes history alive. In “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”‚ by Sherman Alexie an odd boy named Thomas Builds-the-Fire holds the title of storyteller. This short story is about a journey Thomas takes with his old friend Victor to claim Victor’s father’s ashes from Phoenix‚ Arizona and bring them back to their reservation in Spokane. The story ultimately
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hour in which Louise Mallard experienced in Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of An Hour.” Chopin begins her story explaining that Mrs. Mallard suffers from a heart condition; this information‚ later on‚ becomes very significant. The news of Brently Mallard’s death comes as a shock to Louise‚ and she is immediately overcome with sorrow and pain as she mourns her husband’s death. The majority of Chopin’s nineteenth-century short story takes place in the upstairs bedroom that Brently and Louise Mallard
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