Amari‚ a fifteen year old African girl‚ taken from her village‚ and forced to work on a rice plantation‚ finds her strength by not giving up on life. Copper Sun by Sharon Draper talks about how Amari endures life on a rice plantation‚ and all the pain she goes undergoes. At first‚ Amari needs strength to survive her horrible trip to America. For three months‚ Amari faced so many challenges on her trip to America‚ to become a slave. The ship was a disgusting place with no clean places to sleep‚ no
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Red. Book. Family. Coward. Jew. Death. One may say that they are just words‚ but is that really all they are? Throughout The Book Thief by Markus Zusak‚ words bring joy and comfort as well as rage and heartbreak. Liesel Meminger is devastated by the loss of her brother and feels that nothing will relieve her of her agony‚ until she picks up a book that was left in the graveyard by a gravedigger. This is just the beginning of words playing a major part in Liesel’s life. Words have more power than
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In Markus Zusak’s historical novel The Book Thief‚ Liesel starts off the novel illiterate and she gets a sudden impulse to learn how to read. As Liesel learns how to read she soon discovers how words could hold a unique power to convince people to commit severe acts of cruelty. She finds out that words can be powerful. The power of language can be both good and bad. However‚ this historical novel shows that the power of language can be used for bad. Max had created many drawings throughout the time
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priests because the society was impoverished‚ well in the book The Power and The Glory it portrays just that. The author’s idea that intrigued me the most is that the priest has lost his morals‚ and is at the same time struggling with a foe hunting him down because the way society is impoverished. When I started reading this book I said to myself ‚ “ This is going to be another boring book‚” and then I realized when I was near the end of the book that this was far from boring‚ and that you needed to
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1. In Chapter 5‚ of Supercrunchers‚ "Experts versus Equations"‚ the author makes a great case for the fact that equations predict better than humans. What reasons does the author give that illustrate why a human cannot make predictions as well as an equation? Reason 1: the human mind tends to suffer from a number of well documented cognitive failings and biases that distort our ability to predict accurately. Reason 2: Once we form a mistaken belief about something‚ we tend to cling to it. We are
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that we see here‚ in this wonderful book by Maree Ferguson Delano. Delano‚ who also wrote The Photogbiography of Thomas Alva Edison‚ returns to the photobiography format here as well‚ and it’s a good thing because Einstein is difficult enough to digest as it is. Photo after photo shows Einstein as a definitely human scientist‚ one who cared deeply for his family and who wanted desperately to have a "real" job. Einstein lived in Germany during the rise of the Nazis. The threat to his safety is very
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The Power of Words are Revealed in The Book Thief Using death as the narrator‚ in the book thief‚ demonstrated that death lives within the people. Death comes to someone two times‚ and the third time he takes them away. In the novel‚ the book thief‚ by Markus Zusak illustrates the power of words which are used to create hatred among countries and individuals‚ and also has the ability to bring society close with love‚ and happiness. The power of words is use to establish that in relationship
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how I see things. Or at least‚ how I try.” So begins a carefully spun tale of sadness‚ loss‚ death‚ and how hope and love can rise them. Markus Zusack’s historical fiction novel‚ The Book Thief‚ inspires ordinary people to live their best and to discover a thing that you love to get away from the sorrow in life. The Book Thief has been given numerous awards‚ and for good reason – it’s a memorable tale of hardship and love‚ and how the good in life can outweigh the bad. And the setting that this story
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still with mothers‚ aunts‚ and uncles in the world‚ would be taken. Also‚ while the adoption could be for a new daughter or son‚ it could be a way for a free slave. The time Adela was born was a stepping stone away from the Holocaust. As you read this book‚ you can see the politics changing as they flee home to home. Even in Aden‚ where the buildings are taller‚ the ports bigger‚ and the buildings are bright‚ the Jews are restricted. Jewish houses are marked with the Star of David. As the time ticks
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The Power of Six has mainly two different settings. It alternates between two characters. One in Santa Tressa Spain and the other doesn’t have a setting‚ but it is the United States. Furthermore‚ the story takes place in present time. In the book there are two protagonists‚ the one who travels in the United States is John Smith‚ a 16-year-old alien boy from Lorien who is reckless and good at heart whose appearance is identical to humans. Furthermore‚ the other protagonist‚ who lives in Spain‚ is
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