the ruthless actions of the holocaust. Elie Wiesel is a Jew who went through the terror of the holocaust and its concentration camps. He tells his story in his book Night. Night reveals how Wiesel lost his family‚ faith‚ and innocence to the evil of mankind during the holocaust. Wiesel believes it is important for people today to read this book because they need to be shown how important it is not to keep silent and let something like the holocaust happen again. I agree with him. Wiesel was born
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his apartment; building this new form of life he has come up with. It was a stormy night when Victor’s creation came to life. He is startled with the appearance of this monster‚ that Victor tries to sleep‚ almost hoping the monster was not real. Unfortunately‚ the monster standing over him with its grotesque smile woke up Victor‚ and Victor runs out of the apartment to take a nightly walk. As time passes‚ Victor decides to return back home to Geneva as he caught news that his brother‚ William‚ had
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Giancarlo Motta Mrs. Leite Honors English Period 4 May 12‚ 2014 Treasure Island Book Review Treasure Island is classic a pirate tale written by acclaimed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story is about a young man named Jim Hawkins and his quest for the legendary treasure of “Captain Flint”‚ a notorious pirate of the seven seas. The story is narrated and told through the perspective of Jim Hawkins. The treasure of Captain Flint is located on Treasure Island‚ a place every pirate
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The Protector The Protector‚ is a Christian Fiction book written by Dee Henderson. While reading the beginning of the book‚ I thought the book was just going to be a boring book about a firefighter‚ but after reading the entire book‚ I realized that there was much more than just the story of a firefighter. I really enjoyed how the author‚ Dee Henderson‚ portrayed Jack O’Malley‚ the firefighter‚ and his family of seven orphaned and abandoned teens who became a family‚ and changed there sir to O’Malley
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This riveting fiction based book took place in New York‚ the perfect place for a bioterrorist to drop his new engineered virus. The virus “Brainpox”-code name Cobra- was a mixture of a moth virus‚ smallpox‚ and Lesch-Nyhan disease (rare birth disorder). What this engineered microscopic monster did to people was horrific. Just to name a couple of effects of Cobra: violent seizures‚ blood blisters (mainly back of the throat)‚ victims brains were basically turned to near liquid‚ and the grimmest of
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In Dr. Newsom’s article about the book of Daniel‚ she provokes the reader’s thoughts with the riveting question: “What is this book saying about the relationship between God and human political power?” In our country now‚ masses of people are actively working to protest and resist bans‚ laws‚ toxic pipelines‚ and discriminatory practices in our justice systems- almost every week in Minneapolis‚ MN‚ a protest makes the news‚ with citizens making an effort to show solidarity and resistance against
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army. The book actually begins in October of 1775 with King George the third declaring the American colonies in a state of rebellion. Once we hit the year 1776‚ the battle of Bunker Hill begins. Even though the rebels technically lost that battle‚ the author points out the heavy loses that the British had. Soon after this defeat‚ the Americans secure Boston by placing stolen cannons high around the harbor. Seeing their imminent doom‚ the British were forced to retreat. This book didn’t just tell
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1491‚ which was published in 2005 by Vintage Books‚ is a subversive study that immensely alters most people’s understanding and knowledge of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. The nonfiction historical novel by Charles C. Mann explains about a new generation of researchers’ conclusions about the history of Native Americans before the arrival of Columbus. Mann uncovered many of the untold facts that have never been taught in traditional school. The primary point Mann is trying
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age reconstruction and the western expansion was going on.to act. The fact that blacks had limited access to do anything later down the road “only a few blacks even served in Congress in the 1880s and 1890s” (pg.523). This was the beginning of the Jim Crow Laws. They also had a Poll Tax Liberty Test basically this test was rigged‚ which made it unfair to blacks. Therefore “at the end of the reconstruction in 1900 African- Americans owned only a small percent of land” (pg. 522). By 1940 only about three
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Book Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Date of Publication: 2002 Publisher: Laurel Leaf (reprint edition) ANALYSIS I. Setting: In an isolated Arcadian community at an unknown time in the future II. Characters and Commentary: A. Jonas – The eleven year old protagonist (turns twelve at a point) who has “bizarre powers” and is chosen as the Receiver of Memory. He has a wide variety of interests. For a pre-adolescent‚ he is extremely wise‚ curious‚ thoughtful‚ and has a much deeper understanding
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