Summarize-Within this chapter‚ the author‚ Kurt Vonnegut‚ introduces the novel by assuring readers that everything in this book is pretty much true‚ especially the parts about the war. He begins his explanation of his experiences beginning with him and his wartime friend‚ Bernard V. O’Hare‚ returning to Dresden in 1967 with funding from the Guggenheim Foundation. While being driven in a taxi to the slaughterhouse where Kurt and Bernard had been locked up as prisoners of war‚ the two men became friends
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What makes Sammy Run? – Budd Schulberg Plot summary: Told in first person narrative by Al Manheim‚ drama critic of The New York Record‚ this is the tale of Sammy Glick‚ a young uneducated boy who rises from copy boy to the top of the screenwriting profession in 1930s Hollywood by backstabbingothers. Manheim recalls how he first met the 16-year-old Sammy Glick when Sammy was working as a copy boy at Manheim’s newspaper. Both awed and disturbed by Sammy’s aggressive personality‚ Manheim becomes
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divided into three sections‚ one for each author to enlighten us with what they know and have dedicated years of their lives prior to learning. The book starts off the first section Stars‚ Planets and Life with Neil deGrasse Tyson including some chapters by Strauss. With his ability to make difficult concepts accessible‚ his oratory skills and his sense of humor makes this section of the book both funny and informative. From measuring the circumference of the Earth and the distance of the Earth to
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the Greek tradition of geometry‚ and they felt uncomfortable with concepts to which they could not give a geometric meaning. This is why‚ two century’s after Bombelli’s Algebra‚ we find Euler writing in his Algebra of 1770" In the beginning of chapter two‚ my favorite part‚ Nahin talks about the "constructions dealing with the square roots of positive lengths". He talks about the impossibility of doing a geometric construction. He says that i was invited to make solving problems easier and more
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Chapter 1 starts off with Jung Jae fleeing seoul Korea with her son from the North forces. Again in January 1951 the North came back‚ but she had to leave her son this time. On the way to the south on top of a train in a snowstorm she died of a heart attack. The Americans found her son Pong Suk and use him as an interpreter. After the war he came to America with a military student visa. Chapter 2 follows the Alarcon family move to America from Bolivia‚ but only because of their grandma Edu.
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Chapter 1: Dinosaurs (Introduction) Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals belonging to the family of Dinosauria. The term “dinosaur” originated from the Greek words “deinos” which means fearfully great and “sauros” which means a lizard. The term “dinosaur”‚ was coined in 1982 by Richard Owen and was meant to refer to dinosaurs’ impressive size rather their scary appearance. Dinosaurs are considered to be the biggest animals to ever walk on Earth. They lived on every continent‚ including Antarctica
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better and more deserving than the Wart. 3. There are a few aspects of medieval life presented in this chapter are. The exposition(setting) of the story is a castle in England. In this chapter‚ medieval activities such as jousting‚ hawking‚ hunting‚ haymaking‚ horsemanship‚ and fencing take place. Chapter Two 4. Elements of fantasy‚ superstition‚ and/or the supernatural introduced in this chapter include; ghosts (the Wart describes King Pellinore as a ghost)‚ stories about beasts(Questing Beast)
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Summary In The Outsiders‚ by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy and Johnny kills a teenager by stabbing him in the back and are forced to run away from the police to an abandoned church. This all starts in Chapter 1 when Socs jump Ponyboy when he comes back from the movie theater. They cut and bruise him up a lot‚ but before they can do serious damage‚ the gang of Greasers that he belongs to come running just in time to help Ponyboy. Soda gets worried when he sees the injuries‚ but Darry yells at Ponyboy
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Chapter 29 NAACP- African American civil rights organization‚ equality of rights of all persons‚ eliminate discrimination Gunner Myrdal- Swedish scholar who wrote The American Dilemma‚ talked about the contradiction between racism and democracy Thurgood Marshall- NAACP’s leading attorney‚ changed legal decisions‚ behind the scenes Brown v. Topeka- social jurisprudence‚ overturned Plessy v. Ferguson‚ said US had to desegregate schools Earl Warren- liberal Republican‚ appointed as chief justice
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In “Engaged Pedagogy” the first chapter of “Teaching to Transgress: Education as a practice of Freedom” bell hooks walks us through her philosophy of pedagogy with a chapter that manages to serve as a powerful introduction to her book. In chapter one‚ Hooks manages to introduce her view on pedagogy‚ her inspirations and her experiences within the academia as a student and a professor and how it helped formulating her philosophy. In the first part of the chapter‚ Hooks introduces “Engaged Pedagogy”
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