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    Blink Book Review

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    Malcolm Gladwell is a self-reflection provoking book in which the author takes us by the hand and guides us through our mind on the unconscious side of things. To blink is to perform beyond the speed of light; a brief‚ rapid movement that is done in a quick flash and is typically unnoticeable. The book relates to this action through the examination of our minds and how we unknowingly react to high speed and on the spot situations. The thesis of the book is to convince a simple fact: that decisions made

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    Book Review: Brainpox

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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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    Freakonomics Book Review

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    is a book written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubuer. Steven d. Lennits is the living definition of the phrase “ Think Outside the Box” He is not a typical economist‚ he even states it in the book’s introduction‚ “I’m not good at math‚ I don’t know a lot of econometrics‚ and I also don’t know how to do theory.” This marks right away Lennits to a different approach of ways to get his audience attention‚ he steps outside of the boundaries most people in society live by. Freakonomics‚ is a book that

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    The struggle for racial equality did not start with one man or woman. Slavery might have ended with the Civil War but mistreatment of the African Americans still continued. With laws like The Jim Crow Laws mandating separation of the races in all aspects of life in the south being in the 1890s made life unbearably hard for people of color. Waterfountatins‚ restaurants‚ theaters‚ restrooms‚ doors‚ buses‚ trains‚ workplaces‚ and other public facilities were designated with “White Only” and “Colored”

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    "Wolf" Book Review

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    Cross I thought it was quite an interesting book because it contained a lot of imagery. Wolf was about a girl called Cathleen Phelan (known throughout the book as Cassy) and her wrangle with her father Mick Phelan whose is part of the IRA (Irish Republic Army). The plot of the story is that Cassy’s grandmother gave Cassy some plastic explosives that she stole from Cassy’s father Mick and sent her to live with her mother Susan Phelan(known throughout the book as Goldie ). And throughout the story Cassy’s

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    The Godfather Book Review

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    in a hospital after being shot at five times by the assassins. Michael‚ his youngest son‚ saves his life in the hospital and in the meantime Vito’s eldest son Sontino takes over the family business. The book starts with the wedding of Don Vito Corleone’s daughter. In the opening part of the book‚ Vito seems to be a very kind and ethical person. He listens to the requests of different people even on the day of his daughter’s wedding. He comes across as a man of moral values as he refused to kill a

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    overlap and impact a person’s chances in life greatly. Gender‚ race‚ class and sexuality are predators of one’s chances in life. These concepts are socially constructed. We learn that this concept come in light when identities are represented. In the book ISS Dasgupta discussed

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    Crows Foot

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    3/7/13 Crow�s Foot Notation Crow�s Foot Notation A number of data modeling techniques are being used today. One of the most common is the entity relationship diagram (ERD). Several ERD notations are available. For the purposes of CS270 we will be using Crow�s Foot Notation[b1]. Components used in the creation of an ERD: Entity � A person‚ place or thing about which we want to collect and store multiple instances of data. It has a name‚ which is a noun‚ and attributes which describe the

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    Macbeth Book Review

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    Macbeth is the shortest tragedy ever to be written by William Shakespeare. He wrote this play for King James I‚ who was a largely active supporter of the theatre. The king watched many productions and soon Shakespeare’s company was called ‘The King’s Men’. In honouring the king‚ Shakespeare used King James’s I history to create characters and pieces of the plot for the play. He named Banqou after an ancestor of the king‚ who ties into Banqou’s prophecy of his children becoming kings‚ the ‘child’

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    The Jungle Book Review

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    Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Penguin Book‚ 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is the story of an immigrant who came to America for a new beginning involving a “great” job. The immigrant‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ comes from a poor family in Lithuania and wants to now support his future wife‚ Ona Lukoszaite by working for a meatpacking factory in Chicago. Jurgis soon realizes that America and its’ people and opportunities are not all that he thought they would be. Sinclair exposes the horrors and

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