韩佳利 Starry 131100024 Class A Metaphor‚ reality or illusion? ——A Book Review on The Hunger Games The Hunger Games‚ which is considered as the best science fiction of the American writer Suzanne Collins‚ won the first place of The New York Times best-seller list. The book‚ which is “brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced1”‚ is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen‚ who volunteers to participate in the Hunger Games‚ a fight to the death on live TV and has no choice but to make
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Kite Runner Book Review By: David Ongchoco Afghans like to say: “Life goes on‚ unmindful of beginning‚ end…crisis or catharsis‚ moving forward like a slow dusty caravan of kochis [nomads].” This quote was fully embodied in the story of Kite Runner‚ where despite all the difficulties‚ hardships‚ sorrows‚ devastating events‚ the world didn’t pause for Amir‚ it simply continued. Kite Runner is a story that was able to successfully cook into one melting pot a plethora of riveting plots together
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Book Review: On Paradise Drive How we live now (and always have) in the future tense By: David Brooks British philosopher‚ important critical and legal thinker Jeremy Bentham‚ the father of English innovation had ambivalent feelings about the United States of America. Although he disagreed with some of the main principles of the American democracy (its profess ideology of natural rights for example or the slave trading practices of the pilgrims in the New World) he never denied his amazement
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Heather Morin Book Review: Getting to YES vs. Your Guide to Improve Your Negotiation Skills Greatly 09/26/2012 I started reading the book‚ Your Guide to Improve Your Negotiation Skills Greatly by Thomas Anderson which I felt the introduction was executed brilliantly by using the example of a rental property. The negotiation process according to the author is similar to that of the landlord/tenant relationship; where each individual must hold up their part of the deal for the rental property. The
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Banker to the Poor Book Review The book “Banker to the Poor” by Muhammad Yunus is the story of the Grameen Bank Program‚ which is founded in Bangladesh by Yunus to help the poor. Born in 1940 in the city of Chittagong‚ Professor Yunus studied at Dhaka University in Bangladesh‚ and then received a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt in 1969 and the following year became an assistant professor of economics at Middle
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2013 Money and Power How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World William D. Cohan Contents of Book Review Page Introduction
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Book Review: “Wooden on Leadership” John Wooden is a legendary basketball coach‚ best known for his UCLA dynasty‚ which won an unprecedented and unthinkable 10 national championships in 12 years. That stretch included an 88-game win streak and four perfect seasons. But Wooden’s proudest accomplishments are not those of which are collected in the annals of sports history. And they have little to do with winning or losing. In his book “Wooden on Leadership‚” the coach reveals that he never
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Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Book Review The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel features the work of the author Jared Diamond. In his book‚ he mentions his answer to how different human societies became so diverse. Diamond doesn’t use racist answers‚ he gives an answer based on the geographical location of these diverse societies. He explains many concepts on how the location of a society can make them more diverse and more powerful than other societies. He shares many examples in history to support his thesis
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Book review Digital Fortress is a fairly well-written and entertaining novel. The main storyline is based upon a hush-hush operation within the NSA to obtain and or destroy the only existing copies of a pass-key that‚ if made public‚ could enable the use of an encryption program that would create coded messages that would be entirely unbreakable thereby rendering the NSA obsolete and allowing undecipherable communications between terrorist organizations and crime rings throughout the world. The
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Ta‚ Lawrence 12/16/13 Book Review Period 2 “Of Mice and Men” Book Review 1) Plot Summary A. Exposition During the exposition‚ readers are introduced to George and Lennie as they arrive at their next job after past events. The rest of the characters are presented as the duo begins their work. Candy is an aging ranch handyman that wishes to share a piece of George and Lennie’s dream of owning their own farm‚ Slim is the most respected worker at the ranch with the most wisdom‚ Crooks is a black stable-hand
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