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    Tuck Everlasting summary The book tuck everlasting a teenage girl who gets lost nearby where she lives and encounters a stranger she has never met before on her way she met a stranger whom she soon gets taken to meet a family who hold a big secret. But the girl‚ Winnie foster gets to decide to stay with the family or go back to her regular life. Winnie foster‚ a teenage girl who has been warned of the dangers in the world‚ but with a mind full of curiosity. Willing to sneak out to embark an

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    Silence of the Lambs In the book Silence of the Lambs (Harris‚ 1988) the whole plot is based around three main characters. Clarice Starling‚ a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee who is put into the position of trying to unravel the mind of an evil genius‚ Hannibal the cannibal Lecter‚ in order to find the answers needed to capture the serial killer‚ Jame Gumb‚ also known as Buffalo Bill. Hannibal the Cannibal Lecter‚ a former psychiatrist‚ is in a mental institute for his ferocious attacks

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    Summary: Soldiers are getting exhausted from euthanizing monkeys. Rhonda Williams has a hole in her space suit. She goes outside and finds herself in front of a news van. The news people walk around the monkey house‚ but there is nothing interesting to them. After two soldiers take a break‚ a monkey gets loose. One of the soldiers decides to go into the room and try to capture the monkey. The soldiers lock the doors and leave the monkey in the room over night. All the rest of the team stay on euthanizing

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    from third person point of view. Half of the story is told in limited omniscient. The other half is limited. In third person omniscient‚ the narrator is allowed to jump into anyone’s mind. And in this story that’s exactly what is done in most of the chapters. For example‚ "came because they were afraid or unafraid‚ because they were happy or unhappy‚ because they felt like Pilgrims or did not feel like Pilgrims" (2). The focus is on the group as a whole‚ not individuals.

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    Odyssey Chapter 3 Summary

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    their families back in Ithaca. After a ten year war with the Trojan army odysseus and his men fight their way back home. On the way back Odysseus’s men are turned into swine and he is held captive as a “Slave” and that took up most of their time. In chapter 3 him and his men are stuck on the island of the Cylclopies. ( The Land of The Cyclopies)Odysseus tells his best fighters to come with him they are curious and end up in a cave with the cyclops Polyphemus. Polyphemus keeps them hostage and eats some

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    Marjane Chapter 1 Summary

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    Marjane is a headstrong‚ independent‚ and outspoken woman who was born in Iran‚ on the edge of the Caspian Sea. She grew up in Tehran‚ where she studied at the Lycée Français‚ before leaving for Vienna. In the book Marjane plays the role of a very curious and smart child. Marjane follows her parents’ footsteps and their views on the revolution taking place in Iran‚ but as she gets older her view on life changes a lot. Marjane is a character who gets herself into trouble with some of her various actions

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    The Secret River Part 2 Thornhill‚ Sal and Willie embark and Richard is born on the way to Sydney. On the Sydney harbour‚ Thornhill finds and works for Mr King.He also steals rum from him so he can sell some at Sal’s store. This makes a little more money for the family. He then works for Blackwood and takes cargo from Sydney to the Hawkesbury. They also live with Scabby Bill‚ who is an alcoholic‚ in a wattle and daub hut which they always complain about. The next child to be born is Johnny nicknamed

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    Rainforest. The Brazilian government recognizes only 13% of the total land mass of Brazil as being designated to its native tribes. Of this 13% total land mass‚ 98.5% lies in the Amazon Rainforest (http://survivalinternational.org/tribes/brazilian). In Chapter 5 of Mann’s 1491‚ Mann retells the story of the Gonzalo Pizarro exhibition. The first recorded and written description of the Amazon comes from Gaspar de Carvajal‚ the chaplain on the Pizarro voyage. Carvajal’s account was not recognized as being

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    Chapter 1 Introduction to Operations Management Adding Value by Improving Operations Management Better management of a company’s operations can add substantial value to the company by improving its competitiveness and long-term profitability. Poor operations decisions can hurt a company’s competitive position and increase its costs on the other hand; good operations decisions can improve the value of the company by increasing profitability and growth. Operations management is an important

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    these unfortunate people. What Kozol describes deeply in the book throughout true incredible stories goes beyond our expectation. Especially in chapter 5‚” Distancing ourselves from pain and tears” which is one of the center of the book‚ the author raises more concern about our attitudes toward poor homeless people. What Kozol means by “distancing” in the chapter is that people do really care about homelessness. They do understand and feel guilty about what homeless people are suffering day by day. Because

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