Name: Maridel Banco Date: 11/22/13 Period: 2 Book Title: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Genre: Psychology/Self-Help Author: Malcolm Gladwell Number of Pages: 286 Brief Summary and “Arrangement” of the Book: Malcom Gladwell published the most pleasant book‚ “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking‚” which he extended the landmark style of his number one international bestseller The Tipping Point. Gladwell transformed the ideas of how people understand
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chapters 1-6‚ Part 1 Chapter One Chapter one introduces the reader to the main character‚ Raphael Fernandez. Raphael‚ a fourteen year old dumpsite boy narrates this part of the story and it entails many interesting ideas about the Behala dumpsite. Raphael and his best friend Gardo spend their days searching the endless amounts of rubbish that cover acres of land. They live knee deep in trash along with many others‚ including children. We find out
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Year of Wonders: In excruciating detail! Structure YOW is a novel in 3 parts: 1. Prologue: Leaf-fall 1666 Now 2. Main: Spring 1665 Year of Wonders/Year of the Plague 3. Epilogue: Leaf-fall 1666 Now Why this structure? To hook the readers into the story straight away. Prologue p.3 Apple picking time “I used to love this season.” p.3 “…where he sits still and silent.” P.3‚ paragraph 3‚ line 1 Readers: Who’s this guy and why is he depressed? What’s happened to him? p.4 “It
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26 year-old Thomas was driving his 700 HP Lamborghini Adventador LP 700-4 down a windy road going about 150 mph during the middle of the night. Thomas worked late at a hospital so it was usual for him to arrive home late. While driving around a blind corner‚ he sees a squirrel‚ sitting on his side of the road. He is driving way too fast too slow down now but tries to swerve to avoid the small squirrel and goes off the edge of a steep hill and rolls his new Lambo. The next morning he wakes up
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The werewolf runs fast as he quickly disappeared from the elfs eyesight. The beautiful elf takes the boy on her arm and quickly runs towards the elfs kingdom. As the beautiful elf try to runs quickly towards the elf kingdom‚ the werewolf is screaming pain as he lose blood from hand looking for help. As both the beautiful elf and the werewolf trying to get help the blood moon slowly disappear‚ the beautiful yellow sunrise from the deep ocean removing all the darkness the moon had bringed. After running
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The Black Jacobins by C.L.R James: A Response “But one does not need education or encouragement to cherish a dream of freedom” (James‚ 1963: 18). The notion that African slaves could not conceptualise self emancipation nor possess the political thought necessary for planning and achieving such liberation was a common held assumption amongst white plantation owners and larger European society in the sixteenth century. Nowhere else was this contestation more strongly believed than on the French island
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A Canadian Lieutenant General‚ Romeo Dallaire has made a great contribution into the peace-keeping mission and International human rights movement. Being an experienced solder Dallaire did everything to protect human’s rights and resist to the world coalition of false “peacemakers” who did nothing to help people in Rwanda during the genocide period. Romeo Dallaire was born in 1946 in Holland. He spent his early years in Montréal and joined the Canadian Army in 1964. Further‚ Dallaire graduated
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Whitney Cantrell ENGL 2130 Analytical Essay Rhonda Whittenberg 07 March 14 USher Even though we do not know the name of the Narrator‚ it is almost as if we are looking through his eyes as he approaches the House of Usher. He has been lifelong friends with Roderick Usher‚ who sends him a note asking for him to help. Roderick’s sister‚ Madeline‚ suffers from catalepsy and he suspects that she will die soon. Considering they are the last of the Usher living bloodline‚ Roderick feels that he and Madeline
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By: mike Plot outline The main character in this book is Michael Brock‚ a lawyer working for Drake & Sweeney. One day a homeless man comes into the firm and holds Michael and other lawyers hostage. Michael and the lawyers manage to get out of the situation but the homeless man gets killed. Michael finds out later that the homeless man had been evicted from a wherehouse where he was paying rent and Drake & Sweeney was responsible for the eviction. Michael asked a lawyer‚ at his firm‚ if he could
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The book starts off with Allie Denty walking in on her boyfriend cheating on her with the delivery girl in her own bed. Allie was devastated because she thought her boyfriend was faithful and thought that he loved her. Once she kicked him out‚ she sat down and completed what had just happened to her. She then realizes that she now has no date to her high school 20-year reunion. She was already dreading the occasion and now she is deeding it even more. Back in high school she was the hot cool girl
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