The Hidden Side of Freakonomics Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is a book aimed at exposing the secret within everything. The authors prove that in many cases‚ two items don’t have to be connected because they are correlated. Moreover‚ two unrelated items can in fact be connected. Proving so was less difficult than it would seem. All it took was the right information. They were able to prove the most unlikely of correlations. The authors stress that in a world where incentives
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ZAPP book report 11/24/09 ZAPP The Lightning of EMPOWERMENT‚ by William C. Byham Ph.D. and Jeff Cox presents a story of different problems that managers/supervisors face and how they deal with the problems. The book shows how an autocratic supervisor would deal with a problem compared to a participative supervisor would handle the problems. The story shows the contrast between a supervisor that ZAPPS (empowers) her employees and a supervisor that SAPPS his employees by his interactions and
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protagonist in this book. Even though he has been in the other books this is the first time he’s played a major role. Gale is a courageous young man who has very strong feelings for Katniss even though she doesn’t return the feelings. Then‚ there is Peeta Mellark. He’s another protagonist. The book brings him up a lot but due to his capture and then mental breakdown he kind of takes a little bit of a back seat role for the majority of the book even though he is still very important to the book. Peeta was
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characters frequently visit Baron Park Zoo and Mr. Pignatis house. The moral of this story is that adults typically aren’t all that bad. In the decade that this story takes place‚ many children were distrusting of their parents. At the time of the 1960’s the Vietnam War was going on and teenagers were getting riled up about it. In this story both john and Lorraine have parents that don’t really provide the help that john and Lorraine need. John’s parents don’t really care about him‚ to add on‚ Lorraine’s
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A History Lesson Alex Moir/February 13‚ 2001 Mrs. Neitling/Per.4 Kody Scott grew up in South Central L.A. during the nineteen-sixties and seventies‚ soon after the creation of the Crips. Raised in poverty without a father‚ and a full family raised solely by his mother‚ Kody Scott led the stereotypical "ghetto" life‚ a poor and broken home. However he does not blame this on his own personal decision to join the Crips while only eleven year’s old. The allure of the respect and "glory" that
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found three weeks after his death from some type of poisonous berry. Christopher McCandless was born into an upper-middle class family in Virginia. In 1990‚ he graduated from Emory University in Atlanta‚ Georgia with a degree in Anthropology and History. He never had a good relationship with his parents and kept them distant. This is thought to be one of the reasons he left. McCandless admired many writers‚ mainly David Thoreau; this also greatly influenced his choice to wander off and live in
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Book Report: The Goal This paper is a book report on the novel entitled The Goal written by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox. The 40-chapter book is actually a business book written in the form of a novel that makes it interesting to read unlike other business textbook. As a novel‚ the book is entertaining but at the same time‚ very informative for management or accounting students as well as for the real-life company managers and CEOs who wanted to apply different managerial practices
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The book “Nativity”: ISBN 9780913441978‚ published in 2010‚ proves to be an engaging‚ yet informative piece. Written by‚ a Caribbean author‚ Lasana M. Sekou‚ the narrative of the poem is perfectly represented by its title. Sekou’s piece is concerned with the emergence‚ or birth‚ of a new culture through the oppression and enslavement of African people and the destruction of their civilisation‚ by the white Europeans. While the Europeans successfully managed to suppress the culture through their dominance
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tells a story of a wealthy young woman ’s schemes to match up her new‚ and much more poor‚ friend with the town ’s unsuspecting bachelors. What is revealed‚ however‚ is not Emma ’s skills in match-making‚ but her inability to see the true feelings of those around her‚ as well as her own heart. Emma took place in a small town called Highbury‚ in 18th century England. During the time period‚ there was a definite social rank. Almost all of the scenes in the book take place in or around the estates of
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about a love story between two ‘people’ from a human world and a vampire world whose relationship is a typical and special one. The story line goes in a clear way and it lures me a lot to know about how the next step goes to. My favourite part of the book is the chapter ‘hide and seek’ which its article has already got my attention from my first sight. The chapter talks about how James tries to trick Bella to the dance studio that he has got her mother and attacks her. The description makes an atmosphere
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