Equiano’s tone of writing is humble. The purpose of the book is not for his own vanity or pride but to capture the power his faith which guided him through slavery until the point of his freedom. As the chapters unfold‚ Equiano establishes an authentic account of his plan to abolish the horrors of slavery by creating physical written text to illustrate the magnitude of the abuse and suffering slaves endured. The book maintains his reports of impassioned and emotionally centred rants against the
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Human Growth & Development | Book Report | | Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom What is the book about? Tuesdays with Morrie is a true story about sportswriter Mitch Albom and his favorite college professor‚ Morrie Schwartz. During Mitch’s undergraduate years at Brandeis University‚ he and Morrie form a bond that goes beyond a typical student/teacher relationship. After graduation‚ Mitch promises to stay in touch with his professor and
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As part of the summer reading assignment this year‚ I read the book Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this documentary-style book‚ he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor‚ rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the purpose of telling the stories of the children who lived in these parts of the city. He dedicated his work to those children and it was his goal to inform readers that slums were in fact in existence and
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Title: The Call of the Wild Author Jack London Setting Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley where he spends his days and nights including eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. Characters: The Main Dogs * Buck –a proud and powerful dog‚ half St Bernard and half shepherd dog‚ who begins life on a comfortable Californian estate as a family pet‚ yet soon changes when he is stolen and sold to work as a sled dog in the frozen North. * Spitz- Buck’s archrival and original
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Introduction The novel I read for the project was “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson. Fever 1793 is a story about a little girl named Matilda Cook who lives during the time that Yellow Fever broke out. Some of the novel is fiction‚ and some of the book is historical. Key Idea 1 The first Key Idea of the novel is the fever itself. The fever changes how everyone lives. It makes some leave the town and some stay. It makes people think some are crazy and it makes people go crazy. It makes people
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In this paper‚ I will be exploring the depths of the book titled “Values of the Game by Bill Bradley”. Values of the Game is a book about basketball and an athletes performance‚ but also is geared to males and females. When it comes to age specifics‚ the targeted age of this book varies because students of any age can relate from the information this book has to offer. With this particular book‚ Bill Bradley’s objective was to express the important qualities athletes have that helps them become
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My book is Red Queen. It is written by Victoria Aveyard. My favorite part in the book is at the end when Mare and Cal are sentenced to death. They are fighting people with powers. Cal’s power is fire. He can make little fireballs and hurl them at people. Mare’s power is lightning. You see‚ people who have powers need it already there for them to work with it. Like with Cal‚ his power is fire right? Well he need a spark to create something bigger. With Mare though she can just make lightning she doesn’t
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In Kite Runner‚ Takes place in the month of December 2001‚ and the narrator‚ who tells his story in the first person‚ talks about his past lifethat occurred in 1975‚ when he was twelve years old and growing up in Afghanistan. He does not tell the audience what happened‚ but talks about the past events that made him who he is right now. He starts of by telling the audience about a call he received last summer from a friend in Pakistan named Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan asks the narrator‚ whose name is Amir
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Beauty and the Beast Retold by Jenny Dooley Express Publishing Graded Readers Level 1 Chapter 1 The Castle A very long time ago‚ on a small farm‚ there lived a poor farmer with his three daughters. He never made much money as his farm was very small. When he was a young man‚ he lost the most valuable thing in his life. His beautiful and kind wife died when their last baby daughter was born. Now his daughters were almost young women‚ but the farmer still felt the same pain in his heart for
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