Book Summary: The Blackthorn Key By Kevin Sands

In the late 1860s, as post-Civil War business boomed, there was a sharp increase in the number of working- and middle-class people in New York, and the wealthier people desired entertainment. Theaters became more popular, and Niblo 's Garden, which had formerly hosted opera, began to offer light comedy. “The Black Crook” was at first simply a melodrama by Charles M. Barras that retold the Faust story and borrowed liberally from other plays with similar plots and themes. William Wheatley, who was the manager of Niblo’s was concerned that the play would fail. The script was poorly written and the acting was not much better. Then something oddly magical happened. There was a theatre fire at the Academy of Music in New York. A French ballet

Dennis Lynn Rader was born on March 9, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Kansas. His mother, Dorothea Mae Cook, and father, William Elvin Rader, had three sons in addition to Dennis. In 1975, he married Paula Dietz, and they had one son and one daughter. Throughout his childhood, Dennis displayed signs of what he would become later in life. In reports, as well as his own confession, he tortured animals and had a fetish with women 's underwear. Dennis, also known as the BTK killer, had at least ten victims throughout his life. He became known as the BTK killer because of his modus operandi: bind, torture, kill. Dennis worked alone, and all of his murders occurred in and around Wichita, Kansas (Blanco).

These pages from the book do not go into get into deep detail but I do like the fact that it starts and reference to treatments starting off as home remedies then going from there to where we are now in medicine.

The task assigned is a review of the book Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen. I will provide examples and summarize the main concepts of the book to include Intimate Partner Violence, Battering, and Intimate Terrorism. I will reference the text Family Violence, Across the Lifespan by Ola W. Barnett, Cindy Miller-Perrin, and Robin D. Perrin in order to support my theoretical claims. I will select a critical part of the book and explain why it was challenging to read and understand based on my perspective, and then select a character to analyze using one of the theoretical perspective. This book is sad and disturbing, the punishment inflicted on Fran by her husband Bobby Benedetto is unacceptable and

The Book Thief (2013), directed by Brian Percival, is about a young old girl living in Nazi Germany (between 1939 and 1943) in the fictional town of Molching, Germany. Death narrates the story of the main protagonist, Liesel Meminger, beginning when she is nine years old and suffering from the death of her brother and separation from her mother. Liesel then goes to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann (played by Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson). When Liesel arrives, she is illiterate and is made fun of in school by the other children. Hans, a painter and accordion player, teaches her how to read, using the book Liesel took from her brother's burial: The Grave Digger's Handbook. Over the course of the movie, Liesel develops a love for reading and decides to steal books because of the economical hardships associated with World War II. Liesel's foster parents also decide to help a young Jewish man named Max, whose father fought with Hans as in World War One as German soldiers. The Book Thief illustrates a different perspective in regards to the Nazi Regimen and its effects on the German people, specifically children.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a story set in Germany during World War 2. This novel follows the life of Liesel Meminger, a girl who develops greatly. With Death as the all knowing narrator of the story, the reader has the ability to see various perspectives. It tells the story of oppression, portrays the power of words, and shows the human ability for kindness or cruelty. I chose to do option four, in which I have chosen important sections from the novel.

In spite of this he still wishes he could work with scholars to invent and to discover. He wishes this above all else although he knows it is against the law to wish to be of another trade. Still, he continues to sneak away and work if only for hours at a time on discovering what man has lost, all the secrets of the unmentionable times that could help further man’s knowladge. His desire to be a scholar is similar to his love for The Golden One, for neither pursuit is socially

Introducing the aspect of knowledge through the letters, the book shows the dangerous side of knowledge through a journey.

The book I am reading is Wings of Fire: Legends: Darkstalker the author is Tui T Sutherland and the genre is fantasy. The number of pages in this book are 358 and the recommended reading age is 7-12, it is rated this because it has a lot killing in it.

books with diverse genres. To name a few, I have read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, another

The setting of the novel, The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas is set in Fayette, Pennsylvania. The author set the mood as dark and scary. The whole town is telling lies. They don’t know who to believe.

     This book combines characteristics of a suspense thriller with those of a tragedy and is a very interesting book to read. I liked the detail that the author went into about the psychological aspects of the characters in making the decisions that they made. I thought that the characters were well developed and I liked the detail that the author went into about the settings. A detailed setting can really increase the intensity and realism of a situation in a book. This book contained some difficult words that lower level readers might not understand. I would recommend that anyone looking for a suspense/tragedy oriented book should look to this one. The beginning is a somewhat tedious read, but that is only because the author takes so much time to develop the

“Medicines appear to have greater power in affecting the state of health than the natural morbific irritation, for natural diseases are cured and subdued by appropriate medicines” – says Hahnemann. In my opinion, he holds the view that natural disease has the power to make us sick only when our organism is sufficiently disposed and susceptible to the attack of the “morbific cause” whereas the power of medicine is absolute and unconditional. It acts at all times, under all circumstances and on every living human being. Therefore, appropriately chosen medicine (remedy) that matches the symptoms of the illness, and produce an “artificial disease” that is similar to that which is to be cured, administered in the right dose and potency with a greater degree of intensity than the “natural disease” has absolute power to heal the patient.

Words can influence the mind in many ways that thought may not be able to. They are carefully placed and shared in different ways by each and every individual. Words have powerful impacts and can majorly impact how one may think, feel, or even lead others to feel. Written by Markus Zusak, “The Book Thief” describes a story of an innocent foster girl, Liesel Meminger, who resides in Munich, Germany at one of the most troubling time periods in history, Nazi Germany. A tale narrated by the one and only Death himself, shows the perspective from his point of view, as well as others, describing how Liesel had been seized away from her birth mother at a young age, and put into a foster family. Her new family, the Hubermanns. As she matures and grows into a more critical thinker, understanding and analyzing everything that carefully happens around her. Her foster-father, Hans guides her and teaches her how to read, which little does she know sparks her journey, the art of stealing books. Liesel soon discovers that words aren 't simply lines on a page, they are strong emotions packed into a form that merely is held in her delicate hands. Not only did she hold the pages of emotion, she held a power, a dangerous weapon of words, a weapon of control, and every book that she had stolen was giving her unimaginable power that made her think in ways that she would’ve never thought she could have. As with Nazi propaganda, and a gift that enabled her to broaden her worldview. Liesel evolves

The book I read was The Eighth Day by Dianne K Salerni.The genre of this novel is fantasy adventure.This book is labeled as fantasy because of it’s magic a well as it’s interesting fictional plot. Adventure is also featured in the title because of all the unusual and exciting occurrences.This piece of literature mixes Ancient magic,Arthurian legend and a modern twist to bring an intriguing book.The complicated alliances and cold-hearted villains keeps the reader on their toes.