The Seekers Chapter Summaries

In chapter 6 of Rocket Boys, Homer tells his friends about forming his rocket club called BCMA or Big Creek Missile Agency and gets a couple friends to join him. Homer and his friend Quentin go to the County Library to do some research about rockets, but were not able to find anything that was useful enough to help them. They both start thinking of the future and see themselves having a trophy in honor of the rocket they would soon build. While the two are talking in school a teacher named Ms. Riley and the principle Mr. Turner overhear their conversations. Ms. Riley was the supportive one, while Mr. Turner was just talking about not having any explosions. Homer than gets Mr. Bykovski to teach him to solder and eventually build 3 rockets. One rocket was tested and ended up hitting Home’s dad’s office and resulted in Homer getting told

In chapter 8, Grant recalls his own teacher Matthew Antoine. Mr. Antoine hated teaching and his own students. To Mr. Antoine education is only good for making new teachers which sustain the cycle of uselessness. As Mr. Antoine becomes older he sees no evidence that education can lead to an improvement in the real word. Mr. Antoine describes to Grant that you can teach a black child but they won’t do any good for themselves with what you taught them. He says that blacks are just meant to run away. Mr. Antoine hates himself for the color he bears. ‘When you see that those five and a half months you spend in that church each year are just a waste of your time, you will. You will. You’ll see that it’ll take more than five and a half months

Jim Qwilleran the wealthy, middle-aged journalist that lives with two cat suddenly became Pickax City’s most outstanding citizen by solving two enormous mystery. He rents a Gage mansion from Junior Goodwinter Boulevard for the winter. Junior’s 88 years old grandmother named Euphiona Gage was found dead that in Florida retirement community home. Bedsides the death of Euphiona, Gil Inchpot a potato farmer in nearby Brr County is found murdered . Koko and Yum Yum the two cat of Jim Qwilleran invade the mansion’s of 50 closets and unearthing clues that not only solve the two mysteries, but also reveal a long buried story that links between them.

Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit, tells the true story of Emma Edmonds, who in April of 1861, answered the rallying cry of President Abraham Lincoln, who called upon the young men of America to join in the Union effort during the Civil War. She had a slender build and had short cropped hair. She was in the habit of wearing men's clothes when she work on her farm. She was raised in St. John, Canada, and had worn men's clothes for years while working on the family farm. Emma felt the resentment of her harsh and remote father who had wanted a son. The fractured relationship between Emma and her father led her, at sixteen years of age, to run away from home. An idealistic young woman, Emma headed for the United States, a nation that needs her help.

On his way to Kentucky, William finds himself dilly dallying in Cincinnati. He when buying goods to load his wagon with he meets a girl. That girl is Elise Schmidts, a German immigrant who owns a classy dress shop with her mother. She serves as a distractions causing William to arrive in Kentucky four days too late. BY the time William arrived, James had ran away and Susannah had convinced herself she wouldn’t leave without knowing he was safe. In reality, slaves who ran away were not likely to come back and eventually

The New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene adopted rules which aim to repeal and recode the current law, Chapter 23 of Title 24, of the rules of the New York City to specify sanitary inspection procedures in different food service establishments (Chapter 23 of Title 24 of the Rules of the City of New York, 2010). In July 2010, New York City Mayor Bloomberg lunched New York’s Restaurant letter Grading program (NYC Health, 2013). The New York City Health department started requiring restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island to post their letter grades that showing their sanitary inspection results to accomplish three goals: First, to inform the people about the restaurants’ inspection result that could

Over the next 12 days Santa Anna’s forces attacked the Alamo. On the final day of the battle, Susanna and the other women and children took shelter in the sacristy for safety. She later mentioned that Davy Crockett stopped briefly in the chapel to pray before taking his assigned position. Susanna’s husband was able to get away from his post to join his wife in the sacristy. He yelled, “Sue! The Mexicans are inside the walls! If they spare you, save our child. I love you.” He then returned to his post and she never saw him

Craig Mullaney definitely made many challenges for himself and accepted challenges from others with no questions asked. Being the thriving Valedictorian of his high school class and earning other prestigious accolades he stood out from the other entire student. But at West Point, Mullaney would be intertwined with hundreds of other classmates with the same, if not more achievements, making it seemingly impossible to be any kind of a predominant student.

n the novel Cold Mountain written by Charles Frazier there is a lot that's going on in this book. But there is important things and topics I can discuss as I've been reading. I have come across many questions that need answers and I hope that I can get them answer in discussions or by the time I finish reading this novel.

In chapter 7, Shane didn't care what people said or thought about him. He only cared what people said to Joe. So when Fletcher and his boys pass by his land on their horses making jokes about having pigs and their smell , while Joe not having any, Shane goes back to town . He comes back and tells everyone that “ your pigs are dead and buried”. When Shane leaves to the back yard, one of the homesteaders comes rushing in and tells everyone what in the bar between Shane and Chris. Everyone realizes how dangerous Shane is when he grabbed Chris and starting slapping repeatedly in the face when he bought Chris a drink and threw it back to shane. Chris tried to attack shane but he kept dodging him. The fight ended rapidly with Chris having a broken

The main character is Beatrice “Tris” Prior and is the lead character and narrates the whole series. She is 16 and born to the faction abnegation but eventually transferred to dauntless and has to face the fact that she is “divergent” which is a combination of many factions and puts her life at risk because the government is looking for people like her. She has 3 other people in her family: Andrew prior (dad), Natalie prior (mom) and Caleb prior (brother) her mom and dad die earlier in the series, all that is left of her family is her and caleb. She gets into a relationship with Tobias Eaton, as the book progresses on they go through some conflict but still cared and took care for each other throughout, her friends and relationships include:

Simon accidentally drops Joe of a cliff and he has no way to get up. Simon is stuck in a seat he made in the snow. If he moves they will both get pulled down the crevasse. He falls out of the seat and has to cut the rope.

This frame is the ending of part 1 of this book. It is interesting to see that this shows me the conflict rising and Marjane starting her brand new life in a different country. Right now they are in a middle of a war with Arab. Not long ago, the Arab bombed Marjane neighborhood. She breathes so delighted that her parents were okay however it remain a tragedy to discover that her friend, Neda Baba-levy, was gone.

He threatened to turn her in if she tried to escape, but it did not faze her. Her father had inspired her to become free, and nothing was going to stop her. As recalled by Karol Brown, “She was not afraid to believe that she deserved to have a better life. It was her right.” One day while she was cleaning, she told him through song that she was going to escape, and he was not coming with her. In the middle of the night in the year 1849, she escape through the field. A few weeks before, a white lady had told her if she ever needed help, she would help her. This was her first destination in her escape route. In the morning, the lady gave her other places she could use to escape to freedom. Through her journey, she was brave and strong. She never turned back, fearing the consequences. Other slave sympathizers helped her along the long, hard journey to Pennsylvania. Her other symbol that she used while she looking for something was singing songs that referred to “the Promised Land.” She was very brave while she was trying to escape slavery (Alexander). A few days later, she crossed the border of Pennsylvania into freedom. She was finally free. Free from all of the hard work, the beatings, the disrespect. But there was one problem; there was no one to help her, no one to welcome her or keep her safe. Her family was still in the South. She was all alone. But she could not leave them there.

One day Michael’s family was in their house preparing for what was to come. Michael’s mom was gardening. Michael’s dad was cutting firewood. Lastly, Michael’s sisters were helping Michael and his dad were helping Michael get water. Michael and his dad were loading up the carriage to go hunting for food in the winter. It was starting to get dark. At last it was time to say good-bye. Sarah and Lilia, Michael’s sisters, both ran towards him dad and Michael to hug them good-bye. Mama waits until they are done, and then she goes to papa, kisses him on the cheek, and says, “ Please be careful. I don’t want to see you getting hurt. I love you.” Then she hugs and kisses Michael, and tells him the same thing, and they head out.