Zaidosu And Shaddam Book Report

Who is the speaker? “In February of that year while passing out tests the teacher had pulled back the girl’s hijab and said, I hope God punishes you. No, I'm sorry, I hope Allah punishes you.” (Eggers 45)

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 management style with the employees.

During the book, Yoshino talks about how different religions have to cover. He elaborated on the fact that Muslims, after 9/11 were faced with this challenge. What took me by surprise, was the encounter of the mother going to change her son’s surname from Mohammed to Smith. I have never

the book MAUS by Art Spiegelman is an amazing book about Spiegelman father’s experience during WW2. The story is told by Spiegelman, as in present time with present events, and the story of WW2 is described as a memory. The main characters in the story for the present time are Spiegelman (author) , Vladek (author’s father), and Mala ( Vladek’s wife). The main characters in WW2 story are Vladek, and Anja (Vladek’s wife during the war). The story takes places in Poland, mid 1930’s to winter 1944. The main conflict Vladek is facing is, he is losing his family along the way throughout the war.

“55 Miles to the Gas Pump” by Annie Proulx By: Kalena Gottwald, Skyler Greenberg, Garin Mesarch, Rachael Phillips, and Abigail Sanford In this presentation, we will look at 55 Miles to the Gas Pump by Annie Proulx through the deconstructionist point of view Deconstructionist Strategies Literary works DO NOT yield fixed, single meanings.

If your neighborhood was flooded, how fast would you want the government to respond? Hours? Days? Weeks? Well, for victims of Hurricane Katrina it was months. But why? One of the purposes of the government is to serve the people. There was different government groups at the sites of the aftermath of Katrina, but many of them didn’t even bother to help the victims in need like the military, police, and national guard. In the book “ Zeitoun” written by Dave Eggers we see that a victim of the hurricane had more of an authentic human response than the government did. Before the hurricane hit there was a mandatory evacuation, but many people stayed behind for different reasons. The aftermath of Katrina led to even bigger issues than need be because

War impacts the lives of many people by taking away their families, homes, and old lifestyle in general. People suffer through loss of many valuable things that force them to live a new way that may be hard to adapt to. In the autobiography called A Long Way Gone by

My book Saving Zasha by Randi Barrow has just about everything from love to intense action like shootings or chases. Saving Zasha should be preserved because it makes the reader ask questions about the book to better understand the book, it also intrigues me when most books don't even make me interested in it , and lastly the book had very small describing details that made the book come together very well.

War can caused many people depression, trauma, disabilities, or even long lasting injuries. The book I will be referring to is called A Long Way Gone “Ishmael Beah”. In Sierra Leone there was a civil war between the RUF (Revolutionary United Front) and government soldiers. Many people in this country

War has scared people all over the world, including the people outside it, and has made changed people to do things they did not know they were capable of. A Long Way Gone is a book that features Ishmael Beah who is both the author and the narrator in this novel. Beah was born in 1980 and was only around 11 years old when a civil war in Sierra Leone broke out in 1991. The civil war had many problems that took place, but this novel aims its focus on the fact that both sides of the war used child soldiers and he was one of the victims to become one. Beah had become a child soldier when all his friends started to die off and were forced to become a soldier and survive the war he had desperately tried to escape from. Ishmael Beah can be seen

Sitting in english class, you are handed this book called Zeitoun. Weeks go by, and you just finished the book; but then your teacher has some news about the book. News that would alter the way you feel about the book. Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, is a book about this family who gives you their opinion and the inside story on what it was like for their family when Hurricane Katrina hit New

A Long Way Gone By : Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah.This book is nothing more then about a destiny, a journey that we don’t see everyday, readers could call Ishmael's life a miracle.this book was published in 2007, New York by Sarah Crichton Books.

A Long Way Gone is a heartbreaking story on how war can change lives. Ishmael Beah, who is also the author, tells the true story of his life and becoming a young soldier against his will. Ishmael finds himself committing acts he could never do normally, such as stealing, killing, and doing drugs. It all started when Ishmael’s village was attacked. Ishmael and his friends are forced to wander from village to village. Eventually, Ishmael is recruited and becomes a soldier. He is forced to kill and commit acts of violence he could never see himself doing.

“Washington… was a ‘promised land’ to many a freeman… it was the capital of the nation– that is, of the North that had set them free.”

The book I read was called “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah. It was a non-fiction book. “A Long Way Gone” is about Ishmael Beah, who is 12 years old when he's villages gets attacked and he has to go to village to village finally getting to one were he thinks is safe. But when news about the village needed soldiers Ishmael has to become one to get resources to survive. When he is excused from war he goes to rehabilitation in a city called freecity. Once he gets rehabilitated he goes to new york to speak about the experiences he had with the war. He then comes home and a couple of days later something bad happens, and he has to try to get out of the city. The conflict in the story was how Ishmael was running from the rebels that were raiding