INTRODUCTION In the book 'Silent spring ' written by Rachael Carson we find a picture of Carson 's deep concept about the connection between nature’s equilibrium and the web of life that has been ruined by the uncontrolled use of insecticides which in turn affected the healthy livelihood of this earth’s creatures. Furthermore, she tells the readers of substitute techniques of achieving the same ends. The title of the book is enough to make us understand that it was a hint of a spring season with
St. Mary’s Academy Guagua Pampanga “BOOK REPORT” Submitted by: Angel Chenel Ocampo 10-OLP Submitted to: Mr. Jefferson Bcani I. Introduction Book Title: Romeo and Juliet No. of Pages: 283 pages Publisher: January 1st 2004 by Washington Square Press (first published 1595) Author and His/her Life: William Shakespeare (April 16, 1564-April 23, 1616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, The United Kingdom. He’s genre are Literature & Fiction, Poetry. He was an English poet and playwright
The book 1776 by David McCullough tells the story of the military aspects of the American Revolution. McCullough writes the book from both the British and American point of views, creating a better understanding of what both sides were undergoing during the war. Not only does he have a degree from Yale, but McCullough has also been awarded with the nations highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In addition to this, he has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice. He has also written
world? A recent report in the Journal of Economi c Perspectives estimates the overall cost to be $20 billion. That takes into account lost productivity due to spam and the additional resources necessary to combat it. Twenty billion dollars! Gentlemen, that is a lot of money. Now if you and your buddies w ere making $20 billion, well, heck, I would want a slice of that pie but the fact is, what you make overall is a mere pittance in comparison to the cost to the world. The same report estimates the
Book Report on Apology In the “Apology”, Socrates tackles his accusers against certain accusations made against him in the Court of Law of Athens, Greece. The nature of the accusation that has caused him to stand trial is such that “Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others” (Plato. The Republic and other plays. pg-449. Doubleday publishing;
The book Alandra’s Lilacs starts off introducing one of the main characters, and author Tressa Browers. She becomes pregnant with her longtime boyfriend Lyndle Paul Benjamin Jr. or more commonly known as “Sug”. They soon get married and became pregnant with their first child, a son, who will be named Lyn Alan. Unfortunately, the baby doesn’t survive and dies shortly after his birth. Tressa and Sug desperately wanted to have a child together and shortly thereafter the death of their first child
conflict because he has to keep moving to different places just to get more work, it is a struggle to move from a place because just as you get used to one place, then move away, and do it over again it gets frustrating. The cycle continues throughout the book, it is putting a pressure or struggle on Panchito, and probably the rest of his family. The problem first began when they are in Mexico and they start the journey to California that they have always talked about. They head to California to find work
his arm badly broken at the elbow." A few pages later the beginning of the story starts and one sentence states "When I was almost six and Jem was nearly ten, our summertime boundaries were...”.This clearly places the book at a time frame of 1933ish to 1935ish; which would put the book during the Great Depression. This alone would explain the Ewell’s and even the Cunningham’s misfortune. Other things that caught my attention in this chapter was page 37. Ah now the story is starting to pick up pace
of the reasons he was accepted into the school was because he had the perfect build to play American football and by the end of the movie Big Mike was one of the top players and went on to have a career in it. My favorite character throughout the book was definitely Big Mike, I love how complex of a character the director made him. Appearance wise, Big Mike looked big and tough, he was the type of boy that you would walk the opposite direction when you see him on the street, but when you see him
Hurd, Robyn-Alexis Prd. 3 Book Report: Guts by: Gary Paulsen General Information If I could rename this book, I would probably call it Close Calls because Gary Paulsen, the main character, has survived countless dangerous situations that should have ended with his death. The main setting, where most of those incidents have occurred, is the woods of Minnesota and occasionally Alaska. To me, it feels that Paulsen is just as amazed at his
Today is September 1st, 1939 in Holland. Right now I’m going to be writing a book, it is going to be really good. I wish it would be published so that lots of people could read it and enjoy it. Once I’m finished with my book I will lend a copy to my good friends the Franks. The Franks are, Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Margot Frank, and Anne Frank. So it’s 1:00 in the afternoon and while I was in the middle of writing my book I was interrupted by a loud, BANG! Then there were even more loud noises and
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because she loved him more than Xander. Y is for Youth. The youth in this book are the most important characters, since they are the ones who decide the future of the Society. Z is for Brazen. Cassia was brazen because she did what she thought was right, which was to look for Ky. A Review of Crossed Crossed is the second book in its trilogy. It stars Cassia and Ky, who are reoccurring characters from the first book. They live in a future, dystopian world where everything is controlled by the
Angelina Tambunan ACCT 508 Book Report ‘The Goal’ I. Summary The story takes place at a fictitious town called Bearington where the Uniware manufacturing plant of the UniCo Company is situated. Whatever products the plant manufactures was not mentioned in the novel. The plant is headed by the plant manager Alex Rogo who is also the lead character of the novel. The problems begin when one upset customer approaches Alex’s boss, Bill Peach about a very late order. Actually Alex’s plant has
Book Report: - Stephanie Evans 7-1 Point of View: This book was written in 1st person since it used words/phrases like “I said…”, “I wondered…”, “I felt…”. The point of view of the Narrator which was the main character (Lenah) since it was written in 1st person was that even though she was turned into a vampire by a total stranger that soon turned into the love of her life, she still wanted to be human. So when that happened she was happy, but when she was turned back into a vampire, she was furious
Summary The Help is not just a book about a white women in the 1960s trying to make a difference it is about so much more. The story begins August 1960 with the colored maid, Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child - Mae Mobley. Aibileen lost her own boy Treelore months before
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Minority Autobiography Analysis (Book Report) Title: Honky Author: Dalton Conley Summary "Honky" is the true story of Dalton Conley, a white kid, growing up in a minority community. The story takes place beginning at the end of the 1960's and concluding in the early 1980's and takes us from the authors early childhood to college. Dalton Conley was white, with a Jewish mother and an Irish/English father. Both of Dalton's patents were artists. His mother, Ellen, grew up in northern Pennsylvania
The Speed of Trust Identify five to ten most important ideas from the book and explanation of why they are important. One of the most important ideas is “The 4 cores of Credibility”. It talks about the different cores such as integrity, intent, capabilities and results. Integrity and intent are character cores, and capabilities and results are competency cores. The first core is Integrity. Stephen Covey, the author, talks about how integrity is more than just honesty. It has three parts to it
realized that the thug life was no longer for him, and that gangs were a problem on society and the "Afrikan" race(page 382-383). In his book "Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member", he tells of his life story and how he came and left the gang life. For thirteen years he was a member of the Eight Tray Gangsters, a set of the Crips, and throughout the book he explains, sometimes in full detail, the life he led while in the gang and his many times in jail and prison. These life stories he
Book report THE GODFATHER The novel God Father is written by Mario Puzo. Mario Puzo is a professional writer from an Italian immigrant family. When he was young, he lived in a slum in New York with his parents, so crime may be a normal state of affairs where they lived. Yeas later when Mario became a professional writer, that part of experience gave him the inspiration about this famous novel---God Father. He also published some other books, but none of them was as popular as God Father. This
in the spirit land away from everyone else, and Marina reveals her secret and realizes Josh and her will never be best friends again. Josh just has one question left in his life, how will he live a normal person's life? Theme The theme of this book is how bad Racial & Ethnic discrimination is. In this novel, the world treats Wildlings as outsiders, as if they don't belong. However, the wildling race was on earth before everyone else. "'You've seen how the government is treating wildings,' Tomás
the top of Thomsen Hill above Pencey Prep. Holden has gotten kicked out of Pencey along with numerous other schools. Laziness is the reason of Holdens lack of success in school like many teenage boys. He goes back to his dorm and starts reading the book Out of Africa when his doofus roommate Robert Ackley walks in. His description to meet is just that awkwardly tall kid, like myself but with poor hygiene. Holdens roommate, Stradlater comes in and tells them about a date he is going on with none other
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
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
crucifix, and the cross which represent Dracula’s loss of power and death. Personal Opinion I liked this book, and also liked the way Bram Stoker told the story through diaries, letters, and newspaper articles so the plot was revealed through many character’s viewpoints. It maintains the reader wanting to read more and know what happens next. I recommend everyone to read and analyze this book, because it is an entertaining and great novel, and they will not be disappointed.
This book is different than other books of the similar topics. Normally, when the topic of a book is about “technology” or “internet”, it is difficult for the book to be written in a fun way because let’s face it; this topic itself is a little tedious. However, this book showed us a brand new way of talking about Internet and the influence it has brought to our life. The way the author quoted the researchers’ sentences and theories helped us to feel more willing to continue reading this book. We used
This book report is about a book that I’ve read called Cinder by Marissa Meyer. It is the first book of a four book series known as the Lunar Chronicles. MacMillan Publishing published this book on January 3 2012. The book’s genres are science fiction and romance. There are 400 pages in Cinder. It is about a cyborg named Lihn Cinder who is struggling with an unwelcoming family and accepting the prince's love. The classic fairytale slightly influence this book. I enjoyed the unexpected plot and
migrant and they were looked down upon. They were looked at as lower than people such as police officers. Murder due to social class is inhuman. Tone: Sympathetic, mournful Mood: Depressing Reaction: This novel by John Steinbeck was a life changing book to those who did not know of the horrors of The Great Depression period in the 1930s. It revealed the struggle of poor farmers when they were forced from their homes and pushed out west for jobs. Without this novel many people today or in the past
Title: Camp X Author: Erik Walters Introduction: This book report discusses the plot, significant characters, setting (e.g., time of the story took place, historical background), problems and resolutions, themes or messages of the story. A reflection of the author’s writing style will be presented followed by a conclusion. Plot: This story talks about 2 young teenagers during World War II are spending an exciting and intense wartime summer in Whitby. Almost 12 years, George and 14 years old,
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Katy Flanagan World Lit. Honors The Book Thief Questions 1.Based on the title of the novel The Book Thief I expected the book to be about a person who became involved in stealing books. I imagined it to be about some kind of challenging time where it was not good to have books causing someone to need to steal the books. 2. The narrator of the novel is death. He is sarcastic and gives the book some comic relief when it is an intense part of the novel. Liesel Meminger is the main character. She
Catalina Chacon 4/18/16 Schmidt Book Report: The Death Cure The author of the famous novel,” The Death Cure,” also known as the whole Maze Runner series is James Dashner. In the novel he uses a character who opposes against his society and bringing his group along beside him to face the society all together. In the novel,” The Death Cure,” the main character known as Thomas is meant to be the opposing character who goes against the conflicted group known as W.I.C.K.E.D. Throughout
the beginning. Starting with a brief history of our understanding of the universe, he quickly delves into the topics of the big bang, black holes, the forces that govern our universe, and he addresses other theoretical theories. By the end of these books the reader is left off with a more insightful view of the scientific universe that encompasses them. In the beginning humans looked to the nightly sky in wonder. They studied the stars, and created theories to explain the phenomena that they experienced
Omnivore 's Dilemma Book Report I chose Omnivore 's Dilemma for various reasons, one being to learn more about current food issues within our economy, ecosystem, and environment; and two, to learn more so I am not a hypocrite to my beliefs. My entire life I have grown up learning and practicing sustainable mannerisms. Learning to turn off the water while I brushed my teeth, using reusable tupperware and grocery bags, and not idling are a few of the many practices I was taught. I spent my middle
are not. One thing I like is when Buck tried his best to survive. For a kid like me I hope you can learn the good lessons in this story and don’t copy the one that is not good in our life like what Spitz did to Curly. THE CALL OF THE WILD BOOK REPORTS Submitted by: Angel Marie G. Awayan
of the scenes in the book take place in or around the estates of the characters. Their property mostly determined their social status. This setting has significance to the storyline because of the social rank. Emma, who is constantly trying to play matchmaker, tries to convince her friend Harriet to marry someone of a higher class than her current love, a farmer. The characters are very aware of their status, and can be discriminating towards people of a lower class. The book was most likely set in
mother consoles him when he failed to pass the board exam. 6. Despised- to consider as beneath one’s notice or respect He despised the lazy coward soldiers. 7. Enlighten- to give knowledge to. The child was enlightened after reading several books in the library. 8. Erred- to make a mistake Now that he had erred, he had to pay a price, and the price was to drink that cruelest poison. 9. Extinct-no longer active. There are extinct volcanoes in our province. 10. Feverish- showing great
the Meal Card Book Control Officer on Fort Riley, my duties and responsibilities are to issue and receive meal card books from Meal Card Control Officers which is a control item. In addition to issuing and receiving meal card books, I provide training to officers, non-commissioned officers and lower enlisted Soldiers on maintaining accountability for meal card books to include issuing the meal card, receiving the meal cards, destroying the meal cards and preparation of annual reports in accordance
[LSGI1D03] - [Living in a dynamic earth] with English Writing Requirements ([Huseyin Baki IZ]) [Book report of 'Earth Science and Human History 101'] STUDENT NAME: [LAU KA KI VIVIAN] STUDENT ID: [12102126D] GROUP ID: EWT004[JOE CHING] DATE: [17/10/2013] CAR - Living in a dynamic earth Essay first draft Evolving from ape-man society to the advanced civilization nowadays, people start to inhabit in artificial concrete jungle and live far away from the given natural environment
Alan Haynes Mr. Millard Economics November 5, 2014 The Automatic Millionaire Book Report In David Bach’s book The Automatic Millionaire, he reveals to readers a plan that could help them prosper in life financially and retire early without any financial stress. In the first chapter of his book his introduces to us the McIntyres, a normal married couple looking to retire early. After talking to the couple, Bach discovers that this is no regular couple financially. He finds out that this couple
Alive Book Report The book ALIVE, by Piers Paul Read identified many possible themes, although I do think there are two that stand out. These two themes are survival and cooperation. Survival plays a major throughout the entire story. The most gruesome part in the story occurred when the remaining 28 passengers of the Fairchild were forced to cut up and eat there deceased friends and family members so that they would be able to survive. This drastic action was long disputed
Julie Boyette AGIN 5333 Dr. Shida Henneberry 27 July 2015 Book Report: Mobilizing Communities Mobilizing Communities is a compendium of case studies written about using asset building as a community development strategy. Rather than organizing people around needs or problems, this strategy asks communities to identify and advance a plan based upon strengths (Ennis 405). John Kretzmann and John McKnight pioneered the language of asset-based community development (ABCD) - a series of community unifying
Keaton Knippel Per. 2 World History Hesting 3/12/15 Siddhartha: A Book Report Siddhartha Gautama is a cunning, intelligent man with a thirst for knowledge. He is expected to live up to his fathers name, and everything appears to show him exceeding it. The only problem is, Siddhartha’s teachers and even his own father have not achieved enlightenment, and he strives to seek enlightenment out within himself. Throughout the entire book, we follow Siddhartha as he discovers what the meaning of life is
her idea for the murder. Eventually, she decided not to meet them because she felt guilty about it. I guess she still loved her husband. There is relationship expert by the name of Tariq Nasheed, and he talks about the 7 Levels of Disrespect in his book The Elite Way. Level 1 normally consist of passive aggressive talk and subtle disrespect, ranging from being disagreeable just for the sake of it to name calling. Level 3-4 is when the woman is blatantly disrespecting in front of friends and family
9 20 March 2015 The Book Thief Summer Book Report 3. What are the best parts of this book? Why? What are the worst parts of this book? Why? Give details with page numbers from the book to explain. I think the best parts of the book are where you see Liesel grow and understand the difficult times that she lives in with her limited knowledge of life. Something I really enjoyed this book was the characterization and background of the characters. One of the best parts of the book is when we see the first
hurt either, but Johnny's back was broken by the falling roof, and he is in critical condition. Darry and Sodapop come to get Ponyboy, and Darry and Ponyboy make up. The following morning, the newspapers proclaim Ponyboy and Johnny heroes. They also report that, because of Bob's death, Johnny will be charged with manslaughter. Finally, the papers also state that both Ponyboy and Johnny will have to go to juvenile court so that a judge can decide if they should be sent to a boys' home. Ponyboy and
Book Report On “In the Life of Laetitia” Merle Hodge ‘In the life of Laetitia’, published in 1994 by Farrar Straus Giroux of New York; Paperback, Aerial Fiction, 244 pages. The Novel was written by Merle Hodge a Trinidadian novelist and critic, she’s a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, she’s also the Author of the 1970 novel ‘Crick Crack, Monkey’, which is a classic of West Indian literature. The story is about an adolescent girl (Laetitia) who begins on a life changing journey, after
Strauss and Professor Nemur, who are in charge of the experiment, suggested that, if possible, Charlie keep a journal and write a new entry every day. Flowers for Algernon is composed entirely of Charlie’s journal entries which he titles “progress reports”. At Donner’s Bakery, the other employees pick on him, but Charlie fails to understand that he’s the subject of the mockery and, instead, considers his co-workers friends. Charlie undergoes his surgery after a multitude of tests. The most prominent
Elliot, J.H., Imperial Spain: 1469-1716. London: Penguin Books, 1963. 423pgs. In Imperial Spain, J.H. Elliot examines the history of early modern Spain from the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand, to the reformation of the Spanish government by the first member of the Bourbon dynasty. According to the author, at the start of the 15th century, Spain was internally weak, hopelessly divided and isolated