Book Report Essay

It is a fool-proof system born to ensure absolute safety…but when it crumbles, would you go against everything it stands for just to save it? This is the platform that Philip K. Dick, author of the sci-fi short story "The Minority Report" (MR), has given us. Set in a futuristic New York City, we see Police Commissioner John A. Anderton as the founder of a promising new branch of policing: Precrime, a system that uses "Precogs" (mutated and retarded oracles) to predict all future crimes. However,

Miranda said that her favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time, and she carries a copy around with her constantly. Miranda meets the kid who punched Sal one day in school. It's the day everyone was working on their projects for Main Street, the scale model of a city block in Mr. Tompkin's class. Reading Response #2-9/6 The cover of this book caught my eye and I wondered what it was. When I saw it I thought to myself and I said I would give this book a chance. I flipped the book over and I started reading

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

Carl Deuker wrote the book, Gym Candy. Although as little as I read, he is my favorite author of all time. I really enjoyed reading this book for a few reasons. For one, I could relate to what Mick, the main character, was experiencing. Throughout Gym Candy, it got my attention by how intense the story would become. I also enjoyed how well Carl Deuker explained certain aspects of the story with great emotion. By reading Gym Candy, I have learned a few life lessons, and this book has made an impact on

author shows friendship between the characters, Georges and Safer. In the book, Liar and Spy, Georges gets involved with this spy club where he and safer track this man called Mr. X. Although, if any kids in Georges' school were to find out that he was going to the spy club he would be made fun of. Also many times in the story Georges goes to Safer's house to eat dinner and once Safer teaches him how to cook eggs. 2) In the book Liar and Spy the friend ship between Georges and Jason lacks devotion

The walking dead comic book series started in 2003-2004 and is still going today. The writer of the comics, Robert Kirkman says “My hope for this is it will go on for a long time and and the fans will stay on it for a long time.” In 2010 AMC produced a t.v show based on the comic book. After season 2 of the t.v series, a webisode started. After season 3 a book was made based on the governor, the series main antagonist titled “The Fall of the Governor”. Sometime between season 3 and 4 a video game

mother, Paula Meminger, was taking them to their foster family, the Hubermann's. The Gravedigger's Handbook belonged to a young apprentice who dropped the book and Liesel picked it up and kept it. The importance of The Gravedigger's Handbook was that it was the first book which Liesel steals, leading to her learning how to read, and to steal more books later on. It is her only tangible memento of her brother, and also of her mother. The second picture I drew was of Liesel arriving at the Hubermann's house

When Liesel stole The Shoulder Shrug, it was the first time people realized she was stealing books. Ilsa Hemann saw her stealing the books and later invited Liesel into her library. Hans Huberman also realized she was stealing books so he would start reading with her more and helping her to learn how to read. This made Liesel more intelligent. Max Vanderburg’s arrival is the third important experience in Liesel’s

try to read a book. Reading has just never been my thing, it is hard and it's hard for me to remember what I read. When It was my first day of junior year and I walked into English I was overwhelmed with all of the books that were in the room. I was not happy because I figured we would read a lot and the teacher would get to choose the book but once I figured out that you could choose your own book it made me feel more comfortable towards my reading. This school year one of the books I decided to

Reflection Once again, Abraham and Sarah moved and they settled in Gerar. Upon meeting King Abimelech of Gerar, Abraham repeated the same mistake he made when he encountered Pharaoh in Egypt (Gen. 12 vv. 10-13). Although God had continually shown His faithfulness to Abraham, he failed to trust God. Instead of trusting God, Abraham allowed fear to overtake him and he told Abimelech that Sarah was his sister vv. 1-2. Just like Pharaoh, Abimelech took Sarah. Consequently, the lie was the same