bedrocks of the Christian community. Henry Lincoln, a co-author of this book, worked for the BBC and had been assigned a rather bland and boring assignment of uncovering the truth behind a country priest's abrupt and surprising accumulation of wealth. Further research into the subject made Lincoln realise that it wasn't an average treasure that the clergyman had laid his hands upon. During his research, he became aware of numerous secrets concealed within the priest's demise and this story kept bringing
National Treasure Ten days after the election of 2004, a movie came out that was a nationwide sensation: National Treasure. This movie is full of historical references that watchers could easily deliver back without knowing that they could conjure up that information. National Treasure was a hit nationwide because it took a subject that few people knew about and turned it into an action packed historical thriller. While National Treasure was created as a response to the lack of interest ¬and old
3 Feature Films: • National Treasure (2014) Logline: Ben Franklin Gates, an archaeologist and adventurer, is looking for the legendary lost treasure of the Templar Knights, spurred on by the stories he was told as a young man by his grandfather, John Adams Gates, twenty years before. Premise: Family secret leads to legendary lost treasure • Breakfast Club (1985) Logline: Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover
classic novel, Treasure Island, is the foundation on which all fictional pirates have been created ever since the book was published. In a nutshell, pirates are cunning, but they are also unscrupulous, which can cause problems not only for themselves, but for other people as well. Stevenson pushes readers to perceive the burdensome life of pirates, and in doing so, encourages them to believe that even the worst of foes were once friends and vice versa. One of the themes from Treasure
son is there, and they explain how the Darrow’s are trying to take over the treasure Mr. Pluto had. So, Thomas, his Father, Mr. Pluto, Mr. Pluto’s son, and some of their friends scared the Darrow’s away by dressing up as ghost slaves. This story teaches the reader a lot about slavery and the Underground Railroad, while also having an entertaining fictional plot. Virginia Hamilton says, of her book, “I needed to know how men, women and children could travel hundreds of miles
My Ancient Secret Volumes, focuses on bringing forth the Originality of Ancient Indian Vedas. The contents of this book are the Ayurvedic Charms, Mantras and Prayers, which has been translated into English, for various healing purposes. Extracted from the AtharvaVeda enclosed are many various natures of healing, protecting , reversing evil, exorcism, transforming energies mantras, obtaining marriage, obtaining babies, immunity from disease , sorcerers, and so forth. Ayurveda needs no introduction
I’ve chosen this book because the title was familiar from my childhood and I had a brief idea of what the book spoke about, pirates which is a theme that amuses me. This book was written by Robert L. Stevenson to his girlfriend’s son who inspired him by showing him a drawing of a treasure map he had drawn. The book is divided in 34 chapters and in 3 major acts that divide the story in different stages, in the first act is where the actions emerge as conflicts, in the second is where things seem to
his next two books, ‘Angels & Demons’ and ‘Deception Point’. It was in ‘Angels & Demons’ that Brown first introduced the lead character of Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbology expert. Both his books did medium business, selling lesser than 10,000 copies each.
of knowledge and keeper of secrets. She wrote her theory based on the knowledge she gained 12,000 years ago in Hawaiiki. Pere is an International educationalist who has a lot of knowledge about education from preschool to tertiary level study. Rose’s monograph is used by government agencies in New Zealand as a training model. Dr Pere, wrote a book ‘Te Wheke: A celebration of infinite wisdom’ and is being used overseas. Pere also contributed to the Te Whariki: National Early Childhood Curriculum guidelines
professionally healthy, even doing so occurs within the context of building relationships with other staff (such as the suggestion to take on unwanted jobs from the technology department on page 159). Furthermore, it may be that the information on national and state standards is somewhat outdated given the rise of Common Core, but the general ideas presented about standards should still apply. Finally, I personally struggled to follow the discussion and visualize the process of doing a paper-based