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Book Day Essays and Term Papers
Amazing Grace A Book ReportAs part of the summer reading assignment this year, I read the book Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this documentary-style book, he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor, rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the ...
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The Ice Storm Book Vs. Movie CThere are many ways to tell a story. Back before there were books there as the actual storyteller who could speak out a story. There is also acting where people physically perform a story. Books are another storytelling device that is more permanent, the words are kept and they can be reviewed ...
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Eye Deep In Hell: Book ReviewThis book, “Eye Deep in Hell”, was written by John Ellis. It deals with the way in which trench warfare was conducted on the “Western Front” during World War I. He not only talks about the tactics used in this type of warfare, but he also goes into the ins and outs of what life in the trenches ...
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Book Report On Tim O'Brien's VietnamVietnam was a horrible time for many Americans and a lot of them
paid for it in many ways. Until we understand how and why this war could
have been prevented then we are in danger of repeating this all over again.
In this book Tim O'Brien describes just how bad of an experience it was for
the ...
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Alive Book ReportThe 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 ...
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How to Mark a BookSydney Horton
David Mooney
AP English
8-18-15
How to Mark a Book
By Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
From The Saturday Review of Literature, July 6, 1941
You know you have to read "between the lines" to get the most out of anything. I want to ...
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Of Mice And Men - Book ReportOf Mice and Men (1937), written in the same genre as The Grapes of Wrath, that of a story about migrant farm workers and their lives as a reflection on society, was the book that thrust Steinbeck into the limelight as a national celebrity. He won many awards and honors including being picked as ...
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Film And Book Review Of I Know What You Did Last SummerThe book I read was I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan. The movie I watched was directed by Jim Gillespie and was based (rather loosely) on this book. After reading the book and then watching the movie I noticed many differences and very few similarities. I would have to say that the ...
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Cry The Beloved Country: Book Review"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of it all.
Let him not love the earth to deeply. Let him not be too moved when the birds of
his land are singing, nor give to much of his heart to a mountain or a valley.
For fear will rob him of all if he lives too much. Yes ...
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Last Of The Mohicans: Differents Between The Book And MovieThe book Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper was very
different from the movie Last of the Mohicans in terms of the storyline.
However, I feel that the producer and director of this movie did a good job
of preserving Cooper's original vision of the classic American man
surviving in the ...
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Jungle BookThe story The is a collection of stories written about the ecosystems
and everyone’s part in it. This book is written mostly from the animals point of view
telling their feelings and their unheard laws. The book was written in a very simple form
and was very easy to read, understand, and ...
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My Lai 4: A Book ReportOn March 16, 1968, "Charlie Company" was sent into a small Viet
Cong village called (by the U.S.) My Lai 4. Their instructions by
commanding officers were: "... kill every man, woman, child and animal in
the village. Burn all the homes .... nothing should be walking, growing
or crawling." ...
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Book Report On 1984 By GeorgeThe book starts off with an interesting first sentence “the clocks were striking 13.” To me this was unusual because there is no 13 on a clock and it is usually considered an unlucky number. I thought it was kind of weird and different compared to what kind of world we are living in today. This ...
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Book Report On "The Red Badge Of Courage"The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a book based on a
young soldier engaging in the civil war. The psychological conflict that
he faces throughout the story is both internal and external. The battles
are fought in the readers face to show the young soldiers' conflict with
himself, ...
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Book Report On 1984 By George OrwelThe book starts off with an interesting first sentence “the clocks were striking 13.” To me this was unusual because there is no 13 on a clock and it is usually considered an unlucky number. I thought it was kind of weird and different compared to what kind of world we are living in ...
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Book Report On 1984 By GeorgeThe book starts off with an interesting first sentence “the clocks were striking 13.” To me this was unusual because there is no 13 on a clock and it is usually considered an unlucky number. I thought it was kind of weird and different compared to what kind of world we are living in ...
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Book Report On Thomas JeffersoBook Review on Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson by Norman Risjord is a biography of the third president of the United States that takes Thomas Jefferson from his youth through his later years in the early 19th century. The purpose of this book is to give a political and social overview of the ...
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: SummaryIn the book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the main character Ivan and
the other prisoners in the camp are treated very badly. Ivan tries to make
himself warm and to get enough food to keep himself alive. He does only what is
necessary to please the guards and the commanders of the camp. ...
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: SummaryIn the book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the main character Ivan
and the other prisoners in the camp are treated very badly. Ivan tries to
make himself warm and to get enough food to keep himself alive. He does
only what is necessary to please the guards and the commanders of the ...
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