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The book entitled The Warriors Ethos by author and United States Marine Corps veteran Stephen Pressfield exemplifies true meaning behind a code that we as Marines and warfighters should strive to not only follow but epitomize. If I were to explain the boo using a quote from it i would use,“The Warrior Ethos embodies certain virtues—courage, honor, loyalty, integrity, selflessness and others-”. The book better explains to the reader these virtues using various themes and historical events which in turn...
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An essential contribution to the Young Adult or 'YA' genre is the influential trilogy of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Since the first novel's release in 2008, all three books have generated successful Hollywood movies, merchandise and a large fanbase. Therefore, in a discussion of YA fiction, the impact of The Hunger Games cannot be ignored. To understand the significance of The Hunger Games on YA fiction, an investigation into the first book of the trilogy will highlight the...
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Brian’s winter is an entrance into the mind of a boy named Brian. Gary Poulsen is the author of this book and the reasoning behind why this book was written was because the book called Hatchet that Poulsen wrote was a very enjoyable and popular book., and fans loved the book so much that they wrote to his wife and they all asked for a new addition to the book and he wanted to connect it to the original book...
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Selection source: I chose this book because it was short in length and the book blurb on the back was intriguing. Summary/Description: Tuck Everlasting is the story of the Tuck family and the secret they share. Winnie Foster, a ten-year-old girl, stumbles across Jesse Tuck drinking from a spring while she was in a wooded area owned by her family in Treetop, Ohio. Jesse takes Winnie to their family. Jesse’s family explains to Winnie that the spring has immortal properties...
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In Orson Scott Card’s book Ender’s Game, genocide is addressed. Even though it was written in 1985 the topic of genocide still hold significance to this day. In the United States and Sudan genocide can either be seen currently or in their history. Though the genocide in these countries might look different from the genocide in the book it is still the same issue. The discrimination and destruction of a people group remains a human rights issue that few know...
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Inclination to obey changes as soon as Harry receives a letter formally addressed to him. He has finally been singled out as an individual, and he becomes determined to learn the letter's contents and its sender's identity even if he disobeys his uncle. This new tendency to defy authority intensifies with Hagrid’s arrival. The knowledge Hagrid gives him about himself empowers him to stand up against the abusive Dursleys. Harry continues to show a growing independence by his tendency to...
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Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War is considered to be one of the most aspiring novels ever written about war. Written in 1977, Caputo gives us a memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War, which was one of the most controversial conflicts of that time. In the ear 1960, young Caputo decided to join the Marine Corps, driven by thrill and adventure-seeking. He sought to flee from his western suburb home in Chicago and the average American life he...
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The idea of bullying, such as “not so popular” high school teens getting their head dunked in the toilet or getting humiliated online. Bullying has been stronger than ever; You have smarter kids and are known to do things worse than ever. With social media apps of Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, bullies can do whatever they want whenever they want to the person they prey on. The Book 13 Reasons Why introduces this new age of bullying to a whole...
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The book Anne Frank Beyond the diary is written by Ruud Van Der Rol and Rian Verhoeven. Both the authors of this were workers in the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. The two worked on current problems of racism and discrimination in student programs. Ruud Van Der Rol was a sociologist and Rian Verhoeven was a historian. The two people helped publish the Anne Frank Journal. The parents of Anne Frank, Otto, and Edith got married on May 12, 1925,...
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“Up from Slavery” is an abundant autobiography of Booker T. Washington. This paperback tells us about the energy story of Booker T. Washington who lived in Malden West Virginia after the Civil War. He was instinctive into slavery, and he necessitate to consciously operate tough to induce an education. He recalls his childhood as a slave with a plight of tougher and struggles that his family had to suffer. He look after working on the agricultural estate cleaning and cooking...
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The novel My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James and Christopher Collier follows the life of a young boy named Tim Meeker, who is living during the Revolutionary War. His older brother Sam joins the Connecticut militia to fight with the Patriots. His father is extremely opposed to all war because of the death and destruction. Throughout the novel, readers gain an understanding of the horrors of war through the eyes of Tim as he loses both his father and...
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Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 Horror Fiction, Fantasy Characters: Mattie Silver: Protagonist. Mattie is Zeena’s cousin who moves in with her and Ethan who she shortly thereafter falls in love with. 'Zeena' Frome: Protagonist. Zeena is Ethan’s wife and they live a struggling and sad life. Despite every vile action acted against her she becomes the bigger person and takes care of Ethan and Mattie after their betrayal. Ethan Frome: Protagonist. Ethan is a farmer in Starkfield and is often...
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A Rebellion of Hope For my second quarter book report, I read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, originally published on September 14, 2008. This book is set in the country Panem, which is District 12, The Capitol, and the arena. The significant history is eloquently stated in the film version of The Hunger Games. “From the Treaty of Treason: In penance for their uprising, each district shall offer up a male and female between the ages of 12 and...
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The Outsiders is a young adult fiction that plays the role of many adolescent characters and shows what teenagers from a different day an age were like. With the book being published in the year 1967 and the major differences and changes within society itself, young adults are still attracted into reading it today. The book is narrated from the perspective of a fourteen year old boy named Ponyboy, who’s known as a ‘greaser’. Unlike the others boys in his...
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Lost and alone in the forbidden Black Forest, Otto meets three baffling sisters and all of a sudden winds up laced in a confusing mission including a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each turned out to be intertwined when the plain same harmonica arrives in their lives, restricting them by an undetectable string of predetermination. Every one of the kids confront overwhelming difficulties: saving a dad, securing...
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The lead singer of the popular 70’s group the Carpenters, Karen Carpenter, once sang the words: “Calling occupants of interplanetary quest”. The human race has always had a desire to look to the stars in wonderment. Asking the question, are there any other beings out there within the universe? Is it actually possible to leave the planet to explore unknown worlds, in hopes that, one day, mankind will have another alternative for habitation because we have slowly destroyed the planet...
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The 1930’s were a traumatic time in many parts of the world. Spain has also endured its fair share of ideological conflicts, of which the Spanish Civil War is a clear example. From 1936 to 1939, Spain saw the most brutal civil war in its history. Often considered a struggle between democracy and fascism, general Francisco Franco's right-wing nationalists eventually triumphed over the democrats of the Second Spanish Republic. For the next 36 years, Franco ruled Spain with the hope...
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In both Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Brother I’m Dying’ and Stephanie Black’s ‘Life and Debt’, the concept of the afterlives of slavery and colonialism are fundamental. In both, black countries that were previously colonized by a white European power. Danticat and Black shed light on how these people readjust to life after colonialism and slavery, but also the repercussions to the civilization after it has gained ‘independence’. In ‘Brother I’m Dying’, Edwidge Danticat recounts a very personal story of her family’s struggles...
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The novel ‘Jurassic Park’ was written by Michael Crichton, and published in 1990. Most people know it as the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film, which has gone on to spawn one of the biggest franchises in film history. While both the book and film follow the same basic plot, the film excludes many scenes and storylines so that the story is more streamlined and is confined to just over two hours. Crichton’s novel, a sci-fi thriller, is much darker...
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Ever since the Europeans landed on Indigenous Australian’s land they have lost so much of their identities. What started with their land being called Terra Nullius and being taken away from them, Indigenous Australians then had to endure years of loss because of colonization. Both the film ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ by Phillip Noyce and ‘Arthur Corunna's Story’ by Sally Morgan depicts accurately the terrible situations they had to go through after their land was colonized such as experiencing a loss...
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Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’, tells a story of how a woman from the modern era called Dana was taken back in time from her house in California into the antebellum south to protect a man that would become her ancestor. You could say that her survival essentially relied on her ability to keep him alive and well. Throughout her long and inexplicable journey, Dana discovers the true meaning of freedom when she is able to compare her owl life to those...
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Octavia E. Butler and Colson Whitehead represent race and ethnicity in ‘Kindred’ and ‘The Underground Railroad’ respectively in a number of different ways. Published in 1979 and initially set in 1976 California during the antebellum period, ‘Kindred’ contains elements pertaining to time travel and revolves around narratives in regards to slaves. Whereas ‘The Underground Railroad’, published in 2016, tracks the story of two slaves during the time period of the civil war and the slave trade. From a contextual standpoint,...
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In the novel ‘Kindred’, Author Octavia Butler travels back to the time where slavery was the big part of American life. Butler sends the modern characters like Dana and Kevin to experience the past. As Dana traveled back and forth several times and every time she goes there is a new situation behind it. Butler clears up how interracial relationship had changed Dana’s life as living with kevin as a free women she was happy what she had with Kevin,...
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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace”, - Mahatma Gandhi. This quote connects to a motif shown in each story, ‘Kindred’ and ‘The Book of Martha’ by Octavia Butler. The motif shown in each story is power dynamics, wherein each, they both develop the motif throughout the books and similarly/differently deals with that motif. In ‘Kindred’, it is about a 26-year-old African American woman named Edana (Dana) Franklin. The current time...
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‘Kindred’, by Octavia E. Butler, tells the story of Dana, a 26-year-old African American woman from the 1970s, who is constantly called into the 19th century antebellum South by her white ancestor, Rufus Weylin. After learning she must keep Rufus alive to ensure her own bloodline, she explores her family’s roots while at the same time, struggles to witness and endure the hardships of slavery. By allowing Dana to lose her arm on her last trip back from the past,...
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The theme of motherhood is a key one in both the novel ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ by Lionel Shriver and the collection of poems ‘The World’s Wife’ by Carol Ann Duffy. Motherhood is seen as a key element of the female experience, and both texts explore the connection between motherhood, femininity, and the way in which women navigate motherhood in a patriarchal society. In the novel ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’, Shriver uses the epistolary narrative through...
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Generally, in industrial activity, the factors of production are needed in producing goods and services. Eyiyere argues that the factors of production are nature, labor and capital. Labor is an active resource which is one of the factors in the smoothness of a production process. Workers in their activity should be supported by good, human forms of management work so that they can work well. However, in reality, many employers exploit their workers. Exploitation of one social class by another...
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Oftentimes there are many people who feel they are unable to escape their feelings. In ‘All the Light We Cannot See’, there are three main characters who have gone through a series of traumatic events emotionally, physically, and knowledgeably that have made them feel as if they were trapped. A vital theme in ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ is that many people of Saint-Malo feel a type of entrapment due to war and loss. Werner Pfennig was an intelligent...
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One of the most primal motivators that facilitate survival in people is fear. The two protagonists, the Man and the Boy, from Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’ demonstrate survival and perseverance through their internal fears, motivating them to continue to ‘carry the fire’ within such a hostile and frightening landscape. Their fear manifests in this novel in three main ways: their fear of loss, their fear of the unknown, and the fear of others. These three fears are demonstrated by both...
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In the book ‘Circe’ by author Madeline Miller, Circe learns, through her experience of motherhood, the instant love and maternal bond between mother and child, as well as a mother’s impulse to sacrifice her own life to protect her offspring. Like many mothers, Circe feels overwhelmed by a baby’s constant physical and emotional needs. Although she feels she is prepared for motherhood, she must navigate coping with her own plethora of emotions. Through motherhood, Miller shows how Circe demonstrates mortal...
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