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Freddie The Leaf Buscaglia's First Book
1,187 wordsAbout the Felice Foundation Many years ago, while traveling in Hong Kong, Leo Buscaglia met a Chinese refugee who, with his family, lived in extreme poverty. The young refugee's name was Wong. In order to find work, Wong needed to learn English. Dr. Buscaglia paid Wong's tuition to an English-language school. Years later, Wong wrote to Dr. Buscaglia. By then he was sufficiently employed to get his family out of the refugee camp. He was also prepared to pay back what he saw as his "debt". Instead...
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Lt Colonel Jensen
1,451 wordsLt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen's 'Six Years In Hell' Brandon Emerson AP American History Period five Due 10/21/96 The book I have chosen to read for this review is one entitled " SIX YEARS IN HELL. ' It is a book written by one Lt. Colonel Jay R. Jensen in a first person manor. He was a military pilot who flew over Vietnam and was captured and taken as a POW. This book covers his time in the military beforehand describing the daily procedures etc. of his military life. The author graduated from Jorda...
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Editor Of Genius Max Perkins
1,197 wordsMax Perkins: Editor of Genius Max Perkins once wrote to Thomas Wolfe that " [t] here could be nothing so important as a book can be". Perkins lived and died believing this, as A. Scott Berg attests with his book, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius. Berg's book begins by describing a rainy evening in mid-Manhattan where a class of budding editors and publishers awaits the infamous Maxwell Perkins for a discussion on editing. Here Berg reveals Perkins as "unlikely for his profession: he was a terrible ...
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Example For Notes By The Author
1,160 wordsIntroduction The book I read and analyzed was "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tol kein. I shall discuss the plot and character development, setting, author's style and my opinions about it. Plot Development There are too many characters in the story and so it is hard to follow and know each one of them. (There are many and it's confusing.) In the beginning there is an introduction where the author tells a bit about what is a hobbit and the hobbit's (Bilbo) family. It is not very complicated and the autho...
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Mystery Of Custer And The Battle
1,121 wordsCuster and the Great Controversy by Robert M. Utley The controversy of General Custer and the actions that culminated his fate and almost three hundred men under his command has long been discussed and debated by many historians as well as important military officials all trying to conclude what happened at the Battle of Little Bighorn. There have been countless myths and legends of what occurred on that fateful day in American history, but there has yet to be a solid right answer. This answer i...
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Gandhi's Childhood
738 wordsMahatma Karam chand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, on October 2, 1869. Although his father was a chief minister for the maharaja of Porbandar, the family came from the traditional caste of grocers and moneylenders, (the name Gandhi means "grocer"). His mother was a devout follower of Jainism, a religion in which ideas of nonviolence and being a vegetarian are paramount. Gandhi stated that he was most influenced by his mother, whose life "was an endless chain of fasts and vows". He was very...
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Dr Benjamin Spock
404 words'Dr. Benjamin Spock, hailed as the grandfather of pediatrics, is known as the leading authority on child rearing. ' (Gale 1997) Dr. Benjamin Spock was born on May 2 1903 in New Haven Connecticut, The oldest of six children of a lawyer. Spock attended Yale university, where he became a member of the Yale rowing crew that won the gold metal at the 1924 Olympic games in Paris. Spock planned to pursue a career in architecture, but changed his mind after spending a summer as a camp counselor. From th...
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Ian And Reene
575 wordsFirst Entry - Suggestion Number 1 - Page 50 This fiction book is called "Wreck" and was written by Allan Bailie. The main characters are Ian Foster and Reene Thompson, they are two normal teenagers. Reene was told to baby-sit Ian while his parents are away. During this period a cyclone hits Albatross Beach and they barely survive it. Soon they seek shelter in a rusty old freighter on the beach. After, the cyclone erupts again and sets the boat out to sea. While on the boat they experience many s...
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Only Radio Station
887 wordsA Childhood Lost in A War Tell No One Who You Are Walter Buchignani Copyright 1994 Tundra Books 185 pages But Im Regine Miller. I know that, said Nicole. But from now no one else must know your real name. What Im saying is: Tell no one who you are. Do you understand This is very, very important. (Nicole and Regine In Buchignani 76) In Tell No One Who You Are, Walter Buchignani explores the topic of the holocaust seen from the eyes of twelve year old Regine Miller. This book, inspired by an inter...
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Michael Crichton As The Author Of Books
455 wordsEaters of the Dead By: Michael Crichton Almost everybody recognizes Michael Crichton as the author of books such as Jurassic Park, Disclosure, and Congo. Considering he is one of the hottest authors in Hollywood, how could you not. The book reviewed here, however, is none of the above; it is a more or less forgotten book called Eaters of the Dead. As with all of his older books, it has been reprinted recently so it is easy to find. This book is written more like a scholarly work rather than like...
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Science Fiction Author
504 wordsBiography of Arthur Clarke Arthur C. Clarke, a science fiction author, has had a very interesting life. Arthur was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England. He was the oldest of four children. His two brothers were Frederick and Michael, and his sister's name was Mary. As a child, he enjoyed science very much. He lived on a small farm, and enjoyed frequent trips to the nearby ocean. When he was 13 years old, he constructed his own telescope, and changed a bike light to transmit sound alon...
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Neurosurgeons
438 wordsThis is the book that every neurosurgeon would like to have written his or her version of, but probably hadn't the time. It is the account of a neurosurgeon's training from medical school to the end of residency, in this case in an American training programme in the 1970's and 80's. Although aimed at the public rather than at neurosurgeons, I could not put it down. Of course, I am biased: I am probably much the same age as the author and shared many of his experiences, or at least the British ve...
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Kessa And Grace
722 wordsAnalysis of The Best Little Girl in the World The author of my book is Steven Levenkron. Warner Books published this book in September of 1978 in New York, NY. The genre of my book is fiction with suspense. The Best Little Girl in the World could be based on a true story, but it is not completely true to life. It would fall under the suspense category because the reader does not know if Kessa will live or die. The all-important purposes of this book are to inform and to narrate. The author does ...
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Authors And Society Values And Morals
619 wordsThe book Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein was published in 1950, when culture consisted of new teenage rebellion. It was written in the years following World War 2. However, this book was not about the war, but mainly about the authors view on a solution to a worldwide problem in the future. The main character of this book, who was in his teenage years, was William Lerner. The central characters that surrounded him were Bills father George, his deceased mother Anne, his stepmother Molly, ...
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Author Frederick Lewis Allen
1,256 wordsThe Authors Point of View Since yesterday talks about a time in history that was very unstable. The author Frederick Lewis Allen writes this book which is based on the 1930's to portray to the reader that the 1930's along with the rest of America was prejudice. This book attempts to explain to the reader some of the major events that occurred in 1930's. Frederick Lewis Allen shows the reader that the 1930's was a tough time period to live in. He accomplishes not only by words but explicit detail...
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Book Inside The Brain
914 wordsA critique of the book: Inside The Brain The first thing that must be said for the book Inside The Brain, is that it made for very easy reading. Even though the book concerns itself with some topics that, easily, can be confusing due to their technical or medical nature, the text flows easily. The book was written to be read, not to be a reference or textbook. The content of this well written book was also first rate. The sources quoted in the book were quite impressive, and the research that we...
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Places Over Middle Earth The Author
1,107 wordsThe Hobbit by J.R.R. Tol kein I will talk about the plot and character development, setting, and my opinions in the following paragraphs. Plot: Bilbo is the main character and protagonist of this book. He is a hobbit who lives in the shire and dislikes adventures. I personally like him. He's very likeable. Smog is probably the main antagonist. He's a huge fire breathing, jewel encrusted, beast that lives in a giant cavern. There are other antagonists in the book also, smog is just one of them. O...
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Carol Anne And Max's Relationship
476 wordsA New Day written by Margaret Johnson-Hodge was the first book I have read by a female black author. She became serious about writing when she attended a workshop with another writer Brenda Con no-Bey. She lives in the northeastern United States. This book features two people: Carol Anne Mc Clementine and Max Scutter. They came from two different social and financial backgrounds. Max had a master's degree in finance and was successful while Carol Anne was just a secretary, not career drive, but ...
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Barnes And Noble's Demand
753 wordsBarnes and Noble Pushes Books Conceptual Application? by Rusty Korhonen Barnes and Noble's strategy is simple; capitalize on a customer demand for inexpensive books. This was a cost leadership and a differentiation strategy. Barnes and Noble identified a gap in the publishing industry, which primarily focused on blockbuster types of books and marquee authors that "rocketed to the best seller list" that the publishing industry in turn sold at a premium. These best sellers were not big profit sour...
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Colour Of Magic By Terry Pratchett
1,537 words"In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part... See... Great A'Tuin the Turtles comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust, He stares fixedly at the Destination". The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett, which is a fantasy book, is the ...
