...This book is the most interesting and inspiring book I’ve ever read on becoming a great leader. It is a must read for all the coaches and administrators or any one that has a leadership role. It is the story of a successful high school coach who suddenly finds his players are losing their drive to win. When Coach appeals to a successful CEO friend, he gets advice that doesn’t seem to help at all. However, talking to the school janitor, Joe Taylor, he gets some ideas of what the guys are missing: leadership, the love for their teammates, the will to win, and their former passion for the game. When he learns that one of his players’ parents were divorcing and he brushed it off, appearing not to care, he realized he was failing his players....
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...was a kid, there were these great comic books called Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror," he says. "They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous. I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I wouldn't miss any of these comic books. I had no hair at all when I was a kid!" The first book he ever wrote was called The Giggle Book, which he wrote when he was nine years old. In the sixth grade, Stine decided he wanted to be a writer after finding an old type writer in his parents attack. He began to write stories and joke books in high school and would take them to school and hand them out to his class mates. He liked the reaction of the other students when they read his work and, of course, the added attention he was getting didn’t hurt either. This set off a chain reaction and Stine has been writing ever since. After high school, Stine attended Ohio State University. In 1965, he graduated with a Batchlor of Arts degree in education and began teaching social studies at a New York high school. On June 22, 1969, he married his wife Jane and their son, Matt Daniel Stine, was born on June 7, 1980. During this time, Stine was heavily into writing because that was his job. Stine, who at the time called himself “Jovial Bob Stine”, worked for many years with Nickelodeon and created the children’s commedy magizine Bananas. He soon after began working for the Junior Scholastic Magazine and on books like 101 Silly Monster Jokes and Bozos...
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...She has been writing ever since she knew how to put words on paper. She wrote her first poem, a brilliant haiku when she was about 9. She usually write free verse poems and sometimes formal poetry. She was “always encouraged by [her] english teachers to write, and won pretty much every creative writing contest [she] ever entered all the way through high school”(Hopkins, “Bio”). She always had support in her writing and that made her really confident in her writing. She has wrote a lot of books and some of her books are based on her real family’s experience such as the crank series. Her other books are all fiction that talks about the teenage years and what they are going through like drugs. Many of her books are banned from many locations because of many complaints about the use of language and sexual themes. Hopkins introduced the main character Kristina and what the book was gonna be about by having Kristina say this, “Life was good before i met the monster. After, life was great at least for a while”(1). This famous quote is from one of her best book Crank published in 2004, the quote explained that this book is gonna be about Kristina using drugs and that she enjoyed it for a while until her life fell apart. Some literary devices she uses in her books are personification, repetition, alliteration, foreshadowing and imagery. The author has...
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...Taylor Tamayo Period 2 Feb. 3, 2012 Friday Night Lights Movie/Book Analytical Essay H. G. Bissinger was a writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer when he was selected to be a Harvard Neiman Fellow. This was while he was at Harvard he had the idea to write a book that specifically focused on the role of high school football plays within American society. This happened to take place in particular rural societies. Bissinger returned to the Inquirer for a short amount of time, received a Pulitzer Prize, and then decided to go out in search of a community in which high school football was prevalent. Bissinger then settled on Odessa, Texas. In Odessa, Texas Permian High School and its football team, the Permian Panthers, had a long history of winning in Texas' 4A and 5A divisions. This earned Permian High School winning championships in 1965, 1972, 1980 and 1984. Bissinger moved himself and his family to Odessa, Texas and spent the entire 1988 football season with the Permian Panther players, their families, their coaches, and even many of the townspeople in an effort to understand the town and its die-hard football culture. Bissinger's newest book, Shooting Stars, was published by Penguin Press in September 2009. The book, co-authored with basketball superstar LeBron James, tells the story of James' high school career. Bissinger is now in the process of completing a book about his twin sons. Born 13 weeks premature in 1983 and weighing less than two pounds, they...
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...Reading is one of the best things, Pictures of Hollis Woods, not something people should read. If you like reading realistic fiction books, this one will ruin it for you. Wouldn’t you rather watch the movie than read the worst book of all? Others would rather hear otherwise of how it is an amazing book. If you like books that have a climax, don’t read this book. One reason to not like this book is that there is no climax. Normally, you would expect your average book to have a climax, such as a huge fight that determines the ruler of Earth. This book, however, doesn’t have the climax you would expect to see. It’s just a smooth ride through the Plot Diagram of rising and falling actions, and climax. In real life, this is normal for some orphans....
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...Nonfiction: Amanda O’Neil. Dogs The book Dogs tells about how dogs can come in many different sizes, shapes, and have many different personalities. These beloved animals have been pets for more than 10,000 years. The book Dogs dives deep into the history, culture, and legends, of our beloved little pets. The author of the book Dogs tells more and more about these lovable, fearless, and little and big animals. In the book Dogs it also describes their behavior and how to train them so they can the best family dog you’ll ever meet. This Book also tells a little bit about some breeds that are unique and special. The book also gives facts about how to choose the perfect little one to be your perfect family companion. 2. Fiction: Wilson...
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...Catholicism in Paddy Clarke (pg.47-48) Paddy Clarke lives in small catholic community. His family is very religious as shown throughout the novel as he confides in the priest and looks up to him like a role model. The audience is introduced to Paddy’s simple outlook informed by his Catholic Church education proclaiming, “the best story I ever read was about Fr. Damien and the lepers”. Here, Paddy confides his attitude towards the priest and intensifies the story as the ‘best story ever’ indicating father Damien has influenced his opinions and attitudes in a positive way. Books influence Paddy’s behaviour as he continues to say “I needed some lepers” showing how his imagination in the inner world is encouraged due to books. The fact he read a book about father Damien demonstrates he has grown up in a catholic background surrounded by religious texts that have interested him throughout his life. His education has broadened from reading e.g. the low frequency word ‘lepers’ is used in the correct way by Paddy, which shows he has matured through his learning of the church and is intrigued to find out more. As Paddy continues to ask questions about the story, his meandering memories are revealed from to episode to episode emphasizing the child like nature he has as an inquisitive young child. He moves onto talking about bread and moves onto what he thinks about church and religion. Humour is brought into the novel here as he says, “I said one hail Mary and four Our Fathers”....
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...to read a book. I never understood just how important reading was let alone the impact reading would later have on my life. During my years in elementary school I had such a rough time just trying to understand anything. My parents would take their time and help teach me to read. That wasn’t the best of experiences as I fought with everything I had to not have to learn. Later once I hit middle school and then high school things weren’t so tough for me. I was reading but only what I had to read and nothing more. At this point in my life I still thought that reading was pointless and a waste of time. It wasn’t until 2005 that reading would start to become a daily part of my life. It wasn’t long before I had realized that books had become my best friend, and I would always have a best friend and somewhere to turn when things turned sour from time to time. For many years I made many new friends within the books that I read. Then just like a long distance relationship I knew that they were there but never talked to them or in this case read them for another couple years. In 2010 I was given a very precious gift and from the very beginning before my daughter was even born I would read to her. Even to this day I am still reading to her with one big difference she is learning at an early age that books can be your best friend and that they make for a great way to pass the time if you need to. I don’t want my daughter to have to learn late in life just how important books can and will...
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... Canons · Books [show] Authorship · Development [show] Translations · Manuscripts [show] Biblical studies[show] Interpretation[show] Perspectives[show] Wikipedia book Bible book Portal icon Bible portal v · t · e The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a canonical collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. There is no single "Bible" and many Bibles with varying contents exist.[1] The term Bible is shared between Judaism and Christianity, although the contents of each of their collections of canonical texts is not the same. Different religious groups include different books within their Biblical canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books. The Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, contains twenty-four books divided into three parts: the five books of the Torah ("teaching" or "law"), the Nevi'im ("prophets"), and the Ketuvim ("writings"). Christian Bibles range from the sixty-six books of the Protestant canon to the eighty-one books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church canon. The first part of Christian Bibles is the Old Testament, which contains, at minimum, the twenty-four books of the Hebrew Bible...
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...shows aspects of relationships, love and time. It is a psychological novel and a love story that ends in tragedy and heart break. The reason this book affected me so much is due to many factors, however a constant theme through the book is relationships. The relationships between herself and the little things in life, the important things, are what the reader can connect to on a personal level because they’re things most people endure everyday, this consists of: hugging your best friend, talking to your brother, eating your favourite food. This made me feel just how special I am, as the reader knows at the start of the book that she doesn’t have much longer to live. As she is released from the constraints of "normal" life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. The book also makes me think not only about what I have, but what I should appreciate, the things that go un-noticed: The trees, the stars, the air we breathe, these things we can’t live without are yet things that aren’t keeping her alive. It is a beautiful yet tragic book that leaves you devastated, because of the sheer emotions the writer makes you feel, you go through the loss of what seems to be as best friend as you go through all the hardship of her life with her as it feels so real. I connected to the book especially, as I have a younger brother much like Tessa, she treats her younger brother (Cal) like...
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...Can you imagine your best friend being with you for all of your life and then turning your back on you? of Mice and Men takes place during the Great Depression and is about two people trying to find work so they can live out their American Dream which is living on a rabbit farm. But one of the characters mentally illness gets in the way. So much so we don't know if they ever live it on. The color that best represents the story of mice and men would be an indigo blue because there are many points sad or dark times or parts in the book to shape the fates of the characters. The first example of a sad part of the book is the very end of the book where George must make a tough decision in order to continue on the hunt for his dream which is having a bunny ranch. After Lenny ends up accidentally killing Curley’s wife, Crooks, Carlson, and Curley set out to find the killer. George wants to stay out of the search but that would make him suspicious. Meanwhile, Lenny sits and waits for George at the spot that George told him to in case he were to get in trouble. When George arrives, he tries to get Lenny...
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...position in the book industry, we develop a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis can help one uncover opportunities that his/she is well-placed to exploit. And by understanding the weaknesses of the business, one can manage and eliminate threats that would otherwise catch his/her unawares. More than this, by looking at Ginger and the competitors using the SWOT framework, we can start crafting a strategy that helps her distinguish herself from your competitors and to compete successfully in the book market. Strengths and weakness represents internal factors while opportunities and threats represents external factors. (See figure 1) Figure 1 Strengths | Weakness | -Focus on educational topics-Support from parents-Trilogy | - She does everything on her own- She doesn’t make good use of social media- No brand power | Opportunities | Threats | -Present the book in a launch party -Expand to market through social media-School encourages the the topic | -Too many competitors out in the market-May receive bad book reviews. | Strengths are those that Ginger is good at or something that can help the enables her to have competitive edge. Ginger has some strengths that make her stand out in the market. First, her book The Boy Who Rode the Tiger focus on positive spirit and teaches teenagers the concept of courage and grace. Her book contains important classroom values and will be welcomed by schools. Ginger has gone to different schools to present her previous book. It is an...
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...Chronister, Barbra Dr. Silcox ENGWR 101 2 December 2013 “Finally, I Understand Why!” Have you ever had a conversation with your significant other and walked away thinking, “was he even listening to me?” or “did he hear a word I was saying?”. Have you ever experienced a confrontation with your boyfriend, because he swears you meant something you said one way, when in fact you meant something totally different? Has your husband ever been telling a story to some of your friends, and when you cut in to help him support his story, he looks at you like your trying to take over? All of these scenarios can be extremely frustrating. If I had a dollar for everytime it happened to me, I’d be a millionaire, twice over.Yet, these are some of the conversational obstacles couples have to overcome, sometimes everyday. I, myself, got lucky. My brilliant English professor assigned a book for our class to read, and believe it or not, it has actually helped me. My conversations with my boyfriend, seem to flow a lot smoother now, thanks to some of the things I read in this book. This amazing book called You Just Don’t Understand by Deborah Tannen, talked about all of these issues. I can honestly say, I agreed with every point Tannen made in her book. Tannen talked about how men and women have different conversational styles, like when it comes to listening. Tannen says, “ When a woman is confronted with a man who does not say “yeah”---or much of anything else---she may conclude that...
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...The Best Film I Have Ever Seen Lots of people find watching films one of the best ways of spending their leisure time. Due to numerous video facilities, which have emerged in this country over the past years, we have a chance to watch the most popular and new films. As for me, I am always impressed by films screened after a book. Moreover, I find it enjoyable to reread the book which I don't remember very well to be able to compare it with the screen version. The film «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» directed by Peter Jackson and with Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen as leading actors is the screen version of the book written by the popular English writer - John Tolkien. The film was released in 2013. The story concerns Bilbo Baggins. He’s a rather plump hobbit and he finds himself unwittingly drawn into an adventure by the wizard Gandalf. Along with thirteen dwarves, he finds himself bound for Lonely Mountain, where a dragon named Smaug hordes stolen treasure. But the road is wrought with danger. Using magic and quick thinking, with the help of giant eagles and man who can turn into a bear, they manage to complete their quest, only to realize that there are more important things in life. The film is rather long, but it’s amazing. The plot is great! And acting impressed me a lot, because of the excellent cast! It’s in 3D, so the effects are fascinating and exciting. This is not the 1st 3D film I have ever seen, but this version of the video continues to amaze me. Thanks...
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...The Boy at the Top of the Mountain is a story of lost innocence in the face of terrible evil. It's a tale of innocence corrupted as Pieter's personal devotion to Hitler changes him from a kind 7-year-old with a Jewish best friend into a self-important bully who betrays his friends and is proud and boastful of his membership in the Hitler Youth. Back in 2006, same author John Boyne had introduced us to Bruno, the 9-year-old whose father is Commandant at Auschwitz where the boy becomes friends with the Jewish hostage Shmuel after whom The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is titled. Reflecting that title, the authors new novel seems to be like a sequel but it's more an assistant piece telling an entirely new story through the eyes of Pierrot, a French/German...
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