...A Long Way Gone is a memoir of Ishmael Beah. At the age of twelve years old his life was changed completely when he was first touched by war when the rebels first attacked his home town, Mogbwemo in Sierra Leone. This book shows the hardships, loneliness, violence and cruelty Ishmael went through. With Ishmael's courage he manages to get through the hard times he faces during his childhood while having lost his innocence. This book is moving and uplifting even with the unimaginable brutality against other humans, Ishmaels unexpected acts of kindness touch your soul. While fleeing the rebels Ishmael and his friends walked from village to village finding a safe place far from the war. At villages they were given food and water and it gave them a sense of happiness even though they know it isn't for long. They knew that their happiness is only temporary and that harder times were coming their way. Ishmael's goal in life was just to survive each passing day. Not every village they came across were they offered food and water, some villages believed they were rebels and men would confront them with spears and axes. Saidu, one of the boys traveling with Beah had lost all hope, “Every time people come at...
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...Sharise Baker-Bazile October 27,2015 AP English Literature & Composition Period:9 Something Wicked This Way Comes By: Ray Bradbury Reading Log #1 (Prologue- Chapter 3): Arrivals Something Wicked This Way Comes, begins in October "a rare month for boys". Halloween comes early for the boys Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade and it will possibly change their lives forever. A lightning rod salesman (Tom Fury) walks in Greentown, where he has a feeling that a storm is coming soon. Tom Fury sees the two boys and tries to sell them a lightning rod, however, they don’t have any money. His lightning rod is covered in weird symbols and words from different languages. Tom Fury predicts that Jim’s house will get hit by the storm and urges him to put up the lighting rod. Will convinces Jim to put up the lighting rod because he thinks that the protection of the rod is more valuable. Something Wicked This Way Comes starts off with foreshadowing. Tom Fury foreshadows an event that’s going to happen soon....
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...Monsters Inc, Wall-E and Finding Nemo. Pixar is a very interesting company to study when it comes to innovation, and many other companies can take lesson from them on how to be creative. After reading the book you can draw the conclusion that the major key factors to Pixar's success of creating a innovative environment are the leadership style and teamwork spirit. For people to be able to involve in processes that leads to innovation the following criteria are essential: problem understanding, seeing opportunities and the desire to do something. Connected to the desire to do something is the performance. There is much talk about skills and knowledge in society. But skilled employees is not the same as high-performing employees. To have high-performing employees the culture is of big importance, which Pixar has understood. The book discusses how the Pixar culture has been formed and how the employees, called the pixarians, work in the organization. As the title indicates, ”the world's most creative corporate playground”, the main topic in the book is ”dream like a child”. In this book review I will discuss Pixar as a playground, the team dynamics and the impact of leadership style on the culture and the employees. A corporate playground Throughout the book Pixar is defined as a corporate playground, where the most important thing is to dare to dream like a child. At Pixar...
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...Read the following poems by Thomas Hardy (‘The Oxen’) and Seamus Heaney (‘Cow in Calf’) in The Faber Book of Beasts (pp.195 and 62). In no more than 600 words, compare the ways in which the two poets represent cattle. New forms of poetry, however radical they appear, almost always show traces of tradition. (Danson Brown, 2008, p.63) ‘The Oxen’ written by Thomas Hardy and ‘Cow in Calf’ by Seamus Heaney show significant differences but also share some common traditional qualities. ‘The Oxen’ is a narrative poem telling the reader a story about Christmas, and about the oxen, that according to folk tradition would kneel at midnight in Christmas Eve. It also follows the speaker’s, Hardy’s, belief of the tradition. ‘Cow in Calf’ is an Imagery poem which illustrates an image rather than telling a story. The poem represents a cow that is heavily pregnant, and the natural cycle of life. Traditional Styles of poetry, that include quatrains and rhyming lines can be seen in ‘The Oxen’, which follows an ABAB rhyming scheme. The rhyming words at the end of each alternating line create an almost song-like rhythm. Rhyming poems are easier to remember and allow the reader to connect to the poem through memory rather than just reading the words alone. The consistent rhythm of the poem can also represent the way cattle move at a slow steady pace. The absence of a rhyming pattern from Heaney’s poem not only avoids the traditional poetic forms, but enables him to use words freely to portray his...
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...Product Reassessment: The Traditional Printed Books Decline Wendy Anderson Strayer University Principles of Marketing August 7, 2013 The Traditional Printed books Decline The decline of the traditional printed book has become more noticeable since book stores have either closed some locations or closed their doors all together. There are still many people in the United States that know the value of owning and reading the traditional printed book. However, in current times convenience and laziness has become the standard. There are a lot of people that would prefer to carry around light weight technology such as an e-reader that can house a multitude and array of books than carry around a 500 page book or a multitude of said books. The use of e-readers to access e-books has become the wave of the future and the norm in today’s world. However, there are still many avid readers within the population that enjoy the feel and the read of the printed book. It is believed that everyone should have the opportunity to witness the advantages of reading the traditional book and be able to enjoy the experiences that a traditional book can bring to the table. As said before there a lot of people that still enjoy holding a printed book, turning the pages of said books and enjoy reading their genre of reading in the old fashioned way. The youth of America prefer to use electronics more now for educational and recreational purposes because it is easier...
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...teach their material to students by following what the book says. Due to the fact, that students learn exactly what is taught from the book, their teachers believe the student is capable of answering their own questions based off the book. Furthermore causing the student to score poorly in that class, due to not teaching the student personally and effective. In my point, I believe teachers need to stop relying on the students to learn by themselves using the book, and change their teaching material by personally teaching the student based on the teachers knowledge of the material. Given this argument, I will introduce a pro and con statement that will provide two different standpoints about my argument. After proving both pro and con statements, I will provide how John Stuart Mill will choose either statement by using his moral perspective theory. As a pro statement, teachers who teach their students the correct material upon their own knowledge, without consulting a book as guidance in their class, will have successful passing students. Most high school teachers who have received degrees don’t teach students upon themselves, but depend on book. Unfortunately, when a student needs help, they have to consult to the book, and rely on the practice problems the book provides as help. Consulting to the book at all times through the school year simply shows no use of having a teacher. A high school student who consults to the book at all times, will not progress the students in their...
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..." Abelardo Morell – A Book of Books A visual tribute to the printed word, this ode to books will be irresistible to anyone who treasures the touch of fine paper and the special allure of a clothbound volume. A Book of Books showcases Abelardo Morell's elegant black and-white photographs of unusual books - an impossibly large dictionary, illustrated volumes whose characters appear to leap off the page, and water-damaged books that take on sculptural form. Nicholson Baker has written extensively about books and libraries. His preface is the ideal complement to Morell's photographs in this beautifully produced book lover's book. Bookish quotations from literary sources including Hawthorne, Borges, Cocteau, and others accompany the photographs throughout. Birth Date & Place1948, Havana, Cuba EducationBowdoin College, Brunswick, ME: Bachelor of Art, 1977Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT: Master of Fine Arts, 1981Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, 1997 - Presented by Professor John McKee, (PDF: 4.3kb)- Remarks by Abelardo Morell, (PDF; 3.5kb) Present PositionsProfessor of PhotographyMassachusetts College of Art and DesignBoston, MA Alturas Foundation Artist-in-Residence,south Texas, 2008-2009 Happy and Bob Doran Artist-in-Residence,Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2008-2009 Awards2006 The Decordova Museum Rappaport Prize1995 St Botolph's Club Foundation Award1994 New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship1993...
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...electronic devices all of which are accessing the internet. This essay will argue that through the rise of the internet, people have changed their old ways of thinking, shopping, and communicating, which has changed the future of books, television, and computers. Kenneth Jost stated, “The book-publishing industry is all abuzz over electronic books”. The new way students and people who love to read are learning is through electronic books. Some people like the old way of reading books, but now everything has changed. This has changed the future of books, which are now on the downfall. With the rise of the internet, new devises are created almost daily, leading to a new way to enjoy reading and other leisure activities such as looking at maps or pictures. This occurred due to the “cool factor” of possessing a computerized device and the quickness of accessibility. Furthermore, once someone gets a new device, their surrounding family and friends must also have one. They are portable and allow people to access useful computerized information or any book they would like to read at any time. People nowadays are using the internet so much, they don’t have the time to read conventional books anymore. The new technological advancements that have been made in recent times have caused books to fade out of our life and the new electronic book start to take over the market. This is leading to a population of internet ready people who have changed their thinking,...
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...something that interest them for example if they prefer visuals then they enjoy videos, movies, charts, demonstrations and any thing else that they can visually see. Then some people prefer it if they have its said to them for example they would rather someone else read a book to them than them read a book to themselves. Another way to keep children interested is for them to read and wright, they prefer for information to be written and then enjoy reading the news, books, magazines, etc. They also will enjoy writing a short story about something they are really into. Lastly theres people who prefer doing and always having a hands on approach. depending...
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...The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an absurd book. It has many random and funny things happen in it. Some of these weird things are whales randomly appearing in the sky, and generating small amounts of improbability. This book is illogical in terms of the way we know that things work. The absurdity of the book affects the way it is read The absurdity of this book is what makes it different and affects the way it is read. It is taken lightly at some parts and serious at others. “The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 SubMeson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well...
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...Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Upton Sinclair wrote his book The Jungle in 1906. This book was a huge success. Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. Sinclair grew up poor with his mother and father. His mother sent him to his richer family on his mother's side. He started to write children’s stories and humor pieces in magazines at age 14. He also he started writing stories at age 16. At 18, he graduated from New York City University. After the success of The Jungle, Sinclair started to write more books with a political message. To write the book, The Jungle, Sinclair had to go undercover at a meat packing factory and expose how the industry had mistreated workers and had unsanitary conditions. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is the book that he is most known for because it was able to change the law, it fit into a popular kind of writing called muckraking, and his political views were different from most peoples’ in America....
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...Kindergarten teacher. I have selected three high quality books that this age would find appealing. The first book I picked was “I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More”. This book was written by Karen Beaumont. This book can be used in many ways to support intellectual growth. It can be used to support prediction. You can encourage the children to predict by asking open ended questions like “how do you think Mom will feel when she see’s that she painted on the walls” or “where do you think she will paint next”? This book is also great for working on rhyming words and rhythm. The second book I picked is “Wemberly Worried” written by Kevin Henkes. I picked this book for the many activities and conversations you can have within the subject. Two of the ways this book will support their intellectual growth would be in feelings, communication and self-regulation. Most children can relate to being worried. In kindergarten many children are still working on describing and recognizing feelings beyond the basic happy, sad and mad. The third book I would use is “Countdown to Kindergarten” by Alison Mcghee. This book would be wonderful all year but also in the fall when children can relate to counting down to starting Kindergarten. As with the previously mentioned books this book will also support intellectual growth in many ways. With this book you can work on counting and comparing, among other things. Common Core standards that these books could all support were comprehension, collaboration, presentation...
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...Business Proposal Jamie Curet ECO 561 December 19, 2011 Dr. Bob Larkin Everyday more people are starting to get rid of physical magazines, newspapers, and now even books. Many people love to read; however, very few have time to sit down and enjoy a good book. Will Bury is an enterprising inventor who truly believes in his newest invention. His mission is to provide people who already like to read the opportunity to read the same books digitally or to listen to them with a realistic synthetic voice. Will Bury is in need of a working location to continue the work of his latest product as well as a staff to carry on the implementation. He is currently working alone on his invention out of his garage. A working location with more staff will guarantee the company a selection of more books digitized as well as more sales and higher revenue. The company’s success is dependent on being able to get the product out for the customers as well as giving them as many different options of books possible. Identification of Market Structure: Will Bury’s business that he is trying to develop is a monopolistic competition market structure. Bury knows that there is already a market for books on CD; however, he has developed and patented a technology for text materials and creates a file with the option of reading it digitally or listening to it with that takes the printed word a realistic synthetic voice. Since he has developed this new technology and there are somewhat similar products...
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...life of a prostitute. The tradition of removing books from schools for their questionable content has carried on into the twenty first century with the banning of several extremely popular books such as Harry Potter, for its use of witchcraft as a key plot point, The Hunger Games, for its graphic descriptions of children slaying one another on live television, and even the widespread elementary boy’s books Captain Underpants, for its use of bathroom humor frequently throughout the series. Not only these books, but also beloved classics such as The Scarlett Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Great Gatsby have all been removed from the curriculum of many schools in order to shelter students from the taboo topics they discuss, such as racial prejudice, adultery, and alcoholism. Many concerned Americans have begun to wonder whether or not the government should have the power to control what students read and believe that censorship goes against the very foundations of our nation. While the United States Constitution does clearly state that “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech or of the press”, does that apply to even the most explicit sexual and racial content? The issue had been consistently justified by courts cases involving racism and violence that many concerned parents believe are caused by these books. Compromise is the only way to solve the issue of censorship in schools. That way, students can still practice their rights as well...
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...In this paper I'm going to discuss the two main differences between the movie and the book What's Eating Gilbert Grape. The first main difference I'm going to touch on is how Becky is in both the movie and the book, and the difference in the relationship she has with Gilbert. The next thing I want to talk about is the different ways that Momma is portrayed in the two versions. Both of these two points that I've stated above seem like minor details but they have a huge impact on the overall story, and in the methods of character portrayal. Becky is two completely different people when looking at the book and the movie. In the book she is only 15 years old while Gilbert is in his 20's. While this is true in the book, in the movie it seems that Becky is older. The age change may just be a culture thing so the movie seems better for a wider demographic, either way it still changes the way Becky is perceived. Gilbert and Becky have a lot less conflict in the movie, which is not the case in the book. The book has two main scenes that were cut out of the movie. The first one is the watermelon incident where Gilbert gets tired of chasing Becky and leaves her watermelon on the ground at the gas station without second guessing himself. Showing that Gilbert does care about Becky but he does not want to play her games. In the whole book, Gilbert seems to play by his own rules and does pretty much what he wants without regard to others peoples thoughts, actions or reactions. The second...
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