...Ender's Game 8th Grade Literature Summary: Fifty years before the story takes place, the Formics attacked Earth. If not for the legendary Commander, Mazer Rackham, the human race would have been destroyed. To prepare for the next attack, Colonel Graff and the International Military are training only the best young minds to find the future hero. Ender (Andrew) Wiggin, a shy but brilliant six year old boy, is recruited to join this program. Arriving at Battle School, Ender quickly and easily masters difficult challenges and simulations, winning respect amongst his peers and teachers. Ender is soon chosen by Graff as the military's great hope, and he is promoted to Command School. Once there, he's trained by Mazer Rackham himself. He runs several “simulations” thinking he is training for when he became a commander himself, however, he is really directing real missions through a machine called an Ansible. While thinking he was running a simulation as a graduation battle, he attacks the Formics’ home planet, and annihilates the entire race. When he finds out that the whole thing was real, he goes into a state of depression. In the barren land outside command school, Ender sees a shape that resembles something he had seen in dreams, and in a psychological mind game. He goes to it, and sees a Formic queen pupa, and makes it his mission to find the Formics a new home planet. Essay: The novel Ender's game holds a variety of events and actions by different characters that are...
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...Every novel has chunks in the reading that are genuinely crucial to the story that the book would be absent without them. The commander of the Dragon Army, Ender Wiggin, establishes a moment in history when he accomplishes the last battle of the third invasion; killing off the entire bugger population, although Ender was cheated into thinking it was his final test of battle school. After Ender’s “victory” he really portrayed his true colors. Forthwith after discovering he killed off every one of the buggers he was disturbed, exasperated, remorseful, and most of all damaged. Ender felt all of these emotions as he started really snapping back into reality, and realizing he just demolished a species. As Ender’s Game moves forward Ender comes across...
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...This book is about facing your problems head on and having the courage to stand strong when odds dont seem to be in your favor. My opinion of this book is that it has a great story to it and has a good base for leadership training. My book report is on Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Modern Library 100 Best Novels rates this book as number 59 as well as making the list for American Library Associations 100 Best Books for Teens. It also won multiple awards such as the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and nominated for a Locus Award. This book focuses around the life of a six year old boy named Ender Wiggin a child genius. He is being watched via monitor from international military forces. They get to view everything from Ender's point of view. The monitor that is...
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...Steven McClure Book Report 6/22/2016 Enders Game In the book Enders Game, the setting takes place on a ship far away from the homeland Earth. Also taking place in some-time in the distant future. The young boy in the beginning of the novel who's name is Ender Wiggin, who has been chosen to save the entire human race against the alien name called Buggers. He had to go through extreme training and show potential, that he is qaulified to enter Battle School, which is a school in space. He also had a hard life in his early childhood. He has been picked on for being the third, being the third is also known as being the third child. In this case having more than two children during that time was frowned upon, and that lead Ender to get teased...
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...In the story “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card the setting takes place on Earth which has been devastated by two intergalactic wars between the humans and the Formics with Earth’s citizen’s afraid there will be another war. The main character, Ender, grows up in a post war era learning about the defeat of the Formics after the first invasion and the second invasion which was considered a miracle. He idolizes Mazer Rackham on how he defeated the Formics in the second war. He has seen the videos of Mazer Rackham defeating the Formics multiple times. After the 1st Formic Invasion the Formics got the nickname of buggers because of their exoskeleton appearance and similarities between the Formics and bugs. This is meant to be an insult to the Formics....
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...Book Title: Ender’s Game Author: Orson Scott Card Summary: The setting of this story is many years in the future during a time of intergalactic war. An alien race called the Formics attacked the humans 50 years before the beginning of the story. The humans won that war but the Formics have regrouped and have been preparing to strike again. The humans have been preparing for the second attack by taking the brightest children of Earth into a special school, called Battle School, in outer space to train them in battle and command tactics. Their plan is for the children to lead the human army to victory against the Formics. In the beginning of the story, the protagonist, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is six years old attending regular school on Earth and is having his Monitor removed. In the future, all kids were required to have a “Monitor” implanted in them so that the International Fleet could keep tabs on potential Battle School applicants. Most kids only have theirs for about a year but Ender has had his for three and is constantly ridiculed by classmates about it. At the end of the day, Ender is leaving school and going home when some bullies from school came and started harassing him about finally having his Monitor removed. Ender decides that he has had enough of the bullying and assaults Stilson, the leader of the bullies and the one who tortured Ender the most. Ender beat Stilson to the ground and continued to beat him to ensure that he never...
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...CHAPTER 4 Focusing Marketing Strategy with Segmentation and Positioning These days Nintendo rides high in the video game world. Its DS handheld game, Wii (pronounced “we”) console, and games with characters like Mario and Zelda sell millions of units. The key to Nintendo’s success comes from meeting the entertainment needs of different groups of customers. Back in the 1980s, Nintendo was a 100-year-old Japanese manufacturer of toys and playing cards. If Nintendo managers had continued to just think about the “toy market,” the firm probably wouldn’t even be around now. Instead, they saw profitable new opportunities in the broader “entertainment seekers market.” In 1985, they released the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and interactive video games such as Super Mario Brothers. In those early days, video game consoles and software from different producers were quite similar. Even so, Nintendo’s NES stood out as offering better value. And Nintendo’s profits took off because once a household owned a NES console, it qualified as a prime target for new Nintendo games. As the market evolved, Nintendo developed more new products focusing on the needs of different groups of customers. In the 1990s, its popular handheld system, Game Boy, successfully delivered portable fun to kids. Another group of customers, the “hard-core gamers,” played complex and realistic games requiring consoles with high-speed processors and better graphics, so Nintendo offered them its GameCube console. But...
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...BS (4 Years) for Affiliated Colleges Course Contents for Subjects with Code: ENG This document only contains details of courses having code ENG. Center for Undergraduate Studies, University of the Punjab 1 BS (4 Years) for Affiliated Colleges Code ENG‐101 Year 1 Subject Title Introduction to Literature‐I (History of English Literature‐I) Discipline English Cr. Hrs 3 Semester I Aims: One of the objectives of this course is to inform the readers about the influence of historical and socio-cultural events upon the production of literature. Although the scope of the course is quite expansive, the readers shall focus on early 14th to 19th century Romantic Movement. Histories of literature written by some British literary historians will be consulted to form some socio-cultural and political cross connections. In its broader spectrum, the course covers a reference to the multiple factors from economic theories to religious, philosophical and metaphysical debates that overlap in these literary works of diverse nature and time periods under multiple contexts. The reading of literature in this way i.e. within the sociocultural context will help the readers become aware of the fact that literary works are basically a referential product of the practice that goes back to continuous interdisciplinary interaction. Contents: • Medieval Period • Renaissance and Reformation • Elizabethan Period • Milton, the Metaphysical...
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