Interpretation of the Extract “Up the down Staircase” by Bel Kaufman “Up the down Staircase” is the best known best-seller written by Bel Kaufman, a Russian-American professor and author born in Berlin, Germany, raised in Odessa. On the book-jacket on the eleventh printing of the novel in 1965 it is pointed out that “Up the down Staircase” describes from the inside what goes on in a large metropolitan high school with genuine warmth and shrewd comic touches. It shows what happens when a teacher`s
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The book I am reading is called “The Reckoning” by Kelley Armstrong. It is the last book in “The Darkest Powers” series. The genre of this book is Fantasy. In the first book, “The Summoning”, Chloe Saunders is an aspiring director and screenwriter. A few years after her mother’s death, things started to get better. But when puberty hits, Chloe experiences more than mood swings. She sees a ghost in the school corridor and tries to hit one of the teachers who was trying to help her. Chloe’s
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contains peanut butter, then it really starts the waterworks because peanut butter. The book is about conjoined twins, and that in itself was unique and brilliant. It’s a topic that we very rarely see and even rarely read about. The only other books about conjoined twins that I’ve heard of are The Girls by Lori Lansens and I do believe BZRK by Michael Grant has a set of conjoined characters. I’ve read neither books, only heard about them so reading One was a new, first-of-its-kind experience for me
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Baker University School of Professional & Graduate Studies MLA Style Guide 8001 College Blvd, Suite 100, Overland Park, KS 66210 913.491.4432 March 2010 Getting Started Introduction • Grab his or her attention in the first paragraph. Thesis • Your paper “proves” a thesis, a one or two sentence statement of your central idea. The thesis is usually placed at the end of the first paragraph, immediately after you introduce the topic. Although the thesis appears early
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this section of the book; however, I did not feel the whole book was a well written or relevant to the course. While I am aware that as a class we were only assigned to read the section on the American Revolution, I was interested in seeing how the others sections of the book tied together. Overall, each section of the book is worth reading, that sentiment is based on the limited amount of reading I completed in the Renaissance and Vietnam sections of the book. The book is easy to read, which
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educated. Yousafzai’s use of rhetoric in her speech is amazing for her age as she always stays composed and speaks very clearly and forcefully. Malala is able to get the audience to pay attention to her from the beginning. Malala uses rhetorical strategies to convey her message, not as a victim of violence but as a champion against it. Throughout the novel, Malala uses descriptive language and anecdotes about her life, which contribute to the emotion that her writing elicits within the reader. Malala
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Source 1 • Author: Zimmerman, Barry J., Bonner, Sebastian, Kovach, Robert • Date: 19970301 • Title: Developing self-regulated learners: Beyond achievement to self-efficacy. • Publication: Book; Authored Book Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: • Is the source reliable? How do you know? Yes, the source is reliable due to the fact that the Authors of the book are Graduates from City University of New York. The authors graduated with degrees
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in the past. Through the book, there are many recurring themes. An individual's choices has consequences, Discipline and violence, the influence of family and friends are all common themes shown by author Wes moore throughout the book, shining light on each of their life journeys. One common theme throughout the book is that, an Individual's choice has consequences. This theme is shown throughout the book from multiple devices. Imagery is a strong device used by many authors to visually describe a
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they want us to know. While considering what book to choose knowing this made me feel inclined to read and learn more. The thesis of this book is that secret service agents are putting the life of the president and themselves in jeopardy by making very poor decisions. The book starts out with a story from an agent that was assigned to Bill Clinton's detail in Chappaqua. “Gather, collect, and maintain a picture form of ID, log them into the visitors’ book, and make sure they’re on the list to come
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Wendelin Van Draanen’s book, The Running Dream, is about a teenage girl, Jessica, whos life changed after a bus crash with her whole track team on it. This tragic accident left one dead, and Jessica with an amputated leg. This was an experience that no one could forget. After Jessica loses her leg, she thinks that her life is over, and her dream to win a sponsorship to college can’t happen. With a prosthetic leg, Jessica thinks that she is in the spotlight, but also “invisible”. She feels that one
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