Book Report: "Triangle: The Fire That Changed America" David Von Drehle, author of the book titled "Triangle: The Fire That Changed America", was born on February 6, 1961, in Denver, CO. “David Von Drehle married a woman by the name of, Karen Ball, the White House correspondent for the New York Daily News, in 1995 and had four children together.” according to some online research. As an American author and journalist David Von Drehle's education consisted of a B.A. from the University of Denver
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Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Secret Life of Bees” tells the story of Lily Owens, a 14 year old white girl in South Carolina, living on a peach farm with her verbally and mentally abusive father, whom she does not call daddy, but rather T. Ray. Her life is revolved around her blurred memory of the afternoon when her mother was killed. Lily is dealing with the absence of her mother and she has her “stand-in” mother Rosaleen, a black woman who is their housekeeper. Lily’s most prized possessions are the items
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about innocence, knowledge, prejudice, courage and growing up. The main character is Scout Finch. The book is about what she learns about people and life over the course of those two years. The book takes place in 1930s in Maycomb, Alabama. She lives with her father Atticus, her brother Jem and their cook. Scout´s father is a lawyer. Scout basically learns 4 major lessons of the course of the book; she learns them partly from Atticus and partly from her own experience. The first lesson; is that
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Bill Bryson’s book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, explains the history of science in laymen’s terms. Although Bryson is not a scientist or a historian, he does a surprisingly excellent job explaining why and when everything has happened throughout time. His book enters deeply into the subject while being clear, educational, and humorous. Bryson presents a large scope of scientific information including physics, chemistry, and biology, and he makes it incredibly easy and enjoyable for the
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good job for the customers, you’re never going to do a good job for the shareholders. That’s the point of a commercial enterprise.” Takeo Fukui, 64 CEO, Honda, Tokyo While it has outperformed rivals with fuel-efficient small cars, even Honda sees fewer sales. Fukui has cut costs, but he refuses to skimp on innovation and research. Best advice he’s received: “The basic social responsibility of a business is to both maintain employment and meet the obligation to pay taxes.” Great book: How to
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The Corpse Reader, English translation copyright 2013, was written by Antonio Garrido. This book is historical fiction, as it is based on the life of Ci Song. It is not entirely non-fiction, because there is not extensive information on his life. Garrido crafted his portrayal of Ci's life through no more than thirty paragraphs between twelve different books that had been published. I chose this book because Ci Song is the founder of modern forensics and lived in thirteenth century China. The
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Woop! Zoop! Sloop! Bud, Not Buddy is a book about a young, African American boy who has to survive in the 1930's during the Great Depression. Woop! Zoop! Sloop! Is a quote Bud used in the book. Christopher Paul Curtis is the author of this wonderful novel. Bud has been through a lot in his life, but in the depression, that’s a normal thing. Bud, Not Buddy would be a different story if they had modern technology because they would have cell phones, electricity, and they wouldn't have even needed Hoovervilles
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are encouraged to take part in different activities; parents tend to reward boys for being active and girls for being passive. As a result of this socialisation, boys and girls develop different reading tastes – boys read hobby books and girls are more likely to read books about people which explains why boys prefer science and girls prefer subjects such as English. Norman (1988), Murphy and Elwood (1998) This is further backed up by Browne and Ross’ (1991) argument that children’s beliefs
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This review is about the book, Bluegrass State of Mind by Kathleen Brooks. This book is mainly about a woman, McKenna Mason restarting her life in Keeneland, Kentucky after a terrifying run-in with her ex-boyfriend back in New York. I loved this book, it kept my attention the entire way through. Bluegrass State of Mind is about McKenna Mason, she was a lawyer for a big, well-known law firm in New York but had to flee New York because she had caught her boss, among others including her boyfriend
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diverged from the predetermined path that was set by society since her birth, she would face extreme censure from not just the opposite gender but her own gender, which led to an anti-social movement. This predicament is portrayed in Matthew Desmond’s book, Evicted, which illustrates the main female characters, such as Sherrena Tarver and Arleen,
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