United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in who could gain the most power over the other. In the Butter Battle Book by Dr. Suess, the author describes a conflict jarringly similar to the Cold War using symbols that stand for things such as the arms race, the political race, and the general fear of spreading communism. A large portion of the plot within the book consists of the grandfather, who represents the United States armed forces, constantly besting and being bested by VanItch,
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A Night Divided In the book a night divided the setting taks mlas in East and West Beriln on Sunday august 13,1961. Sumthing the Narrator will never forget is Sunday august 13,1961 becus it was a day that the grenzers billt the fins. Gerta and her family realize that the fins has seprtid her family. The grenzers are the border police.The grenzers look like police with long guns in thar hans. The reason the narrator seed if I only I look out earlier is so she cood worn her family. The reason her
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single YA book for her 13 year old daughter. I want to ask I first look at the cover ofher a question, do you think that your daughter had never read these kind of books?I am sure she did. Nowadays there is a big difference between thinking of parents and kids. What parents think is bad for their kids, kids consider that as a good thing for them. I think Gurdon was really overexpressing the topic of dark fiction. She was only talking about some dark literature and about tons of books that are good
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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
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Book 1: Odysseus: hero of the Trojan war, “godlike”, imprisoned by the Nymph Calypso, making his return impossible Nymph Calypso: powerful goddess that wishes to marry Odysseus, keeping Odysseus in a cage on her island Poseidon: only god not pitying Odysseus because he blinded his son, keeping Odysseus in exile, had the opportunity to kill him but didn’t Zeus: “the father of men and gods”, most powerful god, helping to plan Odysseus’ return Athene: “the goddess of the flashing eyes”, answered Zeus
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Edith Cushing is a writer in the 19th century. She is the daughter of a wealthy businessman Carter Cushing, who happens to lives in New York. She’s often visited by her mother's ghost warning her about Crimson Peak. Edith falls in love with Thomas Sharpe, who is an English aristocrat and inventor. He came to the United States seeking investors and Edith’s father happens to be one of them. Carter Cushing wasn’t impressed with Thomas’s prototype so he rejected his proposal. Mr. Cushing disapproves
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Paper Towns tells about the mystery that was Margo Roth Spiegelman. She was in love with mysteries, and she loved them too much. For example, when she was nine, she found a dead body on the street. She became obsessed with finding out why he had done that to himself that she interviewed multiple people. She found nothing, but never gave it up. She may have loved them so much, that she became one. Multiple years later, it was close to PROM. Ben, Radar, and Quentin all didn’t really seem interested
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Hat, where he explains globalization through paintings by Johannes Vermeer. In his novel he challenges readers to look deeper into what objects in Vermeer’s paintings tell us about the history of globalization. Two paintings that where used in his book to help reveal globalization in the 17th century were, View of the Delft and Officer and Laughing Girl. He explains objects in these paintings
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In the USA today, city streets are crowded with people hurrying about their daily lives. Often, these crowds are hounded by would-be prophets who hand out pamphlets to passersby that advertise the latest fad, assorted products, and lots of end-time propaganda to try to convince others of their version of “truth.” The variety of these tracts is endless: from the secret rapture, where Christians will simply disappear during the course of their busy lives as God snatches them up to heaven, to computer
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The two characters I picked from this book is The Wiener Man from the first chapter and Mike Caravello from the 3rd chapter. Both of these characters play a big key part in Buddy's life and are very important to him. Let's start with The Wiener Man I imagine him being a old strong nice man and wearing a T-shirt with a hotdog on it and owning a hotdog fast food restaurant. He has his own foodmobile and drives all across America to serve all different kinds of people his fantastic hot dogs. He dated
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