“I Can Only Cry My Eyes”, in this chapter, Carl Hoffman talk about Dhaka, Bangladesh. He talks about a lot in this chapter about the country and he also talks about very small details of Bangladesh. This chapter starts with a quote saying about a plane condition. I have never visited Dhaka and Bangladesh but I have heard about it a lot. I was shocked when the Carl Hoffman talk about the incident on page 180 about the 20,000 ferries that got sank and which killed more than 1000 people per year because
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Why does the school board ban educational books? Not a lot of people know that during WWII Japanese Americans were held in camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor taking away Farewell to Manzanar is not going to help. Without Farewell to Manzanar kids at Larkspur middle school will still be without that knowledge; This book can also change the way people look at certain things. Farewell To Manzanar should not be banned because it will take knowledge away from people. In chapter two Jeanne Wakatsuki
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to pick up a self-help book, let alone purchase one, but when I was given the book list for this independent study course, something about Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection spoke to me. I have always struggled with feelings of imperfection and finding a way to overcome my own issues with worthiness. I never thought a self-help book could change my life, but having read The Gifts of Imperfection cover to cover, I find myself being a firm believer in their power. This book is nothing like what
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I wasn’t going to read Demon Road by Derek Landy, when I first read about it. It didn’t seem like a book that I wasn’t going to life, it wasn’t something that I normally read. I have only read a couple of books that had a horror elements. However, after reading so many reviews about it, I had to pick it up. I haven’t read anything else from Derek Landy so I didn’t have anything to go by. I didn’t know what his writing style was like or how he wrote his characters, but after reading Demon Road I
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finish my first book, Lost in the Meritocracy. Since then, I have started a second book called Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food. It is a nonfiction book that talks about the side of fast food that the companies don't want to show the public like their advertising schemes or their meat slaughterhouses. I'm currently 280 pages into
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summers in high school when teachers would assign books to read, I never really had an interest in sitting down and reading them. However, the one book I specifically enjoyed reading was White Oleander by Janet Fitch. Even though this was a fiction novel, I loved how real it felt while reading it. There was so much emotion involved in the story that it helped me feel connected to the main character as a reader. It was hard for me to put this book down because I was so invested in the story. When
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Here is a 10 great Summer books to read while watching your children play. The books I have chosen are a variety and not a specific to one genre. So here are they 10 books I have chosen for Reading during the Summer. No More Perfect Kids by Jill Savage & Kathy Koch, PhD ~In No More Perfect Kids, Jill Savage and Kathy Koch equip us with the tools and perspective to: Identify and remove the Perfection Infection from our parenting Release our children from unrealistic expectations Answer the questions
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Until recently, my experience with books has been lukewarm at best. Reading has always been something I’ve enjoyed, yet it was never something I prioritized. Consequently, I only read what was required for school. This essentially was my relationship with books until my sophomore year of high school when I was influenced by many of my older peers. I witnessed them having the most interesting conversations about various works of literature and science. I was enamored by what they had to say, strove
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once said when asked her opinion about it the topic, “It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” (NMSU Library, n.d.). Blume, herself, is no stranger to censorship. Several of her writings have made ALA’s list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books. Her 1975 novel Forever was both challenged and banned in over 10 different
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About the book: Publisher: Simon and Schuster (1948) ISBN: 0671035975 306 Pages, 8 Parts, 28 Chapters Price: Rs.80 (available on Flipkart) The book is a compilation of Dale Carnegie and his students’ experiences in facing the problems and how they have come out of the depression by conquering worry. He tells us how and why to not worry about criticism, six ways to prevent fatigue and worry from keeping your energy levels. He also includes few experiences of some inspiring personalities. In
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