The less week points your book has the better the book will be. ... In some parts of the book the stories are one sided, and this is probably because of the person or thing he got his information from. ... Most likely the author got his information for this part of the book from an African-American author, or he interviewed a relative of an African-American. That person only gave one side of the story, the blacks side, and made it sound as if the blacks were innocent. In the preface of this book the author states that, " . . . ...

• Word Count: 1279
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Melton McLaurin, the author of Celia a Slave, uses much more guesswork and "he-said she-said" documentation rather than actual sound facts. ... However, he uses many assumptions and questionable documentation in this book. ... He is not always writing sound accounts but yet makes assumptions. ... Melton, having not been there lets his own views and opinions fill the book with substance due to the lack of historical information that is provided from that era. Melton rarely has sound proof of how the people involved felt. ...

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Melton McLaurin, the author of Celia a Slave, uses much more guesswork and "he-said she-said" documentation rather than actual sound facts. ... However, he uses many assumptions and questionable documentation in this book. ... He is not always writing sound accounts but yet makes assumptions. ... Melton, having not been there lets his own views and opinions fill the book with substance due to the lack of historical information that is provided from that era. Melton rarely has sound proof of how the people involved felt. ...

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Students learn some letter names and sounds usually connected to the interesting words they have learned." In the book, True Stories From Four Blocks Classrooms, I read a story about a woman who teaches kindergarten. ... Her reading program consisted of learning the alphabet, beginning and ending sounds, a few high frequency words and rebus reading. ... So she decided to look up new ways to teach letters and sounds. ... She even co-authored the book, The Teacher's Guide to Building Blocks. ...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Modern information technology is one of the most distinguished and interesting human inventions in history. Information technology has become a necessary social component is modern academic institutions. ... Using internet technology, information can be delivered in many different forms and combinations of text, imagery, sound and video. ... Free information is available on almost anything on the internet. By using search engines, an individual can get a great deal of information free of cost. ...

• Word Count: 2100
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the book Animal Farm the story was better than the movie. ... Squealer had squinty eyes and had an evil sound voice. ... The book didn't have extra unneeded information. I think Orwell's way of writing Animal Farm was good not putting information for entertainment. ... Orwell had related the book to real life. ...

• Word Count: 299
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Melville gives us no explanation for Bartleby's actions either at the beginning or the end of the book, that is, until the last paragraph. ... does it not sound like dead men?" The answer is that no, dead letters and dead men sound nothing alike and that Melville is trying to create an answer to why Bartleby acted the way he did to appease the public. ... Although it is not out of character for the narrator to be sharing this information with us, it is curious that he decides to preface the paragraph with, "there would seem little need for proceeding further in [Bartleby's] history. ...

• Word Count: 508
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"I was often surprised at the level of detail and personal information he gave out regarding other people who were in his life at the time." I did not find this book disturbing. He did give away personal information but that made the book better and more interesting. ... I strongly agree with his view on the book. Belfort makes himself sound like a successful businessman who worked his way to the top but in reality he was just a thief who couldn't make money legally. ...

• Word Count: 1357
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

1984 Book Review 1) Summary George Orwell's 1984 was a good book. ... Winston bought a diary, knowing it was illegal at a prole book shop. ... Though I think the thing I liked most about this book was how well the theme was carried out. ... Still I can say that I found the book interesting. ... The amount of information in the book was huge. ...

• Word Count: 1009
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Evidently, some people have nothing better to do than to place insanely inaccurate information into the articles on Wikipedia. ... Check your local library to see if they have the book that is listed as the source. ... Once you find that the source book is available, check to make sure that the information really is in the book. ... If something doesn't sound right, research it yourself. If something isn't sourced, but it peaks your interest, and you'd like to know more, find your own sources for the information. ...

• Word Count: 513
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

When recorded, the interviewees were able to speak their mind; some telling stories ranging from childhood memories to providing information on how to bake the local bread. To further provide the scientists with phonetic data for the Swedia 200 project, the interviewees were also asked to read and pronounce various sounds of words, in order to compare the dialectal variations between individual sounds. All the information gathered is processed into a data- base, which will even be accessible through the Internet in the near future, for schools and universit...

• Word Count: 442
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The Sound and the Fury is an interesting story that, at times, is very difficult to read. ... This was a major complaint about the book; however, the plot and character development was able to keep the attention and motivation of the reader to finish the story. ... There is no information to give a positive identification of who the narrator of this section is. ...

• Word Count: 1051
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

There are two main characters in this book. ... It gives someone just enough information to begin making decisions, but it is difficult to judge the accuracy of that information. For example, in Marlow's case, when his steamer sees the woodpile with the sign, "wood for you", a blanket of fog rolls in and they hear what sounds like tribal yelling. ... The phrase whited sepulchre actually comes from the bible, in the book of Matthew. ... My final view on this book is pretty straightforward. ...

• Word Count: 434
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and review the basic information, story line, illustrations, book categorization, adult role, and overall considerations regarding one such suitable book. ... The book was first published in 1989. ... The teacher/parent and/or students can make sounds of animals in the story. ... Overall, this is an enjoyable book. On a scale of 1-10, I would rate this book a 9. ...

• Word Count: 416
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

He utilized these characters to symbolize all combinations of sounds in the Cherokee tongue. ... In this book of essays, there is a short excerpt about the legendary Sequoyah. This book lacks details about the early life of Sequoyah, yet is pretty well in depth when it comes to his later life. This book portrays the entire Cherokee alphabet as well as a list of sounds that the characters signify. ... It gives information concerning literacy among Cherokee families, which proves to be very interesting. ...

• Word Count: 1725
• Approx Pages: 7

As Hall goes through her story and arguments, she paces it well, doesn't have illogical arguments, and she gives good and relevant background information. ... Hall argues that Senegambia is the root of traditional African-Creole culture and she gives sound documents and arguments to back up her claim. ... The arguments in this chapter are backed by many stories and documents of events that lend credence to Hall's very intriguing and sound debate. ... Hall then makes a sound claim how all these conditions combined to create "the most Africanized slave culture in the United Stat...

• Word Count: 1683
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I feel I could apply a lot of this information to my personal/professional life. ... The most helpful information to me in the book was a lot of the information about the different kinds of investments and accounts. ... Although this sounds like a great principle and I am sure it is, I do believe that taking out loans, credit and credit cards can be a good thing if used wisely, and can make you money in the long run if you are very responsible. ... The information in this book can not harm anyone in any way, and the tools presented are helpful, even if you do not follow the plan to every ex...

• Word Count: 1032
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The Book I read for my book report was called "A Spell for Chameleon-; the book was about a man named Bink who lives in a magic country called Xanth. ... The book was written by Piers Anthony and published in October 1977. ... His fiancée can not marry him until he demonstrates a magic talent, so she suggests that he journey to the good magician Humphrey, who has the very powerful talent of information. ... She turns out to have to talent of illusion; she can make anything she wants look, taste, smell, and sound like anything she wants. ...

• Word Count: 1235
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This information age has opened up a whole new world for us. ... With all the good and knowledgeable information there will also be useless, harmful information. ... The computer that I am currently using in the office is a Pentium Celeron computer with Window 98 Second Edition operating system, it has 112.0 MB RAM, a Floppy Drive as well as a CD-Rom drive, a sound card, video card, and USB drives. ... In conclusion, the information age has changed our world. ... Providing knowledge for us that we would only normally get from a book or by actually doing or being there. ...

• Word Count: 1729
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Generation Ecstasy For my book report I read Generation Ecstasy. There was so much information in the book about the rave scene and "ecstasy", I didn't know where to begin. ... There are those who might find a book to analyze music that often aims for the effect of a sledgehammer to the head a mite pretentious. ... His central tool for resolving this contradiction is the idea of the "drug-tech interface": the reciprocal relationship between Ecstasy (and other less central intoxicants) and machine music that resulted in a feedback loop between sounds geared to enhance the rush, and ru...

• Word Count: 695
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

I love this book because it covers every concept of writing, like genre, rhetoric, narrating, analysis, stance, reporting information, writing reviews, researching and many more, that college students, even just regular writers, need, it's very easy to understand, it's relatable to the students using it, and it has many great features. ... If one needs to know how to write a research paper and any of the required parts along with it, the green pages have that information. ... The information there explains different ways to know what your personal style is and ways to know how to wri...

• Word Count: 1365
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In this specific model, children engage in intensive reading experiences, where there are multiple readings of one book over several days. ... This model of literacy adaptation assists students in making connections between background knowledge and new information. ... Antonyms are words that have different sounds and opposite meaning; cold and hot. ... Single sounds are known as phonemes and phonics is related to reading. Having phonemic awareness is the ability to hear sounds in words and to identify particular sounds. ...

• Word Count: 617
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are two pieces of evidence suggesting that the brain bases its brightness judgments on information from edges. ... Thus, if sound and lip movement are artificially mismatched, the phoneme subjects perceive can be completely altered depending on whether or not they view the lip movements. ... When we try to understand the sound 'Ba' combined with the video of 'Ga', our brain tries to work out what is going on. Neither the sound nor the mouth movements of 'Ba' and 'Ga' are very similar, so we don't easily interpret the sound as either of thes...

• Word Count: 1211
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Today's internet is considered an "information superhighway," a device where anything from music, books, programs and information can be shared worldwide. ... Why not let a person purchase a book and place the text on the internet? ... First, if the library purchases several copies of a book, when a person, checks out the book numerous times, the library still owns only two copies. ... On the other hand, when a book is bought, either by a company or individual, and is displayed on the internet, numerous people have the ability to access the book. People have the ability to cop...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Today's internet is considered an "information superhighway," a device where anything from music, books, programs and information can be shared worldwide. ... Why not let a person purchase a book and place the text on the internet? ... First, if the library purchases several copies of a book, when a person, checks out the book numerous times, the library still owns only two copies. ... On the other hand, when a book is bought, either by a company or individual, and is displayed on the internet, numerous people have the ability to access the book. People have the ability to cop...

• Word Count: 1326
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School