The name of the book that this report is describing is The Testament, by John Grisham. ... This book was also written to express how money can corrupt people's morals and love. ... The plot is, Phelan dies leaving Rachel Lane a lot of money, instead of his other six children that he despises, and Stafford and O'Riley have to find Rachel somewhere in Brazil.The name of the book that this report is describing is The Testament, by John Grisham. ... This book was also written to express how money can corrupt people's morals and love. ... The relationship of government in this bo...

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A Boy At War I chose the book A Boy At War written by Harry Mazer for my book report. The main character in the book A Boy At War is a boy named Adam. ... Adam would have to start this school year late. ... He realized how horrible war was and the impact that it had on the family. ... His father gave him a lecture on how he wasn't suppose to be down there and how he would give Davi's father money tomorrow for fixing Adam's bike. ...

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"I had heard reports to the extent that he was a white man who lived on the nearby plantations. ... Since it was illegal for a slave to learn how to read and write, Washington received no education. ... Booker T. ... His ideas were a start, and he put ideas into people's heads, which resulted in other great leaders such as W.E.B. ... Booker T. ...

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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. ... Bink starts off by heading down the enchanted path that has warding spells associated with it, after traveling south for a few miles he meets a centaur traveling the path. ... He follows the gap east until he finds a village; he asks the villagers how to get across the gap, so they send a girl who is incredibly stupid but equally beautiful, to lead across the gap. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Book Report - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Introduction: I was standing in a bookstore in Los Angeles, browsing the shelves for a book that was required for my summer course in. ... Then, Guy Montage is reported to have books in his house. ... Soon after he leaves the city the next world war starts. ... Conclusion: I am somewhat amazed at how prophetic this book is and how accurate Bradbury's predictions were. How did he know? ...

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Grapes of Wrath Book Report When first released in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath, written by novelist John Steinbeck, created quite a stir among Americans still coping with the depression. ... Tom asks his Pa when they plan on starting out West, and his response is one of much anticipation. "If Al gets back from his squirtin' aroun', I figgered he could load the truck an' take all of it in, an maybe we could start out tomorra or day after (90)." ... Since forty dollars is needed to report the death to the law and bury it, the Joads reluctantly decide to bury him illegally, even ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book makes a portrait of the "red-scare" and the American hysteria. ... History and fiction are put together all over the book. Despite the fact that Daniel is a fictitious character, the events reported in the book really happened at that time. ... Dissertation starts to write about his memories and discuss his relationship with his wife, parents and his sister Susan. ... Exactly from the 60s on, another kind of capitalism started to develop and liberal ideology was reinforced. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The plot is easy to follow and the first sentence starts right away with the plot "without any forewords. ... One problem is how Ponyboy has to grow up without parents. ... It also shows how if a member of a family has an injury it's tough for the family and friends. ... It really does show how these things can affect a family and friends. ... One other reason to read the book is that the end of each chapter of the book does not leave you in suspense. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hatsumomo immediately starts trying to find ways to destroy Chiyo's career as a geisha before it even begins, and makes Chiyo's life at the okiya a living nightmare. ... Once Chiyo-chan is an official apprentice geisha, her name is changed to Sayuri and she starts accompanying Mameha to parties where she begins learning how to entertain men visiting Gion, which is something she needs to be very good at if she wants to become a successful geisha. ... The book was very strong in the beginning, but towards the end, when the war starts and the Gion district is shut down, it loses much...

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Once they gathered everyone, the boys started electing a leader and planning a way to be rescued. ... When they first start off they all still act like young boys and play around and stuff but as they live on the island longer everyone's true colors come out. ... Would I recommend this book? ... It shows you how throughout the book they lose that child in them and become a dark, evil person. Reading this book can better a person because they can learn about people and how we all have the same characteristics in us. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book "Lord of The Flies " by William Golding is about a plane carrying a group of english boys because there country is at war. ... Roger is a symbol of pure evil and is responsible for Piggy's death later in the book. ... The rest of the boys start to come out onto the beach from the jungle. ... They keep a constant signal fire going that they started using Piggy's glasses. ... When the feast is over, Ralph asks Jack how he is going to shelter from the storm thats blowing in. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He mentions each man's personal life and how this affected the relationship itself and what it grew in to. ... The first half in its entirety hardly mentions any flames until the very end of the first section saying, "Smoke started to fill the woods.... It's very evident how much Egan reveres Roosevelt with how he mentions all of the young President's ventures and projects. ... " 3 How he could have fired Pinchot seems most irrational as Egan writes about it. ... Whether it can be considered a true historical report of this event could be debated. ...

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It is only upon this discovery that we really start to doubt the husband's innocence. ... As he considers how he will spend the rest of his life, she reveals to him that she is pregnant. ... The first major difference between the book and the movie is how her disappearance was planned. ... He recalls how he never guesses the answers correctly and how this always leads to a fight. ... This is after Nick is forced to call the police when a neighbor reports something fishy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She started riding at age three. ... Her mother ,Janet noticed how smart she was at a young age. At six she had started reading and writing poems and stories. ... On the other hand I do recommend this book to write a book report on, there is a lot of information to get good material, but as far as reading for fun you should set this book down and leave it in the library. I did enjoy writing the report and I learned a lot about Jacqueline and her stepping stones on becoming the first lady....

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For my book report, I chose to read "The Hound of Baskervilles," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... So all they could do was start to think in a different realm of thought to get things to make since. ... This book took place in Baskervilles, which I'm guessing is over in London due to how the people talk and act. And was circa 1889 was when it was published which makes since because of how Arthur described the people in the book as in the way they dress and talk. ... By that I mean from the things I picked up it was mostly all about how you look and perceive things. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this book Mycoskie guides you through the process of creating a startup that can do well and good at the same time, while telling the story of how it's worked for him. Blake begins the book by using the first chapter to summarize how he got the idea for his most successful company, and how it got it's feet off the ground. ... After that more articles and reports about TOMs kept surfacing, and the company blew up. Once Blake had finished introducing TOMs, he used the rest of the book's chapters as a guide that gives the reader insight on how to make a good idea into a suc...

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Criterion C Evaluation of Sources My primary source was a book about The Black Death. ... This was very useful because it gave a detailed description of what the church was going through and how many priests died and how the economy was going down. This book also said the lack of peasants that were needed and how high the wages went when a peasant wanted to work. This is mainly what the book consisted of. ... There were limitations in using this book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Book Report on Iliad Iliad is a powerful, beautiful, and awe-inspiring work of ancient Greece. It combines the horridness of war into an epic poem filled with art, illustrious descriptions, and a myriad of wonderful literary images. It's a tale of a few days' fighting in the tenth year of the Troja...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book is written in the first account. ... The book details his efforts to teach the men how to fight an unconventional war. ... And, when bullets started flying, the ARVN stayed down and did nothing (p. 129). ... He wanted Hackworth to review and endorse a report of the incident, a glowing report of a perfect combat action, which was not the case at all (p. 347, 348). ... This writer feels that the book at times seems a bit self-praising. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Books though, had an evolution of there own, which started with the art of storytelling. ... People started writing down their experiences and would try to get them out to general public. ... They started trying to establish the business with the use of Trade Sales. ... (Civic economics) This is a great statistic explaining how much money is made in the economy from bookstores. ... Assist in preparing comprehensive reports reflecting work activity and financial status. ...

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They are at all different stages of the writing process -- finishing a story, starting a new story, editing, illustrating, etc. ... From 3 to 5 pieces, they choose one to make into a book. ... Teachers will take out the story from the day before, reread it to the class, and add on to the story by starting a second paragraph. ... Focused Writing Report on Dinosaurs • Teachers need to model how to write a report, not just assign one. ... Brainstorming-  The teacher tells the class that they are going to make a class book about dinosaurs. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

INTRODUCTION This report examines our chosen management topics of Planning, Human Resources and Leadership. ... The company was started in 1988 with one branch in Bray before moving to a more prominent location on the main street. ... Typically this style is common when businesses are just starting with few employees. ... Planning prepares organizations for tomorrow today by assessing what an organization wants to accomplish and how it will go about achieving that goal. ... Stock issues and customer issues would be the main things that Ann-Marie is 'reported' to about. ...

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IB History Book Review: Hiroshima by John Hersey 1) This story relates to America dropping the A-bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. ... How could they commit this atrocity? ... He later tries to loose his past and get a clean start. ... Therefore, I very much enjoyed this book. ... I like how Hersey follows his characters over years after what happened; it allows one to see how they continued with their lives but still how this tragedy continues to affect them, how it remains a large part of their life. ...

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For Biology 108's Book report I read a book by Rodney Barker, "And the Waters Turned to Blood". ... This is an aquatic microorganism that causes massive fish kills and has started to effect humans. ... The book starts out sounding like a warped X-Files episode. ... Then, we start to follow Dr. ... If Pfiesteria was going to be stopped, she also needed to figure out how this once unknown dinoflagellate was able to kill fish by the thousands, started to harm humans, and why it had chosen now to turn into this killer. ...

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While reading the book, you the reader, really get a sense of how someone in that situation is feeling. ... While trying not to make this out to be a book report. ... I learned how deep a person with a mental illness thinks. ... Also, to be honest, I hate reading, it's a hassle to me, but once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. ... I didn't want to make this sound like a book report. ...

• Word Count: 1062
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• Grade Level: High School