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  • "the Sabbath" Book Report

    "the Sabbath" Book Report

    Book Review “The Sabbath” By Abraham Joshua Heschel Published by HarperCollinsCanadaLtd Copyright 1951 Kylon Gienger 2/25/08 “The Sabbath” is a detailed coverage of the nature of the Seventh Day. The main idea presented in this book is that the Sabbath is a celebration of time, not space. The concept is that God set aside one day out of the week for us to separate ourselves from space; this world, and just consecrate and enjoy the

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    Essay Length: 835 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: regina
  • Longitudes and Attitudes Book Report

    Longitudes and Attitudes Book Report

    "Longitudes and Attitudes", written by Thomas Friedman, is a collection of columns, broken by September 11th's great catastrophe and including material from his diary. The book displays his outstanding strengths as a commentator along with a few weaknesses. "Longitudes and Attitudes" is a collection of his more recent columns and a diary of supporting incidents. It relates to the theme that has consumed him in his career. This theme is given point by Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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    Essay Length: 1,006 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Pigman Book Report

    Pigman Book Report

    I read The Pigman by Paul Zindel. The setting of this story takes place in the Franklin High School.It is in the time period of when ten dollars was a lot of money, and you can buy a six pack of beer for a dollar twenty five.the Narrator is 3rd person. The title realates to the story because Mr. Pignati collected figurine piugs that his diceased wife gave to him. Mr. Pignati is a

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    Essay Length: 634 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Dibs - Book Review

    Dibs - Book Review

    “Sometimes he sat mute and unmoving all morning or crawled about the schoolroom floor oblivious to the other children or to his teacher.” The book Dibs is a testimony of a child who seemed to be mentally retarded because he has created his own world inside of him. In her book, Virginia Axline proves that the therapy by the play is a way of curing people such as Dibs. During her book, she gives

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    Essay Length: 1,295 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Continued Importance of Books

    The Continued Importance of Books

    Many people don't realize the potential of books. It is a highly emotional even when a serious book collector takes a well bound book of favorite content into his or her hands; it is as though they are holding and cherishing an invaluable and exquisite piece of art. Books have been an issue of many of religions and even militant factions and yet, they remain today providing us with places to go, an escape from

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    Essay Length: 459 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • A Nation of Immigrants Book Review

    A Nation of Immigrants Book Review

    The book I read was “A Nation of Immigrants,” it was written by Mr. John F. Kennedy. The book was fantastic; it was about the start of immigrants coming into this nation. It spoke about how they fled there country for a new life in America and would do anything to get here. Some would wait days, months and even years to get sworn in as an American citizen. Many immigrants fled Nazi persecution and

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    Essay Length: 554 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • Night Book Review

    Night Book Review

    The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an influential and terrifying account of a boy and his family in various Nazi concentration camps. The story is told from the point of view of the author Eliezer as he is experiencing the situation and begins with the families’ transition from their regular lives to life during the Holocaust. The German’s call for deportation causes the separation of the family. Moving from one concentration camp to the

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    Essay Length: 497 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Anna
  • A Child Called It Book Review

    A Child Called It Book Review

    A Child Called “It” by David Pelzer is his own autobiography of his life as a child being abused by his alcoholic mother, Catherine Roerva Pelzer, who isolates him from the family, then abuses him, and nearly killed him through starvation, poisoning, and once stabbing him. Since Mother starved him for days, he began to steal food in order to survive, and when she finds out he has stolen food, she abuses him with her

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    Essay Length: 425 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Why We Can’t Wait

    The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Why We Can’t Wait

    The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in his book Why We Can’t Wait, quite correctly named the civil rights struggles of the mid-twentieth century the Third American Revolution. Though it is most often attributed to the 1960s the civil rights movement found it’s start in the decade before that, the ‘peaceful 50s’. The civil rights movement actually started with legal battles before moving into the streets of American cities. The Supreme Court ordered the

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    Essay Length: 528 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Artur
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    Essay Martin Luther King Jr. once said "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy". One has to agree with Dr. King because in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Atticus Finch, a man of morals and values, is himself put into complicated situations but still retains his dignity and beliefs in the trying moments of parenthood

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    Essay Length: 481 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Spurgeon: Heir of the Puritans Book Report

    Spurgeon: Heir of the Puritans Book Report

    "Spurgeon, Heir of the Puritans" by Ernest W. Bacon is the biography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, one of our greatest leaders in the church. Although he never attended theology school, he became one of the most popular preachers in London at the age of 21. Hailing crowds of thousands, for over forty years, he was one of the most influential preachers of all time. Not only was he an amazing preacher, but he also

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    Essay Length: 1,775 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Max
  • Grapes of Wrath Book Report

    Grapes of Wrath Book Report

    The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived. The novel tells of one family's migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930's. The bank took possession of their land because the owners could not pay off their loan. The novel shows how the Joad family deals with moving to California, and how

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    Essay Length: 1,153 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Martin Luther King

    Martin Luther King

    Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Jon
  • Martin Luther King Vs Malcolm X

    Martin Luther King Vs Malcolm X

    Two Black Leaders in a League of Their Own African Americans are fortunate to have leaders who fought for a difference in Black America. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are two powerful men in particular who brought hope to blacks in the United States. Both preached the same message about Blacks having power and strength in the midst of all the hatred that surrounded them. Even though they shared the same dream of

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    Essay Length: 1,949 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Edward
  • Martin Luther King

    Martin Luther King

    Letter to the Editor In my opinion, the Civil Rights Movement did achieve its goal of equality through one man by the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This striving African American came of age during a time when Jim Crow laws reigned supreme, a time when separate but equal was the accepted doctrine, a time when things were always separate but never equal for blacks. This was a time when blacks were not

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    Essay Length: 667 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Edward
  • Napoleon Book Review

    Napoleon Book Review

    The ideas of modern war can lead back to the 18th century during a certain campaign by a French military leader. This military leader was named Napoleon Bonaparte. He started a campaign against Western Europe that defined war and his strategies echoed throughout time up until the Second World War. His strategic plans were legendary up until his biggest mistake, which was invading Russia during its winter during the battles in the Waterloo Campaign. Before

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    Essay Length: 1,431 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Edward
  • Wave- Book Review

    Wave- Book Review

    A BOOK REVIEW of The Wave by Morton Rhue This story, based on a true incident that occurred in a high school in California, demonstrates how easily a group can lose its freedom without even realising it. It all began when their history teacher, Mr. Ben Ross, let them watch a movie on how the Nazis in World War 2 tortured the people who opposed them. To give them a clearer picture, he decided to

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    Essay Length: 450 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Jon
  • Outsiders Book Report

    Outsiders Book Report

    BOOK REPORT: “The Outsiders” 1. Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders. New York: Puffin Books, 1967 2. The title of this book relates to the story, because in the book, Ponyboy and Johnny are “outsiders.” They can be thought of as Outsiders because they are labeled Greasers although they do not act like hoodlums, like the rest of the Greasers. They are thought of as Greasers just because they live on the East Side of town, and

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    Essay Length: 1,927 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Janna
  • The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr “White people hate black people and black people hate white p eople.” The previous phrase was instilled into the minds of many Americans, black and white, as a heavily divided nation fatally fought internally for equal rights. For some, it wasn’t equal rights that was being fought for, but to keep a racially segregated nation racially divided. All of these feelings were crucially altered by a Nobel Prize

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    Essay Length: 548 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Top
  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King Jr.

    Dream. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. A dream of freedom, of complete brother hood, the true American dream, the dream of full equality. King was one of history's most influential leaders of racial justice. King organized marches, speeches, and much more to motivate the Africans of America to fight for their rights. His political philosophy and strong beliefs helped lead our nation to the racial justice we have today. Dreams King speaks of

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    Essay Length: 1,292 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • 1984 - Book Review

    1984 - Book Review

    Orwell, George. 1984 New York: Signet Classic, 1949. 245 pages. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” I cannot emphasize how much I loved that sentence, which happened to be the first sentence of the amazing story, 1984. I like the fact that it takes a while to comprehend, as you think to yourself, “Clocks strike thirteen?” Well, after a moment of thought I realized that the community

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    Essay Length: 3,143 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Book of Job

    The Book of Job

    The Book of Job is not simply a story, but a fable, rich with meaning and lessons to be learned. I found Job to be one of the most interesting accounts in the Bible, especially because it attempts to rationalize human suffering and the ways of the Lord. It seems to me that the idea came first, and a story was found to fit it, or one was made up, but that the entire reason

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    Essay Length: 2,230 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Book Report: Slavery in Florida

    Book Report: Slavery in Florida

    The book entitled Slavery In Florida was written in 2000 by Larry E. Rivers. Rivers is a professor of history at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. He is also the author of more than twenty articles in refereed scholarly journals, including the Florida Historical Quarterly and the Journal of Negro History. His work has earned the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s Carter G. Woodson Award and the Florida Historical

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Jack
  • The Book of Job

    The Book of Job

    RECOMMENDATION FOR SIDDHARTHA I highly recommend Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, it is an excellent book. People that are seeking and trying to find their destination should definitely pick this book up .For so many of us are in search for peace and true meaning of life. After reading this book everyone will take a look at their own life and start to reevaluate it. You will not only look at your life but other’s

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    Essay Length: 516 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Books Vs Movies

    Books Vs Movies

    May 16th, 2005 When it comes to either watching movies or reading books the latter is, by far, the better option. In countless situations books have been made into movies but in each instance the book prevails. There are many reasons for this but the strongest factor is imagination. For example, in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ by Ken Kesey the setting takes place on a ward in a hospital. In the movie the

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: regina

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