Stranger Book Report Essays and Term Papers
909 Essays on Stranger Book Report. Documents 26 - 50
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Redwall Book Report
Redwall is about a young mouse named Matthias. He lived in an abbey called Redwall. Redwall was a nice, peaceful place until a rat called Cluny the Scourge came with his horde and tried to take it over. The night before the citizens of Redwall knew that Cluny was coming, Matthias and Brother Alf had caught a giant fish that was big enough to feed all of the animals inside of Redwall so they
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Book Report: The Judgement of Paris
Book Report: The Judgement of Paris The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meissonier, and an Artistic Revolution contrasts the lives and artistic struggles of two painters against the backdrop of life in Paris. In the 1860s Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in Europe. His fame was built on his thoroughly detailed, realistic depiction of historical subjects. Meissonier sold his works for record prices and could afford to spend years working on them
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Grapes of Wrath Book Report
Facts about the author: · John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Salinas is known as the "salad bowl of the nation" · Throughout his life, Steinbeck used Pigasus, a flying pig, to symbolize himself. Some of his reasons for doing so - "a lumbering soul but trying to fly" and "not enough wingspread but plenty of intention" · Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath in
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Sit-Down Book Report
Sit-down is a historical non-fiction book. It depicts the events of the 1936-1937 strike at General Motors plants in Flint and around the country. The author of this book is Sidney Fine. In this report you will learn what I learned about the struggle between Corporations and the beginning of unionization. Sit-down is about the General Motors Sit-down strike of 1936-1937. This strike was mainly about the right for workers to represent themselves through collective
Rating:Essay Length: 477 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 14, 2010 -
Frankenstein Book Report Essay
Frankenstein In the story “Frankenstein,” written by the author Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein decided that wanted to create a being out of people that were already dead. He believed that he could bring people back from the grave. Playing with nature in such a way would make him play the role of God. With Victor Frankenstein feeling that he had no true friends, the only relief he had of expressing his feeling was through
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Book Report - a Farewell to Arms
I have read the book ”A Farewell to Arms” written by Ernest Hemingway in 1929. Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Illinois, USA. When he was young the First World War broke out and he decided to join the Italian army as an ambulance driver. After the war he worked as a correspondent in Europe. As a correspondent he visited France, Spain and Greece, and among other things reported from the Spanish Civil War.
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Book Report - My Sister My Sorrow
Book Report “My Sister, My Sorrow” by Bebe Faas Rice, explores the natural human reactions to death, sickness and love. It delves into sibling rivalry, adolescent fear and stereotypes and gives insight into how beautiful the world seems when your life is on the line. “Leukemia is one of those diseases that creep up on you suddenly and catch you by surprise” ‘The story revolves around her thoughts and feelings towards friends, family, the meaning
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Lord Loss Book Report
Lord Loss Lord Loss was written by Darren Shan. It was published by Little Brown and Company in October 2005. Choosing this book came down to the captivating graphics and title on the cover of the book. This book tells a story a horrifically traumatized young man, Grubbs Grady, who after witnessing the brutal murder of his parents and older sister, learns of a haunting family secret and is forced to face the same terrifying
Rating:Essay Length: 476 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: January 17, 2010 -
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Book Reports
Ruby Pena 7D Summaries Opinion Rikki-tikki-tavi This story is about a mongoose named Rikki-tikki-tavi who goes home with a boy. These snakes named Nag and Nagaina watch Rikki kill one of their snake friends and get worried that they are next. One night Rikki finds Nag in the bathroom and then kills him but Nagaina thinks that it was humans that killed Nag. Nagaina set out to kill the humans but Rikki was ahead of
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Running with Scissors Book Report
The awe-inspiring and mordantly funny childhood that we encounter in Augusten Burroughs memoir “Running with Scissors” is far from the ordinary. “Running with Scissors” was rated #1 New York Times Bestseller and has since been made into a Major Motion Picture, which has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award. Augusten is put into a weird situation when he is forced to spend most of his life in a run-down, dirty house with his mother’s
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Book Report on "the Taming of the Shrew"
The author of The Taming of the Shrew was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare lived from around April 23, 1564 to April 23, 1616. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582 and together they had three children, two girls and a boy (who died at the age of twelve). He wrote thirty-seven plays. His last play, Henry VIII, was written two years before his death. The Taming of the Shrew begins with the discovery of a drunkard, Christopher
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Huckleberry Finn Book Report
Will Mullin Per. G/H The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck’s Internal Battle The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Samuel L. Clemens, who is also known by his pen name Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was Twain’s first book relating to adventure stories for boys. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn stars Tom Sawyers comrade, Huck. Huck is rough around the edges but a real good kid and softy at heart. Huck had
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The Great Gatsby Book Report
The roaring twenties truly were roaring with the lavish, extravagant lifestyle of parties and immorality. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald attributes to this lifestyle. In the novel, the narrator Nick Carraway moves to Long Island and develops relationships with Jay Gatsby and Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Fitting perfectly with the theme of the twenties, Tom Buchanan has a woman on the side named Myrtle Wilson. Soon after, the reader is informed that Gatsby
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Scorpia Book Report
“Go to Venice find your destiny, find Scorpia” Scorpia, the 5th installment of the swift-paced and best-selling 'Alex rider' series by Anthony Horowitz, does not disappoint in any manner. In some aspects I personally would consider it the best book of the series so far. The book, similar to the others in the series, is focused on Alex Rider and his life as a teenage spy, and how he deals with the issues sharing a
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A Critical Book Report on Lawrence Wright's the Looming Tower
A critical book report on Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower. Introduction The September 11th terrorist hijackings and attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon caught the United States largely by surprise. Once the dust had settled, and the shock and horror of such an unprecedented event had waned, the American public began to ask questions. Names such as Osama bin Laden, countries such as Afghanistan, and organizations such as Al-Qaeda were brought into
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Botchan Book Report
Botchan Book Report The book Botchan is a book written by Natsume Soseki. It revolves around a young teacher whose nickname is Botchan. His real name is never mentioned in the story. He is a teacher from Tokyo who ends up teaching in a middle school in Matsuyama, which is located on the island of Shikoku. The school different in very different in some way but it is also similar. The middle school he goes
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A Critical Book Report in as I Lay Dying
A Critical Book Report in As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying is a novel written by William Faulkner in 1930. William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons of Murry and Maud Butler Falkner (he later added the “u” to the family name himself). “His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in the history of northern Mississippi who served as a
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The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Book Report
The Invisible Man is the story of a young black man whose name the reader never learns. He is a young man from the South who is haunted by his grandfather's deathbed warning against conforming to the wishes of white people because the young man sees that as the way to be successful. The narrator's first real glimpse at the cruel manipulation of white people comes when he is invited to the local men's
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Book Report on Jarhead, by Anthony Swafford
The novel “Jarhead,” by Anthony Swafford is a first hand account of the Gulf War in early 1990. I really enjoyed reading this book. It was very honest account of his experience, and while he wasn’t actually in any combat situations, it was fascinating to see what life was like overseas. Swafford also often incorporates stories and information from his home life, which shows the reader how he got to where he is today. I
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Night Book Report
Eliezer is a 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy living with his family in the Transylvanian town of Sighet. Eliezer is the only son of the family, and his parents are shopkeepers. His father is a highly respected within Sighet’s Jewish community. Eliezer also 2 older sisters, Hilda and Bйa, and a younger sister named Tzipora. Eliezer is taught Jewish mysticism under Moshe, a local pauper. In 1944 German armies occupy Hungary, and soon move into
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When Worlds Collide Book Report
Shari Davies was once a carefree, optimistic young woman. This all changed one night twenty years ago, giving way to an unexpected course of injury, pain, fear, and anger. On November 5, 1986, Shari was abducted, raped, and almost killed (Davies, 1997, pp. 3-4). Rape is a very horrible crime that affects its victims both physically and psychologically, and these affects can last for years (Cooper, 2004). Shari even admits in the book that
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Book Report
Andrew hand Persuasive essay hand 1 Reed honors Lit. Period 5 The current drinking age is an outrage, all it does is let the desire to drink build up in an adolescent and once they reach the age of twenty one they abuse alcohol tremendously there has even been a very serious problem In which young drinkers don’t drink all the time but when they do its almost like a binge and their body’s take
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The Giver Book Report
Summary The Giver Lois Lowry This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice. You have to apply for a spouse. You cannot just chose who you want and marry them, the community does it for you.
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Book Reports
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Book Report on the Five People You Meet in Heaven
Book Report On The Five People You Meet in Heaven This isn’t technically a book that I read when I was in the properly defined age group, but looking back at this book it is probably the book that has had the largest impact on my life, and had it been out when I was younger would have been a book that I would have read. I read this book after I had finished
Rating:Essay Length: 1,124 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: April 1, 2010