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  • Sherlock Holmes Book Report

    Sherlock Holmes Book Report

    Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Date of Publication: 2009 Why is this text a biography/autobiography? Sherlock Holmes is considered a fictional character; however, through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's acute description of the character through the view of Dr. John Watson, who is Sherlock Holmes' most trusted assistant, friend, and flatmate, we can consider this book (which has a collection of twelve stories) a biography of Holmes. What area/field is

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    Essay Length: 610 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2012 Essay by Incantation
  • Book Review - Organizing Relationships - Patricia M. Sias

    Book Review - Organizing Relationships - Patricia M. Sias

    Book Review Organizing Relationships In Patricia M. Sias's book Organizing Relationships: Traditional and Emerging Perspectives on Workplace relationships, the author gives total theoretical perspectives as evidence in chapter one, discusses supervisor and subordinate relationships in chapter two, discusses the peer coworker relationships in chapter three, gives overview and insight of functions of workplace friendships. Chapter four discusses workplace friendships both positively and negatively, which personally, was this writer's favorite chapter. In chapter five the author

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    Essay Length: 1,332 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2012 Essay by people
  • The Analysis of Mark Twain's Speech Books, Authors, and Hats

    The Analysis of Mark Twain's Speech Books, Authors, and Hats

    The Analysis of Mark Twain's speech Books, Authors, and Hats A humorist is a person who is skillful in the use of humor, as in writing, talking, or acting. This one word is the best way to describe Mark Twain's personality. The speech that Mark Twain presented in London to the Pilgrims Club, in 1907, titled Books, Authors, and Hats, with an introduction by William Dean Howells, who quoted Mr. Birrell, who spoke highly of

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    Essay Length: 650 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2012 Essay by kaveryo11
  • To Kill a Mockingbird Movie Vs Book

    To Kill a Mockingbird Movie Vs Book

    I. Introduction 1.) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is one of the most famous novels in American literature. A. Sooner or later someone would make it into a movie following the book. B. There are many similarities, as well as differences, between the movie and the book. II. Body #1 1.) The book and the movie were the same in some ways. A. Both book and movie involved a black man accused of

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    Essay Length: 281 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 1, 2012 Essay by people
  • Difference Between Movie and Book; in the Time of the Butterflies

    Difference Between Movie and Book; in the Time of the Butterflies

    DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MOVIE AND BOOK; IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES There is a lot differences between movie and book. Basically, they have very different point of views. In the book, Julia Alvarez focuses on all the four sisters' inner thoughts. We could I believe that the book by Julia Alvarez and the movie that came after it have strong thematically differences. Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is a novel that has

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    Essay Length: 321 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 5, 2012 Essay by people
  • Analyzing Cause and Effect "the Big Suck", and " an Ordinary Soldier of the Queen"

    Analyzing Cause and Effect "the Big Suck", and " an Ordinary Soldier of the Queen"

    Analyzing Cause and Effects: "The Big Suck", and "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel. This was a statement made by Albert Einstein

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    Essay Length: 1,095 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 8, 2012 Essay by lauren1988
  • Mummy - Book Report

    Mummy - Book Report

    This book is called 'Mummy', which is published by Scholastic Inc. The author is called Caroline B. Coney, which has total 213 pages. The story is about 5 students in high school wanted to steal a mummy that lies in the museum, the mummy was 3000 years old already. There are rumors which said that there are gold inside the mummy which cover the mummy from the head to the toes. The students had decided

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    Essay Length: 333 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 8, 2012 Essay by people
  • A Book Review: The Civil Rights Movement

    A Book Review: The Civil Rights Movement

    A Book Review: The Civil Rights Movement Analysis Of The Authors' Content. Student's Name Course Number (), Semester (), Class () Professor's Name April 23, 2011 Table Of Contents. 1.0 Introduction... 3 2.0 Content Analysis.................................................................3-6 3.0. Conclusion...........................................................................6 4.0 Works Cited.........................................................................7 1.0 Introduction. The Civil Rights Movement is a one-stop study guide for secondary school and college attending students, the author utilizes simplified language to bring forth a clear analysis of past struggles to gain liberties

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    Essay Length: 1,279 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 14, 2012 Essay by people
  • Book Review -N Lois W Banner

    Book Review -N Lois W Banner

    Book Review on Lois W Banner Lois W. Banner is the exquisite author of the book Elizabeth Cady Stanton: A Radical for Woman's Rights. Lois Banner explains how one woman ultimately changed the world and how society views women as individuals and as a group. Banner goes into great detail about how Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a daughter, a wife, a mother, a politician and a reformist. But most importantly, Stanton made time for fun.

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    Essay Length: 1,273 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 14, 2012 Essay by people
  • Freakonomics: Book Review Assignment

    Freakonomics: Book Review Assignment

    Chapter 1: An incentive is an action made with choosing an alternate or a decision that is suitable to them. Like a $3 sin tax on cigarettes, the decision to still buy the cigarettes is the customers' choice and the government is the enforcer. With the study of the daycare in Israeli when the owners' charged a $3 late fee, most parents were not affected, but what if the late fee was almost tripled. Leaving

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    Essay Length: 1,850 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2012 Essay by people
  • My King, My Friend a Book Report

    My King, My Friend a Book Report

    In King Lear, there are different relationships between masters and servants. Lear is the king who gives all of his land to two of his daughters, Goneril and Regan. Lear's daughters then proceed to degrade him and to get rid of his followers. In a rage over the loss of power, Lear goes out into a storm, challenging it to kill him. In the end, his third daughter, Cordelia, who has married the prince of

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    Essay Length: 529 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 22, 2012 Essay by people
  • There Is No Frigate like a Book Review

    There Is No Frigate like a Book Review

    There is no Frigate like a Book By Emily Dickinson Dickinson's poem "There is no Frigate like a Book" is both an emotional and enlightening in that the reader can sense the author is joyous over the thought of books and what they can and do represent. However it is also a poem which highlights the generational gap between Dickinson's time and ours. 1. Type of Poem - Quatrain, level of Rhyme 2. Use of

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    Essay Length: 895 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2012 Essay by pt061309
  • A Christmas Carol Book Report

    A Christmas Carol Book Report

    A christmas Carol Characters Scrooge: Scrooge is a lonely old and cold man who is avaricious and unfriendly with anyone who tries to be in contact with him. His days consist of saving money, counting money and making money as an accountant. All he thinks about is money and that seems to be the most important thing in his life until he experiences a life-changing event. After facing three ghosts and realizing his major mistakes,

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    Essay Length: 833 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2012 Essay by surfergirl44
  • Vanishing Children Book Review

    Vanishing Children Book Review

    Vanishing Children of Paris Just about everyone has heard the saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me"? Well, in this case sticks and stones do break bones along with words. Rumors can be a very powerful thing, especially in the 18th century in Paris. Nasty rumors caused the population to believe that a secret police ran through the streets abducting children for numerous reasons. These rumors put fear

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    Essay Length: 1,608 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2012 Essay by people
  • Book Review of "guns, Germs, and Steel"

    Book Review of "guns, Germs, and Steel"

    The book, "Guns, Germs, and Steel", was written by Jared Diamond, a professor of evolutionary biology at UCLA. Throughout the book, Diamond explained why history evolved differently for people from various geographical areas. He tried to prove his idea that it was geographical and environmental factors that gave some civilizations an advantage over others. He doesn't believe that some societies became less advanced than others due to deficiencies in genes or intelligence. At the beginning

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    Essay Length: 5,467 Words / 22 Pages
    Submitted: May 4, 2012 Essay by people
  • You Just Don't Understand - Book Review

    You Just Don't Understand - Book Review

    Book Paper The book You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen takes an interesting look at the reasons why males and females can leave a conversation with entirely different views about what was said. Men believe that conversations are used for negotiating to achieve social status in a hierarchy of social order. Women use conversing as a way to connect and become close. These specific needs cause differences and conflict

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    Essay Length: 1,746 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 20, 2012 Essay by cmm1022
  • The Fault in Our Stars Book Report

    The Fault in Our Stars Book Report

    The Fault In Our Stars By John Green List of Characters * Hazel Grace Lancaster * Augustus Waters * Isaac * Peter Van Houten * Mrs. Lancaster * Mr. Lancaster * Mrs. Waters * Mr. Waters * Julie Waters * Martha Waters * Lidewij Vliegenthart * Kaitlyn * Patrick * Caroline Mathers Character Analysis Hazel Grace Lancaster A. 16-year-old Hazel, or Hazel Grace, is the narrator of the novel living in Indiana. She was diagnosed

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    Essay Length: 878 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 23, 2012 Essay by people
  • The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous

    The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous

    The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous written in 1939 by William G. Wilson (more commonly known as Bill W.) and some original members of Alcoholics Anonymous is a brilliant textbook for the original 12 step program. The authors relate their personal experiences with alcoholism and how they found the path to recovery. The book is a remarkably motivating, self-help masterpiece for alcoholics that are willing to be open minded

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    Essay Length: 449 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 7, 2012 Essay by people
  • Tom Clancy's Op-Center-Games of State-Book Review

    Tom Clancy's Op-Center-Games of State-Book Review

    BOOK REVIEW OF TOM CLANCY'S OP-CENTER: GAMES OF STATE By: Tom Clancy Steve Pieczenik BOOK REVIEW SUBJECT: Book Review of Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Games of State 1. Reference. Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Games of State by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, published in New York by Berkley Books in 1996, 500 pages. 2. Recommendations a. Recommended Audience This is a fiction/thriller book created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik as an adult or young adult book

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    Essay Length: 2,918 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: July 3, 2012 Essay by sharpeu
  • Summary of the Books in Old Testament

    Summary of the Books in Old Testament

    Summary of the books of the Old Testament Books Exodus The book of Exodus is composed of narratives and law material written by Moses. The major themes are redemption, and deliverance from the enslavement of Egypt. The major events of Exodus describes the birth, the saga, and the call by God for Moses to lead his people out of Egypt, and out from under the rule of Pharaoh, and into the promised land of Canaan.

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    Essay Length: 890 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: August 5, 2012 Essay by people
  • Clan of the Cave Bear: Book Vs. Movie

    Clan of the Cave Bear: Book Vs. Movie

    The Clan of the Cave Bear is a story set during prehistoric times in the land between modern Europe and Asia. It tells the story of a Cro-Magnon girl named Ayla who becomes orphaned due to a frightening earthquake. Afterwards she wanders through the vast wilderness and eventually winds up in the hands of a Neanderthal woman named Iza who raises her into adulthood. The clan finds her nature very different from their own and

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    Essay Length: 840 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: August 15, 2012 Essay by people
  • The Book Zong

    The Book Zong

    The book Zong tells the story that cannot be told but must be told. The story starts in September 1781, the slave ship Zong set sail from the east coast of Africa bound for Jamaica under the command of Captain Luke Collingwood. The "cargo" consisted of 470 Africans. The word "cargo" is used instead of passengers, as this is how the slaves were treated. They were treated like property. There was an allotted time for

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    Essay Length: 972 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: August 26, 2012 Essay by kjupiter915
  • Entertainment of Books

    Entertainment of Books

    Ronak Shah Assignment- Make an interview with a character (minimum 10 questions and answers) Ronak: "Hello Greg." Greg: "Hello Ronak." Ronak: "Today I will ask you some questions basically about your lifestyle, family, school, etc." Greg: "No problem." Ronak: "Let's get started." Question 1 (Ronak): What is more important to you academics or popularity? Answer 1 (Greg): Well, you see I am an average kid living an average lifestyle. I want to be more than

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    Essay Length: 748 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: August 27, 2012 Essay by people
  • My Bible - the Book of Life

    My Bible - the Book of Life

    My Bible-The Book of Life A bible can be the most valuable book a Christian could own. As people grow in Christianity many of them want to be guided in the right direction. We are taught that the bible is guidance and the way to maintain a life of obedience. The bible is one of the greatest books published in the world and is also one of the most ever sold. Many Christians that own

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    Essay Length: 598 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: September 3, 2012 Essay by renelugo61
  • Who Moved My Cheese - Book Review

    Who Moved My Cheese - Book Review

    Executive Summary This paper is about the book Who Moved My Cheese? and change management in the work place. Who Moved My Cheese is by Dr. Spencer Johnson and provides an explanation of how to simplify the complexity of a change process through four fictional characters. Each character provides a different outlook on change and how to process it. Change management is defined as the process of ensuring that new interventions such as training practices

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    Essay Length: 2,720 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: September 16, 2012 Essay by people

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