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A Reading Report on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (474 words, 1 pages)

nameA.P. EnglishMrs. SmithGatsby EssayThe Great GatsbyThe Characters in the book are static characters because everything that happens to them does not affect how they act on any permanent basis. Gatsbys personality never changes from his smug, rich, party host for more than a hour or two. Tom and daisy Buchanan ... Read More

A Reading Report on The Angry Horsemen by Lewis B. Patton (794 words, 3 pages)

Book Report on THE ANGRY HORSEMENTitle of Book The Angry HorsemenAuthor of book Lewis B. PattonMain setting of book The main settings of the book were Johnny Toothakers ranch,T.T.s Ranch and The west.Main Characters Identified and described Johnny Toothaker- Johnny is a no non-sense kind of guy. He is a ... Read More

Survival and Cooperation in Alive by Piers Paul Read (959 words, 4 pages)

The book ALIVE, by Piers Paul Read identified many possible themes, although I do think there are two that stand out. These two themes are survival and cooperation. Survival plays a major throughout the entire story. The most gruesome part in the story occurred when the remaining 28 passengers of ... Read More

A Reading Report on Captain Courageous and a Biography of Rudyard Kipling (949 words, 2 pages)

My story was Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. This was referred to as a childrens nautical adventure story, but has entertained audiences for generations. The main character in the story was Harvey Cheyne. Harvey is the son of a millionaire and a snobbish little brat. He acts pretty big around ... Read More

A Reading Report on 1984 by George Orwell (3007 words, 15 pages)

1984 1984 is a political parable. George Orwell wrote the novel to showsociety what it could become if things kept getting worse. The firstparagraph of the book tells the reader of the "swirl of grittydust....The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats." Just fromthese few lines Orwell makes ... Read More

A Reading Report on Emer’s Ghost by Catherine Sefton (1489 words, 2 pages)

Emers GhostFor this months book report I read a book called Emers Ghost by Catherine Sefton. This book was about a girl named Emer who lives in Northern Ireland. She knows a man named Mr.Bannon who has a hidey-hole where he keeps things, and it is a very secret place. ... Read More

A Reading Report on A Separate Peace by John Knowles (414 words, 1 pages)

A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a complex novel that portrays war in many different forms. Gene Forrester was attending Devon School during World War II. This was a representation of different wars he was having within himself. Gene was feeling a kind of jealousy toward his friend Finny. ... Read More

A Reading Report on A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor (1321 words, 2 pages)

A Look at Flannery OConnors A Good Man is Hard to FindBy Amy CarrIn the short story A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery OConnor uses many different tactics to accurately portray the south in the 1950s. OConnor uses her style, themes, and point of view to tell a ... Read More

A Reading Report on Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (455 words, 1 pages)

Enemy of the PeopleThe book I read was written by Ibsen and called Enemy of the People. There were nine characters in this book but only five main characters. Dr. Stockmann, Hovstad, Aslaksen, Peter, and Billing. The protagonist was Doctor Stockmann. He has just discovered that a bathing complex that ... Read More

A Reading Report on Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (634 words, 1 pages)

Fifth Business In the essay Fifth Business, each of the main character traits is developed more and more clearly throughout their lives. Childhood characteristics are evident in the characters of Dustan Ramsay, Percy Boyd Stauton and Paul Dempster. All paranoia, and memories of the town of Deptford are resurfaced in ... Read More

A Reading Report on Cormyr by Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb (1011 words, 2 pages)

I chose this particular book mainly because of the authors. I have read previous books written by them and I liked their works. Another thing that caught my attention was the size of the book. I have never read anything larger than 300 pages.The name of this book is called ... Read More

A Reading Report on The Communist Manifest by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (10373 words, 13 pages)

Chapter 1 Summary Bourgeois and ProletariansThe Communist Manifesto begins with Marx's famous generalization that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" (79). Marx describes these classes in terms of binary oppositions, with one party as oppressor, the other as oppressed. While human societies have ... Read More

A Reading Report on The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (309 words, 2 pages)

BOOK REPORTTITLE The Chocolate WarAUTHOR Robert CormierPUBLICATION DATE 1974PLACE SETTING The story is set in New York.TIME SETTING The story takes place in the modern day.POINT OF VIEW The story is told in third person.THEMEThe theme is fighting the establishment. Jerry is all by himself against the Vigilsand, it seems, ... Read More

A Reading Report on A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan (1695 words, 3 pages)

A Bright Lie Shining John Paul Vann and America in VietnamNeil Sheehan has used this novel to tell the story of the Vietnam conflict utilizing the perspective of one of its most respected characters. This is the story of John P. Vann who first came to Vietnam as a Lieutenant ... Read More

A Reading Report on Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (987 words, 2 pages)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaSome time ago, I decided to read Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, by Jules Verne. I figured that because it was so well known it must be an extremely interesting book. In addition, it was science fiction, the one area that I was always ... Read More

A Reading Report on Commanders of the Army of the Potomac by Warren Hassler Jr. (1721 words, 2 pages)

In his civil war book Commanders of the Army of the Potomac Warren Hassler Jr. fantastically recounts the events that transpired between 1861 to 1865 during which seven men were given the reigns of the North's Army of the Potomac and asked to lead the Union to victory. However, one ... Read More

A Reading Report on The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (679 words, 1 pages)

Imagine walking into a town that normally populates 48 vivacious residents, and discovering 46 non-moving non-living bodies. There are no guns, no bombs, and no visible pre-manufactured weapons of any sort. A few minutes later death strikes, observations can no longer be made, and a black curtain falls.This is what ... Read More

A Reading Report on Cleopatra by Don Nardo (1218 words, 2 pages)

II. SummaryAfter the completion of the book, it had let me to believe the book was written for the general audience. Although the author provided many resources, the information was taken from literature that was written during the time. Therefore, some of the quotes were biased either against or favored ... Read More

A Reading Report on The Reagan Years by Hooding Carter (1969 words, 3 pages)

Through all my research and studying on Hooding Carter, I came up with absolutely nothing. I looked through different web sites such as www.biblographies.com and many other sites and search engines to find the authors credentials and none appeared. The closest find was from his book titles in which I ... Read More

A Reading Report on Anthem by Ayn Rand (732 words, 1 pages)

The book Anthem was written by Ayn Rand and was first published by Signet in 1961. The book was about a boy and a girl trying to find themselves. They do not follow the rules. They do the opposite of what they are supposed to do. Eventually they discover the ... Read More

An Analysis and Assessment of Heart Rate, Blood Pressure and Pulse Oximeter Readings (1177 words, 4 pages)

IntroductionThis study assessed heart rate, blood pressure, and pulse oximeter readings at rest and during exercise. The heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP), and oximetery measurements provide better insight into the inner workings of the human body. In using the results of the assessment, one can determine the affects that ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of the Isolation, Dread and Nightmares (388 words, 2 pages)

Truman Streckfus PersonsIsolation, dread, nightmares. These are just to name a few of the topics that I Truman Capote, feel that most of my stories are about. I was born in 1924 to a salesman and a 16-year-old beauty queen in New Orleans. My parents got divorced when I was ... Read More

Ignorance Cannot Prevent the Spread of AIDS (3422 words, 4 pages)

AIDS - What's new ? Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue to stop many from taking adequate precautions. We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting ... Read More

An Introduction to the Effects of Using Poetry as a Tool to Increase Phonemic Awareness and Reading Achievement in a Third Grade Classroom (859 words, 3 pages)

The Effects of Using Poetry as a Tool to Increase Phonemic Awarenessand Reading Achievement in a Third Grade ClassroomChapter 1 IntroductionToday many children are having difficulty learning to read. Some parents are complaining about public schools not doing their job. On standardized tests, the reading scores are low and many ... Read More

Spreading Christianity Through the Tenth Century (1345 words, 3 pages)

Frank 1Throughout the late tenth century in Scandinavia, many societies were adversely affected by the spread of Christianity. The Vikings were traditionally a pagan community believing in many gods and heathen rituals, such as human and material sacrifice. Through the influence of powerful Christian rulers many Vikings did convert to ... Read More

An Interpretation of Allison Baker’s Better Be Ready About Half Past Eight (594 words, 1 pages)

After reading Allison Bakers Better Be Ready Bout Half Past Eight it made me realize that discovering ones self is a situation our world is going through right now. In her short story one of Allison Bakers main characters, Zach tells his best friend of thirty-eight years that he is ... Read More

How the McGuffey Readers Helped Shape the Young Minds of Millions of Children (1109 words, 4 pages)

The McGuffey Readers helped to shape the young minds of millions of children. Used as a learning tool, they could be found in school rooms everywhere, especially in the Midwest. For some people, they were the only source of reading material available. They were very widely published, second only to ... Read More

The Breadth of Cultural Anthropology (1861 words, 2 pages)

There are lots of areas of study out there but the one field that intrigues peoples and civilizations is the actual study of themselves and how they interact with other human cultures. I dont think that I would have enrolled for this class if it hadnt been for the minor ... Read More

The Origins of Romanticism and Its Spread in Cultures of the World (1804 words, 3 pages)

Romanticism (literature), a movement in the literature of virtually every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that lasted from about 1750 to about 1870, characterized by reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression, and an idealization of nature. The term romantic ... Read More

Factors Affecting the Spreading of Globalization Around the World (675 words, 1 pages)

Gripping his cup of mocha as if it were a necessary drug, my friend Peppy LeHaji sternly versed his opinion at me one day, Globalization is the name of the game, he said, In todays world, things change so fast that history is irrelevant. After stating his opinion, he repositioned ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013