Book report

Navajo: History and Culture into an encyclopedia page because the book had so much information. I wanted to really utilize all the information from the book and the best way I thought I could do this is…

The first thing that grabbed my attention about the book was that Annie, the main character, was making it seem like her life with her family was almost picture perfect. Yet once her and her husband Blake got home from dropping their daughter off at the airport, he told her that he wanted a divorce. This is just the beginning of change happening to Alice in the book On Mystic Lake written by Kristin Hannah. The change is just beginning and many choices are being made by Annie within her love…

In 1868, according to the website, Frances received her teacher’s diploma and returned back home where she taught in a private school and served the poor through charity (para. 8). As mentioned in the website, in 1880, Frances along with seven young women funded and started, the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Frances and the sisters wanted to become missionaries in China, however after visiting Rome to obtain an audience with Pope Leo XII. The Pope advised…

Three years after the outbreak in Reston, Richard Preston, the author of this book, travels to Kitum Cave to inspect it for himself. He does not break out with Ebola, nor does he find anything that would transfer Ebola. It leaves us with the question of whether Kitum Cave is dormant, and if one day, Ebola will revive, and a massive…

knows how many deaths. We covered what we feel is an arrest-able offense and while the crime happened overseas, our belief is, he is profiting off of this crime here in the United States and we are sure somewhere within the thousands of laws on the books, somewhere there is something written that the DA could use to charge him with. Related story Wildlife Planet Calls For The Arrest of Marc Ching One of the many nagging questions we have is why would Marc Ching, knowing that there were…

1. Camp 14 was written by Blaine Harden about one man's journey to freedom. Shin Dong-hyuk is the first child born in a North Korean political prison camp to escape from a camp. The novel starts with comparing the differences between Kim Un Jong, the main character, and the injustice in North Korean's society and justice system. The author describes Kim Jong Un as living above the law as a communist prince because of his parentage, and Shin living below the law because his blood was tainted by…

Brian Dudley a 16 year old boy that was recently hired to be the batboy for his favorite major league baseball team, the Detroit Tigers. He lives with only his mother but misses the presence of his father Cole Dudley. Who himself had pitched for the Detroit Tigers and several other major league baseball teams himself. His father now plays in Japan where he looks to revitalize his chances of playing in the big leagues again. Ironically Brian Dudley despite having the baseball genes and…

“Laurent Clerc: The Story of His Early Years” is a book based upon Laurent Clerc life as a deaf child and how he comes to find of others who were also deaf and learn school. In the first few chapter of the book Laurent Clerc is living at home with his family in La Balme. His mother takes him to see doctors and check him out but no one could seem to see what was wrong with him. They would perform all sorts of test on the boy, such as putting medicine in his ears. None of the doctor’s methods…

will respect you.” (Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching.) This quote about Taoism not only describes how I feel about Taoism but about life in general. The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff has helped me better understand the principles of Taoism. I enjoy reading this book because it helps to further understand why it is important to just be yourself and not try to conform to what society wants or expects you to be. The two topics I found the most interesting in Benjamin Hoff's The Tao of Pooh is the Cottleston…

a hike that most never fathom of doing while they are extremely under prepared physically, mentally, and emotionally. They don’t know what they’re in for and have many mishaps along the way. The book is a narrative written by Bryson himself as an account of his story along the Appalachian Trail. This book relates to an experience I had when I hiked the Appalachian Trail for six days. While reading A Walk in the Woods I thought back to my own adventures in which we met a hiker similar to Bryson…