Book report

cannot find it. Alone Together made me realize that I depend on technology, and technology is an important factor in my life because I have allowed technology to control me. Turkle your book provides great examples when it comes to explaining how people allow technology to shape who they are. Throughout your entire book you constantly make us think and wonder…

Count Your Blessings One of this year’s Sunshine State books by Holly Goldberg Sloan entitled “Counting by 7s” is by far one of this year’s preeminent Sunshine State books. I personally believe you will take pleasure in reading this novel about loss, friendship, and love. A young genius girl named Willow Chance learns to bond with other people and has to find a new family after her parents died in a car accident. The main characters in the book are Willow Chance, Mai, Quang-ha, and Pattie…

about checking the cars of his rivals for the upcoming Race Wars, a street racing event in the desert. Convinced, Brian, Vince and Dominic check Tran's garage, and Brian notices a shipment of electronics in the garage. Afterwards, they leave. Brian reports the shipment of electronics to his superiors at the LAPD and FBI, and they arrest Tran and Lance. However, they are released on bail and the raid proves to be a bust, since the only charges are illegal owning of small weaponry and all the…

Fahrenheit 451 Including, the book “Fahrenheit 451” written by Ray Bradbury, the beginning of the book tells the reader about the main character Montag. Montag is a firefighter, but he doesn’t fight fires like a firefighter does today, He is part of a fire fighting group that goes house to house seeing if there are books, and if they find the books they burn them. The reason these firefighters burn books is because they have a politic where you can’t read books, because the leaders in this…

The book “Heart Disease” is very intriguing but very boring at the same time. As you can tell this book is about Heart Disease In this book, the main topic is Heart Disease. It talks about how Heart Disease causes lot of deaths in USA which is interesting because I thought there were more deaths in the USA caused by guns. In the first chapter it explains what Heart Disease is for people who are unsure about what it is about and what it is. The book also describes some symptoms and diagnostics…

Today marks seven years since Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner, Jacob Marley, has died. Scrooge is an old man that hates happiness and Christmas. Today happens to be Christmas Eve. While Scrooge is sitting at his desk, his nephew, Fred, comes in the door singing carols. Ebenezer is not very happy about it. Fred proceeds to ask his uncle to attend his party tomorrow but is quickly turned down. Once he leaves, Scrooge turns to his clerk, Bob Cratchit, and gives him the day off paid, which he…

According to the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Skillet discusses Henrietta’s background and mentions a place by the name of Turner Station which in the day was a steel Mill and shipyard this is also the same place that African American men would go if they could no longer find homes or jobs. In order to grasp a better understanding of Turner station we will look at the origin, what it was like back in the 50’s and what it is like today. Although Turner Station…

We all very much aware that travels aren't exactly sheltered nowadays. In any case managing darkened passages and filthy toilets can gauge up to what the 850 travelers of the Sultan of the Seas experience in Stephen Coonts' most recent novel, "Pirate Alley." They're caught by Somali pirates who undermine to murder everyone on board in the event that they're not repaid 200 American dollars. What's more to show they mean business, the pirates off a couple of the Sultan's passengers. As frightful…

in his book The New Rules of Marketing & PR. In the past few years, both have changed dramatically in what Scott calls “the most important communication revolution in human history” (p. 28). The old school methods of communication have become outdated and the presence of truly understanding and connecting with the customer has taken over the market. Marketing is no longer simply selling a product, it is selling the brand. This key-concept is constantly referred back to throughout the book in…

During the Christmas break, I wanted to begin reading a book, but I couldn’t choose one. I relied on other people’s recommendations to make a decision. I remembered Paola telling me that she enjoyed reading Mexican WhiteBoy when the class turned in the projects last semester. I asked her if she would recommend the book, and she told me great things about Mexican WhiteBoy. After the conversation, I quickly made the decision to choose it as my book. I chose my project because of how the baseball…