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    novel written by Angie Thomas in 2017. This book opened at number one on The New York Times young adult best-seller list. The Hate You Give is about a teen girl named Starr Carter who is stuck between two worlds, Her rich, fancy, white school, and her poor black neighborhood. She navigates her way through this different terrain every day in her life until her worlds collide when she witnesses the fatal police shooting of her best friend, Khali, an unarmed black teen. Khali's death goes viral and…

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    where she was three-time given responsibility of all-league pick and which was named an NSCAA All-American. After high school, Morgan went to the University of California at Berkeley, where she led the Golden Bears to the NCAA Tournament in each of her four years . In 2008, she joined the United States get to the championship of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup,she scored the winning goal in the final against North Korea—which was named as the Goal of the Tournament and second-best Goal of the…

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    has spent the most time on the New York Times best seller list with a total of 216 weeks (New York Times Best Seller List). The plot in the novel is based around a murder, and goes through four murder trials. Yet, humans hate tragedy in real life. Whenever an act of terrorism or disaster strikes, everybody says how unfortunate it was, and why do things like that have to happen. Yet, humans love to read about the same thing they despise. This situation occurred in Shakespeare’s time as well.…

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    Daniel Pink is a best-selling non-fiction author who has written a quick read book on motivation in the workforce titled Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Non-fiction books can be uninteresting and difficult to get read and, Drive is neither, as evidenced by the fact that it was on the top of the New York Times best seller list for 159 weeks. Daniel Pink has authored a number of books, hosted a series on PBS on behavior science, and frequently is a guest on National Public…

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    and in 2003 his first novel The Kite Runner was published. Based on this novel, the film with the same name was released in 2007. All three of Hosseini’s novels were bestsellers; A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) spent 103 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, 15 of them at number one (Wikipedia). The adaptation of A Thousand Splendid Suns was made by the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco in February 2017 (A.C.T.). Hosseini currently lives in…

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    Dee Henderson is one of the best Christian fiction writers of her time. Her favorite genre to write is suspense/romance and she does it incredibly well. She has won or been nominated for numerous awards including the RITA Award, the Christy Award, the ECPA Gold Medallion, the Holt Medallion, the National Reader’s Choice Award, and the Golden Quill. Dee Henderson has worked hard to make herself a bestselling author and her journey to this point has not been easy. Dee Henderson knew from an early…

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    Clearly, one of the most significant claims to justify the pro-choice supporters campaigns to approve legislation to legalize physician-assisted death in Connecticut is to acknowledge the terminally ill’s choices and show respect for their past contributions in life. Throughout life, the individual had the right to vote, freedom of religion, choice of whom they want to be in society. The government should not be intervening during a personal period of life by denying the final act of freedom of…

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    fiction books. He wrote the Fault in Our Stars, which debuted as number one on New York Times best seller list. My book is about a girl who is pretending to be someone she is not to fit in with everyone. She runs away to find out who she really is. Plot Summary Papertowns is about a young girl named Margo Roth Spiegelman and a young boy named Quentin. They have been neighbors since they were little kids and use to be best friends when they were little. One day they just stopped talking and…

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    had landlines, no cell phones yet Music Elvis came into light, much to the dismay of parents Rock and roll was spreading like wildfire The 60s was a big time in the music industry with countless legends The beatles Stevie Wonder Rolling Stones Fashion 50s/60s There was more freedom in what people could wear The war didn't take up everybody's time and energy, so they could put more thought into clothing…

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    production of theater workshops in South Africa and to the ‘dub’ beats of black British poetry. The ‘post-colonial literature’ deals with the conflicts between ruler and subject, mainstream and marginalized oppressors and oppressed and, at the same time, celebrates the suppressed ‘other’, challenging dominant culture and questioning concepts of established authority. This literature describes changes in social, political, economic, and cultural practices after the colonial rule in freed regions…

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