People of the Book

In reading the book, Coping with Difficult People by Dr. Robert M. Bramson, Ph.D. he describes that they are seven different type of people who one deals with in the world or knows some body who is one of these types. The seven types of difficult people are the Hostile Aggressive individuals, the Complainer, the Silent Unresponsive, the Super Agreeable, the Negativist, Know-It-All, and finally the Indecisive person who stalls any decision until its for them and refuses to let go of anything…

Title: The Bone People Text type: Novel Author: Keri Hulme Keri Hulme, born and raised in Otautahi, Christchurch, Hulme is the eldest of six children. Her father, a carpenter and first-generation New Zealander whose parents came from Lancashire, died when Hulme was 11. She is a novelist, short story writer and poet, gained international recognition with her award winning The Bone People. The Bone People is a book rooted in the physical locations of rural littoral New Zealand and in the…

In Geraldine Brooks’s The People of the Book, the Sarajevo Haggadah a device around which all the characters revolve. This book travels through through countries, centuries, and war. In The People of the Book, though the haggadah itself is not a physical character, it acts us such, and has the ability to change outcome of the novel’s character’s stories. The Haggadah first affects Zarah. She is an artist who was originally disguised as boy, and was kidnapped and was sent work where she was…

The book I will be reviewing is called The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. The beginning of the book starts by talking about people and how they may have great success in their lives but there is a underlying struggle with nurturing relationships with others. It goes into how we each have our own way of seeing things and when others often don't see or agree with the things we say that we get defensive and think that there has to be something wrong with that person to…

Part A In the book Why Do I Love These People? by Po Bronson, he tells the story of nineteen families that each faced different challenges which they were able to overcome. The introduction explains how much time it took for Bronson to complete the book and the reasoning behind why the book was written. Originally he knew that he wanted the families’ stories to teach his readers a lesson, so he spent years completing the book making sure the stories he chose were unforgettable. The book was…

successes, but even if people have achieved such greatness in their life, is that enough? In 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steve Covey shows that even if successful, everyone is struggling with an inner hunger to find personal harmony and effectiveness for healthy relationships with other people. By reading this book, I feel it has really helped me to understand how to be effective in my life and also to teach other people what I have learned. In part one of this book Covey talks about…

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a philosophical fiction novel written by Mitch Albom. It tells the story of the life and death of a man named Eddie who works as a maintenance man for the fictional Ruby Pier. He ends up dying in an incident that happened with one of the rides at the pier and gets sent to Heaven, where he meets five people who changed his life during his time alive. The novel was published in 2003 by Hyperion in New York and consists of 196 pages. The story of The Five…

“A Text Book of the Origin and History of Colored People” was originally published in 1841 by James W Pennington. The author of the forthcoming chapters, has aimed to state facts, points, and arguments, simply, rather than to go extensively into them (Pennington, 1). It is an unassuming effort so to coordinate these, as to unembarrassed the origination, and to demonstrate the relative position of the minorities in the distinctive periods among the diverse countries. The first moment the author…

everything, I believe people are really good at heart.” These are words spoken by Anne Frank a famous Jewish girl during a very tragic time. This tragic time was known as the Holocaust, a horrific time in our history where millions of people were murdered. Anne did not survive this event but yet she still believes people are good at heart. Most people would say that there is evil hidden in our hearts, but I disagree. I believe that people are truly good at heart. I believe that people are good…

burning books is you should not do it, there is no point in it at all the book has not hurt or harmed you in any way shape or form if you think the book is a bad book do Not read the book. The book may have some wording you do not agree with but that does Not give you the right that an author has taken his time and hard work to go out and burn the book. If you think the book is that bad then don't even look at it. “The nazi’s did not burn books”(paragraph 1 of Heinrich Heine on Burning…