People of the Book

The Pentateuch is traditionally seen as the first five books of the Bible. Most refer to it as the Book of Moses or the Law of Moses. Traditionally it is seen as a law book, but it can also be viewed as a narrative. Most people interpret the Pentateuch, and the Old Testament in its entirety, as outdated and only relevant to Christians as a history book. John Sailhamer abolishes this point of view in his book about the Pentateuch, “Finding the Meaning in the Pentateuch.” He states that the…

the reading the assignments I gain understanding that people have different perspective when communicating. While reading the book I realize that people often times does not succeed when creating a control in conversations, they don’t realize others point of view. The best thing about this book was the practical examples that demonstrated the principles they were explaining. This improved my communication skills a lot. It's a brilliant book that tells how humans sometimes fail to create impact…

Many people love to read but they know have to beside if they want a paper book or digital book. Paper books vs. Digital books which is better? This has been on many hard core readers minds for sometime. Many people also think that because there are now digital books there are no longer need for paper books. They both have good advantages in having them. They also both have disadvantages to. This is why by comparing and and contrasting the answer to that question may be answered. By finding all…

Remembering Babylon In the book Remembering Babylon by David Malouf we see a story of many mixed emotions that includes: sadness, happiness, and even the emotion of anger. The protagonist of the story is the thirteen year old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, who we see grow up throughout the story. Gemmy got cast ashore on the far north part of Australia and he was taken in by the Aborigines. Gemmy was not one of them but they took him in since he was still a kid who needed a safe place to…

The people of the country put bans on books thinking that by doing so they would be bringing peace. However, this brings in more problems and causes people to lose their freedom of thought. The government takes advantage of the ban the people put on books and twists what was supposed to be a good thing to their advantage. They corrupt the way the people think and cause them to stop thinking for themselves. The people, like Millie Montag, think according to the…

published in 1982. There are 10 or 11 chapters if you include the afterword chapter. The other book I chose was called Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. It was first published in 1962. There are 3 chapters I believe in the book they are called part 1, part 2 and part 3. The book Blue Highways doesn’t have an intro or a prologue, but it has a foreword page and it talks about what you will be reading. The book Travels with charley I couldn’t find and intro, prologue, afterwards and epilogue,…

Old politicians take over, determined to make america great again.The book “The Prey” by Tom Isbell is a thrilling action adventure set in the point of view in first person following our two protagonist Book and Hope. The book is 404 pages long but it feels like only a few pages because you are sitting on the edge of your seat the whole time you are reading it To start what they call the purge which is when they take all people that have different political views, spiritual views aswell and…

Book Review Who’s Marjane Satrapi? In Persepolis The Story Of A Childhood by Marjane Satrapi tells a story of a young girl named Marjane growing up in Tehran, Iran during the Islamic revolution. You see her grow up from a small girl to a grown woman; the author illustrates this story in comic book form. The three main characters are Marjane, her father and mother. In the book she follows in her parent’s footsteps in political protesting, she fights for what she believes and at times it might…

The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen is a book that tells about the struggle to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. The author, Clay Risen, is the Senior Staff Editor of the New York Times, and has written other books including, A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination and, American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Favorite Spirit. He has also written for The New Republic, Smithsonian, and The New York Times…

What exactly does banning a book solve and how will banning a book solves this “problem”? You could be reading a banned book for history in your room at this exact moment. A banned book is a book that is banned in a library, home, or even country for a reason that an official calls out. I, myself, disagree with the idea of censoring books just seeing that one or a few people disagree with the book in anyway. One person’s decision may ruin the joy for everyone. Google has unneeded censorship…