The 39 Clues

can accomplish anything. This book is similar to the book, “Sleeper” written by Eric Walters. During the book, 7 kids set out on a journey to find out the truth about their grandfather. Each child is sent to a different part of the world to gather clues and to find out secrets that were being kept from them. In the last 13, 13 kids are sent out to different parts of the world to collect evidence on something very secretive. During this book, there were many high points as well as low points. One…

food exposes their inner disposition (b, b1). The chiasm 4 focuses on confession of the Samaritans that Jesus is the Saviour of the world. In this chiasm there are two times references of two days (b,b1) which envelopes by the belief of Samaritans (4:39) and the welcome to Jesus by the Galileans…

As an African-American woman, a descendant of slave descent, ancestors ripped from their mother’s arms and sold as chattel. What remains is children who have not a clue of who they are and disconnection from their heritage. This reminds me of the atrocity of slavery in America and utterly defies my logic. How can any Christians knowingly participate in any act against humanity? The first step to reach the Spaniards…

anxious about the video game, they play the video game over 19 hours a week, do not spend time for other activities or other people, and feel social phobias. According to the research from South Korea, 8% of population of the country people between 9 to 39 years old struggle from internet or gaming addiction in the 2010 government study. Many people might think that video game addiction is disease of disorder; however, it is not include the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…

Rick Riordan, the well-known author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, was born on June 5, 1964 in San Antonio, Texas. He was born and raised in this city and began writing as a young adult. He wrote short stories, and unsuccessfully submitted a few of those for publication. However, he was not serious about writing until he graduated from college. He received his high school diploma from Alamo Heights High School and, with aspirations of becoming a guitar player, attended North…

In the case, Bryan-vs-McPherson, a young motorist by the name of Carl Bryan from Camarillo, California, was stopped twice in one day by law enforcement officer, in 2005. Bryan had on a T-shirt and some boxer shorts when the first officer, a California Highway Patrolman issued Bryan a speeding citation. Bryan was weeping and decided to take his T-shirt to clean his face. The second officer; Brian McPherson stopped Bryan for a seatbelt violation. Bryan was so frustrated with himself that he…

repetitive nature, it does not always come naturally. The correlation between the movement of lips and the sounds they project is a concrete concept, while social clues such as facial expression are abstract. This is why autistic toddlers will focus on the correlation between consistent sounds and lip movements, rather than abstract social clues that are difficult for them to pick up on. For example, focus will remain on sounds projected as a mother’s lips move a certain way, rather than her…

Why would Sherlock Holmes, a man who “loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul” (Doyle 1) still be absorbed in solving crimes, studying clues, and observing society? As the beliefs and morals of society changed over the centuries, the depiction of Sherlock Holmes’s character was continuously modified. Arthur Conan Doyle and Guy Ritchie both captured Holmes’s developing character by building on the Victorian morals of order and class and contrasting them with twenty-first…

Reading Interest Survey The two students I interviewed for the interest reading survey were my two brothers Airian and Adrian. The two had very different results. I will analyze their results individually and then I will analyze them together as well as make suggestions for each of the two in topics I believe they would be interested in reading. Since the two were raised in different settings I will also bring in the concept of nature vs. nurture and how it can possibly affect ones interest in…

ration issue, The Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from 30 grams to twenty at the end of the present week”(39). If the outer party was given rations and Winston received lower rations he would have realized and questioned this, as would others. Though the proles do not realize and this is not just with chocolate…