The Book of Eli

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    Clara Kramer was born in 1927 and passed away on September 25, 2015, at ninety-three years old. Clara lived a very long life and grew up to be an amazing person, as well as an example for the whole world. At just fifteen-years-old, Clara lived in a bunker with seventeen other people, hiding from the Nazis. Clara went through events that never should happen to a fifteen-year-old girl. Clara survived through, starvation, vigorous heat, sickness, fear of being found, living in a cramped hole in…

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    Ellis’s trademarks make his books very memorable, unique and exciting to read. Ellis’s father was a property developing director which let the future writer live a very nice life. Ellis’s father had a lot of money which allowed his son to have an excellent education. According to the website Famous Authors “He received his education from a well-known school attended by the upper-class, The…

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    of her time and volunteers as a crew leader, which in fact, comes with a lot of responsibility. When our friend Aidan broke his wrist while roller-skating, she was more than willing to go to the hospital with him, but his extraordinary friend Eli ended up going instead. Shaela is a caring friend. Although Shaela is caring, she is also gifted when it comes to academics. In school she is a straight A student, just like her older brother, Nolan. Recently she was in the spelling…

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    On April 9th, 2085 at the age of 90 years old, we say goodbye to Eli Zakhour, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend. At 5:45pm Mr. Zakhour had succumb with his battle to colon cancer, which he had suffered for two years. His beloved family, said this man was full of happiness and joy, giving to those who needed it and can always lend a helping hand when needed. He will truly be missed. Mr. Zakhour would have wanted those who loved him not to be saddened by his death but…

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    In the book Night by Elie Wiesel the German army or the Nazis were Reducing the Jews to almost nothing. Caring nothing for their lives, safety, family, or hunger. The Jews were forced to be obedient toward the Nazis if they wanted any chance at all at surviving the holocaust. At first the Jews didn’t listen to Moishe when he came to warn everyone about what the Nazis were doing. In fact they flat out ignored his warning and went on with their lives. But when the Nazis came they at first were…

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    children. His father ended up leaving the family, leaving his mother to care for the children. He attended the Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn, which shut down before he graduated. He went to two more schools but did not graduate from high school. J.K. Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter series, was living in Edinburgh Scotland on welfare for four years before completing the first book in the series. She had separated from her husband and took her infant daughter, moving to…

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    the students in The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth feel excluded or bullied due to this system. For example, Blue has many interests that make him different and unique, but instead it excludes him in school. Another example worth mentioning is how Eli is an awkward and shy individual. Due to his different personality he is left…

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    In Chapter 8: The Northeast Building Industry, technology is improved. An example of this is when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. This clever machine removed the sticky seeds from cotton, making cotton a popular product again. Many factories were built, especially in New England since it had the waterpower needed to power the machines, and Americans…

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    Eli, I’m sorry that I haven’t talked to you sooner. Everything just got jumbled up the last couple months of school, and testing and graduation just bunched together into this massive ball of stress. My 8th grade year was just alright. It wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t exactly picture-perfect, it was just smack dab in the middle. Some classes were just plain boring (cough, cough, Mrs. Walton) but the class that I most enjoyed was surprisingly, English with Ms. Toll. She wasn’t very strict and…

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    1852, it was the most influential book of the time as it moved Northerners and Europeans to view slavery as evil, and Southerner’s as heartless monsters. Southerners rejected these ideas as lies and distanced themselves further from the Northerns because they felt they were personally prejudiced against them. Even some Southerners were turning on the institution of slavery, but for a different reason that many Northerners. In 1857 Hinton R. Helper published his book Impending Crisis of the South…

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