Steelheart Book Review A book filled with adventure and destruction? A book that has different kinds of people? With powers? Maybe held in the future? Then this is the book for you! The book named Steelheart has people turning from their seats. Steelheart was written by, Brandon sanderson. The main story is about David Charleston. He was a regular old boy until one day, in a bank, comes along a powerful person. He isn’t the only powerful person. These powerful people are known as Epics. They have super powers that defy the logic of science. The powers they have, shouldn’t be possible. Being able to kill someone with a thought. Being able to shoot beams of electricity and light. Being able to use your mind to control things and make things
This book was brilliant. There were moments that made me laugh, moments that made me tremble in my chair, moments that made me cry, moments that melted my heart, and moments that made me want to rip my hair out at the roots. This book has it all, and it delivers it through a cold but much needed message.
Water, like age, continues without stopping until reaching an obstacle which ends the flow completely. In The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, Peekay, the protagonist and narrator, retells his life story starting at age five. Courtenay separates Peekay’s life into three sections divided by books, representing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Each section of his journey corresponds to a cascade in the waterfall mind trick revealing that waterfalls are a metaphor for his own life, ultimately suggesting that his life and the mind trick end together.
Today I am going to tell you about a great book I read lately. It is called HALO:The Flood. The Flood is based on the award-winning Xbox game, Halo. This book was interesting because it tells the story through several different perspectives. Some of the perspectives include: the super-soldier, Master Chief, an alien, another alien, a sergeant, and a few soldiers. Although some new character perspectives are introduced in some chapters, the characters die later in the chapter.
Overall, Radical is a very good book. David Platt leaves the reader with a deep desire and awaking to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. One of the biggest strengths of this book is the many illustrations. Each chapter in this book is full of very powerful stories. Those stories serve as an amazing illustration to drive hope each point Platt is trying to make. Platt gives a lot of great information in the book but the stories lay out an amazing example of how this information is used in the line of battle. It gives the reader ideas and also helpful encouragement as they try to live a radical life.
Of the many works by notable Tony Horowitz, like Blue Latitudes and Confederates in the Attic, the most significant is Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War. Horowitz has been a devout journalist and writer of history since the early ninety's after graduating from Brown University with a history major and a master of journalism at Colombia University. With these credentials, he displays a passion in reflecting American history, thus giving him initiative to write Midnight Rising, subjecting the raid led by John Brown at Harper's Ferry in 1859. Horowitz depicts Brown's home existence, economic struggles, and all persistent endeavors into abolitionism, which leads to this effectual raid. The purpose of this monograph is to establish how it, amongst all abolitionist fights, was the most prominent in the movement, being the catalyst of the Civil War.
We have kind of falling off the beaten path for human cavillation and to keep the people within the rules of laws for human rights. Well, just look at the world falling apart as we speak. Trying to stay positive with the aspects of looking outward to the common good and what is best for the society. This book is just an outline for the people to guide themselves and not sell them short of their potentials as humans and this is how it was
Nobody understands what really took place that night, the night that John Brown launched his raid on Harpers Ferry. Why it was done, what caused it and what the actual event itself caused was later discovered and well known by people centuries after it even took place. This raid, was one of the biggest reason a nation was left divided. The Southern part of America was its own “nation” where as the Northern part was thought of kind of as the same but opposite. “Midnight Rising” gives an in depth explanation and feel for the events leading to and the events caused by this raid. The book is based around the time period pre civil war ( circa 1859), In the first part of the book and overview and a little bit of background information is provided. Explaining where and when the raid was being planned and where it was going to be executed, and all of this being told through the perception of one of John Browns men .Prior to this event, Bleeding Kansas had happened and it caused an immense amount of outrage, blood shed, fear and frustration amongst almost every single person part of the U.S at the time. Nat Turners rebellion caused an uproar filled with fear, in the south and that was one of the things that had led up to the main event discussed in the book ( the raid on Harpers Ferry). During the time period the book took place, the southern part of America was pro slavery where as the North was not, and due to these discrepancies neither side could or would compromise and neither would be able to come to any sort of agreement on what to do with laws and rules and with the slaves either. Events such as Nat Turners Rebellion are what caused people in the south to become more fearful of slaves
This ancient epic is brought back to life by Stephen Mitchell whom is known for doing such to ancient literature. The book is translated using many scholarly works, which Mitchell has used resourcefully during his translation. Mitchell with little no knowledge of akkadian language creates a very captivating way of telling this poem of love, tragedy, and profound wisdom.
In any literary work, conflict is vital in creating an absorbing, eloquent story. Conflict can be divided into four main categories: man vs man, man vs nature, man vs society, and finally, man vs self. Man vs self is evident when a person is battling himself. Markus Zusak is very familiar with this type of conflict, as it is used often in his novel, The Book Thief. (end paragraph)
Steve had no family, no money, and nowhere to live. He had to do something or he would never accomplish anything. Then Steve remembered, he read this book about a place in the mountains where they could heal you even make you more powerful than you were. Only certain people know about this place. It was top secret. He knew that this was a huge risk to take but if it was true his life would be changed. He decided to take the risk.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a non-fiction book written by Robert Kiyosaki. Kiyosaki takes us into his life to describe to us the difference between two separate households and how they manage money. When you first open up the book, you are immediately shown the confliction Robert has between choosing whose advice to follow. His biological father is known as his poor dad who is highly educated but doesn’t make the right choices when it comes to money. His rich dad isn’t his father but is a childhood friend’s father who is also trying to teach Robert how to manage money. Rich dad has very little education background but the way he deals with money is what made him successful. Robert’s poor dad views education as the main principle to success. As long as you do well in school, you will have a good steady job thought poor dad. Poor dad always stated “I’m not interested in money”, and “money doesn’t matter.” Rich dad on the other hand knew how to make money work for him not the other way around. He felt that in order to succeed and make a lot of money, you need to work for yourself and not others. Robert learned many lessons from both dads and he feels he is very fortunate to have had two father figures to teach him and give him examples on how to become rich and successful.
To transform a good company to great company is all manages’ dream, but only few of them make it. To find out the core factors which lead to a good company became a great company is very difficult, because in different era, different industry companies face different opportunities and threats. To begin the research for the Good-to-Great study, Jim Collins and his research team searched for companies that: performed at or below the general stock market for at least fifteen years; then at a transition point began to pull away from the competition, and sustained returns of at least 3 times the general market for the next fifteen years. He started with a list of 1,435 companies and found eleven that met his criteria. These eleven companies produced, on average, a return of 6.9 times the general stock market during the 15 years following the transition points. Collins chose a 15-year span to avoid "one-hit wonders" and lucky breaks. In the book, Collins highlights some important factors which are the result of the research. They are level 5 leadership, fist who … then what, confront the brutal facts, the hedgehog concept, culture of discipline, and technology accelerators, (Collins, 2001, p.12).
Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, was written in the year 1902, a time of modernist literature. Heart of Darkness talks about the problems with alienation and confusion as much as it does about imperialism. In the early 1900’s, the lifestyle in England veered towards the Victorian values. Conrad’s novella makes a bridge to connect the Victorian values with the ideas of modernism. Thus “it belongs to a period of change.”(Sardar) For example, the natives are following in the footsteps of their predecessors, following a life of tradition, and their ideas of life are constantly being attacked by people like Mr. Kurtz who think they are doing what is best, when in reality they are creating more confusion
In 1280 A.D. Edward I of England, known as "Longshanks," has occupied much of Scotland, and his oppressive rule there leads to the deaths of William Wallace's father and brother. Years later and after Wallace has grown up with his uncle outside of Scotland, the Scots continue to live under the harsh thumb of Longshanks' cruel laws. Wallace returns, intent on living as a farmer and avoiding involvement in the ongoing "Troubles." Wallace rekindles a romance with his childhood friend Murron after showing her the carefully preserved thistle she gave him as a child, and the two marry in secret to avoid the primae noctis decree the King has set forth. After Wallace beats up a group of English soldiers attempting to rape Murron, the village Sheriff publicly cuts her throat before Wallace is able to save her. An enraged Wallace, with the assistance of his fellow townsmen, slaughters the English soldiers at the encampment, killing the sheriff in the same manner that Murron was killed. He then orders the burning of the local English fort, and unintentionally kindles a Scottish rebellion.
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