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Cover-UpBy: Stewart Galanor The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was a very emotional time in our nation’s history. This horrifying incident occurred on November 22, 1963, in a motorcade procession in Dallas, Texas. At 12:30 in the afternoon the procession was going down Elm Street in Dealy Plaza, when shots were fired. One struck…

Pipher recalls her cousin Polly’s childhood as a time filled with vibrant energy. She paints a picture of Polly as an active and adventurous girl who enjoyed dancing, participating in sports with the boys in her neighborhood, and horseback riding. However, as Polly reaches her teenage years, her peers start teasing her for not conforming…

“The One Minute Manager” by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson A Book Report             How can any individual be an effective manager? This is a question that I had in mind even before opening the book “The One Minute Manager.” The book is authored by Kenneth Blanchard, a prominent management expert and business consultant (“Kenneth…

“The freak show was all I could think about that night. I tried forgetting it but I couldn’t, not even when I was watching my favorite TV shows. It sounded so weird: a snake-boy, a wolf-man, a performing spider. I was especially excited by the spider…. ,” –Darren Shan. In the book Cirque du Freak…

This book was vary informative to me. This book mainly talked about theaffects of nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by thefirst atom bomb ever dropped on a city. It speaks about how even if you didsurvive the blast you were so badly injured that you would die soon anyway. Ittalked about…

Throughout history, racism has been present in different societies. In times of war, individuals of a certain race may opt to separate themselves with the goal of asserting dominance in their society. John W. Dower’s book War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, published by Pantheon books in New York in 1986,…

Katherine Frank’s novel A Voyager Out tells the life narrative of Mary Kingsley. She negotiations of her childhood, her immature grownup life, and her traveling life. She wanted to state the universe what this adult female adventurer did for Africa. Mary Kingsley had a celebrated household, many of whom were authors. Mary herself wrote two…

I need a book report summarizing the book `Good to Great` by Jim Collins. Good to great was published in 2001 by a business guru named Jim Collins. The book is an interesting read because it demonstrates Collins learning about various great companies. He especially emphasizes companies that went from being good companies and became…

In “Fast Forward”, Celeste O. Norfleet shares with readers how death and other life-changing situations affect the lives of teens and how they respond to them. “Fast Forward” is a joy reading book. It takes you on a journey like no other book but I did have problems reading it. It was bad enough that…

The book ‘Major in Success’ by Patrick Combs is essentially a self-help book for college and life. Along with providing many real life success examples, Combs does a good job in anticipating the arguments against his ideas and answers them. ‘Major in Success’ has some great advice as well as some major flaws. The ‘aim…