The 8th Day Book Report

In Unbroken, by Lauren Hillenbrand the setting plays a significant role. The story starts the childhood of a man named Louie. He grew up with his Italian family in Torrance, California during the 1920s and 30s. He was the middle child and was considered a troublemaker. Because of his behavior, his behavior, his older brother, Pete, made him try out for the track. His performance was amazing and as a result he was allowed to join the team. Everyday he was training with his brother. He won all of yhe local track meets and went on to run in the 1936 olympics in Germany. He ran the 5,000 meter race. Even though he finished in 7th place, he broke the world record for the fastest final lap with 56 seconds. Louie was determined to perform better in the 1940 olympics.

Many people have to go through difficult times, but many do not have to face what Louie Zamperini faced. Louie Zamperini was an Olympic athlete in WWII. While on a bombing run, he crashed in the Pacific Ocean and was stranded for 47 days at sea. He was captured, beaten, and torchered by the Japanese for two years. In Laura Hillenbrand’s book, Unbroken, Louie Zamperini showed rebelliousness and resistance while at the harsh POW camps, but uses these traits to survive the Japanese’s mind games and beatings.

When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.

The author’s purpose in writing The Eighth Day was to teach a lesson. Not everything comes to you as easy as you think. Throughout the book, the main character, Jax struggles to obtain his friendship with Evangeline. Jax is called a transitioner. That means that he has eight days in a week. Evangeline is what they call kin. In this book, kin means that she can only live 1 out of all 8 days. This is a struggle for Jax because, for everyone one of her days, he has seven more. Plus, Jax’s guardian, Riley, was trying to keep Jax away from Evangeline. Riley is her captor. He has trapped her in a house and is going to keep her there until she dies. Jax doesn’t realize this is for her own good, and he goes against Riley to get her out. Riley is

While it might be hard to reach a consensus about just what makes a book a cult classic, you’ll definitely know that you have read one after turning the final page. The following 5 books are the ones you might have heard about in passing or that keep popping up in conversations. Some you might never even have heard about, but one thing is for sure, they are all must reads that belong in your library.

One of the interface ideas Kay and Goldberg mention about the Daynabook that illustrates Manovich’s idea of automation is the drawing/painting feature. First of all, the drawing/painting program is made up of 0’s and 1’s and bits. The program has algorithms and codes that make up the shapes and paint brushes and etc. Now relating this to automation, if the user wants to manipulate a picture or create one of their own all they have to do is click certain icons like the shapes or paint and the computer does it for them. The user relies on the machine to create these images for them, instead of their skills. The user does not have to completely be involved. The article mentioned something about children using the Dynabook, children are less critically

The first lesson that this book has taught me is that it is a necessity to have emergency funds set aside and to only spend that money when it is truly an emergency. One of the sections of the books is titled “Emergency Fun(ds)” and it explained that people expand the definition of “emergency”. “Because for 30 years I’ve watched people, even disciplined people, expand the definition of “emergency” whenever they see something they really, really want and they have the money in the bank to buy it.” This quote says that people alter their meaning of emergency whenever there is anything they desire and have the funds to purchase. Life is unpredictable and a person’s financial circumstances can change dramatically in a brief amount of time. In order

Something wasn't right, and that something was staring me right in the face, literally. I looked down at the book in my hands to be greeted with a creepy image of a cracked mask, which appeared to be blinking with its two misshapen eyes. One of the eyes was short and wide, while the other was tall and skinny. Out of fear, I quickly turned the page to find out that the words had turned into symbols.

“This is a terrible idea.” Percival gave a solemn shake of his head. “Absolutely terrible.”

The Story is set in a small town in Maine, one based on a town Stephen King himself briefly lived in. The town is small but rich with history, history that Jud Crandall (neighbor and good friend of the Creeds) keeps alive. This sense of history is vital to the story and the mood.

As mentioned earlier, the book takes place in the fourteenth century in a country called Kenettra. The book is told from the point of view of many different characters, some being antagonists and others being protagonists. This book is an incredibly creepy suspense novel, as there are many deaths and multiple scenes that are just horrendous to think about.

The primary locations in this novel is in Sweet Home, a small farm containing slaves in Kentucky, and 124 Bluestone Road on the edge of Cincinnati, Ohio. Although the novel starts out in the home of Sethe and her daughter, Denver, Sweet Home is where Sethe’s experiences to the past begins. In Sweet Home, the slave system was taken over by Mr. and Mrs. Garner, a kind couple who treated their slaves like human beings. 124 becomes personified through the paranormal activities in the house, and through the chapter names; 124 was spiteful, 124 was loud, and 124 was quiet. Mr. Bodwin, the owner of 124, tells how the house has a history of paranoia, "Women died there: his mother, grandmother, an aunt and an older sister before he was born" (259).

My 8th grade year at TJ the first day back to school I met this girl named Hannah she was the most beautiful girl i had seen there. We had some classes together and there was some kids that was picking on her before the classes that we had together and so i noticed that she was upset and that something was wrong with her. I walked over there in art and sat down next to her, and we started talking. We didn’t say names until a few days went by and i heard someone call her name and she heard someone call my name so when we seen each other we yelled each others names. Every time i seen her i couldn’t take my eye off of her. She was herself. And we started talking and getting really close to each other. I heard some people talking about her calling

The Egyptian Book of the Dead, also known as The Book of Coming Forth by Day or Spells for Going Forth by Day, was a collection of spells and incantations that would guide the soul of the dead in their journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife. originally reserved for royalty and the elite, it was an instruction manual to assist the deceased to navigate the dangers he or she would encounter as they traveled through the stages of the underworld. The Book of the Dead originated from inscriptions and paintings depicted on the walls of burial chambers and tombs dating back to the Old Kingdom, moving then to inscriptions written on the inside of coffins, and finally written on papyrus scrolls. Each book was written by scribes

ood Friday ’15: the day on the Liturgical Calendar, that commemorates the day of Christ’s death on the cross. All Ryanites, regardless of their age, the name or type of their school, the Diocese or Archdiocese that the school in question a part of (if applicable), or other distinguishable characteristics, never attends school on Good Friday, because that day is a very special one for anyone who called himself or herself a Christian. It is also customary for one to either attend school mass during the Holy Week, or have a half day dismissal on the day before it, Holy Thursday. The non-Ryanites may not understand this reasoning on the part of the schools, but the Ryanites could care less about the misunderstandings from the non-Ryanites.