Julie Trudel từ Bankovci, Croatia

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05/19/2024

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2020-01-21 06:31

Bài Tập Bổ Trợ Kiến Thức Tiếng Anh Lớp 5 - Tập 1 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Tyler Sullivan Mr. Rich English 2 7 September 2011 Book Review B Deng, Benson; Deng, Alephonsion; Ajak, Benjamin; Bernstein, Judy A. They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky. New York: Public Affairs, 2005 Here in the midst of everyday life in western civilization, we lead what we believe to be pretty standard lives. Daily routines such as showering, meals, and school pass by, almost like second nature. And most important of all, we live without fearing that we may die today, tomorrow, or the next day. We are able to walk down the street without the risk of being bombed or captured. We have a steady supply of food and water, rights of free speech, and innocence until proven guilty. These are all things that we do not fully appreciate; at the same time there are those in the world who have none of them. One such group of people is the Lost Boys of Sudan. Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak are three of these lost Boys, and all were stranded without parents, food, or reliable shelter by Sudan’s ravaging civil war of the 1980’s. Their traumatic stories are told in They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky, written by the three boys along with Judy A. Bernstein. When reading the book, I was most impressed by the fortitude of the boys as they pushed through immense obstacles and I think their strength to survive is incredible. The two brothers, Benson and Alepho, and their cousin, Benjamin, lived quiet lives in small villages of southern Sudan. They were too young to realize the danger posed by the terrible war until their villages were attacked and lives torn apart. Without parents, war shoved the boys out into the unknown, with their lives hanging in the balance. “We were tired of walking. We were tired of being scared every night when we slept and tired of wondering if we would live another day without food and water” (Deng, Bernstein 128). Unless you have experienced it, there is no way of knowing what starvation is truly like. And to fight and overcome it on a daily basis as young children, along with thirst and warfare, shows how strong and resilient the boys were. The Lost Boys were amazingly brave throughout their trek around northern Africa, and they once again showed bravery by bringing their stories to life in this book. Unfortunately, thousands of young boys did die in Sudan as a result of the civil war, and there are still other conflicts across the globe. These events are very cruel but books like this help bring them to light. “Touched by their accounts and outraged by the situation, I want the world to hear of their tragic and remarkable experiences and to know what is happening in Sudan” (Bernstein xxi). Hopefully this book is an impetus for everyone to do anything they can to help remedy the situation. The novel leaves a large impact on the reader, and I personally felt the powerful message it sends across. While reading, you can’t help imagining how you are peacefully going about your daily life with situations like the Sudanese conflict happening across the globe. The novel truly raises your sense of awareness for global conflict and strife, all the while telling a compelling story that is hard to forget.

2020-01-21 07:31

Lập Trình Lab VIEW - Trình Độ Cơ Bản - Tập 1 (Kèm 1 CD) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Bá Hải

Despite the several problems with this book (there's no such thing as flawless YA (with the exception of Holly Black)) I really enjoyed it. It was a quick, easy read and I blew through it in one night. It really is reminiscent of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series, starting with the cover design and ending with the world-building, jargon and the issues raised in the series. In both series, society is shallow and image-obsessed, futuristic and controlled by an invisible government determined to keep citizens under control one way or another. The similarities aren't a bad thing, but I have to say that I liked Uglies much more. For one, there was a lot more action. But this isn't a review of Uglies. It's a review of Skinned. And I thought Skinned raised some very interesting questions on its own, such as the existence of souls/spirits, the definition of humanity and some good socio-economic points. It's a bit ableist, sure, but the ableism is in society, not the book's depiction of disability. I'll be interested to see where Wasserman takes the series. I hope to see Lia grow even more - she'd become a little more open-minded throughout the story but I'd like to see her become less sheltered and naive, especially in regards to sociology, classicism and racism. I'd also like to see more action - a lot of Skinned was about Lia's coming to terms with her new reality, and dealing with the question of her humanity, and I want to see her be more involved with her surroundings. No man is an island, after all, and Lia's leaving home at the end implies that her world will continue to be shaken up. Let's hope.

2020-01-21 09:31

Trang Tử Tinh Hoa Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Fifteen years after the events in The Vaults, Toby Ball's brilliant noirish debut, his Scorch City follow-up takes an even darker turn. War veterans have returned, broken in spirit and body, while a more menacing threat worries some. A Red menace, that is. Hovering over Scorch City's strands of a burgeoning civil rights movement, religious leaders and police corruption is the paranoia of people scared by the idea of communism and, even worse, the idea that someone might be a Commie in secret. And a secret is how the story begins. A blonde woman's body is found washed up on the river near the Uhuru Community, an African-American enclave of shanties set apart from the bustling city. Its leaders of a Communist faction within the community contact influential columnist Frank Frings to contact in turn incorruptible policeman Piet Westermann to do the unthinkable. Westermann -- the true blue Lieut -- agrees to move the body so attention is turned away from the community even as the investigation into the young woman's death proceeds. In short chapters, the action moves slowly but surely forward to a fiery conclusion. Why does the religious leader of Godtown, whose residents spend every evening at church, refuse to talk to police and call in the big guns to stymie the investigation? Why are two more women's bodies dumped in the river? The answers reveal that sometimes there is paranoia, and sometimes people really are out to get you. But perhaps not the ones you think. What adds another layer to Ball's writing is how easy it is to transplant his story of McCarthyism tactics to today's world of media noise machines. The demonization of groups of people who aren't like you is a handy tool for tyrants. Ball shows how easily people of good will can be drawn into bigotry, and how easily bigots can wield power. Even characters who aren't bigots play into the way tyrants control people, as when one character early on advocates organization within the community. Providing for people and leaving "them to their own devices as long as they are free" isn't enough, the character says. It certainly isn't enough in Scorch City, although Frings, who was introduced in The Vaults, hasn't had all his optimism crushed yet. Frings asks Westermann at one point which is more important to the police, protecting one of their own or justice? "Because institutions, Piet, you start making them more important than people, that's how things get balled up." Apply that to "too big to fail". Ball combines such real world, contemporary connections with a writing style steeped in noir. The novel unfolds in the imagination like a black-and-white Warner Brothers classic. The noir fate for certain characters is inevitable and fascinating. The seamless weaving of point of view, character, story and style found in Ball's writing is fiction writing at its best.

Người đọc Julie Trudel từ Bankovci, Croatia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.