This would be shown in the case of the other three characters, Edmund Hooper, Mr Joseph Hooper and Mrs Helena Kingshaw. ... Right after Kingshaw had arrived at the Warings house, he received a warning note from Edmund Hooper telling him that he was totally unwelcomed there. ... According to Hooper, that was Hooper's grandfather's death bed. ... Hooper called him names like "scaredy" and "Mummy's baby-boy", which evidently showed that Kingshaw was despised by Hooper. ... When both Hooper and Kingshaw were lost in the jungle, suddenly all of Hooper's weaknesses had come into ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The book is set in the 1960's in the town of Derne, Dorset, but the main focus lies in "Warings", an estate where Edmund Hooper and his father live. ... Edmund Hooper and Charles Kingshaw are eleven-year-old boys. ... Charles" arrival was vastly unwelcome for Edmund from the start, as Edmund made obvious by dropping him a note when he first arrives, reading "I DIDN"T WANT YOU TO COME HERE." ... He knows that he can"t surrender to Hooper, at any costs. ... She has to side with her future king, Joseph Hooper. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A voice tells him that he has been given "the center of the nation's hoop to make it live " (BES, p.27). ... Black Elk devotes his entire life to leading his people on the Red road and maintaining the sacred hoop of his great vision. ... Throughout the book, it is stated that Black Elk felt he had done nothing for the nation. ... Perhaps the very existence of this book is representative of that hope. ... Black Elk never gave up on fulfilling his duty of restoring the nation's hoop and reviving the holy tree....

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"Part of the book focuses on one punk's reason for being a punk and the aesthetic of his body art. ... The book, Punk and Neo-Tribal Body Art, is available through University Press of Mississippi. He is currently working on a new book on apocalyptic world views and doomsday notions. Eyebrow hoops. ... People are often amazed to note that royalty such as King George V, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia and King Harold bore tattoos. ...

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Marcellus said: "Just because someone can throw a basketball into a hoop, doesn't mean they"re a good basketball player. ... Yes, with these easy to learn programs you too can be a famous musician without knowing one chord, note, or measure. ... You have to be dedicated, loyal, and never give up to be considered a musician in my book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Grapes of Wrath Book Report When first released in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath, written by novelist John Steinbeck, created quite a stir among Americans still coping with the depression. ... He is buried in a quilt burrowed from Sairy (Sarah), who also offers a blank page out of her and Ivy's bible, so Tom can write a note explaining the circumstances of his Grandfather's death incase the body is ever dug up in the future. ... As Casy is explaining about the strike that he is planning to lead against Hooper's Ranch (for promising five cents a box for cotton picked, but paying o...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

open sidebar II LIFE sidebar SIDEBAR Ten Who Changed the Millennium In this December 1999 feature article from Encarta Yearbook, educator and author Agnes Hooper Gottlieb identifies and profiles ten individuals who changed the course of the last 1,000 years. ...

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