The book that I choose for this assignment is The Opposable Mind by Roger Martin. ... In the second half of the book, Martin outlines how to develop integrative thinking capabilities. ... Martin devotes a chapter to each element of the tripod, explaining their significance in the integrative thinker's development and how they combine to create an effective integrative thinker. Throughout the book, Martin studies the thought processes of prominent leaders and for each chapter uses several examples outlining how the leader used a particular aspect of integrative thinking to create successfu...

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During class we read the first two chapters of a book by Susan Wendell called "The Rejected Body". The first chapter we looked into was "Who is Disabled? ... In this chapter Wendell looks into what is considered to be a disability versus a handicap in certain parts of the world and the distinction between the two. ... The second chapter of Wendell's book is "The Social Construction of Disability". In this chapter she further explores society's definition of disability and the stigma around this. ...

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In my opinion the most significant event that transpires during chapters 13-19, occurs in chapter 14 when James is sent to live with his sister in Louisville, Kentucky. ... Thus, James's time in Louisville adds a depth to the book, and to James's life, that would be missing within the framework of his family life alone. ... I do not like the fact that Chicken Man is stabbed at the end of the chapter, but I feel this profoundly affects James's determination to change his own course and is therefore a powerful message. ...

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O'Brien affectively confuses average readers with his ambiguity between "story truth" and "happening truth" and casts doubt on the veracity of the entire book to show a normal audience how war veterans are forced to cope with their experiences. ... Particularly at the end of the book, O'Brien explains that in Vietnam, the soldiers created ways to make the people they were close to that died seem less dead – they kept those people alive in their head with stories, like those O'Brien wrote of his friends Ted Lavender, Curt Lemon, Kiowa, and Linda. ... I t...

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"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," by Mark Haddon, integrates unique elements of structure, language style and character narration to really deliver a rare, wonderful and one of a kind book that truly brings up thought provoking issues and is overall a satisfying read. ... Although the book starts of with a usual inquisitive narrative hook, it is really lacking in an imaginative plot, climax and ending. ... An interesting and distinctive point of the structure is the development of chapter length from short to long as the book progresses. ... For instance in one scene in the ...

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The assignments were normally just answering the questions at the end of each chapter, which we could easily find the answers, simply some dates, names and locations of each events, in the book because they were usually in bold. Some answers were even in the back of the book, so we just copied. ...

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