The book begins with the divorce of her parents, and Maya and her brother Bailey moving from St. ... She booked a downtown hotel room and wrote from six till noon on weekdays. ... I would strongly recommend this book to any mature reader. ... If she wrote about a specific place, she would describe its sounds, smells, and the way it looked. ... I remember Farewell to Manzanar being a very boring book, which I wasn't interested in. ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This book is the right one to use to accomplish all of those goals. This is the perfect book for all writers, but especially college students. ... This is a very influential feature of the book because it allows for easy access when a student needs to find a specific part of the book. ... As one goes through the book and looks at each yellow page section there is a roadmap that helps with the ideal that the book was covering in that specific chapter. ... I had never written a review before this project, so I had to go through the book to figure out how a review is supposed to sound like. ...

• Word Count: 1365
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

For instance, when I am trying to write a paper or read a book I can't focus very well unless it's just me, myself and I. ... Some people sit in silence, listening to the sounds in their minds, writing the notes on paper. ... But when I do worksheets out of a book I can listen to music, unless it's like reading a passage then answering the questions. ... The right kind of sound can relax your mind, hone your focus, drown out distractions, or get you pumped to kill your to-do list. I can never focus on writing a paper or studying when I'm listening to rap music, but when I&...

• Word Count: 1445
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He kept quiet, listening to the sounds of middle-class American speech, feeling alone. After school he would return to Spanish, to the pleasing soothing sounds of his family language. ... Jennefer Hernandez There, are great books that Rodriguez has written such as Hunger of Memory his first book published in 1982. ... In this book he offers him self as an example of the long labor of change about his loneliness, but also his triumph. In his other book, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father publish in 1992, Rodriguez explores the dilemmas of ethnicity and cultural identi...

• Word Count: 1466
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This sounds almost exactly like Chopin's life style. ... The main theme of the book undisputedly would be going against society to fulfill self happiness. ... Despite the harsh criticism she received for this book, she felt she was right. ... This book has an impact on everyone that reads it. ... Unfortunately, it was not until the 1950's when this book was brought out and republished. ...

• Word Count: 1384
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

From 3 to 5 pieces, they choose one to make into a book. ... This block ends with "author's chair" in which several students each day share work in progress or their published book. ... Occasionally the teacher comes to word that they have to "stretch out" by the way it sounds. ... When the timer sounds, the children put away their work and come to the sharing area to hear what their classmates have written. ... Brainstorming-  The teacher tells the class that they are going to make a class book about dinosaurs. ...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, Richard Selzer addresses some aspects of our own mortality and vulnerability that are not "pretty" to think about. ... Most of Selzer's essays in this book are cases he has had or advice he has for young surgeons. ... One hundred twenty-six pages into the book, however, the reader comes upon a very different essay entitled "The Slug." ... Sight, sound, touch, smell, while the garden revealed its secrets one by one, the intoxicating eyes of mother nature behind her veil of green hair watching him, waiting for the right moment to expose her most pre...

• Word Count: 1358
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some writers work in comfortable private offices, while others work in noisy rooms with the sounds of computer keyboards, printers and other writers talking in the background. ... So many associations publish magazines that a quick survey of the market revels countless opportunities waiting. - Nonfiction ranks as the largest market for freelance writers, book publishers buy about 10 times as many nonfiction manuscripts as they do novels. In most magazines nonfiction articles greatly outnumber poems and short stories nonfiction material ranges from a few hundred wor...

• Word Count: 1602
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He had struggled with the book for eight years, and he finally finished it in this unlikely retreat. ... " The tinny sound from my laptop was Bessie Smith singing "I'm Wild About That Thing," a filthy blues number and a masterpiece of plausible deniability: "Don't hold it baby when I cry Give me every bit of it, else I'd die I'm wild about that thing.... Baldwin had to bring his records with him in the fifties, like a secret stash of medicine, and he had to haul his phonograph up to Leukerbad, so that the sound of the American blues could keep him connec...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

According to The Student Writer Canadian Edition, there are four sound procedures one can use to revise their work. ... Keep in mind, no great book was written overnight, and your essay will be the same. ... No movie or book has ever been completed in one take. ...

• Word Count: 1351
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Graphology Graphology is the study of handwriting and determining a person's character. The acknowledged father of modern graphology is French abbot and novel writer Hippolyte Michon. He published his first book in 1875 and introduced the term graphology. Many research professionals have s...

• Word Count: 1926
• Approx Pages: 8

Graphology Graphology is the study of handwriting and determining a person's character. The acknowledged father of modern graphology is French abbot and novel writer Hippolyte Michon. He published his first book in 1875 and introduced the term graphology. Many research professionals have s...

• Word Count: 1861
• Approx Pages: 7