Sherman Alexie’s short essay “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” is about Alexie’s personal struggles and joys of literacy. Early in the essay Alexie explains how he started to learn to read by first understanding how paragraphs worked. Alexie started using the analogy that his reservation was a small paragraph within the United States just like a paragraph is a small part of a much larger story. Once he understood paragraphs, he then moved to Superman comics. Alexie also read from his father's vast collection of books, which were acquired mostly from pawnshops and second hand stores since paychecks were far and few between on the reservation.
State Farm's 17,700 agents and 68,600 employees serve 81 million policies and accounts - more than 78.7 million auto, fire, life and health policies in the United States and Canada, and more than 1.9 million bank accounts. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY State Farm is one of the larges insurance companies in the United States since 1942. It founder by G.J. Mecherle in 1929 who believe “Honesty isn’t the best policy – it is the only policy”, which is the drive and service that is still true today. State Farm insures more cars and homes than any other insurer in the U.S., is the leading insurer of watercraft and is also a leading insurer in Canada.
Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury is an american science-fiction writer. He was born august 22th 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. His Mother Ester Maria Moberg is swedish, and as a child he moved around a lot. Since 1934 he has lived in Los Angeles. In his whole career he has written 23 novels.
Name Teacher Class Date Fahrenheit 451 Essay Burning Books The title Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which books burn, strongly depicts the meaning and illustration of this novel. All it took was one flick of a match and the kerosene swallows the house full of hidden knowledge. The houses that suffered through the consuming fire smolder for days, but Montag’s heart would smolder for the rest of his life. The number on Montag’s helmet, 451, not only symbolized books burning, but also stood for the destruction of wisdom. Montag realized he was not just burning the books but also the author, and the author’s knowledge behind each one.
Guy Montag: An ex-fire fighter, but still a good person. Fahrenheit 451. The temperature that paper catches fire and starts to burn. The main character of the book, Guy Montag, burns books for a living. Later on in the book, he realizes there is more to life than just burning books.
Book Report Book title: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Genre: Science Fiction Main Setting in the story: In a futuristic non intellectual society Main Characters: A- Guy Montag is the protagonist of the story who is a fireman who’s job is to burn books because in his society books are seen as evil and harmful. B- Clarisse Mcclennan is a dynamic character in the story, who is a free spirited 17 year old, questions everything, and enlightens Montag to then brighter side of life. C- Captain Beatty is Montag’s boss and is a foil to him and anyone else who dares to read literature. He himself was once a reader, but somehow had an enlightening of the evil of books, and now burns
The Perfect Temperature Many people believe that Fahrenheit 451 was written to warn future generations of what our society and government could become. The society in Fahrenheit 451 has many similarities along with many differences to our modern society. Fahrenheit 451 begins with a fireman named Guy Montag who burns books in a futuristic American city. In this futuristic society, firemen start fires rather than putting them out. The people in Fahrenheit's society do not spend time by themselves, think on their own, or, by any means, read books.
Mosetta Holmes Name_______________________________ Major Works Data Sheet Title:___________________________ The Catcher in the Rye Biographical information about the author: Notable not only for his writing but also for his private nature, J.D. Salinger is the aloof author of the popular 1951 novel, The Catcher In The Rye. Born on January 1, 1919 in New York City, Salinger would later become one of the most influential 20th century American writers. He was the youngest of two children and the only son of Sol Salinger, a rabbi who sold kosher cheese, and his mother of Scottish decent, Mariam. Not much of a student, Salinger flunked out of the McBurney School in New York and was later sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
E. Lynn quit his job to write his first novel, Invisible Life, but could not find a publisher, so he published it himself in 1991 and sold only to black owned bookstores, hair salons, and book clubs, before Anchor Books discovered him. Anchor published Invisible Life on paperback in 1994, and his career was officially started. Harris followed with books Just As I Am (1994), And This Too Shall Pass (1996), If This World Were Mine (1997), and Abide With Me, (1999) all published by Doubleday. All of his books have been bestsellers. However, And This Too Shall Pass, If This World Was Mine, Abide With Me, Not A Day Goes By, and A Love of My Own were New York Times bestsellers.
Instead of a paper let me share a handout which I composed an hour ago. It will be distributed at a ceremony honoring me, and two much more widely known authors, in New York City (the day after tomorrow). ======================================= Professor Ludwik Kowalski (age 80), a retired nuclear physicist (see Wikipedia), is the author of two free online books at: http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/father2/introduction.html and http://csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/life/intro.html entitled Hell on Earth: Brutality and Violence Under The Stalinist Regime, and Tyranny to Freedom: Diary of a Former Stalinist The first simply-written book is educational; it is based on what victims and historians have written about