Mountain” Author: Jean Craighead George Genre: Non-Fiction Young adult Plot Summary: This book is about a boy named Sam Gribley’s it’s about his life in the Catskill Mountains. In the journal he writes about the snowstorm he has encountered. Sam lives all alone down in a hidden cave dug out from a tree. This story is flashbacks of Sam’s memories. Sam is a 15 year old boy who dislikes living with his family in New York. Sam explains that before the blizzard arrived he had worked for months…
The book I chose to read was Worst Case by James Patterson. I’ve heard really good things about the author from both my brother and dad. When I was trying to find a book, I asked my brother for help since he also likes that genre. He has a enormous box of books that I sorted through until I found a book that I liked the looks of. The cover is a picture of a cop in front of New York City. This sparked an interest in me because I really enjoy city crimes. The book’s main character, Michael…
Ashley Fenner SPED 715 Book Review Don’t Shoot the Dog! Pryor, K., (1999). Don’t Shoot the Dog!: the New Art of Teaching and Training (pp. 1-183). $11.64 (softcover.) New York, New York.: Bantam Books. The target audience of Don’t Shoot the Dog! is for anyone who wants to learn more about the area of behavior management. The audience base is large and includes: teachers, administrators, parents, psychologists, and counselors. Karen Pryor attempts to address how to change a behavior, or ‘train’…
throughout his lifetime and published his first book in 1827, which was titled Tamerlane, and…
Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (Book Review) Robert Courtney Smith (Ph.D. Columbia), the author of Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants, is a Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affair at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York (CUNY). Smith may specializations include Ethnography, Globalization, Ethnicity, and Migration. His foremost book, Mexican New York:…
H October 7, 2015 LET THE GREAT WORLD STOP SPINNING "Let the Great World Spin," by New York Times bestselling author, Colum McCann, is one of the most tedious, rambling, and incomplete novels ever published. I’ve never in my life had to force myself to read a book. While reading this novel, I constantly felt myself waiting for it to pick up and excite or thrill me but sadly, it never did. I love the idea of the book and the concept that all these lives could be woven together by a single moment…
There is so much to see and do, that I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with my to-do list in New York. I was told that there is only one way to experience New York, and that is on foot. A big part of what makes New York so great is its atmosphere, and you can soak it up for free from just walking the city streets. Of course I took the metro to places too far to walk, but on Saturday, I decided to conquer Soho on foot. The city's neighborhoods, from the Upper East Side to Chinatown to…
is the son of Cesia and David Blitzer. His parents were Jewish refugees from Poland. At a young age Wolf moved to Buffalo, New York with his parents. Blitzer studied at Kenmore West Senior High School. He was an art student and was very good at music. He competed in several art competitions and won several awards. After graduation, Wolf studied at State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1970, Wolf received a Bachelor of Arts in history. He earned an M.A. in international relations in 1972…
parenthesis within the text. Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (New York: Broadway, 2007), 17. See Sheffield, 17–-23. Subsequent references are given in parentheses within the text. Geoffrey O’Brien, Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life (New York: Counterpoint, 2004), 108. Thurston Moore, ed., Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture (New York: Universe Press, 2004), 94. Subsequent references are given in parentheses within the…
The New York City Department of Probation (DOP) is hosting a brunch for a diverse group of teen girls engaged in the New York City justice system on Saturday, June 3rd. At the brunch the young women accompanied by a parent and our guardian, will meet with mentors in an effort to assist in preparing them for future career opportunities. The Garden of Roses is a year-long program designed to support the development of court involved young women and offers engaging and dynamic activities to…