https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p Title, Author, Reason, Quote en-us 2017-12-19 15:19:12 UTC 2017-12-31 15:21:50 UTC hello@padlet.com ramstey https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217300337 This is an enlightening book about the struggles of children living in urban poverty:
"The Number 6 Train from Manhattan to the South Bronx makes nine stops in the 18 minutes ride between 59th Street and Brook Avenue"]]> 2017-12-19 16:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217300337 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217502276 I choose these three books, because I want to learn how and why music works. Honestly it's just killing two birds with one stone I get to read what I am passionate about and do an AP comp assignment. 

Carrying on, an example of one of the book I choose, How Music Works, the opening chapters goes over some of the questions it will answer.
"Why does ten violins sound only twice as loud as one?", or, "what is harmony and how does it work." For me, I am very interested in the how portion so I can incorporate it for my music. That is why the Music instinct, and this is your brain on music is a also a good way to find the psychology for the attraction to music, and how to use certain sounds to really resonate with people.]]> 2017-12-20 14:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217502276 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503325 This book is about the story of the first detective who used DNA testing to catch a serial killer. I chose this book because I wanted something to keep my interest and this book seems like it will do that.
"with the Cold War over, no Americans dying on foreign soil, and peace, in fact, breaking out all over the world, Americans should feel safe and secure. But they don't"]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503325 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503329 It is about how native Americans influenced the world throughout history, particularly in the United States. 
"Despite everything that happened to the native people of the Americas, they still have a profound influence on the modern society in which we live, if only we are willing to see it. American Indians form an essential core of the epic of humanity. They produced a cultural genius that helped to make the world a better place."]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503329 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503342 This book describes the hardships that the Sweet family goes through, due to discrimination. The ironic part of the book is that this family came from slavery, worked their way into forming themselves into middle class family, but the destruction of the family begins due the crooked way of white society. As they killed a white man when defending their home from attacking racist white people, and being an African American family everything from then on is tipped out of their favor. ]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503342 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503347 This book documents the 1993 raid on Mogadishu Somalia and the nightmares that came along with the raid. It portrays the actions and events of the day and night, incorporating dialogue and detailed descriptions of the memories of certain soldiers on the ground during the raid.
"They held themselves to a higher standard than most soldiers. With their buff bodies, distinct crew cuts,and their grunted Hoo-ah greeting, they saw themselves as the army at its gung ho best"]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503347 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503377 This book is about the making of a film that would reignite the civil war. I always find films interesting because they show how the director views the world and how others do as well, whether they agree with it or not. 

"Griffiths film, The Birth of a Nation, included actors in blackface, heroic portraits of of Knights of the KKK, and a depiction of Lincoln's assassination."]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503377 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503379 This book sheds light on the dust storms that terrorized the plains during the Depression.
"On those days when the wind stops blowing across the face of the southern plains, the land falls into a silence that scares people in the way a big house can haunt after the lights go out and no one else is there."]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503379 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503437 This book was made to show the raising awareness of veterans during the Vietnam war when they held a hunger strike. This was a movement for soldiers to get better treatment when fighting in the war.
"Revolution was in the air. The cities were burning as National Guardsmen patrolled the streets with fixed bayonets, taking sniper fire from rooftops." ]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503437 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503442 This book is about the life of Julius Achon, an impoverished boy from Uganda who was forced to fight in the resistance movement in his country, became one of the best track stars in the world, and eventually returned to Uganda to improve the country's quality of life.

"Afterwards, Julius staggered back to the apartment he shared with a few other foreign runners. Mattresses and box springs lay flush on the floor, ranks of training shoes waited by the door, and a pot of rice and beans simmered on the stove." ]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503442 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503443 This book is about the Civil war and how it changed the great nation that we live in today. McPherson talks about why the Civil war continues to matter and change our society today. 
"Five generations have passed, and we are still trying to measure that influence. The long shadow cast by the Civil War continues to affect us today." ]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503443 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503457 This book is about the maritime disaster that inspired Moby Dick. It also tells of the aftermath and what the surviving crew had to go through in order to stay alive.
"It was, he later remembered, 'the most pleasing moment of my life' - the moment he stepped aboard the whaleship Essex for the first time."]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503457 cammettm19 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503478 This book is about how a team of spies captured Adolf Eichmann, the head of operations for the Nazis' Final Solution. He escaped into the mountains after WWII and sixteen years later he was captured at a bus stop in Argentina. I picked this book because it sounds interesting and it is a story that I've never heard before.]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503478 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503497 The book is about a U.S. Marine Corps special operation in Afghanistan. The 22 men of the Marine Special Operations Team 8222 conducted a night assault to destroy the Taliban force. They  continued their fight through the harsh winters and tried to complete their mission in a brutal environment.                                           "A dark silhouette of a man gripping a weapon at the bottom of the stairs. All black, featureless, and silent as he began to rush up the steps toward me"]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503497 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503507 I chose this book because the Nazi's and World War 2 are something that to this day is still widely talked about. This book talks about individuals sent by Hitler to sabotage the United Sates during World War 2.
"On the approved list of visitors to Adolf Hitler's gloomy forest bunker for April 16,1942 , was a short, somewhat stocky German admiral with piercing blue eyes, bustling eyebrows, and a mane of carefully combed white hair."]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503507 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503536 I chose this book because I enjoy learning about events in history that are often overlooked. This book retells the story of the serial killer that confessed to murdering 27 people at the World's Fair in 1893:
"Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading."

]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503536 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503564 This book is a retelling of the events leading up to and directly following the Boston Marathon Bombing.

"Indeed, it's easy to forget, at the start, the hard realities of running 26.2 miles, the difficult hours that always come." ]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503564 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503585 This book is about the generation of Americans who enlisted to spearhead the war on terrorism right after the events of 9/11. I chose this book because it shows how 9/11 affected Americans.
 
"Nearly two dozen rounds ripped into our Humvee almost immediately. Nobody was hit; none of the marines panicked. They responded by speeding into the gunfire and attacking with their weapons."]]> 2017-12-20 14:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503585 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503636 This is a book about the challenging recovery of Ronald Reagan after he was almost killed by a gunman's bullet during his presidency.
"Reagan is firmly in command. Or so it seems to those around him. Little does he know the violence that lies ahead."]]> 2017-12-20 14:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503636 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503648 I chose this book because in 9th grade when we read The Glass Castle I actually really enjoyed that book and realized that that style of writing is something that I find enjoyable to read and this book is similar to The Glass Castle because it is also a memoir.
It's about 3 sisters who were abandoned by their parents and were left in the foster care system 
  "If there's anything odder than being introduced to your new family of complete strangers, I don't know what that might be."]]> 2017-12-20 14:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217503648 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217504135 This book is about all the poisons that were used to murder people in the early stages of our country. Since toxicology was a weak point in science at the time and scientists were not able to isolate poisons in the body to figure out the cause, it was an easy way to get rid of someone like a wealthy parent so you can inherit their money or political figure you´re not really fond of. ]]> 2017-12-20 14:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217504135 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217504447 This book is about slaves that went on trial for being accused of raping white women- it was a hardcover book about 400 pages long I think. I haven't started it so I can't think of a quote either, that's all I can remember. I chose this book because it looked interesting and I wanted to see what trials were like from a long time ago when things were very unequal.]]> 2017-12-20 14:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217504447 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217505185 I chose this book because I've always loved reading stories about people who make do with what they have and make a difference in the world despite being told it is impossible for a them to do such things(due to gender, race, age, ect.)

"In the pages that follow I tell the stories of four such women: a rebellious teenager with a dangerous temper; a Canadian expat on the run from her past: a widow and mother with nothing left to loose; and a wealthy society matron who endured death threats for years and lost as much as she won."]]> 2017-12-20 14:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217505185 https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217506071 I chose this book because while it focuses on the civil war, it mainly addresses another issue that was rising: the role of women (especially in medicine). Both women's rights and medicine interest me so I think I'll like the real stories of the female nurses in the war hospitals. "It is impossible to fully understand the American Civil War without looking at the role of medicine, both its triumphs and its failures."]]> 2017-12-20 15:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ramstey/mgob5yqj4h3p/wish/217506071