This book, Heist Society, is written by Ally Carter and was published in 2010. Ally Carter is an American author of young-adult fiction and adult-fiction novels, and this is her pen name. Her real name is Sarah Leigh Fogleman. She chose this pen name to separate those books from her other work, so “Ally Carter” is a name that was created only for her young adult novels. It’s shorter, and more memorable, it gives people a sense of intimacy even before they start reading the books.
It all started with a teenage girl, Katarina Bishop, got kicked out of a school for a prank she didn’t commit. She found out later that she was framed by her best friend, Hale, a mysterious handsome and extremely wealthy boy whose first name remained unknown even for Katarina. Hale did that in order to bring a message to her, he told her that a really bad guy called Arturo Taccone was looking for her father because he thought her father had stolen his precious paintings. Later, Katarina learned about that her father did not do it, and she tried to convince Taccone but failed. The Bishop family was quite different -- it was a family full of thieves. Although Katarina just want to be a normal girl, she had to find out who really stole those paintings and get them back, or Taccone would hurt her father. She started investigating the thief, and found a name, Visily Romani, and it turned out to be a sacred fake name for thieves, just like Robin Hood. Her uncle asked her to give up, but she didn’t, and her friends didn’t as well, they backed her up and decided to help her. Romani seemed like he was leaving trails on purpose and he led them to the Henley, a high-security museum in London that had never been robbed before. Katarina and her friends made plans and...
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...to earn their trust and respect. To her friends, Katarina told them the truth, she didn’t hide anything from them, she told them the risks and danger, and it ended up that they supported her more than ever. Sometimes even if the truth seems so cruel and harsh for your friends or families to bear, it’s still better than lies, because the longer the lie lasts, the deeper the real truth will hurt.
Reading this book is quite a enjoyable experience. The language is simple and spontaneous, and the plots are intense and interesting at the same time, the ending is unexpected. It’s a book that as soon as you start then you don’t want to stop reading it until the end. The only part that is a little bit disappointing is the romance. The chemistry between Katarina and Hale was stiff and kind of cliche. However, Heist Society is a young adult novel that is totally worth reading.
Which was sister souji who is a psychologist or someone who comes and preached and gives advice to those in trouble , in need of some good advice she is well known in new york . Winter gets introduced to sister souji who takes her in even though winter gives her a fake name . She asked sister souji if she knew her cousin midnight she said “yes” . Winter had lied and said that her mother was very sick and her mother wanted to see midnight which was her cousin . she asked if she could stay there which sister souji let her for a few weeks till midnight came to get her . Sister souji introduced her to her little sister lauren which who also liked to party and was a bit sneaky . Then the doctor who works down stairs and has her little clinic which winter seems to keeps an eye on because she make 300 dollars each patients . Sister souji gets invited to her friends party who most likely her boyfriend on the low but things don't seems to workout at the moment with his career and lifestyle as a rapper . Which winter sees a big opportunity to snatch and if she sleeps with the rapper she can make him fall in love with her body which is not true at all because the moment she gets a chance to go back to the mansion and gets picked to go up stairs . She gets played out. who she really sleeps with is the bodyguard .
* Duncan, Vinny, and Wayne are all friends working - or wasting time - the summer before senior year in high school. Duncan is the soul, Vinny the brains, and Wayne the muscle. At the end of the previous summer, Duncan tried to save a drowning girl and failed. Not being a hero has really affected his life, particularly his relationship with his girlfriend Kim. Also, he is now terrified of swimming, especially when the nightmares come back. Duncan's summer job is with the public transit lost and found. While trying to make the hours go faster, Duncan looks through the items, especially the books and golf clubs. One day he discovers an unmarked journal with no name, which depicts sadistic animal torture experiments, boasts of arson fires, and the planning for the serial killings of three women. Duncan decides to make amends for his failure last summer by tracking down the owner of the journal by using clues left hidden in the diary. After talking with his friend Vinny, Duncan decides to turn the journal over to the police, but they do not take him seriously, so he decides to get help from Vinny, do some research at the local library, and find out where the killer works and lives so they can prove to the police the diary is for real. But in the process when Duncan finds the house of the serial killer, he decides to take a look in it but unfortunately at that very time the serial killer appears and chases Duncan to the subway station. They get into fight there and they both fell on the subway tracks in the station where they get hit by the train. Duncan luckily survives but the serial killer dies.
Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Melinda are the people of the world with the feelings of deceit, despair, and dejection associated with their faults, troubles, and passion. Hawthorne and Anderson mastered in ensnaring the feelings of deceit, despair, and dejection and writing the feelings into their extraordinary characters. Both authors succeed in creating these characters in such a way that the readers will most likely meet a Hester, Arthur, Roger, or a Melinda in their lifetime.
On one side, there is Kathy Nicolo and Sheriff Lester Burdon who want the house from which Kathy was evicted. It previously belonged to Kathy’s father and she is reluctant to relinquish possession of it. Then there is the Behranis, a Persian family who was forced to flee to America in fear of their lives. They want the house because it symbolizes their rise from poverty (they had to leave everything behind and were quite poor when they arrived in the United States) back to affluence which, to this family, will help to restore their family’s dignity, lost when thrust into poverty. The story centers on gaining possession of the house. Unknowingly, all of these characters are doomed to tragedy by their inability to understand each other, hurtling down an explosive collision course.
All the characters are products of their own society, Veronese society. Status is everything, money buys anything. Woman must marry well and produce many offspring. Men believe strongly in defending their honor by any means available especially violence.
Sense and Nonsense about Crime and Drugs by Samuel Walker Samuel Walker, author of Sense and Nonsense about Crime and Drugs, presented us in his book with forty-eight propositions that dealt with crime, drugs, and our efforts toward getting rid of these problems. A few of these propositions informed us on positive actions taking place in our criminal justice system, but the majority of them told us what was not working to fight crime and drugs. One of those propositions that was a negative aspect of our justice system today in Mr. Walker's eyes was the "three strikes and you're out" laws (referred to here after as three strikes laws). He gives numerous reasons why this law is not considered to be an effective one. This paper will first explain Walker's view on the issue and then review some of the current research and opinions on the matter.
The main themes are that you shouldn’t judge people by their appearances. Just because you are rich and belong to a tough gang does not mean you are cruel like the other gang members. You shouldn’t carry any harmful weapons and should not escape from the police.
The quote stated in the bible “Money is the root of all evil,” has been argued for many years. This statement is claiming that, the need of money can create a monster out of anyone. As in this story where the merchant is forced to make a decision due to the lack of money he owns. He chooses to sell his only son to a black dwarf to become rich. This trade will become the seed in turning his own child into a monster. Heinel does start off with a great heart, but due to a series of events it’s almost as if he’s forced to be a monster. Constantly, being the victim of each situation undoubtedly changes who Heinel starts off as and who he ends as in this story. He truly becomes the Monster of Golden Mountain. As the theory in “Serial Killers” by Andrew Cooper & Brandy Bale Blake, shows that growing up in bad environments can potentially make a monster out of anybody.
In The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis, the author discusses corruption and the effects of corruption on Africans living under the resource curse, or Dutch disease. He also talks about a system responsible for the looting of Africa’s natural resources to benefit individuals and companies from Chinese, French, American, Brazilian, British, Israeli, and African elites. Burgis suffered from PTSD, which stemmed from the aftermath of the Jos massacre and other events he experienced in Africa. To cope with his PTSD, Burgis wrote down what he saw during his research, experiencing tremendous guilt in the process. Instead of his initial reasoning that the Jos massacre occurred due to “ethnic rivalries”, he started to see the real reason and how the massacre
... woman who comes from a very rich family. She has plenty of friends and money and she is a good student at Julliard, a school for music. Andrea is not satisfied with what she has and yearns for more. She wants to find out who Goddard is and steal all his money. Just when she has almost fulfilled her dream, she is shot, and left without even her life.
But once the accusations started, she couldn’t back out for fear that her name would be ruined even more. She was just as scared as the other girls involved, but had to hide it behind the lies and cunning actions because she had no one to turn to in her time of need. She felt power, and like she had a place in life for once, when the other girls followed her and her decisions.
Character Setting:Rafe Kachadorian an 11 year old kid who lives Hills Village and has an overactive imagination, he lives with his sister Georgina, her mom and used to live with his mom’s new boyfriend
Sociology student Sudhir Venkatesh sets out on a journey within the Chicago housing projects with a quest of finding out how it feels to be black and poor. Sudhir was an Indian native from a middle class Californian family and he was unfamiliar with the black culture within Chicago. In his book Gang Leader for a Day, he tells of his sociology research within one of the roughest housing projects in Chicago. Sudhir starts his research by talking to a few elderly gentlemen he played chess with at the park. His conversation with them led him to the Robert Taylor Housing Projects which was described as one of the worst Ghettos in America. His research began the first day he arrived with his clipboard of questionnaires ready to ask the question, “How does it feel to be black and poor?” His intent was to interview a few families within the projects and then go home but something unexpected happened. He ended up spending much longer gaining an insight of the lives of poor blacks, gangs, and drug dealers.
In the past, according to the online Wikipedia encyclopedia, the common law definition of burglary, was breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with an intent to commit a felony therein. In the present, according to criminal.findlaw.com, the modern common law definition of burglary, is typically defined as the unlawful entry into almost any structure (not just a home or business) with the intent to commit any crime inside (not just theft/larceny). No physical breaking and entering is required; the offender may simply trespass through an open door. The Criminal law hand book written by Paul Bergman and Sara Berman states that the law has changed because burglary laws were more rigid, and they required the government to prove that a defendant at night forced open a door, a window, or some other part of a building to gain entry before it was called burglary. Unlike the present, going into a building any time of the day without consent through an open window or an unlocked door constitutes a break and entry for purposes of almost all burglary statutes. Even a partial entry can constitute a burglary.
Many of us have heard stories about the Holocaust, but did you know that over 11 million people died? Death was a very important yet regular aspect of Nazi Germany, and The Book Thief did a great job describing this destruction. In this novel we are guided through a whirlwind of romances, like Rudy and Liesel’s long lived love for each other, and Rosa and Hans’ hidden desire, but equally we are faced with heartbreaks, and even more often, death. The narrator uses many literary devices to describe the process of death, and the fact that even if we foresee it, it never comes easily.