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Review and Analysis of How to Win Friends and Influence People

Hello, my name is Charlie Hechler and I will be reviewing and analyzing the book How to Win Friends and Influence People  by Dale Carnegie. This book is very popular and well known for its insights on how to work your way up through a company, how to function in a business setting in general, and even gives some tips on everyday life. The book is split up into four parts each with a different set of lessons. Each of those parts is split into chapters that cover a specific lesson. The book is very formulaic, each chapter starts off with the lesson at hand presenting the moral at hand only briefly. That is followed by a series of stories that support the claim that Carnegie makes. For example, one of the lessons on how to make people like you stated that you must focus on what that person wants and give it to them rather than give something you want. The lesson is very simple and seems incredibly obvious, but with the stories and anecdotes, Carnegie presents he always emphasizes ho...
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A Review of Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth

When I was in Sixth Grade, my bald loud Scottish father gave me a book called Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth he said his work mate had given to him. I gave it a go later that day when I found myself with nothing to do and I was delightfully surprised with the way it turned out. I liked it so much I read it 10 times by the end of the week. The book is about a quiet boy name Prez who is being sent to go and live on a small farm with the loud and rambunctious Blythes. While he is there, a disguised alien shows up at their door and claims that earth will be destroyed if he can't find ten wondrous things that make earth worth living on. He recruits Prez and they travel across the world in search of these wondrous things. On their adventure their adventure, they fold paper so that it strings across the universe, fly a tool shed, give a little girl a lightsaber for her birthday which she uses to nearly kill all of her friends as well as destroy her home, and much more.  The best...
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What genre is 2020?

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Let's be real- everyone thought 2020 was going to be their year. Then January happened- then February and March- and here we are in April- waiting for the inevitable boss battle of sorts. If you have not seen the memes regarding the whole 2020 situation- I have to ask... are you living under a rock? Among the many memes I've seen- some better than others- several I've seen have been poking fun at 'the movie we thought 2020 was going to be' and 'the movie that 2020 is'. As I'm slowly running out of books to write about on here, (aren't we all?), I'll be taking this time to ask the question: what kind of book is 2020? Fiction vs. Nonfiction?  While this is obviously a real-life event- it of course by default has to fall into the category of Nonfiction. However, for the reason that I need something to fill up the rest of this review, I will continue this blog post under the assumption that the entirety of 2020 is a fictional event. Realis...
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Barron's AP Biology Book 6th Edition Review

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Reviewer: Vraj Patel Spoiler Warning, I guess (I don't really know what counts as a "spoiler" in this case) Since quarantine started, I realized I do not have any books available on my bookshelf to review that I have not already reviewed. I can't really go to the library to check out a book because 1, it's closed, and 2, I don't want to get coronavirus. While thinking about what to do for my next blog post, I noticed my AP Bio Exam prep book on the floor, and suddenly this review came to mind. So, here we go: Summary: The exam prep book begins, as all books do, with a table of contents. The chapters are: 1) About the Exam, 2) Biochemistry, 3) The Cell, 4) Cell Cycle, 5) Energy, Metabolism, and Enzymes, 6) Cell Respiration, 7) Photosynthesis, 8) Heredity, 9) The Molecular Basis of Inheritance, 10) Biological Diversity, 11) Evolution, 12) Plants, 13) Human Physiology, 14) Endocrine and Nervous System, 15) The Human Immune System, 16) Animal Reproducti...
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Michael Vey the Prisoner of Cell 25

Hi all, my name is Charles Richard Hechler and today I will be reviewing Micheal Vey the Prisoner of Cell 25  by Richard Paul Evans. I first came across this book in middle school, but I never read it, mostly because it was on the Rebecca Caudill list and I personally thought that most books on the list were quite bad. However, my little brother was extremely fond of the books and even purchased some. A bit before break I happened upon the first book and decided to give it a go. Now without further ado let us get into the review. *Spoiler Warning* The story kicks off when Micheal, the main character who is constantly bullied because of his Tourette's Syndrome is in another fight with a group of bullies and he discovers he has electric powers when he nearly electrocutes the whole group. The only other person to witness the encounter is Taylor, who is conveniently both the hottest most popular cheerleader that Micheal has a crush on, as well as another person who can use electric ...
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Ranking All the Genres I Can Think Of (Last Post of Blog Week 2) (Quickie)

Hello all. As Blog Week 2 comes to a close I once again find myself searching the internet for non book review topics to write about and I found a site that suggested I write about the genres. So I decided I would rank them and hope for the best. This is my personal opinion so no need to get angry as you guys have done before. 6. Romance Like most people, I am not a big fan of romance. I have yet to read a romance novel that I have enjoyed. Hell, I don't even like it when romance is mentioned in a book of any genre. Guess I'm just not a romance guy. 5. Non-Fiction Although I don't dislike non-fiction, I'm not too fond of it because it is the opposite of fiction. (I know that's the point but still) I like it when literature goes outside the laws of reality because then the stories tend to be more unique and interesting as well as entertaining. 4. Horror I like this genre for a few reasons but the biggest being that I like to watch people suffer at the hands (Or...
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The Crappy Villains That We See Too Often in Literature (Post 6 of Blog Week 2)(Quickie)

Hello again all. It is currently day three of blog week as I am writing this but I like writing these for some reason so I don't mind writing them early. Today I thought I would talk about villains in literature and why most of them are kinda bland and predictable. This is gonna be a quick one so let's get's going. The average villain in literature will have some dumb reason for being the enemy of the main character. Most of the time these reasons are brought up throughout the book but rarely do we ever see too much evidence that these events have happened. These villains are fine but not great. They serve their purpose in the book and work most of the time but rarely will you finish a book with one of these villains and remember the villain of the book above all else. Why? Because they are forgettable and they are all the same. Sure, they might vary a little but the most important part of a villain is the motive and when we get a villain with a motive that we don't se...
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