Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The main character that I have chosen is old man Fagin. He has long hair and a long beard with a strong personality. Fagin is the main character of the thieves. He also is an ambitious, greedy and he loves to manipulate the others. The character's role from Fagin is the main boss of the thieves who is obligated to steal and kill the orphan boys. These orphan boys were living with him for a place to live and for food to eat.
I chose this picture because it represents all that Old man Fagin is.

Oliver Twist

Title : Oliver Twist

Author : Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist is one of my favourite books. Nancy is a main role who attracts my eyes. She is a kind of sympathetic role who is the lover of bill sikes in the book oliver twist. Nancy is not a totally good person ,or she is a totally bad. That’s one of the reasons why I like her.She is normal ,just like us. Sometimes she does the wrong things, yet she gets a warm heart in her chest..

In the novel oliver twist, nancy is a very important role who connects between good people and bad people. And she has been trying to protect oliver from being kidnapped at the second time. Meanwhile, she meet rose maylie to tell her about oliver ‘s secret from sikes and fagin’ talking.. She goes to the London bridge at the midnight to meet mr brownlow which is a very nice and important person to oliver.She trys her best to help oliver out of danger so that she is killed by sikes.

Nancy is showing her kindness heavily in the story when she risks her life to help oliver.This role represented the people who could still retain a sense of good even though sometimes people tainted by society.

Emergency murder

The title of my book : Emergency Murder
The author's name : Janet McGiffin

I choose the character Hank Myer because I think he is a perfect man of the story.He had many feeling.In the story,He is a surgeon at Mercy Hoispital.He is a husband of Nanette.He works hard and busy all the time.He did many patients and surgery in five different hospital, including Mercy Hosptial.In one day his wife died.Then, he can not accecpt every thing. He want to found out what happen to his wife. Why she died ? He want to know what wrong in his life.

The Amsterdam Connection (Group 4)

Title : The Amsterdam Connection

Author : Sue Leather

I choose the character in the story name Elly van Pragge ; I found this picture is the best to describe the character because Elly is a smily and helpful person , just looks like this photo .

She was a policewoman . In this story , she was a policewoman and kate's friend , she helps kate a lot to find out the truth .

Reach out with world

Book: Inventions that changed the world

Author: David Maule

Paul Julius Reuter didn't invent telegraph, telephone, radio, television, Internet, but on the other hand, he is a best example of inventory character. He helped us to improve our communications. Like all inventors Reuter had exciting, passion, occupation of his life, talent, open mind and brave to create new things for other people.

More then 200 years ago Reuter started an organization for sending business information, which used telegraph for sending reports through Germany. Today his news agency is the most famous media in the world. The Reuters delivers fresh business and political news all over the countries by Internet.

Communication is the one of the most important things in our life. We want to know what is the weather will be tomorrow, or what is the result of hockey match. We want to be competent about a lot of events on the our planet. Now every day we use sell phones, GPS, satellite link, Internet. As a result of, we don't feel stiff boundaries in communication and between countries. Each moment in our life we can feel ourself person of the world.

All inventors have a great vision. The inventors, who tried to send first massages by telegraph or telephone had dreams about more perfectly world than it was. It's true, our life with them ideas became more faster, eventful, informative, then it was before, but I believe that in this moment somewhere a few people are creating new ideas, which will change our world more and more. Maybe you are doing it... here and now.

Inventions that changed the world

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Charles Babbage

Title: Inventions That Changed the World

Author: David Maule

This true story is about the person who invented the first computer. I could not have chosen a better picture then this, because it’s seems like Charles Babbage was very happy and confident looking with his machine.

In 1822, in England, Charles Babbage (1792 - 1871) began work on a counting machine. British government to award him £1500 in funding and worked on it for the next ten years. This became known as the Difference Engine Number one, after that Babbage asked the government for money to make new machine, but public funding was withdrawn. He then built the Difference Engine Number two at two meters high, this was slightly smaller and much simple model that used only small number of the 25,000 parts in the first machine.

Unfortunately, a working model of the Difference Engine proved considerably more difficult to build than a desktop prototype in the end, Babbage was forced to walk away from his brainchild, but he had planned the first programmable computer. This included programs (written using cards with holes in them), a reader which was able to get results from the information, and a memory all the things that were found in later computers.

In 1991, one hundred years after Babbage’s death, a copy was built using his plans but very few people knew about his work and most of them weren’t interested. Now that hundreds of thousands of electronic parts can be put together on a board that is no more than one centimeter square. The ability of computers to do difficult mathematics and the power of the Internet to help people communicate easily, also each other have made it possible to improve ideas much faster than before. Computers have helped all the more recent inventions, which means that Babbage was one of the most important people in the history of computers.

Oliver Twist

The title of the book: Oliver Twist

The author's name: Charles Dickens

The story talk about a poor boy as you can see in the picture.His name was the title of the book----Oliver Twist.Oliver himself is born in a workhouse and treated cruelly there as was the norm at the time for pauper children, in particular by Bumble, a parish council official or eadle The story follows Oliver as he escapes the workhouse and runs away to London. Here he receives an education in villainy from the criminal gang of Fagin that includes the brutal thief Bill Sikes, the famous artful Dodger and Nancy, Bill whore. Oliver is rescued by the intervention of a benefactor - Mr Brownlow - but the mysterious Monks gets the gang to kidnap the boy again. Nancy intervenes but is murdered viciously by Sikes after she has showed some redeeming qualities and has discovered Monk sinister intention. The story closes happily and with justice for Bumble and the cruel Monks who has hidden the truth of Oliver parentage out of malice.

I think Oliver have a good luck with his experience.In the way, escaping from the workhouse,he met Jack Dawkins to help him to London,but he didn't know that he put himself in another bad situation,but he didn't loss the confidence for this world.He met a lucky lady---Nancy.She helped Oliver for a lot.But, in fact,Oliver is a brave boy in this book. He faced a lot of bad situation from the workhouse to the London.Because of his courage and the other's help, let the story have a happy ending!He is a pretty brave boy in that community.He is a good and important character in the book!

Romeo and Juliet

Title of book:Romeo and Juliet

Author:William Shakespeare

Paris is a minor role in the play, which often

leads his importance in the play to be misunderstood. He professes his love to Juliet and he loves Juliet dearly.This picture is the best describe his love to Juliet .When he seeing Juliet apparently dead,he was very sad.Because he wants to marry Juliet.

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Group 3

Jos van Essen

The book: The Amsterdam Connection by Sue Leather.
The Character: Jos van Essen
The Amsterdam Connection is a mysterious story. Jos van Essen was a supporting role in this book.
Jos van Essen, a 29-year old former football player. He was a great football player of Rotterdam City Football CLUB. He was one of the best football players in the world. He was a very nice person and also a good-looking guy. He quit the club because he didn’t want to play dirt on football.
He dies by helping Kate Jensen (also known as the main character of the book.) to find out the truth of their friend Max Carson. He was killed by Martijn Christiaans, the guy who also killed Max Carson. By the time Jos van Essen dies, he was about to going to the UK to restart his career and life.
I had chosen this picture because the guy in the picture is a passionate football player just like Jos van Essen.

Aicong Wu

Do You Want To Be An Inventor?

Title : Inventions: That Changed The World
Author : David Maule

How many inventions are in the world? We have been living more comfortable life than long time ago, for many inventions. Sometimes, inventions change our lives. As invented printing, we can read various books and carry them. Can you imagine our lives without books? Likewise, as invented a flight, we can travel all over the world. We can go to anywhere if you have some money. Of course, all of inventions don’t give a good benefit to us. For instance, as invented a gun, there were terrible wars in the world, and many people is dying for the gun. In spite of a few bad influences of inventions, we are living convenience lives for many inventions. I would like to introduce about flight’s history.

In the year 875 in Cordoba, Abbas Ibn built a flying machine, but he hurt his back badly when he tried to fly in the sky. In 1010, Oliver jumped off a church roof, but he also hurt his legs. In the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci drew the flight like bird’s wings. Unfortunately, it didn’t move when he was alive. In 1638 in Istanbul, Hazarfar Celebi built a pair of wings using da Vinci’s drawing. He jumped off a high building and flow across the sea. The twentieth century, Wright brothers used a gasoline engine when they built their flying machine. It was the first powered, manned, heavier than air controlled flight. After then, many kind of flight invented like a helicopter, a rocket. Now, we also can go to the Mars. What a fantastic the world is!

There are a lot of useful inventions in the world. We are supposed to invented things which help our lives. Think constantly and invent to awesome things! We all can be an inventor.

Title of my book: The Amsterdam Connection

Author: Sue Leather

This story is about a murder mystery that

happened in Amsterdam. Reporter Kate Jensen

acted an important role in the story. She impressed

people with unforgetable characters. She would be

explore the case and never flinched from facing dead.

Her friend, Max Carson, was involved in a case of murder.

She was suspicious about Max's dead. So she decided to

find the truth. However, a man prepared to kill her. She

didn't stop researching. Finally, she discovered the secret.

Death in the dojo

My book' name is "death in the dojo "

Writer is "Sue Leather"

I choose the character ' name is "Sanjay "

This book is kind of the Thriller , Reporter Kate Jensen investigates the death of a karate master in a 'dojo'. he meet his old friend --"Sanjay",in the story , Sanjay train in Karate the Asano dojo in London .

Death in the Dojo

The author's name

Sue Leather

I choose the character's name is Kate Jensen.She is a news reporter on the daily echo,a national newspaper published in London.She is in her early thirties.She used to train in karete.That is why I choose this picture to discribe her.She is a reporter investigates the death of a karate master in a dojo.The karate training room is in London.Another death quickly happened and Kate Jensen finds herself drawn into the mystery.She wants to find out the result.

Romeo and Juliet

Author:William Shakespeare

ROMEO is the hero os the story ,the male love interest of juliet.I Think this picture is the best to describe the character .

I chose it because it shows Romeo at the capulet's party when he has fisrt seen Juliet ,the capulet's only daughter,and fell in love with her .here,he has forgotten that he loved another called Rosaline now he has found the love of his life, when you look at his eyes ,you can know that he has strong feelings to someone .He starts his monologue the first words he said "who is that beautiful lady, shinning so brightly in the dark night? also,he asks himself "was i in love before ?No-not only tonight."now,he is realy in love.

Later that night,he and juliet meet secretly and promise to marry knowing the mariage won't be accepted by their family .they marry the following day ,but their union soon threw into a dicord bytheir families .Romeo killed Tybal who killed his best friend ,Mercutio,and the prince banishes him and leaves Verona .Soon ,he learns that Juliet is died so he believes and commit suicide .

By Mariama Sow

Romeo and Juliet

Title of the book: Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare

This picture is the best to describe Juliet. Juliet is a star-crossing lover, out going toward Romeo and without Romeo she don't want to live in this world. I chose this picture to describe Juliet because this is exactly how her emotions react when Romeo came toward her and take his mask off in the banquet as it shown in this picture. That's how they fell in love with each other, his first sight of love toward Juliet. In the book, Juliet react the same as she react in this picture. Juliet's role is the main character and Lord Capulet's daughter.

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Group 3

Emergency Murder

The title of my book : Emergency Murder

The author's name : Janet McGiffin

DR Maxine Cassidy is a intelligent, brave, rightful, and kind doctor like this picture. She work at Mercy Hospital Emergency Room. She is a single lady. I like she use her wisdom to find the killer and starts investigation of her own. However, When someone tries to kill her, she begins to wonder which of her medical colleagues she can trust.

Johannes Gutenberg

It is known as printing was invented by China, but if you know who invented the first printing press with reusable type in Europe? From “Inventions That Changed the World”, wrote by David Maule, the answer is Johannes Gutenberg (1398-1468), a German, who lived at fifteenth century. He knew about metal from his father at his early age, and he was later trained to work gold jewelry. He used metal to make his reusable type. He had to try many of these before he found the best. He also used earlier inventions. His printing press was similar to the heavy presses that were used for marking wine. In 1454, Gutenberg began to print a new Bible- the “42-line Bible”. He made around 180 copies. Some were printed on animal skin, but more are on paper. However, some details and the large capital letters were added by hand. Gutenberg himself made nothing out of his great invention. He had borrowed money to start his business and finally give his press, his tools, and his materials to his debtor for unable to repay on time. Gutenberg died as a poor and forgotten man in 1468, and his debtor continued his work. After Gutenberg’s printing press, the invention of printing spread quickly through Western Europe, and at last to whole world. Now, the printing developed to computerized printing, and a desk-top machine that delivers good quality pages at high speed. The work of Gutenberg and his followers is now done inside a computer.