Great Source Write Source: Skills Book Student Edition Grade 8 (Write Source 2000 Revision) - Softcover

Sebranek, Patrick; Meyer, Verne; Kemper, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0669467782 ISBN 13: 9780669467789

Publisher: Great Source Education Group Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Gathered from the popular website www.StellaAwards.com, The True Stella Awards is an outrageous collection of America’s most frivolous lawsuits Named for Stella Liebeck, the woman who won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit after spilling hot McDonald’s coffee on herself, humorist Randy Cassingham’s popular website chronicles the hard-to-believe and amusing claims brought before the U.S.courts. The most ridiculous of these lawsuits are given the “honorable” Stella Award. In The True Stella Awards, Cassingham documents the most outlandish of these real-life cases, including:
* The man who legally changed his name to Jack *, and then sued MTV because their TV show and movie Jackass infringed on his trademark and demeaned his “good name”
* The songwriter who left a minute’s silence on his record only to be sued by the estate of another songwriter who copyrighted his own “silent” song
* The man who sued an amusement park after being the victim of the ultimate “act of God”: He was hit by lightning while standing next to his own car in the parking lot

Stunning and hilarious, The True Stella Awards reveals the extremes people will go to in the pursuit of “justice.”

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"I like the step-by-step writing instruction. It makes it so much simpler for us language arts teachers! It's all here in one book! I have used your Write Source book with middle school students since your first edition and found great success. Parents love it as a resource, too! You have found a need and filled it!"

Edition details

• Publisher: Great Source Education Group Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0669467782
• ISBN 13: 9780669467789
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 192