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101 Ways to Bug Your Friends and Enemies

101 Ways to Bug Your Friends and Enemies is a book written by Lee Wardlaw based on the life of a middle school child and all the problems he has to undergo. The book is a composition of interesting adventures of the main character, Sneeze, his ...

A Critical Introduction by Hearn, J

Introduction The book Rethinking Nationalism. A Critical Introduction is the third book to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. Hearn is credited with bringing new ideas and revelations to the concept of nationalism. He organized his book by linking ...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In his play A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen raises questions about the freedom of personality and establishing identity. The author brings forth a sophisticated exploration of the protagonists’ souls culminating into a profound personal ...

A good Man is Hard to Find

Flannery O’Connor, in the book A Good Man Is Hard to Find, combines a lot of writing style to bring up the specific themes used in the book. By involving her characters to portray themes of God versus Religion by using “The grandmother” as the ...

A Little While by Edwidge Danticat's

The Haiti earthquake became one of the most serious tests to human endurance in the Caribbean region. Much has been written and said about the effects of the earthquake on the lives of Haitians. This paper is a response to the Edwidge Danticat’s ...

A Peace to End All Peace

The book Peace to End All Peace describes the failure of the Ottoman Empire. The book also gives an account on how the collapse of the empire contributed to the Renaissance and development of the Middle East. The fall of the Ottoman Empire was ...

A Sand County Almanac

A Sand County Almanac is a book that addresses our environment written by Aldo Leopold. In this article, we are going to address specific examples from this text that are representative of Leopold's land ethic outlined as follows: individuals are ...

A Social History 1877-1898

The purpose of this essay is to review the book by Robert McMath American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898. The review will describe the kind of message that the author is passing on to the readers. It will also recommend the type of people who ...

A Struggle for Power

Introduction Theodore Draper is famous for producing good works of history. He has even received the Herbart Fesi Award from the American Historical Association for writing non-academic related history. This is an indication that his work is of high ...

A Thousand Acres

In the book, ‘A Thousand Acres’, when a father of three daughters decides to pass his inheritance to his daughters, Caroline, Ginny and Rose, injustice is witnessed as not only is the 1,000 acre farm divided fairly but also one of the daughters ...

A Whole New Mind

Daniel H. Pink is an American writer. He is the writer of four books purposeful on the shifting world of work: New York Times best-seller A Whole New Mind: why right brainers will rule the future. Pink's pieces of writing on business and technology ...

All Brave Sailors

An apparently harmless Swedish freighter, reveals its disguise before an English tramp steamer, Anglo Saxon, in the eerie night of August 21, 1940 off Africa's western coast. In reality it was a German raider, Widder. What follows is possibly one ...

American Slavery by Kolchin Peter

Different historians have presented different versions of slavery in America, often taking a subjective and biased perspective that portrays one side as victims and the other as culprits. However, Kolchin sees it as a three-way discourse that ...

An Integrative Theory of Leadership

There are many different ways of how leadership is defined. However, the majority of researchers and theorists have adopted Chemers’ definition of leadership. In his book entitled An Integrative Theory of Leadership, he defines leadership as ...

And Still We Rise

This is a book by Miles Corwin, a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. The book highlights the lives and triumphant stories of twelve children at Crenshaw High School. These children have gone through difficult backgrounds, especially unfavorable home ...

Anna Karenina

The book Anna Karenina is one of the remarkable stories written with a reflection of both tragic and fascinating events. The book written by Leo Tolstoy illustrates a love affair between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky. The story  primarily bases ...

Auschwitz

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY "Auschwitz" is perhaps my favorite of the history-related books Auschwitz written by Robert Jan Van Pelt, testified on behalf of Deborah Lipstadt in the libel suit brought against her by David Irving. This book competently ...

Beyond The Neon Lights

The world changes in many aspects with the passage of time and the development of technology. It is therefore a continuous process that is inevitable in many areas. The structural history of the world has also been on a continuous arc of change. ...

Black Like Me

This paper gives an informative analysis of Black Like Me. This is a book published by John Howard Griffin in 1961. It reports on the six-day research done by this author about the plights of the African Americans in Southern America. During this ...

Blink by M Gladwell

In the age of organizational complexity, managers need to develop unique thinking abilities and decision making talents, in order to catch up with the changeable demands of business reality. More and more professionals develop recommendations to ...

Boys Will Be Boys

The role of women has changed from being oppressed to having freedom. In the novel, the role of women in the past has been clearly illustrated. Despite the fact that women have not been depicted as either the wisest or the strongest, they have a ...

Business, Society and Ethics

I enjoy reading books, to be specific motivational books. ‘Gifted Hand’* is an unrivalled motivational book I have ever read. I discovered that in life there is nothing which is difficult. I learnt several things from the reading which can be ...

Can Equality Make a Society Ideal?

Thomas More was a diplomat, a humanist, a friend of Erasmus Rotterdam, and, in addition, a Chancellor. More wrote one of the most famous books, in which he analyzed the ideal human society – Utopia. Another work on the theme of ideal societies was ...

Casino Capitalism

Described as an economic system that revolves around short term pricing and market movements, the term “casino capitalism” has significant effects on the economies of many nations and international relations. Coined by the influential ...

"Castaways" by Alvar Nunex Cabeza de Vaca

"Castaways" by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is a book about a six-year journey that through the present gulf coast of the United States. It begins with the hope of gaining wealth from the expedition. Narvaez, the leader, tells about the prospects of ...

Children Stories

Written in the fiscal year 1955, the story can be placed under the genre magic realism. While this story was written for children, it has more themes that are suitable for adults. This is because it has various symbolisms and violent themes that ...

Choosing a Mate

'What's Love Got to Do With It' is a detailed analytic book that seeks to explore human mating and sexuality. The author Meredith Small analyses the fascination behind the way human genes and gland operate with respect to human sexuality as well as ...

Cinderella

Introduction The late Bettelheim was born in Vienna in 1930. As a psychologist, he wrote many books one of which is the uses of enchantment written in 1975. It is from this book that, Cinderella, a story about sibling rivalry and oedipal conflicts ...

Communicating and Connecting in Relationships

Human beings, being social beings, are bound to enter into relationships with aim of benefiting from such relationships in one way or another. However, most of the times, the relationships we humans enter do not last as long as we may want them to. ...

Conception

This piece of work visualizes and brings into the mind of the reader a clear picture of misery and what the unexpected arm of fate drops into the lives of simple black women in America. The writer conveys this through in the live of a young innocent ...

Controversial Views of World Famine

World hunger has been an escalating and continuous problem in third world countries. Many questions are asked by an individual in order to comprehend this uncontrolled dilemma. The questions comprise if the affluent countries are doing everything ...

The Book “The crash course: the unsustainable future of our economy, energy, and environment” by Chris Martenson

In the recent past, the need of developing a sustainable path of development has become a crucial element to people, organizations and countries in different parts of the world. As it stands now, the conflict between the man and nature has continued ...

Cultural Argument

 The book ‘Eating the Other’ by Hook brings out neo-colonialism. The instruments of neo-colonialism were the bodies of women viewed as exotic and different by the white traditional culture. This is why the white male supremacists wanted the ...

Daily Life of the Aztecs

The book The Daily Life of the Aztecs, authored by Jacques Soustelle, is about the Aztec society which existed between the fifteenth century and early sixteenth century, before it was overthrown by the Spaniards. Soustelle uses Spanish records and ...

Dibs in Search of Self

Dibs in Search of Self Analysis "Dibs In Search of Self" is a book that is written about a five year old male patient of the therapist Virginia Mae Auxline. Dibs father is a brilliant scientist and the mother was a top heart surgeon before she ...

"Disgrace" by J.M. Coetzee

David Lurie is a professor of communications who is a self centered man going through midlife crisis. He believes he is at the comfortable place in his life. He is a self proclaimed romantic, and he also teaches romance literature. He has, however, ...

Dostoyevsky and the Problem of Evil

Philosophers have been arguing about a problem of evil for decades. The most common form of argument begins with the acknowledgment that suffering is caused by evil existence. God is assumed to be good, omnipotent and omnipresent, thus, if he exists ...

Dreams of Trespass

Dream of Trespass was a book written by Fatima Mernissi in 2002. And it is a true reflection of her life as a child. The tale starts at her tender age and ends when she was approximately eight years old. In order to exhaustively reflect her ideas ...

Dystopia

Parallelism is an act of harmonizing two sides of a book or an essay. In this article, parallelism is going to be evident throughout between the book 'The Handmaid's Tale', and propaganda and censorship. The bone of contention is to bring out ...

"Effective Executive" by Peter Drucker

The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker is a book that is widely recognized for its outstanding content and insights that it provides to its readers. It was rated as one of the best business books by the Wall Street Journal. Drucker taught in ...

Explaining the Enigma

‘Explaining the Enigma,’ by Utah Faith is a great book, which discusses issues about autism. In his book, he explains that autism is a childhood disorder. Categorically, he points out that autism is a developmental disorder. Autism signs are not ...

Fahrenheit 451

In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury is presenting a very structured world. The novel is basically a science fiction which is focusing on the issue of censorship of books. The political officials in US, like Joseph McCarthy the US Senator, were busy in ...

Failed States by Noam Chomsky

Several times the United States of America has made assertions concerning its rights to arbitrate military against "failed states" around the world. In this book of "Failed State" by Noam Chomsky turn s the table by indicating that there are ...

Family, Friends, and Violence by Decker

The book covers the fieldwork done with active gang members as well as family members. It describes the process of joining, the gang attractiveness, and the usage of drugs, their drinking, their activities that are predominant, and their loose and ...

Farewell to Manzanar

Farewell to Manzanar is a book that gives a highlight of a young girl and her significant childhood observation over the confinement camp, where together with her family; they were driven to during world war two. This takes place at a young age of ...

Finding Religion in Life

The book "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nihttime" has great religious significance. The main character in the book undergoes various challenges which he overcomes and with his belief in science does not believe in the existence of God.  ...

Forces Leading the U.S to the War with Mexico

Purpose and Argument The purpose of this book is to examine the forces leading the U.S to the war with Mexico, the conflict itself and the results. Additional attention is paid to the race and racialization, nation building, nationalism, and the ...

Freedom Summer

The book Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy was written by Bruce Watson in the year 2011. It accounts what happened in 1964 during a long hot summer. What happened in Mississippi this year is a ...

Geopolitics of Emotion

Geopolitics of Emotion is a book written by Dominique Moisi. He is a renowned professor and a political analyst. In his book, he emphasizes that in order to understand international politics, one has to consider the emotions behind the leading ...

Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy is one of the world’s most famous novelists. He is known especially for the 19th century classic war and peace.  Even though he was born into nobility, Leo spent much of his life as a champion of Russia’s peasant class. He began his ...

Harry Poter: Teaching Children Life Lessons

Introduction The book series of Harry Potter is the one that has drawn great attention not just because of the record-breaking sales, but also because of the fanatical fondness, which it enjoys among readers. Those, who admire Porter’s ability to ...

'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad

In Vincent van Gogh’s work the work has is there because of three people who did this and they are himself who was the writer and the illustrator, to his brother who he wrote to and was the recipient of most of the letters and to her widowed ...

How Can I Get Through To You Terry Real

How Can I Get Through To You? Reconnecting men and women is a book written by Terrence Real who is one of the best-selling authors. Terrence has been a family therapist who has been in practice for more than 20 years and has a very good experience ...

How the Other Half Lives

The book, How the Other Half Lives is a photographic display of the impecunious state of the New York City’s slums at the end of the 19th century. His purpose of uncovering the poor state of the slums was solely to apply an influence that would ...

"I Want to Keep My Baby" by Joanna Lee

A question most young girls should ask themselves is how it would feel like if they get pregnant at age fifteen and they decide to keep their baby. Many young women have suffered the consequences of early pregnancies in life when they are faced ...

"Idealism" by Ralph Emerson

 The purpose of this analysis is to examine the ideas, feelings and thoughts that the author possess about nature as a whole and also figure out the techniques he deploys in order to support his way of thinking.  The author portrays the universe ...

In Hope of Liberty

The book in hope of Liberty by James and Lois Horton uninterruptedly captures the main issues surrounding the ancient American history by carefully studying them through the window of the African-American history. The informed authors make strong ...

Inventing the Internet

Abbate Janet intends in her book ‘Inventing the Internet’ intends to trace the early roots that led to the development of the World Wide Web. In her approach, Abbate wants to help out the inquisitive layman who really wants to know the actual ...

Jacobson's Book Review

Introduction The powers bestowed on the Senate and the House of Representatives brings balance in the rule of the legislators. It is critical to understand that these legislators are also politicians who belong to political parties. Like in any ...

King Leopolds Ghost

King Leopold's Ghost, a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonization by Adam Huchschild is among the author's popular novels. The book tells of a story of cruel dehumanization of Africans people in Congo so that they can meet the desires of ...

Lady Versus Cake

The author in this book, critics the media and their role in advertising unhealthy commodities to their audience.  He shows how the media hypes commodities that might be unsafe and unhealthy to humans. This paper focuses on the chapter lady versus ...

Locke’s and Karl Marx’s Theories

Karl Marx believes, concerning his book Portable Karl Marx, that private property results from an estranged worker’s product or the alienated labour. The basis of the private property, according to Karl Marx, is based on the idea of workers ...

Madness of the Queen of Spades

Madness may be perceived differently by different individuals but it all revolves around the same understanding, which is an action or words that are not normal.  Madness is constantly reflected in Alexander Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades."  This ...

Madumo, A Man Bewitched Book Summary

The book is written by Ashforth Adams and published by the University of Chicago Press. The book is narrated with a journalistic tone by Adams and the setting is done in the new South Africa. The story is written after South Africa gained ...

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning, a book written by Viktor Frankl is a fantastic book that gives an account of prison life, but at the same time providing valuable insights about human life. In his book, Frankl gives a startling account of what the Jews ...

Martin Luther King Jr's Biography

Written By Phillips T Donald, this book is Martin Luther King Jr‘s biography, which communicates insightful and powerful leadership practices and principles. Donald Phillips is an eminent author, who specializes in writing leadership biographies ...

Memoir is not Based on its Facts but Rather on Emotion

Emotion has a very powerful impact on humans’ memory. A lot of studies have shown that the most vivid autobiographical memories are most likely to be of emotional events. These events are likely to be recalled with more clarity, with more detail ...

Memoirs of a Modern Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim

Introduction This essay intends to discuss the various themes that have been developed in the book of Chen-hua, ‘Memoirs of a Modern Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim.’ In order to achieve this objective I will identify various themes outlined in ...

Millennial Makeover

Every four years in America there is a demand for change where elections are held, which call for the country’s makeover in politics. This change like others  that have happened result from a new generation of the young people in America which is ...

Moral Decision-Making

On the Horns of Dilemma Moral decision-making is one of the most significant factors that are needed in both children and adults. Due to this fact, many people including artists, musicians, authors and many others have come up with songs, TV ...

Motif of Blood in Macbeth

Macbeth is a play written by the famous playwright William Shakespeare and it still remains one of his popular works. The story takes place in the old times when Scotland was still under the control of kings, and wars were waged for the acquisition ...

"On Canaan's Side" by Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry a Irish writer in his book, ‘On Canaan’s Side’ go back to the frictional case of the Dunne family, who are Irish loyalists who have been caught on a losing   part in the troubles that occurred between 1916 to 1922. Willie ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

In his book One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Keysey Ken makes it very interesting when it gets to the final chapter. This is so as it comes to an end with the Nurse Ratched coming out as the hollow victor in the story as she has nothing to show for ...

Operation Solo

Operation Solo is one of the greatest spy books in America about the extraordinary and true story of Morris Child. The story outlines Morris as a spy working for the FBI in the early 1930’s. The revolutionary tactics and the violent overthrow of ...

Optimists by Richard Ford

Introduction Richard Ford’s novel “Optimists” is a story that revolves around the life of Frank, his family and their friends. Frank, the protagonist in the story learns at the young age of fifteen the vital lesson that the most important ...

Organizing Genius

Warren Bennis brings out the "Triumphant Individual Myth" as a fantasy: in his book he refers to it as a romantic notion that great achievements are done by specially gifted people. Organizing Genius demonstrates how deeply rooted the triumphant ...

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

'The Novel The Brief and Wondrous Life' by Oscar Wao It tells an intricate, multilayered, and compelling tale of the Dominican-American family in Santo-Domingo. Through the voice of an unknown and omniscient narrator, the reader is first introduced ...

Oscar Wilde and Goblin Market

The two works of the creative minds, Salome by Oscar Wilde and “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossettie depict the theme of sexuality as it is discussed in this documentation. Sexuality is the art of being male or female. It goes further to define ...

Othello

Othello is a play that has its setting in Venice. The scene revolves around Othello, Iago, Bianca and Cassio. Desdemona is mentioned but she does not appear physically in this scene. Iago secretly despises Othello. This is because Roderigo was ...

Othello is a Play in Venice

Othello is a play that has its setting in Venice. The scene revolves around Othello, Iago, Bianca and Cassio. Desdemona is mentioned but she does not appear physically in this scene. Iago secretly despises Othello. This is because Roderigo was ...

Our Iceberg is Melting - John Kotter

The book “Our Iceberg is Melting” by John Kotter is a business fable about a group of penguins that used to live on an iceberg, and one observant penguin notices that the iceberg is actually melting and they have to move. He convinces the key ...

Outliers Review

They say that when you write, write to a perspective. That is the hallmark of every great writer. And when you are writing a non-fiction, this is even more important that you write in a way that your readers understand exactly what you want to say, ...

The Outsiders

The Outsiders is a book that was written by a fifteen year old girl by the name of Hinton and was published when she turned eighteen years old. The novel narrates about two groups which are rivals of each other and these include the Greasers and the ...

Pauls Case

The story is about Paul (the protagonist), a seemingly deeply troubled Pittsburgh teenager who finds it very hard to accept and fit to the conventional society, or real world, at least. This is demonstrated by his escape to Carnegie Hall and later ...

Persons and things by Barbara Johnson

The book entitled “Persons and things “by Barbara Johnson was published in 2008 by the HarvardUniversity press. The book comprises of a total of 272 pages covering full rhetoric literature components of writing. The author expresses continuous ...

Practical Book Review

“To every one of you who want deeper connections with people, to get along better with them, and to do what you can to enrich their lives. To those of you who listened to me with a challenging acceptance. It touched me, grew me, and held me ...

Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling

In the revolutionary book of Mark R. McMinn, PhD: Psychology, Theology and Spirituality in Christian Counseling (1996)  we can find practical guidelines on using religion as a part of a cognitive therapy. The author is an experienced counselor and ...

Racism and Sexism in Sister Outsider

Introduction Audre Lorde is a mother, activist, teacher, feminist, lesbian, socialist and poet. The Ideas of Lorde led to the development of canonical works that compose the feminist theory. The speeches and quotes from Sister Outsider have been ...

Ragged Dick

Ragged Dick narrates a story of juvenile children. The central message of the book is to show that there are friendless and vagrant children in various cities, such as New York. The author has shown how the unfortunate children are suffering in the ...

Reading the Sacred Quest

Reading the Sacred Quest substantiates the fact that religion plays an important part of human existence even with the current level of technological advancements. The common denominator in all religions is of the belief that human beings have a ...

Representations of Labor

The title of the book, Germinal, is drawn from the calendar of the French Revolutionary, which meant the seventh month of that calendar. The title was meant to evoke the imagery of germination, growth, as well as the fertility. The author ends the ...

Resistor Manufacture and Optimization

Marius Tazu and Titu Bajenescu in their book Failure Analysis describe a resistor as a two-terminal element that exhibits a voltage plunge which is straightforwardly comparative to the current by-passing it. When resistors are being manufactured, ...

Reviews

Odd Man Out: Truman, Stalin, Mao, and the Origins of the Korean War Covering a comprehensive account over two years of the outbreak of the Korean War, Richard Thornton (2000) describes the relationships between Joseph Stalin, the autocratic Soviet ...

Revolutionary Mothers

Free Book Review on Revolutionary Mothers Carol Berkin, the author of the book Revolutionary Mothers, explores many different roles that the women of all cultures, ethnicities, and classes were forced to perform during the years of struggle for ...

A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard Boockstabber

"A demon in our own design, markets, hedge funds and perils of our own innovation” This book is a financial book that was written by the Wall Street veteran and risk management consultant Richard Boockstabber  Hedge funds - An ...

Roman Fever-Edith Wharton

The book Roman Fever is riddled with a lot of irony. The book depicts the lives of two women. At the beginning of the book the theme of irony is not seen, but at the end of it, the reader realizes that the whole Roman Fever is full of irony. The ...

Sander L.Gilman's "Black Bodies, White Bodies"

Black and White are very different, but noone can exist without them both. We are so different and so same! We try to find the main problem of person if we dislike them, but we can't figure it out that it is our problem in perception of the ...

Shooting an Elephant

Shooting an Elephant is a book written by George Orwell a renowned British author. The book is an exciting piece of literally work coined to address the issue of imperialism and gross lack of respect by some group of people in the society. The ...

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

N.T. Wright offers an interesting, simple and refreshing exploration of Christian theology in his book. The book consists of sixteen short chapters. The author gives an outline of the terrain of Christian faith throughout the book. This paper aims ...

Slave Nation

Slave nation is a crucial account concerning the role played by slavery in shaping the United States as well as drawing the constitution of the United States. It recounts all the historical events that suggested America as being designed for the ...

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

"Sweetness in the Belly" is written in the backdrop of Ethiopian Revolution. It is the story of a woman, who is the child of hippy parents and is forced by circumstances to take on different journeys in order to get spiritual satisfaction. Lilly is ...

Taiwanese Immigrant Women and Religious Conversion

The author of the book A Self of One’s Own: Taiwanese Immigrant Women and Religious Conversion, Carolyn Chen, talks us about religious ‘salvation’ and ‘sacred’ in the migration context. He describes the economic, political and social ...

The Big Sleep

The ‘big sleep’ is one of the most famous books of the twentieth century. This is because of the relevance of its content to society during the early twentieth century. Raymond Chandler is the author of this book. The ‘big sleep’ was ...

The Book Called about Face

James Mann was born in New York. He grew up in New York and graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Mann worked as a journalist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Washington Post. From 1984 to 1989, the Los ...

The Book The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

The author, Jeanette Walls, shows in the book The Glass Castle that there are a lot of situations that happen in life where people make countless mistakes, but it is very important to forgive these people. The main character spends her life ...

The Book 'The Happiness Hypothesis'

The sole purpose of this essay is to make a summary of chapter 5 taken from the book ‘The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science’. This summary is based on the main events of this chapter which has the ...

The Butterfly Mosque

This is a review of book The Butterfly Mosque: A young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam whose Author is Willon Wilson and published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 2010. This is memoir of an American woman who went to Egypt as an English ...

The Capital Flows and Crises

The impact of capital mobility on stability and growth is one of the least understood and the most contentious modern day issues in economics., In his book, The Capital Flows and Crises, Barry Eichengreen provides a comprehensive theoretical and ...

The Chronicles of Narnia

I. Aslan = Jesus Christ In this allegory, Aslan symbolizes Jesus Christ. The death of Aslan in order to save Edmund’s life and later resurrecting is clearly connected to the life of Jesus Christ. However, the author has made some critical ...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Alice Walker explores various thematic concerns in her book ‘The Color Purple. Written in simple, verbal, and direct language, the reader is quickly able to see through the developing issues, which mostly revolve around relationships and family ...

The Contemporary History of Latin America

The book, The Contemporary History of Latin America, was first published in Spanish by Tulio Halperin Donghi in 1993 and it was later translated into English by John Charles Chasteen. The author (Tulio Halperin Donghi) is one of the most respected ...

The Era of Theodore Roosevelt

The 19th century saw the birth and expansion of the Progressive movement, a social quest in attempting to get solutions for the numerous problems facing the America, because of the great revolution, urbanization and population changes in the ...

The Glass Castle

The book The Glass Castle written by Walls Jeannette is a memoir of her life. It narrates the terrible childhood life Jeannette experienced when brought up by parents who were selfish, alcoholic and manipulative. With her other siblings, they were ...

"The Great Reset"

In this book, Richard Florida puts across his view about the current developing economic crisis with its impact on the life of Americans. Richard Florida has a big, fascinating idea. He says that the global economic crisis experienced over the last ...

The History of the Caribbean

The book From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean, 1492-1969 was written by Eric Williams and first published in 1970. He was one of the few statesmen who were involved in historical research. This book plays two major roles, that is, ...

The Iranian Community

Introduction This is a book review of the Iranian culture. It attempts to bring to focus the way of life in culture, politics, as well as the social aspect of the people of the Republic of Iran. This aspect of life is compared to the “real life” ...

The Isaac's Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

Introduction In the near end of the previous century, Isaac Cline who is Texas chief weather man did not believe that any storm could seriously harm the city Galveston. This is a growing metropolis located at the Gulf Coast. A massive hurricane hit ...

"The Last Lecture"

The Last Lecture is a book written by Randy Pausch, who was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. The best-selling book, according to the New York Times, appeared in 2007. It was written from a lecture given by Pausch, called “Really ...

The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow

“The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow”: An Eternal Conflict of Tradition and Modernity Washington Irving is fairly considered as one of the masters of storytelling. According to Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky,, author of  “The Value of Storytelling: ‘Rip ...

The Lottery

An analysis of some of the most famous classical American stories reveals masterly skill of literature. Lots of lessons can be drawn from the stories. `The Lottery’ is a 1948 story by Shirley Jackson. It happens to be the most famous short ...

The Meaning of True Beauty and True Love

The story reflected in the book Autobiography of a face is a true story of Lucy Grealy’s personal life. In her childhood, she went through numerous misdiagnoses before the physicians could realize that she was suffering from cancer.  At the age ...

The Metamorphosis

Throughout the life of many people, several events mold their identity. For the majority of them, such events come about during adolescence stage or in early childhood. However, for Franz Kafka in “The Metamorphosis”, this event takes place in ...

The Novel Fahrenheit 451

This essay is about the novel Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury. It was published as a short novel The Fireman in 1951. The book portrays the future Americans as self-indulgent people who are forbidden from reading any kind of literature by ...

The Omnivore's Dilemma

The Omnivores Dilemma is a book written by Michael Pollan and published in 2006. In this book, he tries to answer a straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. A keen discussion has been made concerning the modern methods of food ...

John Kenneth Galbraith 'The Position of Poverty' Summary

“The Position of Poverty” is a book written by John Kenneth Galbraith. In this book, John tries to explain the two types of poverty, their causes and effects. He entirely explains why poverty strikes both individuals and the whole community. ...

The Poverty and Single Parent

Being a single parent and being in poverty are intertwined factors in most societies today, with the American society being no exception. The factors and circumstances that put most single parents in financial difficulties are, to some extent, an ...

The Power Broker

“The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York” is a book on how American cities spoiled great opportunities of having livable and enjoyable places in the twentieth century because of a bureaucrat who was very powerful called Robert ...

The Ragman

The Ragman is a tale authored by Greg Gifune, a creative writer who illustrates a clear correlation between his literature and our actual life experiences. In this particular narrative, Gifune’s work revolves around the life of his main character ...

The Rise of the Greeks

The Rise of the Greeks was first published by the Phoenix Press in London in 1987. The author Michael Grant intended to give an outline of the history of the Greeks using a geographical and ethic approach. His main goal was thus to describe the ...

"The Sex Slave Murders"

The book "The Sex Slave Murders" by R.Barri and published by Barri covers actual murder crimes committed by a couple. The author gives an account of the serial murders committed by Gerald Albert Gallego and Charlene Gallego. The story is the first ...

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Lia lee is the main character in the book 'the spirit catches you and you fall down' by Anne Fadiman. The story of the book revolves around her. When Lia's mother gives birth to her, the doctors later discover that Lia has epilepsy. The author ...

The Story of Stuff

Introduction Annie Leonard’s in her book ‘The Story of Stuff’ explores different issues, more pertaining to the United States. She reflects on people’s consumer habits and discusses issues that slowly eat into economies and ...

The Unredeemed Captive

John Demos in his book, 'The Unredeemed Captive' intended to illustrate the nature of relationship that existed among the different Puritans who settled in New England, the Roman Catholic French and those of the Native America. The author ...

The Virgin in the Garden

Bill Potter who is a reputed magic teacher, but is seen as a dogmatic liberal, who at all times terrorizes his family in the process of promoting his views on education as his favorite, and religion which he tends to be against. His wife Winfred, ...

The Year of Magical Thinking

"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion is a story written the following  year after the death of her husband John Gregory Dunne. Some days before his death, their daughter Quintana was hospitalized with pneumonia in a New York hospital, ...

Things Fall Apart Book Review

Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" is believed to have been written to show how appalling the Africans were mistreated by the British settlers. As much as the political points are blunt, the book is more of a social commentary, which holds and ...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

"The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that ...

To Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing

To Room Nineteen is a book by Lessing, it explores the idea of quest of freedom for human beings, women are particularly viewed to be from patriarchal societies and are denied their freedom due to the many responsibilities they have at home. ...

Toxic Emotions

“Stress is an inevitable companion of any organization, - says Peter Frost, and this statement is hard to be disputed. – However, it is destructive only when people respond to it with negative emotions, rather than trying to remove it. Emotional ...

United States History

In his book “the people’s history of the United States”, Howard Zinn tells the story of the invasion of European Americans in North America destroying the original inhabitants of the places. This includes famous explores such as Christopher ...

Up from Slavery

       In the book Up from Slavery Booker Washington traces his journey as a slave and his determination to get education which transforms him to an educator with an out of the slave mentality. Slavery not only affected the Negroes, but also ...

What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Chomsky

This essay seeks to review the book What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Chomsky. It will take into consideration the main themes that the author intended to pass to the readers. The book focuses on the exploitation of the developing countries by the ...

When the Killing is Done

Nowadays, conservation of nature needs different opinions to be successful. The events described in the book When the killing happens seem to explain this statement. T.C Boyles tries to show how man’s greed has led nature to mass extinction. ...

White Fang by Jack London

      White Fang is a story that revolves around an animal which passes through various experiences towards being civilized. White Fang is an animal that is partly dog and partly wolf. The shift in living conditions for the animal is evident as ...

"White Fang" Jack London

The story White Fang by Jack London presents something very interesting in relation to humanity, choice and free will. This story has been told from a narrator’s perspective, and revolves around personal sequel to Call of the Wild. The author ...

Why the Poor Stay Poor

In the book, “Why the Poor Stays Poor,” the first black president takes the oath of office in a colorful ceremony. The ceremony illuminated the reality of the situation of the black ghettos that were grappling with the isolation and insolvency. ...

Wuthering Heights

Sharma (1994) explains that “Wuthering Heights” is a romance novel that is socially relevant. The novel describes a several centuries old farmhouse that symbolizes passion, wildness, and simplicity. It is a substantial and stubborn house that is ...

Young Goodman Brown

Young Goodman is married to his wife Faith for three months now. Nathaniel Hawthorn is the author of the story of hoe Goodman set on a journey through the forest. His wife, Faith wife Faith, warned him of the journey and begged him not to go. ...
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