Hurricane Book Reviews Samples For Students

Isaac’s storm: A man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history

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Introduction
About The Book And Author:
The fiction based history book of Isaac’s storm is written by Erik Larson. The author has outlined the details of the biggest hurricane of American History. The book is about a proud nation of Galveston and also about a meteorologist- Isaac Cline, who overlooked the symptoms of a hurricane due to their life’s success and festivities. Nature proved them completely wrong (Lohmann, 2008). The novel is written by Columbia University journalist and non-fiction author, with a work history with ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘Time Magazine’ and several other publications, ...

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Brunsma, D. L., Overfelt, D., & Picou, J. S. (2010). The sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a modern catastrophe. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Introduction

The book captures the history and story of Katrina. The Hurricane was considered as the most damaging disasters of recent time because of the magnitude of displacement and the level of destruction. The book “The Sociology of Katrina Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe” is a collection of the views of the social scientists expounding on various perspectives of Katrina.

Summary

The book recognizes the Hurricane as a horrifying and destabilizing act of nature that created an enlightenment function that broke all ...

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Book Review # 1: Zeitoun
This book by Dave Eggers is a spellbinding and enthralling description of Hurricane Katrina. Zeitoun, a true story, tells the story of an unjust arrest of and racial discrimination against a Syrian-American named Abdulrahman Zeitoun. Eggers tells the shocking tale of Zeitoun family and has once again proves that he is one of the most impressive literary writers in the United States of America.
When New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, the prosperous Abdulrahman Zeitoun opted to stay at his place through the storm for protecting his house and business. After the passage of the ...

Introduction

The story of the voyages that Christopher Columbus made is well-documented in various books and websites. Arguably, he was the greatest voyager to ever live in the world. These sources reveal the motives behind such voyages and what he achieved by these voyages. The last voyage of Columbus is a book written by Martin Dugard explaining the events that unfolded during Columbus’ fourth voyage. The author argues that the voyage’s purpose was to discover a new route to Orient (Dugard, 21). Under normal circumstances, this book is treated as a novel instead of history. Dugard manages to give an insight of ...

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Chapter 7

The book presented the occurring chaos within and outside of the hospital as something that is severely serious for the simple argument that there were already orders to stop all forms of medications for patients who might require medical assistance. This implies that that the hospital came to a point that it necessarily has to stop refer to the situation in its finality.
When the nurses were asked to stop all forms of medication and the administration of IV fluids, this implies that the medical staff, most especially the physicians were ready to euthanized the patients and ...

Summary of Book

Supportive Arguments

Sociological Significance of, ‘A paradise built in hell’

Sociology: Book Review- A Paradise Built in Hell
Introduction
In this book review of Rebecca Solnit’s novel, ‘A Paradise built in Hell’ will offer a Summary of the author’s projects of ‘A paradise built in Hell;’ an assessment of her point of views; an examination of the supporting arguments for the positron she has taken and the significance of her work from a sociological perspective.

Summary of Book

“A paradise built in hell” describes the writer’s philosophy of disasters being opportunities as well as oppressive experiences. She depicts these ...