Tension Book Reviews Samples For Students

In author Luke Williams’s book, “Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in your Business,” the fifth chapter goes into detail about making a disruptive pitch. There were numerous pieces of advice that were extremely helpful to creating a perfect pitch; however there were two particular points that resonated with me. One of the most useful concepts was the importance of building tension for the audience, and the second one was the method of breaking the pitch down from nine minutes into three, three minute segments that keeps the audience mesmerized.
When developing a ‘disruptive pitch’ the speaker should be able ...

Before reviewing this book, it’ important to get some things out of the way regarding slavery and its importance as an institution and the impact that it has had on American history. Slavery more than any other single thing has shaped the history of the United States, it has created a divided country one where whites are superior to blacks and all of this was done in the name of creating wealth for one group on the backs of the other. There is a reason why stories like Nat Turner’s are so incredible is because they are the ...

This manuscript offers a succinct analysis is the book- Life of George Bent:

The Life of George Bent was written more than half a century ago from the letters of George Bent written to George Hyde. However, with the advent of the First World War, the publication of this manuscript was impossible leading to the discarding of the manuscript. It was not until recently that the manuscript was discovered and considered worth publishing upon some editing. George Bent was the Colonel Bill’s (William) son who operated the Bent’s Fort together with his brother Charles in Colorado. Bent’s mother on the other hand was Owl Woman, the daughter of the ...

Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. New York: Grove Press, 1999.

On the afternoon of October 3, 1993, more than one hundred and sixty men prepare themselves with a mission to capture the two men. Following the starvation of Somalis, food is brought into the country but the people do not benefit from it as warlords store it and in turn, cause further starvation among the people. However, the mission on that day targets the two men, Salad Omar and Awale Mohammed, the lieutenants of Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The rangers manage to capture the two men ...

Colum McCann’s award winning novel Let the Great World Spin published in 2009 contains characters that exhibit a tendency for being in error, making mistakes, and going astray. Readers may see these as the unavoidable result of emotionally distressing experiences that McCann keeps alluding to, such as segregation and the Civil Rights movement that followed the Vietnam War, and others. Even though the characters in the novel seem to hurt themselves and each other, it is arguable that McCann’s novel is more about reconciliation. To some extent, the term ‘reconciliation’ invokes a religious meaning in the sense that ...

Regeneration is Pat Barker’s book on the First World War trilogy. In this book, some of the characters are historical, for instance William Rivers who is the doctor to the shell-shock casualties during World War 1; Siegfried Sassoon who is a skilled war hero. He is also a renowned poet. He wrote the Soldier’s Declaration in which the soldier refuses to continue being in the service of the British army; citing moral grounds on which the war had been conducted. He says that it (war) was like an effort that was misguided thus contributing to merciless butchering of men. ...

1. “ Wa”: what is “wa”? Briefly define the term and how it is (has been) used/practiced in Japan?
Wa is group harmony in Japanese culture. This harmony implies both conformity within a social group and a peaceful group unity. This group mindset implies preference for continuing harmony in a community setting over any personal focus. This concept of Wa derives from Japanese sense of family values. Within the family, any member exhibiting behavior breaking the idea of the harmonious nature of Wa in the pursuit of furthering his or her own interests becomes the subject of strict reprimand from ...

Reflexology is an alternative healing method that people around the world use believing that with the application of pressure on specific points of the body will produces healing effects on certain organs. This form of therapy involves massaging the feet to restore the body's natural balance using thumb and hand techniques. Most of the time, focus of the massage is on the feet only although some reflexologists also apply gentle pressure on the ears and hands. It should never replace actual medication, treatment, or diagnosis of diseases and illnesses, but rather a complementary treatment method that can help relieve patients ...

Meursault is the main character of the novel “The Stranger,” in which Camus wanted to emphasize the problem of belief in contemporary society. According to Camus, the most serious issue is the inability to believe in reality, observe what happens in the moment, and the inability to live life as it is rather than being concerned with nihilism and contemplating the absurd (Francev, 2010).
The novel shows three stages of development, through which Meursault eventually learns to deal with the lack of meaning in life. In the first part of the book, Meursault is an isolated being who ...

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Some additional settings to this novel are presented in chapters 14-20. First, there is the cavern where the human underground lives; it is musty, dirty and makeshift; everything is improvised, with people seemingly keeping on the move and attempting to remain productive and on their guard. Meyer's description of the cave manages to sell just how desperate the human resistance is, as they are forced to live in terrible conditions just to stay alive. The claustrophobia of the caves adds to both Wanderers' and the human characters' paranoia.

Next, several chapters in this section take place in ...

Book Review: The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis

Introduction

The eventual collapse of the agreement between the USSR, Britain and the United States in 1945 after the end of the World War II set the platform for the cold war. An anti-communist policy, commonly called the Truman doctrine, declared in 1947 by President Truman of the USA spoke clearly of the atmosphere that would prevail (Gaddis 30). The resulting tension between the communist and capitalist ideologies is what came to be known as the Cold War. Since it never resulted into armed confrontation or “blistering” conflict it was referred to as the cold war. Therefore the Cold ...