Books Literature Reviews Samples For Students

The book “Fun Home” which has a subtitle “A Family Tragicomic” represented a graphic memoir that was written by Alison Bechdel in 2006. In this book, the author makes an account of her childhood and the memories she had while growing up in the small town of Pennsylvania. The focus of her story revolved on the complicated relationship she carried throughout her lifetime with her father. The common themes of the book of revolves around gender roles, sexual orientation, dysfunctional life with the family, suicidal tendencies and the function of literature in appreciating the relationship with your own family. ...

Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of Scout Finch, the six year old daughter of Atticus Finch, a strong father, a virtuous lawyer and the defender of Tom Robinson. Scout grows up in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s, among the other interesting and entertaining people in the town. Going through her life and growing up with her friends, she learns many lessons from her father and the town itself. Much like Atticus with Scout, this book is incredibly important because of its teachings of morality and virtue; the book teaches the ...

We discussed post-colonial theory in terms of these categories: history, language, education, place, body. Discuss the novel as it speaks to at least three of these categories. 
In the Heart of the Country is a classic novel which demonstrates the relationship between whites and blacks in South Africa in the apartheid era. The principal topic which is very clear in this book is the history of the place where black South Africans are emarginated and almost eradicated by policies of resettlement applied by their white masters. In fact the main character in the book, Magda nurses a bitter hatred towards ...

- Literature
- Myths
- Epics
- Literary analysis
- Plot
- Setting
- Characters
- Point of view
- Theme
- Context
- Archetypes
- Mesopotamia
- Marduk
- Cuneiform
- Babylonia. British Museum
- Religious, historical and literary. Covenant
- Torah. Pentateuch
- Psalms
- James
- Jewish diaspora.Israel
- This quote is found in the book “Genesis” of The Bible. This quote is important because Noah saved natural beings from being destroyed by coming into favor ...

Literature

In Chapter 3, George, in Ninety Percent of Everything, writes about the life of seafarers from the 1900s to the present. In bringing to life the world of the seafarers of the 1900s, George writes that there was so much at stake before the advent of technology. Who would have thought that life at sea could have been so tough, when all people do, is talk about the adventure and pleasure of travel that is associated with it. This, she says, is far from true. Carrying cargo from one corner of the earth to the other involved a lot of ...

Benjamin Franklin is one of greatest Americans who played very significant role in making of modern United States of America. Benjamin was one of brightest brains of America and is known as first American. Benjamin Franklin was a successful politician, author, diplomat, civic activist, scientist and a statesman. This paper intends to discuss life of Benjamin Franklin and further delves into his autobiography in order to know several other related aspects of his life.
As per the information, provided in his biography, Benjamin was born in a very humble family on 17th January, 1706 in Boston. Benjamin was eighth son of ...

Introduction

Ishikawa is ranked among the quality gurus. He played a significant role in introducing and improving quality controls in Japan’s industries immediately after World War II. He emphasized that customers were the core reason why businesses existed and should therefore be provided with quality products and follow up be done to ensure that they get satisfaction from those products (GURU GUIDE, 2010). He is also famed for coming up with the fish bone cause and effect diagram and the quality circle.

Background

Kaoru Ishikawa was born in 1915 in Tokyo as the oldest son in a household that had eight children. ...

The Renaissance was a fascinating time for intellectuals and thinkers, as humanity began to explore ways to make the perfect society outside of the realm of religion. As scientific knowledge began to advance further and further, writers such as Francis Bacon and Thomas More began to write about how these changes were reflecting the ways in which societies were to be constructed. The notion of a utopia – a perfect society – was created, and More and Bacon penned their own visions of utopias that would have a more humanist, scientific basis in their societal construction, rather than religion. Through the work of Thomas More’ ...

Images in Nature

Henry David Thoreau created a masterpiece in his seminal work, Walden. The book is filled with rich imagery and spiritual insight, and it is just this combination and collaboration of elements that gives the book such appeal. In the tenth and eleventh paragraphs of the second chapter, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,” Thoreau reveals a very profound insight through the imagery of Walden Pond.
The focal point of these two paragraphs is the pond. He describes the pond at certain times of day and of year with a fascinating level of description and almost haiku-worthy sentiment. He describes ...

Summary and response paper to The Prodigal God Book

Almost everybody has the knowledge and is well conversant with the story in the bible about the prodigal son.it was a parable given out by Jesus. Quite a number of people have got comfort in the parables moral that is about the free forgiveness granted to the repentant prodigals. The prodigals had consumed their lives with misuse living. But, we could ask ourselves if that is the whole point of that story. Keller in his book argues that Jesus’ parable as he sees it is more properly a tale of two sons who are lost, the loving father providing a prodigal grace. The ...

The Scripture and Authority of God The Scripture and Authority of God: How to read the Bible is a book written by N.T Wright also known as Tom Wright. It was published in the year 2011. N.T Wright is an acclaimed theologian who has studied the bible and tries to explain how the word should be handled by the people and its important impact to the lives of the people if only it is understood as it should be. He has done much research in New Testament and early church. In the book, he tries to give meaning to the ...

The bible is the world’s bestselling book and the most read all around the world. People buy and read the bible for various reasons but the main one is for inspiration. The knowledge and wisdom found in the bible makes most people develop a desire for more information. However, most people do not get enough of what they desire from the bible simply because they do not know how to go about it. Others have considered the bible to be a complicated book as they are unable to connect events and understand it. It is for this reason that many ...

Edgar Allan Poe is a prominent American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, whose works are popular with the readers all over the globe. The timeless themes of Poe’s stories and the struggles of his characters are indeed remain relevant nowadays. His cocktail of death, love and suffer is of an undying combination. His short stories and poems are sodden with darkness, agony, mystery and obsession of inevitable death, they thrill and excite. The Pit And The Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall Of The House of Usher are only a few of his ...

Summary of the writer’s Particular Ideas about Literacy

Laura Miller’s masterpiece, The Magicians Book: a Skeptic's Adventure in Narnia has been vividly used to enhance student’s understanding of various literary concepts (Sebesta and Donelson, 1993). The book is indeed fascinating because it analyzes Miller’s affection for the chronicles of Narnia (Miller, 2008). C.S Lewis authored the chronicles of Narnia. C.S Lewis used Narnia to portray various aspects of literature. The book is a story of Miller’s unrestrained with C.S Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. Miller, therefore, casts the chronicles as a profound literary creation and a life-long adventure in art (Miller, 2008). The author realizes that she ...

Analyze the relationship between the evolution of protagonist and the city of Barcelona in the novel "In Diamond Square" by Merce Rodoreda’s
In Diamond Square is an acclaimed and classic story of a woman caught up with her children in Barcelona civil war. She struggles in a convulsive period to feed her family as her husband fights the fascist. The novel is set during the Spanish civil war and the second Spanish republic. It is set in Barcelona and pictures Joe and Natalia all struggling to make end meet. It as well pictures Natalia’s conflictive life giving a blend ...

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The United States’ war preparedness and strategies against powerful Japan is the theme for Miller’s book War Plan orange: The US Strategy to Defeat Japan. Unlike other books written on World War II, Miller’s views stand noticeably impressive, because this is the only book that has featured the orange Plan so well in great detail. The author has done wonderful research to convert the documentary evidences of the half-a-century-long rivalry between the two countries to a compilation of easily comprehensible writings. The title of the book refers to the pre-World War II American techniques of coding ...

Literature Review

Literature Review
Hitler Youth presents a comprehensive account of HitlerJugend by revisiting the origin of the idea of the HitlerJugend and the situation in the pre-WWII. The book describes the interwar time in the Weimar Republic. The author of this book notes that there existed numerous youth leagues of varied types that joined to change the national politics. Particularly, he argues that these leagues provided the foundation for the establishment of the Hitlerjugend, the league that caused a great impact on the national politics. Kater provides an exclusive review of the governance and the objectives of the Nazi Youth Leadership. ...

Publication

What publishing company published the book? How reputable is it and how do you know? What are their review policies?
Reception
What (peer) reviews can you find? Where? What is the general consensus? Who has cited this article, and in what kind of publication?

Who is the author and what is their academic background?

Where are they working now (and at what capacity/rank)?
What else have they published (recently?), and how much is actually related to the topic of this article?
Explain the title. Does it really fit the thesis statement, or is there any shifting or gapping? What kind of shift/gap/miss and how ...

Introduction

A literary review is any work that is designed to analyze or scrutinize some critical areas or points of knowledge, often subjectively, using certain theoretical and or methodological principles . In this case, what is being written is a literary review about two literary works that share the same theme. The theme or more specifically, themes, that will be focused on in this paper would be Race and Ethnicity. There are a lot of literary works that are centered on the themes race and ethnicity written between the early 20th century and the early 21st century, a gap of almost a hundred years. It ...

BOOK REVIEWS: TEXTILES

Materials for Interior Environments by C. Binggeli focuses on the materials used to create interior environments that are effective for their chosen use and are created based on environmentally responsible decisions for choosing materials. The necessity for interior designers to include the traditionally expected features such as comfort along with new concerns for energy efficiency and careful choosing of green materials have been discussed in terms of Life Cycle and material types.
Textiles: Concepts and Principles by V. H. Elsassar offers an excellent overview of the textile industry by taking a holistic approach to describing the issues and manufacturing ...

Introduction

Literature, besides being a form of art used for expression, preserves customs, morals, and cultural ideals. The written word gives people a deeper context of the lives and livelihoods of people, places, and events (Kronick, 23). Literature is the best way in which history has been and will continue to be passed on from one generation to another. Each generation adds its experiences to literary accounts and passes on to the next one. For instance, people can learn and imagine, with accuracy, as much about the life and times of William Shakespeare by interacting with his literature and that of ancient ...

Literature Review of Japanese Literature

Literature Review of Japanese Literature
Haruki Murakami and Natsume Soseki are two renowned writer from Japan who have contributed a lot to the Japanese and English literature. Both are from different era and have projected different issues through their work. There are similarities like Nationalism that is part of the writings of both the writers, however, they have more differences than similarities. The review covers the analysis of their work in the books “after the quake” and “Kokoro”.
Haruki Murakami was born on 12 January 1949 in Kyoto Japan and is famous for his fiction, surrealism and magical ...

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The book analysis of 'Germinal' by Emile Zola
The book analysis of 'Germinal' by Emile Zola
The book of Zola portrays the women of the nineteenth century with the relevant perception of myths with concepts of the role and contribution of female in the society. According to the depiction, the women of the presented era display the same structure and features in terms of personalities and contribution and social life, irrespective of class difference. The specifications can be visibily categorised into three segments, the first is the motherly conduct or the maternal role, the second is the ...

This paper will reflect over one of the classic literature works of King. It will reflect the interruptions of the one haunting message from the book. It will reflect over interviews and reviews regarding the book. Last it will prove why this book is a true haunting of horror and science fiction.
There will not be certain of events that will proceed. This will focus on aspects of the book that gave Goosebumps. The reason it is not being presented in chronological order of events for this is a reflection. The haunting of wheel of fortune was one that gave ...

Introduction

This novel tells a story of a pilot who crash landed in the Sahara desert and Little Prince who claims to be from another planet. They meet when the narrator repairing his plane and worried about his predicament come across a “Little Prince” a blond, curly-haired child who never responds to direct questions. With food and water remaining for 8 days Little Prince asks the narrator to draw him a sheep to which the narrator obliges, ultimately they strike a friendship.
Over their conversations, we get to know more about the Little Prince, he comes from a planet which is quite small, few plants which ...

Annotated bibliography refers to a list of books, articles, and other documents. It consists of a correct citation of the material for which the annotation is to be written. The citation is then followed by a brief paragraph that is usually about 150 words which generally describes and evaluates the cited material. This paragraph is usually regarded as the annotation. The annotation usually informs the reader about the significance, accuracy, as well as the quality of the cited material in relation to a chosen subject. Further, the first line of the annotation must be indented and the print must be in times new ...

Thesis Statement

Determination, hard work, ability to think, and will power can help in achieving success.
Introduction
This selection of Fredrick Douglass “Learning to Read and Write”, he wrote that he was serving as a slave for seven years to the Hugh family. During this time period he learned how to write and read, as in the initial days Mrs. Hugh was kind which was as he said, "teaching me the alphabet"(Douglass, p.101). His mistress taught him how to read but later on she adopted the attitude similar to her husband. He was even discouraged from learning by her ...

The Prince is Machiavelli’s account of how Princes or Rulers should behave and treat their subjects, while Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier is an account of how subjects should behave while in their masters’ quarters. Niccolo Machiavelli begins this excerpt (Chapter 15) of his book with a discussion on how a prince is expected to behave. He acknowledges the fact that other writers have written about this before; but he is undeterred to bring forth a more practical and less theoretical perspective on the rules a prince should follow in his life (Machiavelli 530). On the other hand, Castiglione’s ...

Literature

Literature just like art, fashion and film, is known to reflect the society. Literature describes the daily life describing its ups and downs in a well-documented medium. Through literature, humans can explore their experiences and use it to search deeply for the meaning of humanity. Literary criticism is a well-informed response that a reader makes as a response to how they feel about a piece of literature. The insights of this article can be better understood by using analytical approaches to describe and evaluate its meaning.
The article “Reading Literature: Decline and fall?” immediately captures the interest of the reader as it gives ...

Book Review – “Monster of Florence: A True Story”

Book Review – “Monster of Florence: A True Story”

Introduction

Review of the book, "The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi published in its first edition 2008 shows the publisher as New York: Grand Central Publishing. The author presents the story over 36 chapters divided in two parts – the first about the background of the decades- long mystery and the second focusing on the current investigation. This review includes comments about the author, a summary, and discussion about the material presented.
According to MacLeod-Johnson (2013) the author of “Monster of Florence: A True Story” Douglas ...

After reading the book, “Brain Rules by John Medina, I discovered that it connects with my interest in behavioral research. I found myself reading the book repeatedly. The reasons that made the book even more appealing to me is the fact that the more I read the book and sat down to write review about it, I found myself writing on how to apply the information I gathered from the book in my own life as well as assist other people with these information. The author has broken down complex neuroscience into easily understandable rules on how the human ...

“The Things They Carried” is a non-fiction that centers on the main character Tim O’Brien about his experience in the Vietnam War. The novel starts with him and author listing off different things that his company, The Alpha Company carried with them when they were on assignment doing missions. The novel is a series of different stories, but some of the same characters weave in and out of them. Many of the things within the story mean more than is readily apparent and are symbolic of deeper meaning. This essay looks at some of the symbolism found within the book ...

“The things they carried” is a uniquely put together story by Tim O’Brien that is partially fiction and non-fictitious. This is a work that narrates events from the Vietnam War according to Tim O’Brien. Tim O’Brien is the writer of this work. Since he went and fought in the Vietnam War, it is evident that he used his own experiences as inspirations for this book. However, O’Brien maintains that the story is a fictions account of what actually happened at Vietnam (Bloom, 20).
O’Brien uses the Alpha Company as the focus of his story. The story ...

Gulliver’s Travels is a book written by Jonathan Swift in the 18th century. It was a very popular book then and is still as popular today. It has never been out of print since it was first published. “It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery”. (John Gay wrote in a letter to Jonathan Swift in 1726). It was a very advanced book for its time when people were less travelled than they are today and foreign countries were as yet unknown. People were afraid of what they did not know and therefore these tales gave them an insight ...

Summary of Detective Fictions

The book is one of the earliest murder mysteries, in which the city of Paris is under siege by what the locals consider an organized band of thieves. These thieves rob the public of items such as costly jewelry on the streets. They also rob people in their homes. They render the street victims helpless by a blow to the head while deliberately killing others by thrusting daggers to their hearts. The author uses his story telling skills and ability to maintain the attention of the audience to the end of the book. He uses the cruel fate and terrible ...

Jane Collins, in her book “Threads: Gender, Labor and Power in the Global Apparel Industry” emphasizes on the significance of women in the apparel industry. She notifies that the garment industries wanted women to be knowledgeable in sewing and considered women to be silent if they received any severe treatment or low wages. The industries also assumed that women must not draw enough wages to support their families. Collins also claims that women, with the help of the organizations that work towards the betterment of women workers have opposed this kind of treatment.
Women have over powered men ...

Book Review - Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television

Book Review - Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television
The experience gained by Sarita Malik in the course of her career makes her the ideal candidate to write a book dealing with this social issue. Being a scholar involved with both the professional and the academic sphere, Malik’s term at BBC provides the reader with essential insight into the decision-making process behind the scenes of one of the most significant media outlets in the world.
Malik’s style of writing varies considerably from the large group of scholars who write objectively from a distance, fulfilling the ...

The book is a young adult’s novel written by Gennifer Choldenko back in the year 2004 and published by Putnam’s Sons with approximately 215 pages in the first printing. As a young adult’s novel, the book is written for people ages 10 and up. Along with this, the protagonist is set to be 12 years old so that other young adults can relate to it more (Literature Circle) (Putnam Sons).
The book revolves around the life of Matthew “Moose” Flanagan and his family moving into the prison island of Alcatraz Island in the year 1935 as his ...

Introduction

Point of Comparison
The first point of comparison between a happy pig and depressed human can be observed in the major character of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. After Gatsby’s meeting with Daisy, there was an apparent change in him. It seems that Daisy has a strong characteristic that changed Gatsby from a happy pig into a depressed man. The mere fact Gatsby has the materialistic possessions that only the intellectual individuals would have attained made Daisy believe that Gatsby is in fact a person of intellect. On the other hand, Gatsby’s blooming interest on Daisy opened him up to a profound change. ...

Introduction

The account, which is given by the huge but quiet native half-resident American prisoner. His name is Bromden. His story focuses on Randle Patrick McMurphy‘s actions of rebellion who served out a prison term, by faking mental illness for legal rape in the hospital. Mildred Ratchet the head administrative nurse, with a small medical error she sets laws with mailed fist. Her assistant doctors and her three dark orderlies offer her assistance. McMurphy continuously provokes the customs, and irritates Nurse Ratched, causing steady power struggling between the prisoner and the nurse. He is involved in running a card-table, and also heads ...

Reflection Paper

Introduction
Perfection in academic English writing requires someone with a positive attitude especially in dealing with the challenges it comes with. Everyone needs to accept the mistakes and inadequacy of his/her initial essays and use them as a platform for future essays. These are the two principles/experiences, which I have learnt in my previous English classes. In this class, I wanted to learn about some of the different types of English papers. Additionally, I also wanted to learn the basic principles used in the analysis of different types of literary works. I have learnt how to write argument papers as ...

Introduction

An event that take places as Alphones find Baby and Xavier having had sex in his hotel room he beat Xavier and sends him home. Later on he beat baby and takes all of her heroine. The next morning Baby finds Alphonse Dead because of drug overdose.
The above event appears in the book once and it is in the author’s ways of developing the plot of his book. He describes it to greater extent so that he develops his theme on effect of drug abuse. Therefore, this event was important to the author as it help ...

The Shtetl Book

The book reflects on the shtetl Jewish community. It was written by David G. Roskies, a recognized international literature scholar and Diane K. Roskies. In this book, the authors try to examine the life of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe before the Second World War began. The authors collect poems pictures, personal stories, legends, and much more from various sources. They present a detailed analysis of the community of the shtelt at the town of Tishevits, attitudes and how they are used toward Yiddish, professions, Jew-Gentile relations, religion, childhood, philosophy, entertainment, as well as the breakup of the shtetles and the ...

Higgins in his book, Understanding the Chiapas Movement seeks to bring to view the Zapatistas as part and parcel of the Mexican history in regard to the encounter between the Mexican and Maya. He concentrates on the fact that the problems existing between the Mexican state and the Zapatistas were foreseen and therefore meant to happen. The state never really recognized the indigenous as important. The state assumed that the Mayans were primitive and less important something that never went down well with the locals. Higgins major concern is the fact that neoliberals is at stake and should be ...

Book Review

This books try’s to unravel United Nations as an organization in regards to its mandate and the changing environment. The mandate of the United Nations is to promote peace all through the world through various initiatives that it has begun. It is made up of representatives from all the countries in the world hence gives a holistic view of the interests of the people in the world. Human beings are known to be the source of all problems in the world through greed and this has destroyed the world. This books give an inside look at the thinking of ...

Analysis: Out of the Dust

Abstract
Karen Hesse's book Out of the Dust takes an unconventional approach to fiction, depicting the events of a full-length novel in a number of free verse poems. The tale of a family of farmers attempting to survive the Dust Bowl, Hesse's work is fascinating in its minimalism and heartbreaking in its focus. Hesse's free verse prose lends a childlike sense of simplicity and wonder to these heavy themes, showing just how dramatic these conditions can affect a child of that age; the result is an intelligent and thoughtful book on life in the Dust Bowl.
Karen Hesse's book Out of the ...

Johnny presents a young narrator who is accompanied with his two moms and goes to a park, where he gets lost while his mothers are talking to a friend. The initial pictures depicts that he meets an animal first, plays with it and finally he realizes that he is lost. He eventually meets McFinks who are willing to lend a helping hand in this situation however there is a strong resistance that he faces, after they get to know about his non-traditional family. The narrator further moves ahead and comes across a large family, who seem to understand his situation in a better way and help him ...

W.J. T Mitchell’s (1996) essay entitled “What Pictures Really Want” focuses on the rhetorical and interpretative dominance of pictures both in arts history and visual culture. There is an element communication and symbolic representation in every photo and the question of what they mean constitutes an exploration of its connection to human emotions and behavior. In relation to Agee and Evan’s work, the essay brings about the thought of scrutinizing pictures for their deeper meaning and not just a material object dowsed with colors and shape markings. Mitchell also assimilated the different traditional attitudes that the society has ...

The theme of Satan is clearly denoted in the book. As a general assumption, Satan is denoted with evil. In this case, the evil in the book revolves around Hester Prynne. Hester is the main character in the book and the author portrays her as an agent of evil in the community. Just like in the story of Adam and eve a woman is used as an evil tool. Hester’s tribulations are caused by her inability to withstand temptation. From this did, the author gives the theme on Satan the much required influence in the novel.
Hester had an ...

As a mode of literary criticism, structuralism gained popularity in the late 1950s when the work of Ferdinand de Saussure was translated into English. In chapter 7 Structuralist Criticism of her brilliant book Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, Lois Tyson states that before Saussure, the changes of words through time were studied to analyze language. In fact, words were studied in a diachronic manner. Additionally, every word in some represented the object itself.
In the entire context of the chapter, as in to say, keep reading the rest of what she says, what does she mean by this?
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In contrast to the image that the title of this book brings about and the prejudiced idea in our mind about how it is overwhelmingly difficult to end poverty in the distant or near future, Jeffrey Sachs’s The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time provides an honest, uncomplicated strategy for ending poverty that is appealing to both common sense and logic. Sachs provides conclusive proof that in our time, poverty can only be alleviated through a major shift in assistance policy. Yet, in contrast to many who think it is impossible to solve the challenges in Asia ...

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was one of the most elegant and horrifying pieces of literature written in its time, and is still widely considered a Gothic horror classic. The book follows Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a reclusive mad scientist, who seeks to create new life by sewing together the limbs and remains of several other dead bodies and reanimate them. The book and its monster have been compared to many different things in a variety of subtexts, but one of the clearest readings of the book indicates that the monster represents the dangers of knowledge, especially as the book posits that the pursuit ...

Washington Irving is an author and editor of numerous fictional works and short stories. His fictional works, biographies, historical writings and short stories made him achieve international fame. Before his death in 1859 Irving was the United States ambassador to Spain and he used his position to promote international copyright law. Irving is a scholar for he studied law; however he was not an exceptional student, and he barely passed the bar. His writing career began by writing periodicals, whimsical journals and letters. Irving has many writings in his literary career. His works include The Legend of The Sleepy Hollow, ...

The book under the title ‘The mimic men’ is narrative book which has a simple structure to understand since it heavily employs the use of flashbacks and flash forwards. This makes it simple to understand what the protagonist in the novel has gone through (James, paragraph 2). The book is more of a confession and autobiography of the protagonist (Singh) who has just retired in one of the suburbs in London after spending many years in Isabella as a minister (Roberts, paragraph 2).
The book revolves around the world of Isabella, an island which has just received independence from its colonialists. ...

The year of 1066 is one of the crucial points in the history of England that is why it so often becomes the subject of historic discussions and debates. Numerous books dedicated to this period do not stop to be published. Some historians prefer to concentrate on the Battle of Hastings, some discuss the impact which the Norman invasion had on the native population and some of them talk about the leaders of the warring parties. It seldom occurs however that an author concentrates on personalities of the participants of historical events, trying to present them as the men ...

The Holocaust is a very dark moment in human history which is often told, presented and understood through literature and film. Through reading a re-telling of life during the Holocaust, readers are able to gain a better understanding of what it felt like to be living during this time. It is also possible to convey these same emotions through films that depict life during the Holocaust. Sarah’s Key is a fictitious emotional story that weaves together the past and present and allows the reader to gain an understanding of what life was like during the Holocaust. While the book version provides deeper ...

1) (p. 34) "When they were twenty he asked her to marry him. She was only a girl, but he believed she would make radical discoveries. This was why Jacob dedicated himself to Marion. He was not trying to be a feminist, or to sacrifice himself. He did not particularly resent his teaching career at Tufts. He believed in Marion."As a child prodigy, Jacob is in a good position to judge Marion--and to find in her a remarkable gift, a gift that was not also granted to him. What is this gift that Marion has but not Jacob? 4-5 sentences.

Marion has the gift ...

Within the book “Intuition,” by Allegra Goodman, it is very important to consider the roll of Marion Mendelssohn because she is Cliff Bannaker’s lab partner, and therefore works very close with him and his research. Within the book, Goodman gives the reader details and insight that allow the reader to believe that Marion is a scientist who is known for being very detail oriented and rule abiding within the scientific community. This is a very key piece of information for the reader to pick up on, because it shows how even though Marion is detail oriented and rule abiding, she ...

The tale of the first meeting between the European expedition of John Smith and the Native Americans during the founding of Jamestown in 1607 is one that has captured the American imagination for centuries. The meeting of John Smith and the Native American girl Pocahontas, and their subsequent love story, is echoed by the tense clash of cultures, demonstrating a dramatic story of love being found in the strangest places, as well as issues of land ownership and the promise of a New World. The original John Smith writings tell the tale in a fascinating and Eurocentric way that belies the true ...

Communication

RE: A Literature Review about Sexual Harassment at Work
Purpose for Writing: I have observed sexual harassment towards women where I work so I would like to learn more about the subject. I think that women have developed strategies to stop unwanted sexual harassment and have support at their places of work.

Audience: The information will be useful for women who want to learn more about dealing with sexual harassment using positive communication strategies.

Goals of Information: The goal of my research is to better understand the topic of sexual harassment and how to used communication strategies to ...