Book Review Essays and Term Papers
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Under the Banner of Heaven Book Review-Mormon Fundamentalism
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Krakauer, Jon. Under the Banner of Heaven. New York: Anchor Books (a division of Random House, Inc.), 2003. Jon Krakauer’s literary legacy has shown that he is a man impressed with extremes. It takes one form of extremism to give in to one’s wanderlust and decide to forsake all earthly possessions to attempt to live in the wilderness like in Krakauer’s Into the Wild, and another form
Rating:Essay Length: 2,010 Words / 9 PagesSubmitted: November 8, 2009 -
Book Review: The Japanese
This book,"The Japanese", written by Jack Seward covers a lot of information on the overall life of Japan, however, I will only summarized fifty-three pages of this book which will cover their food and drink (chap 8 pp.133 -162) and their language (chap.9 pp.163 -186). A lot of the information is past through little anecdotes that Seward has experienced with the Japanese. The author starts the chapter on food and drink by telling the reader
Rating:Essay Length: 1,392 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 11, 2009 -
The Lonely Crowd Book Review
David Riesman studied the post World War 2 society during his time. His study involved looking at the socialization of a person within groups, settings and periods of time. In the first chapter of his book, “The Lonely Crowd”, he defines social character as part of a society’s “mode of conformity” In other words; the way a person is socially characterized is based on the way he or she is influenced. Riesman analyzes those influences
Rating:Essay Length: 372 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 11, 2009 -
Paradise to Promiseland Book Review
Part I In Part two of From Paradise to the Promised Land, T.D. Alexander uses chapters fifteen and sixteen to describe the themes of God’s desire to be amongst His creation and His desire for them to be holy. The tabernacle, later replaced by the temple, plays a great part in this process because it was constructed to become the dwelling place of the Lord. No man was allowed permission to commune with God unless
Rating:Essay Length: 1,402 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 12, 2009 -
A Year in the South Book Review
Name Class Teacher Date During the course of Civil War people faced many different hardships and challenges. As the war began secessionist hopes were high and they had control over the unionist. However, as the war progressed this began to change. The men that fought for the Rebels were beginning to come home and the same was true for the men who fought with the Yankees. Since many of all these men lived in the
Rating:Essay Length: 3,378 Words / 14 PagesSubmitted: November 14, 2009 -
Book Review: Getting Things Done
Book Review: Getting Things Done Reading through much of this book peaked my interest on many different viewpoints and ideas. David Allen has indeed done his homework and talked to many different people in various careers and summarized helping others in this informative book. This book is very interesting and could help people with reducing stress in high profile jobs. A couple of ideas Mr. Allen wrote in this book could be very helpful to
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In the Blood Book Review
Family run businesses are the backbone of Canada, from corner shops to institutions such as Molson Inc. and Ellis-Don Construction Ltd. More than just money-making establishments, they are traditions handed down, ventures embarked on a century ago that have been handed off from father to son and mother to daughter. But from this seemingly heavenly custom springs frustration, anger, rebellion, jealousy and revenge as new generations of entrepreneurs-to-be decide they want nothing to do with
Rating:Essay Length: 458 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 16, 2009 -
Gingerbread - Book Review
Bibliography: Cohn, Rachael Gingerbread New York: Simon & Shuster Children's Publishing Division, 2002 Gingerbread is a novel about a girl named Cyd Charisse. After Cyd Charisse is expelled from a fancy boarding school, she finds that her problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer named Shrimp. Her mom and her step-dad seem to think that she needs time to figure out who she really is and what she
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Book Review - Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson has remained an enigma in American history. Where previous Presidents had Either come from the Virginia dynasty or were named Adams, Jackson was from the west. His Early life was controversial, as demonstrated by his marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. At the Time of their marriage, she was still married to her first husband. Jackson's devotion to his wife Led to many confrontations, some of them deadly. He despised the abuse of power
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Book Review: The Corona Project
One of the enduring lessons of warfare is the advantage of taking and holding the high ground. The edge gained from being able to look down upon the enemy, detect his scheme of maneuver, and counter it from a position of dominance has long been recognized by military strategists. The need to deny this advantage to the enemy led to pioneering efforts in aerial combat in the early twentieth century and, in turn, revolutionized warfare.
Rating:Essay Length: 323 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 17, 2009 -
The Jungle - Book Review
America, by the turn of the twentieth century, was regarded as the “Land of Opportunity”, and lured millions of immigrants. These immigrants fled to the United States in search of new and prosperous lives. During the Progressive era, America was at the age of industrialization, and the economy was shifting from agriculture to factories. There were jobs in the factories available to unskilled workers, which were the majority of the immigrants. The industrialists had no
Rating:Essay Length: 2,829 Words / 12 PagesSubmitted: November 17, 2009 -
Lord of the Flies - Book Review
The symbols in the book “Lord of the flies” all reinforce the theme of the novel. All of the characters themselves were very symbolic. Ralph is a symbol of civilization, he is always the one who attempts to organize and accomplish things in order to better the group, like the fire and the building of shelters. Jack, on the other hand, is a symbol of anarchy. The struggle between Ralph and Jack is symbolic of
Rating:Essay Length: 787 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 19, 2009 -
Kite Runner - Book Review
Book report Kite Runner Kite Runner is very interesting book. It is a very disturbing book with all of the graphic details and what not. You know when your watching a movie and someone is getting tortured very badly and there is blood everywhere and it is a really graphic scene? But you still watch even though it’s gross because you want to see what is going to happen to the person? That is how
Rating:Essay Length: 1,701 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: November 23, 2009 -
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Rating:Essay Length: 1,733 Words / 7 PagesSubmitted: November 23, 2009 -
Critical Book Review: "forgotten Fire" by Adam Bagdasarian
In his book Forgotten Fire, author Adam Bagdasarian investigates the Armenian Genocide through the eyes of a twelve year old Armenian boy named Vahan Kenderian. Through Vahan, the reader experiences the atrocities committed during the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Turkey. The Turks, who were Muslim, viewed the Christian Armenians as inferiors and treated them as such; under Turkish law, Armenians had nearly no rights, no fair justice in Turkish courts, could not bear arms,
Rating:Essay Length: 991 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: November 25, 2009 -
Book Review: First Man, the Life of Neil Armstrong
First Man The Life of Neil Armstrong by James Hansen James Hansen is a history professor at Auburn University who has spent 25 years studying and writing the history of space. In the book the “First Man”, he provided the most comprehensive analysis of Neil Armstrong. There are 648 fact-filled pages, which are supplemented by another 121 pages of acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, index, and photo credits. And well “First Man” is, as Hansen himself notes,
Rating:Essay Length: 710 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: November 28, 2009 -
Book Review of the Book ”nemesis” by Agatha Christe
Plot The book “Nemesis” is about an old spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead. Her name is Mrs. Jane Marple. One day she gets a letter from a man she was on vacation with in the Caribbean. The old man: Mr. Rafiel has died of illness and he has left a note from Mrs. Marple in his will. He tells her that she must solve a mystery which is of great
Rating:Essay Length: 493 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: November 28, 2009 -
Book Review - the Americans
AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOK OVERVIEW: THE AMERICANS INSTRUCTIONS: The following questionnaire is designed to help you become familiar with your American History textbook. Any knowledge that you gain about your textbook will help you to use your textbook more effectively. 1. PARTS OF THE BOOK A. On what page will you find a list of the U. S. Presidents? B. What is the title of the Chapter that begins on page 460? C. Of what unit
Rating:Essay Length: 1,019 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 29, 2009 -
The Mole People - Book Review
The book "The Mole People" is about the trials and tribulations that the inhabitants of the New York underground undergo. The setting is the subways of New York where homeless people find refuse from the outside world. It is not safe sleeping on the streets above ground, so people who find the tunnels, they find a second home, and a sense of community. There are many people located in these tunnels and several tiers of
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Critical Book Review of Slaughterhouse Five
In Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut explains his experience of the World War II bombing of Dresden, Germany. Vonnegut’s creative antiwar novel shows the audience the hardships of the life of a soldier through his writing technique. Slaughterhouse Five is written circularly, and time travel is ironically the only consistency throughout the book. Vonnegut outlines the life of Billy Pilgrim, whose life and experiences are uncannily similar to those of Vonnegut. In Chapter 1, Kurt Vonnegut
Rating:Essay Length: 1,069 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: November 29, 2009 -
Deaf Again - Book Review
Book Report on Deaf Again The book, Deaf Again, written by Mark Drolsbaugh, is an autobiography telling his life story which starts with a young boy growing up who goes through the process of losing his hearing and then, as he gets older, he struggles with trying to fit in as a normal child. When Mark was very young, he could hear fairly well then gradually he went hard of hearing until he eventually went
Rating:Essay Length: 1,466 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: November 30, 2009 -
Angela’s Ashes Book Review
Angela�s Ashes is a memoir of Frank McCourt. In this book McCourt writes about his experiences during the American Great Depression. Having troubles, his family leaves to return to Ireland believing that life will be easier there. McCourt also shows the reader the hardships that befall his family in Ireland. One thing about the book that I really disliked was that McCourt only states the events and how they happened and does not say how
Rating:Essay Length: 595 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 1, 2009 -
Black Elk Speaks - Book Review
Black Elk Speaks Black Elk Speaks is a novel based on the memories of Black Elk that he shared with a poet John Neihardt. Black Elk was an Oglala Sioux religious leader that had become a medicine man when he had had a vision in his teen age. Black Elk had already catholicized when he met Neihardt and was a catechist in reservations. He told Neihardt the story of his life so that it
Rating:Essay Length: 465 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 1, 2009 -
Catcher in the Rye - Book Review
Stepping into controversy after it was banned in America after its first publication, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, is sure to keep you thumbing through the pages. The story of a young man’s journey through life with obstacles such as: his brother dying, being expelled from numerous schools, suffering from depression, and the intolerance for the world around him; The Catcher in the Rye is told from one man’s reflection of his
Rating:Essay Length: 355 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 2, 2009 -
The End of Nature Book Review
The End of Nature Book Review Introduction 1 a) When Bill McKibben originally wrote this book in the late 1980s, the two observations were that we tell time badly and that our sense of scale is awry. 1 b) Nothing at all has changed, but actually gotten worse. It has increased by 15%. 1 c) Three pieces of evidence that support global warming is that sea levels will rise, warmer seasons and a lot more
Rating:Essay Length: 402 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 3, 2009