Book Review Essays and Term Papers
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Lord of the Flies - Book Review
The Lord of the Flies Essay In The Lord of the Flies, the three main character all have different characteristics and temperaments. Ralph shows the Guardian temperament, Jack has the characteristics of the Artisan temperament, and Piggy has the Realist temperament. This is important to the novel because it plays reason why everything ended up breaking apart on the island. Ralph is the nearest to being the Guardian in the story. Throughout the book, Ralph
Rating:Essay Length: 462 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 3, 2009 -
Foreign Policy Book Review
Foreign Policy Book Review World War I took place in the early 1900's. The United States entered the war late, trying not to get involved with foreign affairs. In Erich Maria Remarque's WWI novel All Quiet on the Western Front, we see the war through the German point of view of a 19 year-old Paul Baumer. As more and more young German nationalists are brain-washed into battle, more and more lives are altered forever. Once
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Book Review of Eight Men Out
A Review of Eight Men Out By: Eliot Asinof The time was the fall of 1919, the country lye on the doorstep of what was to be known as the roaring twenties, a time best described as when the country lost its innocence, a time when a people discovered the pleasures of sin. In 1919, the U.S. has just come out of World War I, at that time known as The Great War. Our
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Book Review of Scalia Dissents
In Scalia Dissents, Kevin Ring, former counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Constitution Subcommittee, lets Justice Scalia speak for himself in giving his opinions on today’s most controversial topics. Ring also provides helpful background on the opinions of cases, which makes them more accessible and practical. Scalia Dissents contains over a dozen of the justices’ most interesting and controversial opinions. This book would not have been written if it were not for such an interesting character
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Dibs - Book Review
“Sometimes he sat mute and unmoving all morning or crawled about the schoolroom floor oblivious to the other children or to his teacher.” The book Dibs is a testimony of a child who seemed to be mentally retarded because he has created his own world inside of him. In her book, Virginia Axline proves that the therapy by the play is a way of curing people such as Dibs. During her book, she gives
Rating:Essay Length: 1,295 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: December 10, 2009 -
A Nation of Immigrants Book Review
The book I read was “A Nation of Immigrants,” it was written by Mr. John F. Kennedy. The book was fantastic; it was about the start of immigrants coming into this nation. It spoke about how they fled there country for a new life in America and would do anything to get here. Some would wait days, months and even years to get sworn in as an American citizen. Many immigrants fled Nazi persecution and
Rating:Essay Length: 554 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 10, 2009 -
Night Book Review
The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an influential and terrifying account of a boy and his family in various Nazi concentration camps. The story is told from the point of view of the author Eliezer as he is experiencing the situation and begins with the families’ transition from their regular lives to life during the Holocaust. The German’s call for deportation causes the separation of the family. Moving from one concentration camp to the
Rating:Essay Length: 497 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: December 10, 2009 -
A Child Called It Book Review
A Child Called “It” by David Pelzer is his own autobiography of his life as a child being abused by his alcoholic mother, Catherine Roerva Pelzer, who isolates him from the family, then abuses him, and nearly killed him through starvation, poisoning, and once stabbing him. Since Mother starved him for days, he began to steal food in order to survive, and when she finds out he has stolen food, she abuses him with her
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Napoleon Book Review
The ideas of modern war can lead back to the 18th century during a certain campaign by a French military leader. This military leader was named Napoleon Bonaparte. He started a campaign against Western Europe that defined war and his strategies echoed throughout time up until the Second World War. His strategic plans were legendary up until his biggest mistake, which was invading Russia during its winter during the battles in the Waterloo Campaign. Before
Rating:Essay Length: 1,431 Words / 6 PagesSubmitted: December 14, 2009 -
Wave- Book Review
A BOOK REVIEW of The Wave by Morton Rhue This story, based on a true incident that occurred in a high school in California, demonstrates how easily a group can lose its freedom without even realising it. It all began when their history teacher, Mr. Ben Ross, let them watch a movie on how the Nazis in World War 2 tortured the people who opposed them. To give them a clearer picture, he decided to
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1984 - Book Review
Orwell, George. 1984 New York: Signet Classic, 1949. 245 pages. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” I cannot emphasize how much I loved that sentence, which happened to be the first sentence of the amazing story, 1984. I like the fact that it takes a while to comprehend, as you think to yourself, “Clocks strike thirteen?” Well, after a moment of thought I realized that the community
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Book Review: Enemy at the Gates
“Enemy at the Gates” Craig Williams was born in Concord Massachusetts. He wrote the book “Enemy at the Gates” in 1973. The point of this book was to show both the extreme importance of this battle in the course of World War II and the courage of both the German and Russian troops during this horrific battle. This book did an excellent job portraying the hardships the soldiers faced and the gruesome scope of the
Rating:Essay Length: 766 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: December 16, 2009 -
The Emancipation Proclamation Book Review
The Emancipation Proclamation. John Hope Franklin. Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1963, 1965, 1995. 155 pp. In the book The Emancipation Proclamation, the author John Hope Franklin, tells a story of the emancipation of slaves through the trials of then, President Abraham Lincoln. He leads us through the action before, during, and after the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation in an attempt to give us a greater understanding of the actions taken by President Lincoln. In
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Palestine by Joe Sacco - a Book Review
Joe Sacco's graphic novel, Palestine, deals with the repercussions of the first intifada in Israel/Palestine/the Holy Land. The story follows the author through the many refugee camps and towns around Palestine as he tries to gather information, stories, and pictures to construct his graphic novel. While the book is enjoyable at a face level, there are many underlying themes conveyed throughout its illustrated pages and written text. The most obvious of the themes is that
Rating:Essay Length: 570 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 18, 2009 -
Book Review of Managing About the People
Table of Contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………… 3 2. About the author……………………………………………………………… 4 3. Overview of the Book………………………………………………………... 5 4. Book review…………………………………………………………………… 6 5. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………. 15 6. References…………………………………………………………………….. 16 7. Bibliography………………………………………………………………….. 17 The Truth About Managing People...And Nothing But the Truth Bibliographic information Title The Truth About Managing People Author(s) Stephen P Robbins Publisher Financial Times Prentice Hall Publication Date 2003 Subject Business / Economics / Finance Format Hardcover Pages 211 Dimensions 5.38 x 7.38 x
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The Handmaid’s Tale Book Review
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is set in the futuristic Republic of Gilead, which was formerly the United States. In the book, at some point in the future, conservative Christians take control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to nuclear waste, pesticides or leakages from chemical weapons. The novel takes the form of a memoir by one of the handmaids, the few fertile
Rating:Essay Length: 675 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 21, 2009 -
Life Lessons (book Review)
Annie Thermidor Life Lessons from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler. Main theme: In this book, Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross teamed up with end-of-life specialist David Kessler to write for the first time about life and living. The authors present fourteen lessons passed on to us from the dying to help us deal better with the issues we face in life. Both authors consider the dying as great teachers because, “it’s when we are pushed to the
Rating:Essay Length: 587 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 21, 2009 -
Book Review Of: To Kill a Mockingbird
Book Review of: To Kill a Mockingbird Genre: Fiction/Realism First published in 1960 by William Heinemann Ltd. F Plot To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother, Jem, in 1930's Alabama. Through their neighbourhood walk-abouts and the example of their father, they grow to understand that the world isn't always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems. The
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Gender & Jim Crow: Book Review
In Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s book Gender & Jim Crow, Gilmore illustrates the relations between African Americans and white in North Caroline from 1896 to 1920, as well as relations between the men and women of the time. She looks at the influences each group had on the Progressive Era, both politically and socially. Gilmore’s arguments concern African American male political participation, middle-class New South men, and African American female political influences. The book follows a
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Book Review
Film Critique This assignment is a 2-3 page single spaced paper reviewing a film with appropriate historical content. It must either be on a film depicting the period covered by the class and must have historical content relevant to the class or on a film assigned in class by the instructor. Your central goal in writing this review is to critique the film. That means to give your opinions about the content. If you
Rating:Essay Length: 698 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: December 30, 2009 -
Looking for Alibrandi - Book Review
Looking For Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta - Book Review -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for Alibrandi is a passionate story about a young girl's painful and enlightening journey into adulthood. The story centres around Josephine Alibrandi - an agressive, disatisfied, and confused final year student of Italian extraction. She has one burning ambition: to find her place in affluent society and to break free from her embarassing, stifling italian family. As the story progresses, Josephine discovers a vital
Rating:Essay Length: 784 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: December 31, 2009 -
Book Review of the Odyssey by Homer
Book Review: The Odyssey by Homer Written by a blind man, Melesigenes better known as Homer, and translated by Alexander Pope, the Odyssey of Homer is a poem about the life of the king of Ithaca, Ulysses, who leaves to fight in the Trojan War, but he doesn’t return until 20 years. According to Professor P. Landow, Ulysses is a great athlete and great warrior, heroic, courageous, eloquent, and masterful, and at the same time,
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Book Review on "not a Penny More Not a Penny Less"
REVIEW MAIN CHARACTERS: 1. Harvey Metcalfe : The main culprit in the story. The self made multi millionaire who is the mastermind behind the fraud carried out. 2. Stephen Bradley: The professor tricked into buying the shares. 3. Jean Pierre: A french artist who also was fooled into investing in the company by Harvey Metcalfe. 4. James Brigsley: The son of a respective earl in England, the third victim to a tragic incident. 5. Robin:
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Black Majority Book Review
Peter Wood’s Black Majority is a social history examining the cause and effects, both explicit and implicit, of the black majority that emerged in colonial South Carolina. His study spans the time period from the settlement of Carolina through the Stono Rebellion, which took place in 1739. He also takes into consideration and examines certain events that took place in the years immediately preceding the settlement of 1670, as well as those that immediately followed,
Rating:Essay Length: 792 Words / 4 PagesSubmitted: January 8, 2010 -
Memoirs of Geisha Book Review
Published in 1997, Memoirs of a Geisha portrays a geisha's rise from a Japanese fishing village to life in high society. In this fictional history novel, Arthur Golden strives to provide his readers with the basic knowledge of the Japanese history in the years between 1930 and 1940. Westerners usually think of geishas simply as prostitutes, but the book attempts to right the misconception that geishas are simply prostitutes by showing the reader various
Rating:Essay Length: 1,221 Words / 5 PagesSubmitted: January 9, 2010