Book Review Essays and Term Papers
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Odyssey Book Review
The original author, Homer, was a Greek poet who wrote epic poems. Not much is known about Homer, but there are different theories of what Homer seems to be. Some believe he was not even a real person, some think that it was a group of people that made up the poems, some think he was a woman, and according to the legend, he was a blind, poor poet who lived in Ionia. The author
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Book Review on a Thousand Spledid Suns
Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in 34 countries. In 2006 he received the Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Refugee Agency and was named a U.S. goodwill envoy to that agency. Told through the alternating voices of two women, the story spans the turbulent period from the 1970s to post-9/11. The story is set
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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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Book Review of the Namesake
Book Review Abbey Parise The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri “We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright. Some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”(Anonymous) The Namesake is about a Calcutta family trying to do the best they can at becoming true Americans while keeping their heritage and customs. In her book, she described to the reader
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Bartolome De Las Casas Book Review
An Account much abbreviated of the destruction of the Indies, Indianapolis, IN, Hackett Publishing Company INC., 2003 Bartolme De Las Casas is an interesting character. His passion for people who at the time were seen as a sub species of humans (if even human at all) is remarkable. De Las Casas came from a modest family and was well educated. He was brought into the world of the America’s through his father Pedro De Las
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Advise and Consent Book Review
Lee Epstein and Jeffrey Segal's book Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments, is a decidedly useful tool when dealing with the appointment processes held when a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court. Their findings tend to be in continuum with those of many legal scholars popularized today in scholarly journals and politically concentrated newspapers. They take over two hundred years of history and sum it up and pinpoint the exact areas needed to
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Forbes Book Review - Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time
Book Review: Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time It would be an understatement to say that the twenty figures presented in Gross’s Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time are success stories. These people have molded and shaped the way we live our everyday lives through their incredible achievements. Imagine starting with only a vision, while lacking the financial resources and personnel to make that dream a reality. This was the case for
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The Kite Runner - Book Review
The Kite Runner, a quietly powerful novel, fulfills the promise of fiction, awakening curiosity about the world around us, speaking truth as the lessons of history echo down the years. The themes are universal: familial relationships, particularly father and son; the price of disloyalty; the inhumanity of a rigid class system; and the horrific realities of war. In Afghanistan, young Amir's earliest memories of life in Kabul are blessed with a cultural heritage that values
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My Lai Book Review
Matthew Speidel 2007 My Lai 4 by Seymour M. Hersh. © 1970, Random House, New York. The words “My Lai” will forever be infamous in the annals of American military history, for they denote the site of the event that shames America most in a war she would rather forget. The book in question is an account pieced together by journalist Seymour Hersh of the Associated Press. His account of the incident itself is
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Coming of Age in Mississippi Critical Analysis - Book Review
Since human beings arrived on the planet Earth, there have been few cultures that lacked the one thing which has ultimately held our species back, prejudice. Throughout history, we see how millions upon millions of people have been killed simply because one group of people believed in a different God, came from another country, or simply had a different color of skin. Fortunately, human beings hold the ability to overcome prejudice through education and dialogue
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Good Earth Book Review
In the critically acclaimed novel The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck depicts the trials and tribulations of Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and his family. The novel begins on the day of Wang Lung's marriage to a woman that he purchases from the great House of Hwang. He is shamed that he has to buy a wife since the richer people always have marriages arranged. His wife, O-Lan, is a very resourceful and hard
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Book Review - the Great Depression
Amanda Carrion Review of The Great Depression America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine September 2, 2004 The Great Depression America 1929-1941 by Robert S. McElvaine covers many topics of American history during the “Great Depression” through 1941. The topic that I have selected to compare to the text of American, Past and Present, written by Robert A. Divine, T.H. Breen, George M. Frederickson and R. Hal Williams, is Herbert Hoover, the thirty-first president of the
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Book Review of “hear My Testimony”
Book Review of “Hear My Testimony” By Maria Teresa Tula This is probably one of the most moving books I have ever read in my life. It is basically a narrative story of the life of an El Salvadorian women named: Maria Teresa Tula. Maria is a wonderful storyteller and the fact the she is describing her own real life experiences greatly add to the impact of the book. Most of the chapters in the
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Redwall Book Review
REDWALL By: Brian Jacques This book was about a community and the animals inside of it. These include Matthias, Father Abbot, and many other mice and creatures who lived in Redwall Abbey. They had one mouse that lived a long time ago that was the hero of the Abbey because of his bravery. His name was Martin. Matthias was a very clumsy church mouse found motherless in Mosslfower woods, which was the local forest.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Book Review
Consisting of 43 chapters, the novel begins with Huck Finn introducing himself as someone readers might have heard of in the past. Readers learn that the practical Huck has become rich from his last adventure with Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) and that the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, have taken Huck into their home in order to try to teach him religion and proper manners. Instead of obeying his guardians,
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Book Review: Kaffir Boy
Book Review: Kaffir Boy Kaffir Boy is an autobiographical work written by Mark Mathbane. It was the first South African autobiography to be written in English by a black native. Mathabne’s aspiration for writing this book was to inform the world that apartheid had to end because it could not be reformed. Eventually, the book would achieve its goal of opening the eyes of many people worldwide about this subject matter. Kaffir Boy contains several
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Child of the Dark Book Review
Carolina Maria de Jesus’ journal “Child of the Dark” is a complete account of five years spent living in a favela in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Carolina and her children spent their days and nights trying to survive in the most horrific of slums while the rest of the nation looked down upon them, scolding them for being poor and complaining about how the residents of the favela were nothing but a burden on the rest
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A Book Review of George Orwell’s 1984
Living in a society with limited freedom of expression is not, in any case, enjoyable. A Totalitarian society is a good example of such a society, because although it provides control for the people, it can deny them a great deal of freedom to express themselves. The fictional society in George Orwell’s 1984 also stands as a metaphor for a Totalitarian society. Communication, personal beliefs, and individual loyalty to the government are all controlled
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Brighton Rock Book Review
brighton rock book review Ida Arnold, a warm-hearted, buxom woman meets 'Hale' an unknown but distinctive stranger who leaves a lasting impression upon her. Following his odd 'disappearing act' - she later hears of his seemingly 'natural' death. However, convinced that something is amiss; she is determined to seek the truth and seek justice. She learns about the mob responsible for the murder; under the new leadership of an adolescent - 'Pinkie'. A ruthless
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Good to Great Book Review
Good to Great Book Review To transform a good company to great company is all manages’ dream, but only few of them make it. To find out the core factors which lead to a good company became a great company is very difficult, because in different era, different industry companies face different opportunities and threats. To begin the research for the Good-to-Great study, Jim Collins and his research team searched for companies that: performed at
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"call of the Wild" Book Review
“Call of the Wild” Book Review By: Sheldon Shepard What if you were torn away from your home, your life, your family, and everything that was ever familiar to you, and got thrown into harsh, life threatening situations? Would you adapt in order to live and survive or would you be totally enveloped in the chaos and just give up, and become a name unmentioned? In Jack London’s book “Call of the Wild”, we are
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Firewalkers: A Book Review
CHAPTER I A. INTRODUCTION Philippines, being an archipelago is a home to numerous folks and cultures, each different from the other, separated by bodies of water, language and beliefs. The fact that we, Filipinos have been under the ---- of different countries, our ancestors have had their share of the stories. Today, during our modern times, such stories are now considered a mere folklore. In this book “The Firewalkers”, the first chapter presents us with
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Critical Book Review : No Shame in My Game
When someone thinks of the poor they instantly imagine a homeless man sleeping in a cardboard box or the nearest garbage can, but the working poor especially in the inner-city is commonly overlooked by society. However the working poor, in this case the working poor in the inner-city, are people advancing to try and make their lives better. They are taking minimum wage jobs so that they can barely afford a roof over their heads.
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The Brethren - Inside the Supreme Court: Book Review
The Brethren – Inside the Supreme Court: Book Review The Brethren, co-authored by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong, is an in-depth documentary of the United States Supreme Court from 1969 to 19, under the leadership of Warren Burger. The book attempts to present the reader with what "really" goes on in the Supreme Court. It describes the conferences, the personality of justices, and how justice's feel toward each other, items which are generally hidden from
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Guns and Violence Book Review
Throughout one’s life, one experiences many emotions and undergoes many changes. Changes that are not always apparent, changes that cannot always be reasoned or changes that reflect greatest in behavior, ones that are dependent on the environment. In Deanna Wilkinson’s Guns, Violence, and Identity among African American and Latino Youth, Wilkinson studies the role of violence and guns in the construction the social identity of minority youth. Wilkinson studies 125 violent African American and Latino
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