Category: Book Review
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Essay on Tuesdays with Morrie: Book Review
To acknowledge the beauty of a book means to understand the story beyond boundaries. The book, Tuesdays with Morrie, has a deep heartwarming message for humanity. I can state that the book is composed of two stories. One is the tale of a man and an ailment. The other is the narrative of an educator…
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Essay on The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Book Review
The perks of being a wallflower also called “Wallflower” first was released in 1999 but since then been very popular and grown as a book. The perks of being a wallflower is a truly moving story about Charlie, a freshman in highschool whos shy, intelligent and socially awkward, but that all comes down to a…
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Essay on The Prince: Book Summary
In the introduction Harvey C. Mansfield explains the book’s contents and what to expect as you read one of the “most famous book on politics ever written”(intro page 6) and I for one don’t disagree at all. Niccolò Machiavelli goes into depth on various subjects in the book such as the different types of sovereignty…
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House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros: Reader’s Review
Assignment: Read both required texts and then complete the graphic organizer below. The questions require you to apply Foster’s concepts to analyze the novel House on Mango Street. Be prepared for a test on both books when you return. Introduction: How’d He Do That? How do memory, symbol, and pattern affect the reading of literature?…
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John Steinbeck’s Novel The Grapes of Wrath: Critical Reader’s Review
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is a novel that explores and highlights the modern gender roles of his generation, it is also one which portrays Steinbeck’s modernized ideology towards the traditional patriarchal system during a time of great change. The proletarian novelist displayed his ability to perfectly portray the hardships faced during his…
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History of Pirates: Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
The contention at the focal point of the book, the Barbary Wars, occurred somewhere in the range of 1801 and 1815. Under President Thomas Jefferson, America aligned itself with war-focused mindset against a group of North African states along the Barbary Coast. These included Tripoli, Algiers, Tunis, and the autonomous Sultanate of Morocco. These nations…
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Main Idea of “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant
We all have experienced some form of jealousy or the need to have what others have, but the acts of ungratefulness and greed can lead to our destruction. The story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant focuses on the downfall of the Loisels. Its primary focus is on the feelings of my wife, Madame Mathilde…
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Portrayal of Diasporic Double Consciousness in ‘Derek Walcott’ by Edward Baugh
Derek Alton Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright who is well known for his contribution to literature in the Caribbean as he explored Caribbean culture. He was trained to become a painter but turned to write when he was young. He published his first collection of poems when he was fourteen (14). During…
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Critical Essay on “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” by Atul Gawande
Write an essay tracking Atul Gawande’s evolution as a doctor. His perspective on how to advise patients who have serious or terminal illnesses seems to change over time. Why and how does that happen? What experiences helped him to modify his approach? Include an analysis of how your own views about confronting terminal illness and…
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Sons and Lovers: A Short Summary of the Book
The plot of the novel revolves around a twentieth-century English family pertaining to the working class, made up of a drunkard miner-father, Walter Morel, his wife, Gertrude Morel, and their children, Paul, William, Annie, and Arthur. It was the first novel to inspect in such detail the intimacy of a family and the processes that…