Essays on Book Report

“Frostbitten Faithlessness” is a short story about a woman’s lack of decision making, and fidelity. Ann is the wife of John, and they live on a farm, presumably in Canada. She seems to be short tempered, and miserable when it comes to her marriage. John...

Objectivity is the Name of the Game Caryl Rivers, a “nationally known author, journalist, columnist, media critic and professor of journalism at Boston University” (“Caryl Rivers”), in her essay “Totem and Taboo: The Culture of the News Media” (1996), excerpted from her book Slick Spins...

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, is an exceptional journal, an awesome book, which will give the peruser much to consider, on such an extensive number of levels. I can scarcely envision how it has taken me this long to truly sit down...

The novel All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr relates to many worldly problems we have that are relevant to today’s day and age. An example of one of these situations would be nationalism. While frederick is being oppressed by the other cadets,...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, like the other allegorical poems ascribed to the Gawain poet, may be read as an allegorical tale of sin and redemption in Christian terms. That the poem has strong Christian underpinnings is beyond doubt, especially in view of the...

This section gives a scope description and overview of everything included in this SRS document. Also, the purpose for this document is described and a list of abbreviations and definitions is provided. Purpose The purpose of this document is to give a detailed description of...

French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has been known worldwide as the man who has introduced the concept, “The Mirror Stage”. Another one of his most leading works is of course the concept of “Other”. In an article entitled “Being the Other Woman: Watanabe’s Unrequited Love for...

The murder mystery of the century! Unfortunately the term, perhaps the genre itself has become so grossly overused, it has lost its meaning to the general public. However, back in 1939 Agatha Christie wrote a novel with such a captivating story and complex characters, the...

Ben Tomlin, an average thirteen-year-old boy, isn’t so sure about his father’s newestexperiment. Dr. Tomlin, Ben’s father, a well-known scientist in the field of behavioural science, has abruptly moved his family to a new university in a new city to pursue a new scientific study,...

The book I read is called Legend, By Marie Lu. The book is set in a dystopian Los Angeles in a country divided into two warring parts: the Republic and the Colonies. The main characters are Daniel “Day” Altan Wing and June Iparis, two teenagers...

When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes was written by Jay Feldman. Born in Brooklyn, NY, Feldman was a part of a band during the time he attended Brooklyn College around 1963. Earned his Bachelor of Arts in speech...

The Girl at the Window, by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, translated by Dorothy BrittonWritten by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a well-known Japanese actress and talk show host, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window was a bestseller when published in Japan in 1981. I knew nothing at all of...

Ten people and one murderer on an isolated island. This is a situation that all of us have never been in, but one that the characters in Agatha Christie’s, And Then There Were None face. Throughout the book the characters are presented with unexpected murders,...

The colonial period brought many opportunities for many in which created the “American Dream” to reach treacherous goals to accomplish individual freedom and the innate desire for happiness and success. Colonial America, other known as “The New Land” come to many people’s mind when thinking...

The red thread Zen written by Susan Murphy Roshi talks about body, sexuality, passion, care, torn, dark, Mortal, laughter, hands and eyes, the teisho of the actual body. According to Amazon.com.au. The red (or ‘vermilion’) thread originally connoted the color of the silk undergarments courtesans...

In this week’s reаdings, we encountеred the book The Red Indians” by Peter Kulchyski which reveаls the strugglеs and resistаnce of First Nations peoples to retаin their lаnd and identitiвs which Europeаn settlers were trying to dеprive. Author nаrrates us through the resistаnce of Native...

Cao Mingmin (U1731120B)The chapter of Anxiety abroad: Austerity, abundance and race in post-war visual culture, from the book Cultures of Decolonisation: Transnational Productions and Practices, 1945-70 was published in the end of 2015. Written by David C. Wall, the chapter employed a diverse collection of...

What are the key institutions that shape Cecelia’s life? What role does each one play?One key institution that shaped Cecelia’s life was her village and community that she lived in and was a part of. The village and the community that existed there shaped her...

The idea of entropy was presented by Claude E. Shannon in his 1948 paper “A Mathematical Theory of Communication”. Wikipedia characterizes entropy as “a measure of the vulnerability related with a random variable. In this unique circumstance, the term usually alludes to the Shannon entropy,...