The author of The Killer Angels is Michael Shaara. Michael Shaara is a famous American author of many different types of fiction books or stories, such as science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born in 1928 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery is an author who wrote a book which is “The Little Prince” which the original title was “Le Petit Prince”. This book was first published in English and French in the US by Reynal who published it in English and Hitchcock who...
The Cellist of Sarajevo, a novel written by Steven Galloway is set in the city of Sarajevo, during the Bosnian war in the 1990’s. Galloway chose this setting to recount the stories of eyewitnesses present during the siege of Sarajevo, and to give his reader’s...
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...
Pablo Escobar was a latter day Robinhood and a terrorizing criminal rolled into one. By the mid 1990s, Pablo Escobar emerged as the foremost emblem of the drug-related violence that fired Columbia during the 80s and early 90s. Pablo Escobar and other drug lords rose...
The Soloist Mental illness does not discriminate. Despite Nathanial Ayers’ talent as a musician, artist, and generally good upbringing, schizophrenia still found a way to enter into his life. Through meeting compassionate journalist Steve Lopez, Nathanial Ayers was able to begin his road to recovery...
What lengths might one person go to stay forever young? Would they enter a Faustian pact? A Faustian pact is where a person trades their soul with the devil for something they truly believe they cannot live without. In Oscar Wildes the Picture of Dorian...
Henry David Thoreau, the author of Civil Disobedience, clearly shows signs of being a rebel. He has many negative views and ideas on government, with a focus on American government as well. Thoreau believes that the government is not supposed to essentially fulfill their job....
Progress for the Sake of Progress “Progress for the sake of progress must be prohibited”. Although this quote is from Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter, it accurately describes Thoreau’s attitude towards progress in Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, an excerpt from Walden....
Dr. Vijay Patel has invented a watch that monitors health and alerts the user when their time is up. Unfortunately during alpha testing, the doc and his team learn of an unexpected side effect, murder. When more incidents of gun violence pop-up in the media,...
The book I selected is called Spy Camp is about a kid in a secret spy school that is one of the best spies and just finished 7th grade at spy school. He plans to visit family on vacations but suddenly the principal of the...
In the novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, an eighteen year-old boy named Wade is addicted to playing a videogame called the Oasis. The game is a virtual reality of the world of 2045 except everything is more happy and bright, because in this...
The title of this book is The Hunger Games and was made by Suzanne Collins in 2008. This book is set in a fictional version of America. In the nation of Panem at a date of which is not specified. With characters all along the...
“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...
Baptism no longer functions as a simple christian practice in the world of literature. Dr. Thomas Foster emphasizes this idea in a specific chapter titled “If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism” in his novel, How to Read Literature Like a Professor. John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”...
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...
America has long been recognized as a democratic nation, a nation operating under the will of the people. The forefathers of America fought incessantly against British tyranny to start anew in a land of freedom and opportunity. Because America revived the ancient Greek ideology of...
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...
The play Agamemnon involves a variety of characters who introduce and contribute towards some of the major themes of the play, such as justice and revenge. While the play is dominated by Clytaemnestra and the Chorus, we are introduced to different angles in the story...
The book The Maze Runner by James Dashner is an exquisite book that includes a lot of action along with complex secrets that even I as a reader don’t know myself. My experience of this book is hard to describe, as there were moments where...
The 2009 novel, ‘Jasper Jones’ has uncanny similarities to the short film ‘Be My Brother’ on the concept of belonging. Belonging is considered a fundamental human need and a source of survival, safety, protection, and happiness. However, a negative sense of belonging: found among the...
Black like me is a nonfiction book which was written by Howard Griffin, who was a junourist from Mansfield, Texas. Griffin uses the book to explain his journey towards Deep South of United States when most of the African American was subjected to racial segregation...
The Pit and the Pendulum is a short story about terror written by the famous American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was born on January 19 of 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. When he was a child his parents died, and Poe was taken into the...
In his Essay, “Civil Disobedience”, Henry David Thoreau argues that society functions the most efficiently when it is not ruled by an overpowering monarch, or by a strong central government, but by the people, essentially having self-reliant peoples that do not necessarily need a government,...
Rhonda is a young panda who, apart from eating, only wants to sleep. She is extremely lazy. Her brother, Cato, ends up playing by himself because Rhonda is always too tired. One day, her parents and her brother take her to visit her cousin, Karla....
Although smoking of the past was viewed as glamorous and romantic, its cancerous, harmful effects are now a common fact. Similarly, in Cormac McCarthy’s novel All the Pretty Horses, the consistent smoking throughout the novel juxtaposes the negative effect of smoking with a naive faith...
Introduction IIngot group belongs to the Global Alliance Partners (GAP) which is a worldwide coalition of authorized financial services companies that concentrate on the mid capital market. The member companies of this coalition network are privileged to savor greater power and a broader platform which...
Introduction Fyodor Dostoevsky the author of the book “Crime and Punishment” depicts Russia, capitalist society, the rules and laws that govern it, the cruelty of everyday people, the perpetration of a double murder on behalf of powerless students, and the ensuing punishment for the crime....
Horror has about a thousand different definitions in everyone’s minds and can be associated with anything from movies to video games. The definition of horror has changed over the past few centuries, and the media is the best example of change, morphing around what we’ve...
Understanding Civil Disobedience We all encounter at least one instance in our lives when we are told to do something that seems to go against our moral code. Unfortunately for most of us, we will end up doing these things due to some authoritative figure...