After reading Freakonomics it really opens the reader’s eyes to unseen things in everyday life. The incentives of just any regular person are greatly shown because money or personal gain can take over any man or woman no matter how old. In a few of...
This essay is going to answer the question ‘How does Gatsby represent the American Dream?’. Dividing fantasy from reality has always been a complication for humans throughout history. By yearning for the impossible, one prepares for failure and disappointment in the future. This plight is...
Burn Zones by Jorge P. Newbery is a book detailing the journey of the author in pursuing his interest and overcoming the obstacles, also known as the “burn zones,” to achieving his success. Mr. Newbery started working at a young age of 7 years old,...
Imagine if your mother died and her cells were stolen, as well as you and your siblings growing up in an abusive environment. That is the story of Henrietta Lacks and her family. She was a black woman, who had cervical cancer growing in her...
The novel The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, is one of the most influential novels about racism. The story begins in 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, with the birth of a little girl named Mae Mobley, her mother is Miss Leefolt. In this era, white race...
Fate: Is Life Happening To Us? When reflecting on one’s life up until this very moment, there is a divide between how much of what has happened is directly a result of our own doing, and how much of it was seemingly fate. To delve...
There are many modern-day heroes. Those who we see as strong and brave. Those who protect us. However, where did these qualities aspire from. How do we judge if someone is noble. If someone is worth honoring. There are many attributes that contribute to this...
Both Briony Tallis, of Atonement, and Leo Colston, of The Go-Between, spend significant periods of their adolescence in large country homes, both of which are surrounded by large estates. Hartley and McEwan use the landscapes which are present throughout much of these books to explore...
Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies is a book of philosophical and logical refutations and arguments. It is a direct response to several writings in which the male authors make claims against women’s purity. These books, according to de Pizan, slander...
Millennials are members of a generation that comprises individuals that were born as from 1978 to 2004. The individuals in this demographic group grew up in a world that was networked by the internet. The generation has been getting the highest attention from marketers. Most...
Even with limited knowledge of Oscar Wilde’s work, one probably doesn’t expect his stories to begin with a “Once upon a time” and conclude with a neat, reassuring “happily ever after.” There is simply no room for such authoritative, didactic lines in his decidedly amoral,...
Women have always been looked down upon by society, especially in leadership roles. In The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, the female characters are the most important characters in the story. Petra and Rosalind have a big impact on the story, and in saving themselves and...
As America begins to grow, the United States soon became known as the land of the free and opportunity. While this seems like an amazing way to be known, one thing that gave a major push was the Civil War which was ironically caused by...
The Dust Bowl era of the 1930’s caused a large group of migrant families to move westward to California because of the harsh conditions they faced at their previous residences. This move not only caused problems with the families but also with the individuals who...
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer is a series of stories that focus on the main character, Dina. Dina is an African American girl who is raised in Baltimore, but who later studies at Yale. Dina doesn’t like most people and has a hard time...
Introduction The novel, What’s So Great About America, written by Dinesh D’Souza, dives deep into the mindset of American culture and uses historical examples to prove the author’s thesis on why America is the superior nation of the world and what makes America great. The...
The novel “Speak” discusses about the story of Melinda who was going through a difficult time in her life. Melinda had to find who she was after being raped and going through high school alone. Melinda didn’t feel like she could discuss anything with anyone,...
The book being discussed in this paper is The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer. This book is the sequel to his first book A Child Called “It”. Pelzer’s life story is one of the worst documented cases of child maltreatment. In his books he describes...
“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows of hunger.” This’s how Charlie Gordon the main character of this novella views himself before he travels from ignorance to great intelligence, he always believed that his biggest ordeal...
Have you ever asked yourself what the meaning of life was? If so, you will have to wait for another 7.5 million years since Earth was destroyed 5 minutes before the answer was revealed. Luckily for human Arthur Dent, a lazy, comedic average Joe, and...
As I read the beginning of Emma Zunz I instantly felt the shock of the situation or disaster if you will. The first paragraph focused only on the fact that her father had suddenly died. The subtle hint by writing “by a certain fein o...
In Harold Pinter’s Moonlight, discordant scenes create a state of transition for the characters, who are facing the death of family patriarch Andy. Throughout the play, Pinter sets up scenes which would not fit logically into a linear story. Old friends reappear and converse with...
Even before Thomas De Quincey fully expounds upon the mental and physical effects of frequent substance abuse in his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, he states that “…if no definite boundary can be assigned to one’s power, the spirit of hope and pleasure makes it...
Much of the critical debate surrounding Daniel Defoe’s novel Moll Flanders centers around whether the author makes good on the promise he makes in the preface that the story will be morally instructive. For instance, Ira Konigsberg writes that “One of the book’s contradictions that...
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...
The Machine Stops_, written by English author E. M. Forster in 1909, is not only revered as a short story on it’s own merit, but increasingly relevant given current concerns about the effect of technology on employment and interpersonal relationships today.To understand Forster’s perspective, it...
The novel entitled Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina is an enlightening historical novel based in Annadel, West Virginia, a town that relies on coal to make a living, while also outlining the events leading up to the Battle of Blair Mountain. Things begin to take...
The Value of Sacrifice What you value can often be determined by what you are willing to sacrifice. People may believe that they will honor what they value, but that usually only lasts until we are faced with benefits from sacrificing. Many people can say...
In the book “October Sky”, there’s a common theme throughout the book, Determination. Sonny and the Rocket Boys would often have an issue with their rockets. They never lost hope, never gave up, and kept going, determined to overcome their issues within rocket building, school,...
In the novel ‘Grapes of Wrath’ Steinbeck attempts to depict the hard conditions in which ranchers like the Joads needed to endure during the Dust Bowl. All through the novel, he centers around the Joad family and their adventure to California. Steinbeck had blended aims...