In the story, Sentimental Medicine, Eula Biss talks about how she is having a hard time to decide whether she should vaccinate his son or not before he was already born. She went on the internet to look for information and she gives up on...
The artistic world of Dostoyevsky is exceptionally dark and frightening: the author places mirrors in which the reader peeps to understand the truth about oneself. Unfortunately, this truth exposes fear and hatred, and love of cruelty and weakness, instead of the presence of virtues. Dostoyevsky...
The Devil Take Tomorrow by Gretchen Jeannette is a historical fiction set in the American Revolutionary War era. Anyone interested in history, espionage, and romance would enjoy this fast-paced novel. I for one love it when a book delivers on an action-packed storyline and is...
Neel Burton wrote an article in 2012 that questions whether suicide is right or wrong. He listed arguments from many different views and from different people and places. One theory is saving someone’s life and committing suicide is going against God’s wishes. The theory about...
Animation and Comedy This chapter is concerned with comedy in the animated film as comedy is the core of most animations and has the capacity to laugh at world and show that things could be different. The animation extends the vocabulary of humour within the...
As social creatures, we, human beings, are smart enough to struggle for development, high productiveness and personal growth. There are a lot of methods, approaches and recommendations on how to increase productivity, stop procrastinating and do so many tasks per day that is hard to...
Jack London, in his book ‘The call of the wild’, portrays, that the strongest, smartest, and the one who is not shy of compromising their morals in the wilderness, will always prosper. In this novel, Buck, the protagonist, a Saint Bernard/ scotch shepherd mix, is...
In the book Freakonomics, composed by financial expert Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner, the authors experienced various pieces of present day life to demonstrate how economics clarifies why people act in a manner just as the way explicit results happen. They examine...
Have you ever disliked an object because of its design or color, and liked another that serves that same purpose as the first but just has a different design or color? It’s like the same with apples because apples can come in three different colors;...
Dystopian novels within literature hold an interesting genre that lets reader’s minds enter another reality that isn’t what one would call ordinary. With a literature like this existing, it allows readers to expand their minds with new knowledge and actually make people question if dystopian...
Introduction Dr. John’s ‘Pollution’ consists of 3 major parts. The first part is all about the polluted ocean. The second being about the pollution of the sky. The third part is an in-depth study of how humans can resolve these issues. The book is a...
In the short story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, the author explores the theme of the true value of wealth and the importance of human connection. The story follows a young boy named Greg who, after a disagreement with his father,...
Sex Without Love is a thought-provoking and evocative poem written by Sharon Olds. The poem delves into the complexities and contradictions of physical intimacy without an emotional connection. Through vivid imagery and raw emotions, Olds challenges societal norms and expectations surrounding sex and love. This...
Cynthia Rylant’s short story “Checkouts” explores the theme of missed connections and the fleeting nature of romantic relationships. The story is set in a grocery store, where the protagonist, a teenage boy, falls in love with a girl he sees in the checkout line. The...
Introduction Richard Hakluyt, a prominent English writer and geographer of the late 16th century, played a significant role in promoting English colonization of the New World. One of his key works, “Inducements to the Liking of the Voyage Intended towards Virginia,” presents a series of...
In Steven Pressfield’s book Gates of Fire, a mortally wounded soldier named Xeones tells his life story to a Persian scribe under the order of King Xerxes of Persia. The story is told through a series of flashbacks, broken up by the scribe, who inserts...
It is difficult to justify irrational acts—after all, they are irrational. Thus, perhaps it may seem bizarre to most people that the narrator in “Senior Picture Day” feels the need to regularly squeeze her nose, purely to change its appearance. Of course, teenagers have always...
The novel A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, narrates the history of the rulers, conquerors, leaders and also the history of the oppressed and slaved individuals. In the first three chapters, the story talks about the discovery of America during the...
Making a Dream Come True Everybody has a dream. Not everybody has the characteristics to make a dream come true. We hear about successful stories all around us, as if making a dream come true were so easy, but in reality we know making a...
Reading is an intimate experience that one shares with a book. You enter the world of the story and live in it while reading. Often times, this experience is so vivid that one would feel as though the experience is realistic. Books are so powerful...
Comparing A Separate Peace and Looking for Alaska A Separate Peace is set in a Vermont boarding school during the 1940s, and Looking for Alaska is set in an Alabama boarding school during the early twenty-first century, but despite the differences in setting these books...
Abstract: Brooks achieves artistic excellence not by attempting to rise above her present condition but by taking that condition and raising it above the level where it is usually perceived so that it becomes an aid to understanding man. Brooks enlightens white readers on the...
The Vietnam War Mark Lawrence Atwood is presently Director of graduate studies at the Clements centre for national security in Austin at the University of Texas. An associate professor of history and distinguished fellow at the Roberts Strauss centre for international law and security. Made-to-order...
Close Sesame (1984) is Farah’s third novel of the anti-government trilogy. It is the most politically engaged of Farah’s third phase. The novel explores the protests against Siad Barre and secret mission of crucial assassination of Barre and the rationalization behind it. The plot of...
In our interactive oral we discussed several themes that are depicted by Federico Garcia Lorca’s blood wedding. I developed a wider understanding of the cultural and contextual considerations of the work since other students brought to my attention the historical and cultural background of Spain...
“Concentrate on other things, try to forget about it” (206), Vietnam Veteran John Wade explains. This simple tactic of forgetting the horrors and trying to push away bad memories has often been employed among veterans from many wars. Accordingly, O’Brien integrates this simple motif of...
Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask” is a well-known work that highlights his ability to create emotionally moving standard English poems. In this fifteen-line poem, Dunbar points to the suffering of black individuals and the need to hold happy deminors in order to...
The conclusion “Unequal wealth means unequal criminal justice.” is the perfect description of the illustration on the book’s cover. We can see the scale of justice in which one of the weighing platforms contains some people and the other one is full while some are...
In something not to be touched (done, talked of), she studies the lives of the people of the Shahi Mohalla in Lahore. Shahi Mohalla is a place was living in by a town of persons offering entertainment, dancers and players and writers of music. This...
I know many of us have had the thought of being invisible, especially when caught in a compromising situation where we wish no one could see us. In H. M. Irwing’s novel Invisible Me being invisible becomes one girl’s reality and nightmare. The main character,...