According to the Oxford English Dictionary, to make peace is to “become resolved or reconciled.” How does one feel when they find acceptance and success in the quest to make peace with a past they can’t abandon? In “The Glass Castle” and “Born A Crime,”...
Though it was supposed to be a time where people were celebrating equality and equal rights, the 1970s were a time where racial injustices were still occurring on a daily basis. Some, like author’s Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, would even compare it...
Guns, Germs, And Steel “The Fates of Human Societies” by Jared M. Diamond, is a non-fictional historical book published in 1997 with roughly 480 pages. In Guns, Germs, and steel Diamond takes us through the journey in which the way society was built, he stresses...
Many of us have siblings or someone we love and cared about. Then, the happiness, and wellness of them are very important. Saving Sourdi is a story, which events focus mainly through the eyes of one of the sisters. For instance, Nea plays the role...
From the beginning of the 20th century until the present day, new inventions of technological advancements that have the purpose to help mankind has been continually growing and increasing. Food industries have also adapted their technological advancement when it comes to serving food, especially with...
Perhaps nothing is more frequent in the pages of history books than wars. Since the beginning of time, men have fought to hold their ground and conquer more. Yet the images of war are not always the trumpeting, flag-flying, fresh-faced recruits that they are painted...
In Susanna Rowson’s novel Charlotte Temple, the main character dies; this spoiler is given immediately at the beginning of the book, leaving no question as to whether Charlotte Temple will thrive on to live a happy life. With a (rather horrific) death undoubtedly present in...
Gloria Jean Watkins, better known as Bell Hooks, is a prominent figure not only in literature, but also in feminist and civil rights movements. She seamlessly weaves both of these issues into Killing Rage: Ending Racism in order to address the problems she believes plague...
Solomon Northup’s book Twelve Year’s a Slave covered the story of Northup himself as he was kidnapped and forced into slavery. He worked as a slave for 12 years before the government was able to locate and free him. Solomon Northup’s story was relevant when...
Ms. Rottenmeier is persuaded by Aunt Dete to take Heidi to the city, to keep company to a girl named Clara. Clara is attracted by Heidi’s cheerfulness brought about by Heidi’s lack of experience with their lifestyle and becomes good friends. Made-to-order essay as fast...
Introduction: Mental illness is an issue that is all too familiar. However, it is perturbing that a significant section of the society still experiences difficulty in accepting mental conditions. Background: Mental illness currently represents a significant proportion of the global disease burden and is considered...
But ain’t nobody gonna beat me at nothing’ is an ironic choice of words coming from a lower-class young African American girl growing up in the brutal streets of in New York City. In the short story, ‘The Lesson’ Toni Cade Bambara illustrates the lack...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel ‘Never Let Me Go’ is set in a dystopian world in which human clones are created so that they can donate their organs as young adults. Ishiguro proposes the possible threats posed by the upper class in relation to capitalism and how...
In life there will are many challenges that people will be confronted with. Within those challenges there will be many people that will back down to the challenge and the few that will rise up not only facing the challenge, but defeating the task at...
Many of us have preconceived judgments about death. Is it a bad thing? And if yes, why? In his essay, Death, Thomas Nagel ponders the question of why death is broadly believed to be such a horrific misfortune. He proposes a thought-provoking view on if...
Girls Like Us (2014), a novel by Gail Giles, takes the reader through the lives of Biddy and Quincy, two special education graduates. The structure of this book alternates between the two girls point of view, knowing their thoughts only makes Giles message stronger. Girls...
A deeper look at Joyce’s ‘Eveline’, and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at a feminist angle, shows the many stereotypes of women present like helplessness, in need of saving, male oppression, only caring about looks and female characters that are portrayed in demeaning ways such as...
In 2003, aged 17, Kent leapt at the chance to travel to Iceland as part of a Rotary exchange programme when the opportunity arose, interested in the Scandinavian countries having never seen snow as a child (a considerably commonplace experience lacking for many Australians). Though...
Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, depicts the lives of four mothers who were born in China but eventually immigrated to America. They hoped to live better lives for themselves and for their daughters. A major portion of the novel focuses on the relationship between...
Considering the fact that I did not know a substantial amount about the Middle East, besides what I have learned in class thus far, as well as what I have seen on the news, I found Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns extremely eye-opening. Not...
In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, a father, Rex Walls, keeps his family from amassing substantial wealth. Rex buys hard drinks whenever the family begins to earn money. When he comes home he unleashes his anger onto his family by destroying the...
Luck appears at a moment in time when people need it the most. When all of one’s knowledge, experience and skills have been exhausted, luck can alter given circumstances thus allowing people to push past difficult situations. Luck can be defined as a spontaneous change...
Samuel Pepys’s Diary is often studied for its first-hand account of important events in London’s history. Pepys records information on the Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy, the Plague, and the Great Fire of London, and readers are able to gain a greater understanding of this...
Explore Miller’s presentation of Rodolpho in the play One of the ways Arthur Miller presents Rodolpho is by his opening line, “This will be the first house I ever walked into in America! Imagine! She said they were poor!” This line highlight that Rodolpho is...
In the reading A Radical View, Steven Lukes provides three dimensions of power. He describes the second dimension as a person or group that creates or reinforces social and political values and institutional practices that limit the scope of the political process to public consideration....
Nina Aquilina travels back to her homeland, Malta, to visit her ageing parents who had previously disowned her. The stay turns out to be somewhat unexpected, as she finds out that Malta is where diseased spirits go to heal and move on to another stage...
The novel Sister Carrie, written by Theodore Dreiser, is considered by many to be the first modern American novel. Dreiser is also regarded as one of America’s greatest naturalists, as he was one of the early writers of this period. Dreiser certainly used his writing...
A scary story is a type of story that mainly focuses on creating a sensation of fear in the readers. Readers love to read scary stories because it gives them a bit of a thrill, an adrenaline rush from being scared out of their minds,...
Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was a novella set during 1899, in New Orleans, and the main character Edna Pontellier was a controversial character. Edna was searching for her purpose and searches for an “awakening”. She is not able to fulfill her job as the ‘mother-woman’...
Sometimes people commit crimes and they never have a reason for why they did so. There are two kinds of human behavior determined by the environment, either shaped by experiences during a person’s life or through a person’s genes; also known as nature or nurture....