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...
Voltaire’s work portrays a profound admiration for social and political English models. As a young man, he met an exiled Tory statesman in 1722, Viscount Bolingbroke who represented a form of cultural pre-eminence that thrilled him. This encounter and Voltaire’s desire to make a name...
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,...
Thank You America: Book One is a non-fiction book that tells the story of a Congolese woman who is thankful for the things that happened in her life. The book serves as an autobiography and gratitude journal, giving thanks to her family and the Americans...
The book I had chosen for this very intense assignment was “Guns, Germs, and Steel – The Fates of Human Societies”, which was published in 2005 by “Norton” in New York. It has, including the index, 494 pages. The assignment stated to pick any 6...
When The Emperor was Divine by Japanese-American author Julie Otsuka is a fascinating and moving novel. The powerful story of a Japanese-American family during WWII is a reference to thousands of families who suffered internment in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This...
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. Her mother passed away before little Maud was two years old, and she was gone to be raised by her maternal grandparents, whom she later characterized as stern and reserved. When she was...
Upon reading Jonathan Edwards’ Personal Narrative, one would undoubtedly find that Edwards’ descriptions and expressions of his insurmountable love for God (and all things in relation to the Christian faith) are of an extreme degree uncommon to that of the ordinary believer. It is therefore...
The very nature of travel literature is to inform the population that has not traveled abroad to so-called ‘wild’ places of the cultures and people that lie beyond their own nation, specifically, the untraveled English population. Given the rise of imperialism and great desire for...
In the book The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, the lexical words of the author are in perfect harmony with the visual pictures he presents to the reader; the illustrations are often matched concretely with the words, and they both simultaneously capture and escape the stillness...
As the history of the world continues, gaps between the generations of all nationalities will continue to be made. We get a first hand example of this everyday, right here in the U.S. In today’s society, it is very difficult to find a child that...
Philippe Bourgois’ In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio is a well-written ethnographic research book that has been set to have an in-depth look into the lives of a micro-society in East Harlem’s neighborhood that is involved in the sale of crack. The...
This modern fairy tale for young readers is about a prince who is looking for love. Young readers will be able to see that not every prince would like to marry or love a princess. With his parents on a quest to find the perfect...
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross “On The Fear of Death” argues that people have become frightened of death because the way people deal and cope with death has changed. Death has become lonely and dehumanizing since more deaths occur in a hospital than in a person’s own home...
American Historian of Science, Michael Brant Shermer once stated, “Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.” Identical characteristics are shown in humans no matter what period of...
Introduction Pride, an intrinsic facet of human nature, manifests itself in multifarious forms, often leading individuals on a precarious path between self-assurance and downfall. In Sophocles’ timeless tragedy, “Oedipus the King,” the titular character’s fatal flaw lies in his hubris, an excessive pride that blinds...
In the 1890s, the prejudice against mental illness, especially in women, was reinforced by various physicians. They believed that if a woman was mentally ill, she was either insane or hysteric. They had little to no scientific basis to their theories of the women’s lunacy,...
When examining On the Rainy River from an archetypal perspective, O’Brien emphasizes the importance of free will and how it affects one’s life through the archetypal symbol of the owl, the archetypal symbol of the Rainy River, and the archetypal character of Elroy. Made-to-order essay...
The book Divergent is manly about standing out of the system and what is considerd normal in society and what isn’t. The book takes place in a future Chicago where the society is run by fraction system. The story starts with the main character Beatrice...
How deep should you dig to change destiny? “From the tip of the steel blade to the end of the wooden shaft” would answer Stanley Yelnats, the character of the novel “Holes” (1998) of the modern American writer Louis Sachar. The story is full of...
In today’s generation, technology has become a day to day necessity. Most people use some form of technology in their day to day lives. Many people see this technology as a way to expand knowledge, but others, such as social critic and professor Mark Bauerlain,...
This a critique about the book Hillbilly Elegy, written by J.D. Vance and published by HarperCollins Publishers. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay In Hillbilly Elegy, J.D....
Societal dictum and etiquette are fluid concepts, changing and differing dependent largely on location, culture, time period, and other factors. With reference to carting a carriage of Peaches through rural Japan in the middle of a cold winter night, the narrator of Abe Akira’s Peaches...
The characters of Pechorin and Bazarov, the protagonists of Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time and Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, are both men who are, in a sense, doomed. One voluntarily wanders the globe, waiting and finally meeting an unnoticed end, and one finds himself...
Scent and hatred in the novel Perfume Everyone has characteristics that define or individualize them. Without these characteristics, it becomes difficult for one to be considered unique. The novel Perfume, by Patrick Suskind, presents a character, Grenouille, who is distinctive, yet conflicted with his individuality,...
In, The Shining, it is often argued that Jack starts the story as the primary antagonist, one that he would have gone down his path regardless of his choices, however, King breaks down Jack Torrance’s flaws and inner demons that allow him to be a...
2018 has become a monumental year for cultural and sexuality and gender acceptance. Not only women have come forth with allegations of sexual assault, but genders are no longer limited to only male and female. Even Hollywood is beginning to show signs of change when...
In “Anxiety: Challenge via Another Name,” James Lincoln Collier asserts that one “do what makes you feel anxious” due to the fact this will, possibly unintuitive, causes persons to sense much less anxious when they are confronted with the same anxiety-inducing scenario again. Collier’s essay...