The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is a story about a dystopian future with extremely religious beliefs. The story takes place in Waknuk where they believe in the “perfect image”, anything astray from what they believe to be a human is considered a deviation. We see...
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...
Chaos Theory is a branch of mathematics studying dynamic systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. This theory can be applied to life and more specifically, the two lives of Wes Moore. The nonlinear progression from the starting point of a cycle can create...
Education is an integral part of the identity formation process; it helps shape individuals and it often directs their lives after the educational process is over. The level and quality of education can determine one’s socioeconomic status and prospects; however, not everyone has equal access...
There hasn’t been a time in our society where people haven’t been treated differently because of the color of their skin or because of where they stand in society. In The Help, an effort is made to separate whites and blacks in every way possible...
A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeleine L’Engle is not an ordinary novel as it blends science-fiction and fantasy splendidly. This is a plot-based novel with obstacles always being present when trying to accomplish a task. The conflict that occurs in this novel is person vs...
The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson and was set in the 19th century during the Victorian-era London, where expectations are high and reputations are valued. This novella explores the dual characteristics of a Victorian...
Ranar Bitar has published ten poems in a book called A Loaf of Bread. You can read through them in less than an hour, and empathize with emotions so deep; you wonder that they are coming from you. Bitar’s skill is to touch on commonly...
Thomas More advocates religious freedom in Utopia essentially to promote civic peace. More utilised utopian religious freedom as a model for Europe and attests to the 16th century conflictions involving Henry VII and the restricting divorce policy, which manifested to the creation of the Church...
Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying is about 29-year-old poet Isadora Wing, who is bored in a bourgeois marriage. She dreams of a sexual encounter with a stranger, and when she travels with her husband to Vienna and meets the attractive Adrian Goodlove, she indulges in...
What does it mean to be a human being? Everyone has their own opinion and rarely is it as simple as biology. When science and technology are placed in this question the answer becomes even less clear. This question of when does giving technology humanity...
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique ignited the onset of the second wave of feminism in the United States. This book is a sociological study about the roots of the feminine mystique and how it turned “into a religion, a pattern by which all women must...
“Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer is fourth and final book of the Twilight series. In this book, Bella finally marries Edward and becomes a vampire. Unfortunately, for the Cullens, unforeseen complications take place when Bella becomes pregnant and the Volturi decide to visit the Cullens....
The book I read is called Legend, By Marie Lu. The book is set in a dystopian Los Angeles in a country divided into two warring parts: the Republic and the Colonies. The main characters are Daniel “Day” Altan Wing and June Iparis, two teenagers...
This chapter supports the idea that there are two schools of thought about narrative strategies in animation. First school believes that each animation, no matter how short, must have a story with a sequence of events taking place over a period of time, informed by...
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...
“Desiree’s Baby” and “An Act of Vengeance” are two short stories by Kate Chopin and Isabelle Allende that both utilize similar and different techniques to contribute and deliver each stories theme. By the author’s selection of irony and foreshadowing each story delivers the same technique...
Shirely Jackson, writer of many art works, in her short story “The Lottery” (1948) argues that tradition should not be followed in every situation when men are always first, and women take the backseat. Jackson shows her argument with different examples that include traditional living...
As a Nobel Prize winner, William Golding is an outstanding contemporary novelist. His most known novels include Lord of the Flies (1954), Pincher Martin (1956), The Spire (1964) and Darkness Visible (1979). His first novel Lord of the Flies has been an important tool for...
In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” the protagonist Rainsford, a hunter, finds himself stranded on a mysterious island after accidentally falling off the side of his boat. He is welcomed at the door by General Zaroff, a noble Cossack who lives on...
Introduction: Just Mercy: A story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson was completely eye opening. A true reflection on our-selves, I think. How we understand people that are different than us in any way. Background: Just mercy focuses on the injustice and racism against...
“She loved mysteries so much that she became one.” 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 ‘Paper Towns’ is a coming-of age novel composed by John Greene, fundamentally...
Imagine being stripped away from home, forced to do something you didn’t want to do, not being able to carve your own path in life. This was the case for Esi and Effia two half-sisters both from Ghana but have never met. One captured into...
In the Argonauts of the Western Pacific, anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski refutes the notion of “Primitive Economic Man” through his early 20th century studies at the Trobriand Islands. The Trobrianders were considered primitive because of their isolation from modern society, belief in supernatural forces, and difference...
The Book of Margery Kempe is widely considered to be the first autobiography in the English language. Unlike previous texts, in which a presumably truthful narrator voiced the story of the characters, Kempe is the author of her own story. As readers from an age...
Bildungsroman novels are identified by the grueling quest a protagonist undergoes in his search for place in society. The experiences the protagonist undergoes within this search contribute to their moral and psychological growth, building to one pinnacle point in their life, the long awaited identification...
My first exposure to the social science discipline in academia consisted of an introductory biological anthropology course. The subject was approached from what I originally thought to be an impenetrable logic of scientific information. This mindset ultimately set me up for failure when taking cultural...
Where the Red Fern Grows is a children’s autobiographical fiction novel wrote by Wilson Rawls, published in 1961. The story is about a boy and his two Redbone Coonhounds, whom he saves up for, and trains for hunting. The book takes place in the 1920s...