First drink, first prank, first friend, first girl, last words! A poignant and moving crossover novel about making friends and growing up from American author, John Green. The novel Looking for Alaska follows a young boy Miles (pudge) and his journey throughout boarding school at...
Introduction: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third installment of the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Background: The story focuses on Harry Potter, a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and his two best friends, Ron and Hermione...
Historical context of the book; Bud not Buddy is based in the great depression age in the 1930’s. Times were difficult in the united states and poverty dominated a large part of the country, citizens used to make long lines to eat daily, lines that...
The book Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir of J.D. Vance. He shares his memories of his time growing and how he beat the odds and became an accomplished scholar. It starts with his early beginnings and talks about the hillbilly culture that he grew up...
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...
The search for self-identity is the life task of a teenager. Looking for Alibrandi is a book written by Melena Marchetta 27 years ago! 27 years, what a long time ago yet regardless it identifies with the present society and depicts the issues adolescents are...
“It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.” The Pearl, short story written by John Steinbeck, the author in which...
In the book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the most erratic combinations of topics are discussed. Economics is addressed in the most unconventional way and lead by questions that are not asked of regularly or even at all until now. Levitt...
Adversity is a difficult situation that happened in our lives. Problems can be large or small, they present themselves to us throughout our whole existence, and it dependent each people who overcoming adversity. For example, in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by...
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,...
The responsibility people have when they are developing new technology is to not overstep boundaries. In both Frankenstein and The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks tie down with ethics. One can see how science seems to trample human rights. Both Victor in Frankenstein and Scientists...
The story takes place in Holland with some parts of the book in Germany during the II World War. It is fundamental to the story because the event of the war takes Corrie and her family to take action in the war. I would have...
This book reflects over 15 years of research by Annette B. Weiner on a broad spectrum of subjects concerning Trobriand society and culture. She also researched archives in museums and libraries overseas and in the U.S. Fieldwork has never been simple, but it was her...
Books. As children we peered into these stacks of paper, befuddled by the scattered symbols and lines forming rows upon rows of script, these symbols seemed to be ubiquitous – appearing in mum’s recipe book and dad’s manual. Little did we know, that behind the...
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...
Introduction to Social Sciences 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...
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...
Written by Joseph Heller in 1961, Catch-22 is an absolute masterpiece of a novel that rivals giants such as Kafka’s Metamorphosis or Susanna Collins’ The Hunger Games even to this day. Amongst the mass of characters and their individual stories, is understandably a plethora of...
In Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” there are three characters that represent the different expectations in their society. Reisz who represents independence and freedom, Edna who represents entrapment, and Adèle who represents the ideal female of society. Adèle is a mother who devotes her entire self...
Introduction Conformity, a powerful social force, molds an individual’s actions and beliefs in response to the desire for acceptance or belonging within a group. This phenomenon is vividly depicted in Wes Moore’s narrative, “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” which unfolds the contrasting...
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...
