Category: Book Review

Book Review on The City That Became Safe: New Yorks Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control The purpose of this writing is to dissect Franklin E. Zimrings academic literature, The City That Became Safe: New Yorks Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control. This book is about the New York Citys decline in crime…

Book Review on Emerging Voices: Women in Contemporary Irish Society by Pat OConnor Emerging Voices: Women in Contemporary Irish Society by Pat OConnor focuses on the roles that Irish women have embodied in the past and how these roles have changed or been altered over time. The book was published in 1998, twenty-one years later,…

Life and Death in the Third Reich’: Summary Essay Peter Fritzsches Life and Death in the Third Reich gives personalized accounts of the Nazis different approaches, rationales, and justifications for their actions in their relationship with the German people between 1933 and 1945. Rather than blaming the German citizens for allowing Nazi ideology, he focuses…

Lois Lowry’s ‘The Giver’: Book Review Essay In the book ‘The Giver’, the community is a perfect place, where everyone lives a safe and fun life, without feelings of pain or love. Jonas is our protagonist. A very brave, strong and smart man who undergoes a huge adventure for the good of mankind. In this…

Reflections on the Fact That Behavior Is Often Based on Ignorance, as Exemplified by Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones Prejudicial behavior is often based on ignorance and fear which leads to significant consequences for marginalized individuals. Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey is a bildungsroman about an adolescent boy, Charlie Bucktin, which illustrates the concept that choices…

Review of Cecelia Ahern’s Book Where Rainbows End The book that I have chosen to review is titled Where Rainbows End. This book has been suggested to me by a good friend. The author of this book is a famous Irish writer, Cecelia Ahern. This is the second book of the author, the first one…

Review of ‘Why Liberalism Failed’ by Patrick Deneen Why Liberalism Failed provides insight to the beliefs of author Patrick Deneen. Deneen is a political philosophy and constitutional studies professor at Notre Dame, believing that liberalism has failed by succeeding. He believes the contradicting principles have allowed our citizens to take on individualistic beliefs and therefore…

Review of Octavia E. Butler’s Book Kindred Rufus had done exactly what he said he would do: Gotten possession of the woman without having to bother her husband. Now, somehow, Alice would have to accept not only the loss of her husband, but her own enslavement. Rufus had caused her trouble and now he had…

One Child Book Summary The book I will be reviewing is One Child, written by Torey Hayden, which is based on a heart touching true story. The author, Torey Hayden, really did an excellent job in showing how a teacher must be willing to do more than just be a teacher. The main topic of…

Walking While Black Summary Essay The criminal justice system is designed to keep the lower socioeconomic classes in their place and this disproportionately targets black and Hispanic people. Americans are still hypnotized by the fictional tv show Law and Order, and a large segment of the population really believes that this is how the system…