Category: Book Review

Reflective Essay on Reading ‘The Laramie Project’ You may ask yourself Why are people the way they are? after reading this drama. I know I certainly did after finishing both the book and the movie. It was quite heartbreaking to read about the beating of a human being just because some people didnt agree with…

Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges and Abdul Kalam’s Story: Critical Essay After the Wings of Fire, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam wrote another autobiography and it starts where the previous book ends. We got various leadership insights from this book also. In his book, Turning Points: A Journey Through Challenges, Kalam gives us his perspective about…

Impact Of A Totalitarian State In The Handmaids Tale By Margaret Atwood And Never Let Me Go By Kazuo Ishiguro With references to wider reading, explore and compare the impact of a totalitarian state in The Handmaids Tale (Margaret Atwood) and Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro). In The Handmaids Tale and Never Let Me…

Book Review of Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas’: Ethnography of Emotion The blossoming flowers of summer, if only they could last through winter we friends who have gathered together, if only we could last through life (p. 109) This verse of the Yolmo songs of pain echoes…

Wuthering Heights: Depiction Of A Gloomy Landscape And A Passionate Love Between The Main Characters Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell. The novel follows Gothic and Romantic traditions of the time, complete with images of natural grandeur, literal and metaphorical sublimity, and elements of the supernatural. Throughout…

Reading Summary: Elise et Al. Autoethnography: An Overview Autoethnography approaches research and writing to describe and analyze personal experiences to understand cultural experiences. This treats research as a political, socially just and conscious act. Autoethnography is made up of autobiographies and ethnographers, making it both a process and a product. Crisis of confidence introduced new…

A Book About Thomas Jefferson Summary Amy and Jon Kuklas book, Thomas Jefferson:Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The book relives the story of Thomas Jeffersons life and what he did to help shape america. It focuses more on his accomplishments, like the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, and his term as the…

Reflective Essay on Sherman Alexies Novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’ I am writing this essay for reviewing Sherman Alexies novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. This is a book about a fifteen-year-old Indian boy who was born different from the rest of the kids at his school, which…

The Blind Side: Book Vs Movie Literature, a timeless piece of writing bonded together by unspoken words. Animated movies, a reel rolling a flipbook of pictures telling a story. Literature in its purest form is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. Words slowly bind themselves into sentences that create stories,…

The Chaos Theory On The Example Of The Book The Other Wes Moore 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…