Category: Book Review

Essay on ‘The Scholarship Jacket’ Summary The Scholarship Jacket is a short story full of emotion and conflict by Martha Salinas. She has written various short stories that have been published in collections and journals, her most popular story being The Scholarship Jacket. The main character of the story, Martha, is a young and frail-looking…

Issues of Social Control in Brave New World Social control monitors the actions of individuals in society by using rules, regulations, and standards to create stability. Stability is created through governing cultural opinions, behaviors, and life circumstances. In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley describes the various forms of social control used…

Types of Social Control: Review of ‘Invitation to Sociology’ by Peter L. Berger In the book Invitation to Sociology, Peter L. Berger discusses six types of social control and how they can be used to have authority over society. Social control is defined by Berger as the various means used by a society to bring…

Essay on ‘And the Soul Shall Dance’: Play Summary The Soul Shall Dance grapples with many of the issues facing Japanese Americans in America such as assimilation, immigration, social, economic, and political status, and simply surviving in the cruelties of the ‘California Dream’ era. It has various themes which are Identity, abuse, and Sexism. The…

The Color Purple’ Book Review Essay Although it may seem that an impactful book couldnt relate to a song by Stevie Wonder, those assumptions are proven wrong. The Color Purple is a novel written by author Alice Walker that discusses issues women face, such as abuse and the lack of an education. In this novel,…

Wonder’ Movie Review Essay Movie and book comparisons are the most common thing people go to doing for a research paper. The movie and novel Wonder starts out with the main character August or Auggie Pullman talking about how his life has been growing up. It goes into what he looks like, and how people…

Accidental Billionaires: A Factional Account of Facebook As the title of Ben Mezrichs book The Accidental Billionaires reports, the story of Facebooks origin features elements of sex, money, genius, and betrayal. These elements are woven together to describe a wild and entertaining journey while achieving success and fame. The factional accounts presented throughout the book…

Essay on ‘The Bluest Eye’ Summary As a society, stereotypes are inevitable to avoid. From childhood to adulthood, people use these as a standard to judge people. Sometimes they can be seen positively, but most of the time, stereotypes can be harmful. Every culture has its standard of beauty as well, and it can either…

Is Google Making Us Stupid Essay The Attention Span Crisis Over the year technology has been taking over humans lives. Humans are lacking in their attention span, and all because of the internet. The internet is making us stupid. In an article by Nicholas Carr Is Google Making us Stupid?, Carr explains the idea of…

There’s No Such Thing as ‘Business’ Ethics by John Maxwell: Book Review In his very informative book, There’s No Such Thing as ‘Business’ Ethics, John Maxwell tells us of one simple idea of getting back to ethics in business organizations. That one simple idea is called the Golden Rule, which many of us have learned…