Category: Book Review

Comparative Essay on ‘Twelfth Night’ Andy Fickmans film, Shes the Man (2006) is a modern adaptation of William Shakespeares play, Twelfth Night (1602). Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night around the 17th century, Whereas Andy Fickmans film Shes the Man is based around the 21st century in a school-based theme. While Andy Fickmans film shares a lot…

The Main Ideas Of The Short Story The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant The Necklace was written in 1884, during the Realist Period which spanned from the mid 19th century to the early 20th century. The Industrial Revolution had changed the landscape of western civilization. Technological developments such as the cotton gin, inspired farm workers…

The Selfish Gene’ by Richard Dawkins: Book Review Written in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene discusses key concerns related to evolutionary processes. Initially, Dawkins, introduces the reader to the most prevalent theories at the time, notably the group centered theory of evolution proposed by various academics. The book proposes the alternative theory of…

The Outsiders’: Book Review The Outsiders is a book by S. E. Hinton which was made published on April 24, 1967, and the setting in the book is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This book is about a 14-year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis and his two brothers, Soda and Darry. They are orphans who are struggling at…

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead: Book Review Margaret Mead, one of the leaders of the Culture and Personality school of Thought was a leading lady anthropologist of Columbia University. She was a student of both Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict. Configurationalism, the identification of salient cultural characteristics, representing the patterns of culture,…

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,…

Nietzsche’s ‘Twilight of the Idols’: Book Summary Friedrich Nietzsches Twilight of the Idols is a book that touches on topics of decadence and nihilism in figures, societies, and cultures. This book contains a chapter on Socrates, labeled The Problem of Socrates. The chapter focuses on a critique of Socrates beliefs through Nietzsches views on Socrates…

Tragedy and the Common Man Summary Every human story could become a tragic story if that story is told as a tragedy. According to Aristotle the protagonist of a tragedy has a flaw in character, a downfall of their own doing followed by a harsh realization of the tragic error before dying and this evokes…

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…