William Blake's "The Tyger"
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
In William Blake's “The Tyger,” he questions, multiple times throughout, how the tiger was created - ultimately, it is up to the reader to draw his or own conclusion. Blake's questioning of who created the tiger and how the tiger was created is the central theme of this poem. As a...
Examination of the my lai massacre- one of the most infamous events of the vietnam war review of the book "my lai: a brief history with documents" (james stuart olson, randy roberts) - published: 21/05/2012
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
This report will analyze the book “My Lai” by the historians Olson and Roberts. To look at the different issues that surrounded the My Lai massacre, it is necessary to look at the specific situation of the area at the time. The Vietminh emerged in 1941 with the aim of obtaining...
The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World by Evgeny Morozov- Review
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
This article reviews the book The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World, Evgeny Morozov. The themes of the book explore the dichotomy between the democratic nature of the internet being used by opposition forces all over the world and the blatant repression of stable authoritarian regimes...
Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
The author begins by telling us his personal story: where he comes from, his social origins and his family members. In this passage, we learn how Greenberg came to discover fishing and why it became the passion of his life. As he shows us how he gradually went further in his discovery of the sea,...
Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa from Mandela to Zuma by Alec Russell
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
This book report defines the important aspects of Nelson Mandela's leadership and it reflects the character of liberty that is being expressed after the fall of Apartheid. Russell makes sure to understand the political dimensions of the appearance of a change in leadership after Apartheid in the...
L'Allegorie du patrimoine or The invention of the Historic Monument (&translated by Lauren M. O'Connell) by Françoise Choay - publié le 20/04/2012
Book review - 10 pages - Literature
L'Allegorie du patrimoine or The invention of the Historic Monument (&translated by Lauren M. O'Connell) was written by Françoise Choay. She was born in 1925 in Paris, has been a historian of the theories and of the urban and architectural forms. She is an emeriti professor at the university of...
L'Allegorie du patrimoine or The invention of the Historic Monument (&translated by Lauren M. O'Connell) by Françoise Choay
Book review - 10 pages - Literature
L'Allegorie du patrimoine or The invention of the Historic Monument (&translated by Lauren M. O'Connell) was written by Françoise Choay. She was born in 1925 in Paris, has been a historian of the theories and of the urban and architectural forms. She is an emeriti professor at the university of...
If on a Winters Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
The story If On A Winter's Night a Traveler is about the immersion of a reader within a story and his determination to go on with the plot and discover what happens. This is foiled within this story when the Reader constantly encounters with books that suddenly break off and have no ending. What...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens(1860) - A review
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
This is a passage of a novel written by the famous author Charles Dickens during the great period described in the novel, the end of the nineteenth century. An adult remembers his experience, his first meeting with the other character when he was a child; so there is a question of remembering....
A perfect day for a banana fish
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
A perfect day for a banana fish is a short story written by JD Salinger in 1948, it deals with one day in the life of Seymour and his wife Muriel who are staying at a hotel in Florida near the beach. Through the story, we understand that Seymour is a veteran and has lost his mind after coming...
Clive Ponting's 'A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations'
Book review - 10 pages - Literature
"In state affairs, by foreseeing [problems] at a distance, which is only done by men of talents, the evils which might arise from them are soon cured ; but when, from want of foreseight, they are suffered to increase to such a height that they are perceptible to everyone, there is no longer any...
A review of 'The human web: A bird's-eye view of world history' by J.R. & W.H. McNeill
Book review - 8 pages - Literature
In this book, the authors propose to traverse the field of world history and 'to know how the world got to be the way it is' through the theory of webs of exchanges and communication. Schematically a web is 'a set of connections that link people to one another' and is...
Ernest Hemingway: A Pursuit Race - publié le 18/01/2012
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
‘A Pursuit Race' is a short story in Ernest Hemingway's ‘Men Without Women' which is narrated from an omniscient point of view and which incorporates more precisely a heterodiegetic narrator. Here, the author knows everything and reveals to us the motivations, thoughts and feelings,...
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
Book review - 10 pages - Literature
John Rawls (1921-2002) was a major political philosopher of the twentieth century. He occupied several teaching positions in Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and Oxford universities. In 1971, he published his most famous work - 'A Theory of Justice'. As one of the most commented and ambitious...
Magic realism in 'The Enchantress of Florence'
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Enchantress of Florence' is a powerful and multi-dimensional expression of the incarnation of globalization in literature. Important themes arise as relevant to globalization through the technical advantages of magic realism, which Rushdie employs as the key...
Temporal and Spatial divides and identity in 'Lucy'
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Jamaica Kincaid's novel 'Lucy' illustrates the story of a girl with desperate desire to manipulate her personal identity. With motives so deeply ingrained in her determinedly expendable past and their manifestations in her present, her quest propels her obsessions divides past from...
Repetition and Ambiguity in Narrative Structures of 'The Monk'
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
The narrative, structural, and linguistic intricacies in Matthew Lewis' Gothic novel 'The Monk' illustrate a complex network of patterns and sequences that expand and contract the influence of ambiguity as a Gothic convention in the text. The novel's narrative structure can be...
Thomas Nagel on death
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Let us assume for the time being that you believe cake to be a good, and find cake-eating emphatically positive. Now imagine that one day, when you go to your local bakery to eat your daily serving of cake, you find that cake no longer exists. They are out of cake indefinitely, they tell you,...
'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison: A comment
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison is a novel detailing an unnamed African-American's journey from the south to the streets of Harlem. The reader sees the main character attempt to find his place within the world, as well as within himself. In this novel written in 1947, there exists a...
The Underrated Backstory: Backstory as it 'Effects Our Nig' and 'Washington Square'
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The information provided in a backstory is often integral to the development of characters and plot within a narrative. In both 'Our Nig' and 'Washington Square', an account of the events prior to those of the central plot provide necessary context for a clear and cohesive tale....
'The Cult of True Womanhood Disassembled' by Kate Chopin and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A review
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Through the oppressive times when women were meant to be no more than homemakers and pawns to their bread-winning men, the 'Cult of True Womanhood' symbolized everything that the females of America were supposed to be. It stated that they must be pure in mind, body, heart, and soul; for a...
Women and Space in the book Jane Eyre
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
Jane Eyre is an influential novel by Charlotte Bronte published in 1847 and is certainly one of the most famous classic texts of all time. It is obviously written from the person's point of view, besides, when it was initially published, the subtitle was “An autobiography”. Jane Eyre...
Adventure in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a novel written by Mark Twain, published in 1885 and which is regarded as one of the greatest American novels. The story follows Huck (a character first introduced by Mark Twain in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer) and his friend Jim (a slave running for...
Cinematic Analysis: Theories of prejudice in "Freedom Writers"
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
Prejudice is prevalent in many aspects of the society. At some point in our lives, we will all come in contact with some sort of prejudice whether it is only witnessed or perhaps even a personal act. The movie "Freedom Writers" perfectly exemplifies the effects prejudice can have and how...
'Rebecca' as a Gothic Romance: Far from the classic Cinderella story
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Daphne Du Maurier's novel 'Rebecca' can be interpreted in various lights; for instance, for many, it is commonly held to follow the form of a fairy tale. While there is, no doubt, adequate ground for this interpretation, the novel's characteristics seem to embody more the elements of the...
Hejinian's 'My Life': A Poetic Autobiography of Multiplicity
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Lyn Hejinian's poetic autobiography 'My Life' crosses over the boundaries of genre and into an indefinable realm of its own. It contains elements of poetry, autobiography, personal narrative, and women's fiction, while simultaneously entering into a continuous dialogue with the nature of...
Analysis of 'The Birth of Tragedy'
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In his work 'The Birth of Tragedy', Nietzsche argues that, “it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that the existence of the world is eternally justified (Sect. 5, p. 52)”. Simply put, Nietzsche maintains that, without the guidance and creation of art, the terrible truths of the...
Aristotle & the Hellenists
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
In book I (The Object of Life) of 'Nicomachean Ethics', Aristotle sets out to determine what the concept of good represents for man and, more specifically, what the supreme good for man is. Aristotle asserts that, although there are many different relative goods that humans strive for,...
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: Book Review
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
'Middlesex' is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Jeffrey Eugenides and published in 2002. By 2007, 1.3 million copies of the book had been sold. Jeffrey Eugenides is a half American, half Greek writer, born and raised in Detroit. He also wrote the best seller “Virgin...
The Scarlet Letter - A review
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The mind is truly valuable, intrinsic, secure and powerful. No entity can take the mind away from a person, nor can anyone control the way it functions. Thus, a society that seeks total control over its people will never flourish and thrive. Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" articulates...
