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Introduction: A Brief Summary of the Book and Its Author             In 1971, after eighteen long years of thinking and preparing for his expose, Colonel David Hackworth went out on national television to criticize the role of the United States of America on the Vietnam War. Before doing this, the author was one of the…

Laura de Mello e Souza embarked on her doctoral dissertation, which examined sorcery in colonial Brazil from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Before she started writing her dissertation, numerous works on historiography had already been published. However, none of them specifically focused on Brazil. De Mello e Souza recognized the wealth of information available…

In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez there is an evident distinction of fantasy. With the whole story being centered on this strange man that appears almost magically and grabs the attention of every single person in the town. The beauty of this man is what shocked them so much….

The narrative “ The Knife Thrower ”, by Steven Millhauser, presents an instead distressing subject. We are shown, through the storyteller, the patterned advance of Hensch’s accomplishment and so come closer and closer to pulling blood, until, at last, a person dies. Through the storyteller, we see that the audience is at that place for…

The assigned book for our class book reports is named Milkweed, written by renowned author Jerri Spinelli. Within this novel, there are three focal characters: Misha Pilsudski, Janina Milgrom, and Uri. Initially, Misha is a young boy without any familial ties, surviving by pilfering food from individuals and inhabiting the streets. Eventually, he becomes part…

This book is about a young boy named Billy who lives in the great bottoms of Cherokee country. He resides with his mother, father, three sisters, and his two dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann. While Dan possesses sheer strength, Ann possesses intelligence, and Billy possesses the heart to train them. As a team, they…

Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”: Arnold FiendOates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”: Arnold FiendIn Joyce Carol critics argue whether the character of Arnold Friend, clearly the story’santagonist, represents Satan in the story. Indeed, Arnold Friend is anallegorical devil figure for the main reason that he tempts Connie, theprotagonist,…

Guy De Maupassant is the author of The Jewelry Story, and he wrote this story in 1883. He was born on August 5, 1850, in the Castle Miromesnil in France. He was a nineteenth-century French writer, who is known as perhaps the best author of the modern short story. His profession started in 1880 in…

Sell the sizzle, not the steak.  In The Dream Society, the author tries to re-imagine a wealth-driven economy transformed and refurbished into a purpose-driven economy on the coming of the 21st Century.  Generally, the Dream Society is all about shifting from the merchandise of mere products and services to generate funds, but rather, to the…

As a teenager myself, I can personally say that young people, in general terms, do not have the capacity or experience o properly fall in love with someone, and definitely not even close to a lifetime of love which is being suggested in Romeo and Juliet. My opinion about arranged marriages are not that high…