Essays about Books Page 15

In a letter to Harold Preece, written in August of 1928, shortly after Preece had taken up residence in Waco, Howard mentions one of his sources for books: Waco’s a Hell of a town, isn’t it? Likely you’ve discovered Von Blon’s bookstore already. The Prussian has some good books sometimes. The photo above was taken…

A) Platos Symposium is a story about a party in which the guests were so sick from continuous parties that instead of drinking at this one party they decide to give stories about love. With the permission of Phaedrus, Socrates has an interesting discussion Agathon instead of a monologue-styled story. Socrates actually starts by giving…

Michael Crichton, a master of suspense, has created a novel for yourimagination. This book involves prehistoric animals and plants from theJurassic era. Steven Spielberg took on this book, as a movie project to add tohis collection of visually mastered Science-Fiction motion pictures. Both themovie and the book have captured the imagination of people around the…

The book “The Millionaire Next Door” investigated America’s rich and shattered many misconceptions about the wealthy. It proved that most millionaires owed their wealth to old-fashioned frugality and hard work, and not to fancy college degrees. Seven common denominators to their success were explored in the book’s chapters, one for each trait. The authors tried…

The underlying assumptions of urban life can be summed up as follows: development is only possible if people work hard.  This assumption though is just an ideal: an ideal that cannot be approximated by reality. Reality tells the audience that life is not a simple arithmetic progression of wealth and development. Life itself is located…

Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz are both memoirs of the authors’ experiences in Nazi concentration camps, but they depict vastly different experiences and have different approaches. Where Wiesel’s is more humanistic, showing how his protagonist finds the spirit to survive, Levi’s account is more scientific, showing an almost Darwinistic milieu where…

This was a common occurrence in schools: a question would be asked, and someone would take a position on the question and defend it against the arguments of others present. However, Pico’s situation was unique because he intended to defend his own position on nine hundred different philosophical points. Unfortunately, this never happened because the…

My favorite British writer and his famous book ‘Treasure Island’ My favorite famous British writer is Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850. Robert went to Edinburgh University to study law. Later on he decided that he wanted to be a writer, not a lawyer. In his early 20s…

Knowledge and skills development is vital to the health of organizations. We live in an information age today, and organizations are routinely valued not just on their physical but on their intellectual capital. Training is one of the chief methods of maintaining and improving intellectual capital, so the quality of an organization’s training affects its…

Introduction      Within great works of literature, it is often said that there is a situation whereby art imitates life.  Such is the case with famed southern author Robert Penn Warren.  In the 1940s, Warren, fascinated by the rise and eventual fall of Louisiana governor Huey Long, penned his own fictional novel based on Long’s…