Essays about Books Page 59

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…

Jared Diamond’s (Diamond) book Guns, Germs, and Steel, won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was made into a documentary by the National Geographic Society, broadcast in 2005. The documentary was shown in three parts: Out of Eden, Conquest, and Into the Tropics. The series builds towards the ultimate conclusion that geography, and the…

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….

Throughout history, racism has been present in different societies. In times of war, individuals of a certain race may opt to separate themselves with the goal of asserting dominance in their society. John W. Dower’s book War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, published by Pantheon books in New York in 1986,…

Katherine Frank’s novel A Voyager Out tells the life narrative of Mary Kingsley. She negotiations of her childhood, her immature grownup life, and her traveling life. She wanted to state the universe what this adult female adventurer did for Africa. Mary Kingsley had a celebrated household, many of whom were authors. Mary herself wrote two…

I need a book report summarizing the book `Good to Great` by Jim Collins. Good to great was published in 2001 by a business guru named Jim Collins. The book is an interesting read because it demonstrates Collins learning about various great companies. He especially emphasizes companies that went from being good companies and became…

In “Fast Forward”, Celeste O. Norfleet shares with readers how death and other life-changing situations affect the lives of teens and how they respond to them. “Fast Forward” is a joy reading book. It takes you on a journey like no other book but I did have problems reading it. It was bad enough that…

The book ‘Major in Success’ by Patrick Combs is essentially a self-help book for college and life. Along with providing many real life success examples, Combs does a good job in anticipating the arguments against his ideas and answers them. ‘Major in Success’ has some great advice as well as some major flaws. The ‘aim…

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…