Essays about Books Page 6

On July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was tragically killed in her home in Bay Village, Ohio. Her body was found upstairs and the town mayor quickly notified the local police, Dr. Sheppard’s brother (also a doctor), and the neighbors. The local police contacted the coroner and Cleveland Police Department for assistance. The coroner confirmed Marilyn…

“The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young man cub known as “the Frog”, who is a part of a highly unconventional society. Bagheera, a Panther, discovers an abandoned boat with baby Mowgli. Bagheera takes Mowgli to the wolf pack in the Indian Jungle. After ten years, Mowgli grows into…

Analysis of the influence of spiritual visitations on Scrooge Scrooge learned a lot about himself while visiting the three ghosts in A Christmas Carol. He learned things that not only changed his life, but also the lives of others such as Tiny Tim and his family. At first these changes came gradually, probably because they…

Psychomachia is a literary concept named for a Latin poem by Prudentius. The poem dealt with the inner conflict within one’s soul, between virtue and vice, through allegorical representations. This concept of an inner struggle became key to the developing Christian religion, and was refined dramatically in the medieval morality plays. Works such as Everyman,…

Facebook is a site which is used by teens and adults alike for social networking. The Facebook application is owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. , which was established in September 2006. This private website is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The founders of Facebook were Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg….

“White Fang” opens with a group of two men and six sled dogs traveling through the Arctic, carrying a dead man in a coffin. They were being chased by hungry wolves. Each night, a female wolf-dog hybrid would lure one of the dogs away to be killed by the pack. The canines were continuously slaughtered…

The number-one bookseller today was born in 1971. Barnes and Noble’s (B&N) founder and Chief Executive, Leonard Riggio, started out with a stagnant Manhattan book store. Today, it operates over 1,000 store-chains. The chain includes about 504 B&N superstores, 507 B. Dalton mall stores, and 300 university bookstores. The college bookstores are leased and they…

The Oxford Paperback Dictionary provides a definition of narcissism as an unusual fondness for oneself or self-admiration, which is also associated with vanity, conceit, egotism, self-importance, and arrogance. Throughout the book, Anne demonstrates varying narcissistic behaviors that are frequently expressed through her imagination. Upon her arrival at Green Gables, Anne is initially depicted as an…

In Cheap Amusements, Kathy Peiss studies the customs, values, public styles, and ritualized interactions expressed in leisure time of the working-class women living in New York. The social experiences of these young women gives different clues to the ways in which these women constructed and gave meaning to their lives between the years of 1880-1920….

Nestor’s speech to Patroclus near the end of Book XI of Homer’s Iliad can be written in a ring composition. Nestor is trying to convince Patroclus to join in the battle as the Greeks are in desperate need of reinforcement. Achilles has lived up to his word not to go to battle unless Agamemnon realizes…