Essays about Books Page 61

This novel does not shy away from depicting the realities of college life. Or does it? Make an argument as to the value of such aspects, focusing in on specific moments from the text. Making your home amongst strangers is a fiction novel written by Jennine Capó Crucet, who is a Cuban-American author and was…

Based on the story The Daughter of Time, Josephine Tey displays how history can be misinterpreted through a simple twisted reinterpretation from the person that holds the power at the time. This book as well as The Historian’s Craft by Marc Bloch are readings that bring awareness to possibilities that require a bit of research…

One lesson I learned while reading The Hate U Give was to never trust anything. You can trust yourself, but you can never trust what anyone else is saying. When Khalil got shot, for absolutely doing nothing, nobody trusted Starr’s word at first but herself. A theme I saw was racism, you see it from…

Carli Lloyd’s, When Nobody Was Watching, reveals the determination and hardships she had to overcome to become the world-class athlete she is today. Beginning to play soccer at the age of five, Lloyd developed a passion for the game like no other. Not many girls played soccer at the time or would even be interested…

Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval is a story told by Kenneth Feinberg and his involvement in several historical tragedies over 28 years. Kenneth Feinberg is a lawyer here in the United States who has been involved in very large cases involving oil spills, victim compensation funds, and even the Agent…

Historically, husbands and children have looked to the wife for most of their needs. While the role of the wife and mother has expanded to often include a job outside the home, the expectations haven’t always adjusted to include this. In the essay, I Want a Wife, Judy Brady provides a unique perspective of the…

Slaves constituted about one-third of the southern population in the United States during the 1790s to 1860s and most slaves are bought to work on large plantations to help their masters on the sugar and cotton plantation which requires a lot of manual work and hard labor. Slave owners made their slaves completely dependent on…

In the book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, the author, Jared Diamond, starts his prologue by first posing a question to his readers: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little cargo of our own?”(Diamond 14). Later revealing that this is the exact question he received…

Jared Diamond, an evolutionary biologist and biogeographer who has worked extensively in New Guinea, rejects racially oriented explanations for differential human development. He agrees that the explication for European success is biological, but believes that intelligence had nothing to do with the differential development of societies. Geography had everything to do with it. Differences among…

“A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality…never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. Thus Kino’s future was real, but, having set it up, other forces were set up to destroy it.” (Steinbeck 29). A historical fiction novella written by John Steinbeck: The Pearl, tells an intriguing story of a poor fisherman,…