Essays about Books Page 62

The book ‘On Liberty’ was “published in 1859 and was known as John Stuart Mill’s finest and most controversial book” (Austin, 2000). In his classic work Mill (1859) sets out to “investigate the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual”. In ‘On Libery’, it was emphasized…

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,…

In “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. writes about how segregated the U.S. is and how it affects the people that are “inferior” to the white folks. He goes through the ways he is upset about police brutality, the way it is justified to break the law when it is unjust, and the…

Prejudice is the judgment of a person based on their religion, race, gender, and a ton of other factors. Prejudice has been a problem in our society for a while and sadly a lot of our historical conflicts are due to prejudice of some kind. Due to Harper Lee’s perspective in 1960, To Kill A…

The objective of the proposed research is to understand the catastrophe of 1947 known as Partition of India- Pakistan in South Asian Literature with the references from Indian and Diaspora Writers. The study will be focused on how literature perceived the event and its repercussions on the lives of people. The project is based on…

The themes of kingship, slavery, colonialism, and feminism in Oroonoko are the elucidation of narrator’s ability to cover multiple dimensions in a piece of writing. The objectiveness of different themes create doubts related to the accuracy of narration. The element of gender orientation asserts the aspects of rationality and logic. The narration is highly objective,…

Children of Blood and Bone (2018) is a young adult novel by Tomi Adeyemi, a Nigerian American author. It is the first book in a trilogy and follows Zelie Adebola’s journey to restore magic in the Kingdom of Orisha, where her people have been oppressed. Determined to set her people free, Zelie uses various symbols…

Home is where the heart is. It is the cornerstone of life that defines every aspect of one’s being. For many of us, it is the place where love is fostered, relationships are built, and rest is restored. Though it is easy to generalize this definition, for people finding themselves caught in the perpetual cycle…