Essays about Books Page 7

“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 Bible is meant to be read by people who seek guidance and wisdom from God. It is full of stories of trials and triumphs made possible by following the words of God. People all over the world get everyday inspiration from men and women of the bible. However, if there is one book in…

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,…

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….

Offshore Subsea Works Sdn Bhd has recently achieved a Malaysia Book of Records Feat for the ‘Deepest Saturation Dive’. The dive was carried out by a Malaysian Diver, En. Bokhari Sae, on 23 July 2007 to a depth of 197 meters at Murphy Oil’s Kikeh Field, off Sabah waters. Offshore Subsea Works Sdn Bhd (OSS),…

Olive Marjorie Senior is regarded as a distinctive voice in West Indian Literature and many critics have praised her reproduction of authentic Jamaican Creole in her written work, as well as her insightful exploration of such issues as identity, cultural nationalism, class stratification ant the oppressive impact of religion on women and the poor. In…

The incubation period for chicken pox is 2-3 weeks (Bishop,P et al. 2010), this is the contagious time before the signs and symptoms start showing, which means the nurse’s daughter, was past the infectious period of the disease. The nurse’s daughter could have had the virus for over a week, and exposed her mother to…

According to is a cancer of the blood. It was first identified as a new disease in around 1830 in Germany. The scientific term, “leukemia,” comes from the Greek words that mean “white blood.” The disease is described as a cancerous disorder not just of the blood itself, but also of the organs that produce…

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…