Essays on Book Review

For millennia, nearly all traditions have held that cooking should be confined to women. According to Inness's book "Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food," it is not difficult to note that food, as well as its preparation, is heavily gender-coded to the feminine. In most countries, however, masculinity...

The Novel "Lord of the Flies" The novel "Lord of the Flies" vividly portrays humanity's worst hand, the barbarism that threatens even the most cultured citizens. William Golding gives the reader a straightforward storyline, realistic photographs of girls, a precise history of character behavior, and exotic locations to demonstrate man's brutality....

Brave New World Brave New World is a science fiction novel of Aldous Huxley that was written in 1931. Brave New World is a modernist book that echoes features of a best society. Although, stability and happiness are attained through suppressing emotions, feelings, and freedom of people. Nonetheless, specific traits of...

In 1993 Valerie Polakow wrote Lives on the Verge to deal with the plight of single mothers and their children in the "other" America. The term "other America" is used to indicate that in America there are two classes: the other America and the rest of the world. The "other"...

The Hunger Games is a novel written by Suzanne Collins that takes place in the future in a place called Panem after the annihilation of North America. According to Collins, the rich capital is responsible for 12 underprivileged neighborhoods. It had 13 districts, but one was destroyed due to revolt....

In his book Into the Woods, Jon Krakauer portrays a man who leaves his family home and heads into the forest. Chris McCandless, the story's lead, prefers solitude after graduating. Clearly, a core premise of this book is that complete self-sufficiency is unlikely in one's life. The assistance and care...

In this generation of increased globalization, racial identity in the world is controversial as a end result of multiracialism in most parts of the world. This fact is evidenced with the aid of the existence of different races including Blacks, Whites, Asians, and Hispanics. Through intermarriages between humans from different...

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is a short story exploring the topics of death, time, liberty and imprisonment, as well as contact. The story reveals how sensitive life is; it is not just death that probably triggers someone else's grief and possible...

The Crucible: A Reflection of Restrictive Society The Crucible is a renowned allegory written by Arthur Miller. It is a book that helps us to understand the restrictive nature of the Salem society. The e book draws a picture of the Puritans who changed house from England to America since the...

The novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer details the life of Christopher McCandless, who chose to go off the grid and abandon his belongings in search of nature s temperament. The protagonist of the 1992 story is a young man who comes from a stable home and...

The book Influence: Persuasion's Psychology by Cialdini was first published in 1984. Cialdini cites several psychological studies where multiple variables are evaluated to assess their ability to affect decision-making by individuals. Not only are the discussions highly instructive with regard to the power of influence, but they also provide fascinating...

Tracy Kidder Meets Paul Farmer in Haiti Tracy Kidder is seated with Jon Carroll, an American Forces captain, at an army post in Mirebalais, Haiti, 14 days before Christmas in 1994. Carroll is told that he has visitors, one American friend, and four Haitians, as they are sitting. The American identifies...