Essays on Literature

I was always perplexed by the whole debate around North Korea's ballistic missile tests until I read Mandelbaum's article, "Is major war obsolete?" Mandelbaum's ideas have helped me gain meaningful insight into the concept of war, with particular focus on issues such as the cost of a major war, the...

Learners are expected to understand the many types of spirits and regional techniques used to make alcohol. There will be physical and chemical interactions that students must pay close attention to. The students will conduct a water-based control experiment and then track the results. The students will take notes as...

The dominant theories of international relations give too much weight to the incorrect actors, which has affected their understanding of and ability to explain current events. People are travelling more easily across borders due to increased economic and infrastructure integration, and as a result, if trouble starts in one location,...

Carson and Jason’s book Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform Carson and Jason’s book Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform examines how politics are carried out during congressional elections as well as electoral institutions between 1872 and 1944 through the lens of contemporary political science. The authors use electoral data from the early...

The Spread of Islam The Islamic religion has spread from East to West, North to South of the globe hemisphere, from Mecca to Africa, Europe, Asia, North America, South America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and has drawn over 400 million adherents worldwide. This widespread acceptance of Islam is reflected...

Introduction Joe and colleagues wrote the article (2012). The article is based on the growing number of inmates in both local and federal prisons as a result of drug addiction. The purpose of the report was to look into various intervention mechanisms that could be utilized to lessen the country’s ever-increasing...

The Relationship Between the Presidency and Congress The book Congressional Responses to the Twentieth Century by Samuel P. Huntington best discusses the relationship between the presidency and Congress and why it has changed. Hunting contends that the relationship of power between the Presidency and Congress has shifted as a result of...

Mindfulness and its benefits in any society have grown in popularity over the last decade, and both the public press and psychotherapists recognize this trend. This technique has evolved from a previously veiled Buddhist concept developed 2600 years ago to a modern mainstream psychotherapy design (Valentine et al. 59). This article...

The term "post-blackness" refers to a philosophical movement that originated in the field of art. The primary goal of this movement is to establish a reconciliation between American understandings of race and the experiences of African-Americans in the late twentieth and early twentieth centuries. The term "post-blackness" was coined by...

Children born in various places of the world have no feelings or attitudes. As people get older, their environment changes their perspective and attitude. To ensure that youngsters develop positive attitudes as they grow into responsible individuals and citizens, they must be taught to embrace diversity. McDonald's book, "Do I Look...

The film Still Alice The film Still Alice depicts the life of a lady whose sense of self is undermined after being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer s disease. Alice Howland, a linguistics professor, is a successful scholar, wife, and mother at the age of 50. She has...

Ariel Levy spends time examining how various women seek success in contemporary settings. Levy explains how far women will go to emulate stereotypically masculine traits in order to thrive and obtain status in their society in Female Chauvinist Pigs: Woman and the Rise of Rauch Culture. The author explores a...