Book Review Essays and Term Papers
To Kill A Mockingbird: The Theme Of PrejudiceOUTLINE
I. Introduction: Thesis statement
II. Central Themes
A. Part one, Boo's Story
B. Part two, Tom Robinson's story
IV. Change in Children
A. What children thought at first
B. How they changed
C. Feelings after the change
V. Historical Content; background
A. ...
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The Gift: ReviewWhen I first saw the cover for the novel, The Gift, I was instantly attracted to it when I saw the name of the author Danielle Steele, and when I saw it was the New York Times' bestseller. I had read many of Danielle Steele's novels before, (such as Wings, Accident, Secrets, and Now and Forever), ...
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The Photographs Of Margaret Bourke-White: A ReviewThe book I selected was about Margaret Bourke-White. This book is titled, The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White. I got this book from our library at Milwaukie.
In White’s early years she began as an industrial photographer, solving the problems of shooting pictures in the cavernous, black ...
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Movie Review: The Color PurpleThe movie "The Color Purple," directed by Steven Speilberg, was, in general, a
satisfactory film. It was enjoyable, if you don't consider accuracy towards the
novel it is portraying important. Speilberg obviously had little, if any,
respect toward the original story, by Alice Walker. He ...
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In Cold Blood: A ReviewUpon arriving in Holcomb, a small congregation of buildings on the
high wheat plains of western Kansas, Perry and Dick, two men recently
paroled for petty crimes, left almost no evidence behind except for a
bloody footprint and a radio they stole from the Clutter house. In the
investigative ...
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Family and Relationships in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya SisterhoodBook Review: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The novel Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells tells the story of a family feud that occurs between the daughter and narrator Siddalee and her mother Vivi. With the persuasion of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Vivi sends Siddalee a ...
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Abbey, And His Fear Of ProgressThe day that the gray jeep with the U.S. Government decal and "Bureau of
Public Roads" on it, Edward Abbey knew that progress had arrived. He had
foreseen it, watching other parks like his, fall in the face of progress.
He knew that hordes of people and their "machines" would come (Abbey ...
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The Scarlet Letter: A ReviewQ: If the book did not evoke any past memories or associations, do you
consider it literature? Based on which other criteria?
I. I did not make a very clear connection with the text at all during my
reading of it. Rosenblat said "The readers attention to the text activates
certain elements in ...
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"Beware Of The Fish" By Gordan Korman: A Review'Beware The Fish' is one of the funniest books I have ever read in
my life. It is about two boys named Bruno and Boots who go to a boarding
school called 'Macdonald Hall'. Their headmaster is a grim man named Mr.
Sturgeon(a.k.a 'The Fish'. A sturgeon is a kind of fish.) It all started
when ...
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The Sun Also Rises: A Review[I cannot express to you how glad I am that I am taking this class. I am
thoroughly enjoying Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises is one of the best books I've
read in quite a long time. For a while there, I was, for God knows what reason,
taking Physics and Chemistry and Biology. It is really an ...
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All Quiet On The Western FrontThe analysis of the two short stories "Spelling" and "Differently" written by Alice Munro deal with female relationships. These relationships paint a vivid picture of the kinship, deception, challenges, and associations that affect friends and family as they journey through life.
"Spelling" is ...
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Irony, Humor, And Paradox In KThesis: Irony, humor, and paradox illuminate the central themes in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest .
I. About the novel
A. Values and components
B. Purpose
II. About the principal characters
A. Protagonist
B. Narrator
C. Antagonist
III. ...
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THE ILLIADBook Review The Iliad The name “Homer” is synonymous with great tales of heroic poetry. Although this genre of poetry hails the distinctness of being “Homeric” it is not certain that Homer himself actually existed. The book Prolegomena ad Hoerum, published in 1795 CE. written by F.A. Wolf, ...
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So Far From GodEisenhower, John S. D. : The U. S. War with Mexico 1846 – 1848. New York: Random House, 1989, xxvi, 436.
Mr. John Eisenhower is a retired Army General from Westchester, Pennsylvania. He is also the son of retired General and later President, Dwight D. Eisehower. He is an author as well as a ...
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Spelling And Differently - AnalysisThe analysis of the two short stories "Spelling" and "Differently" written by Alice Munro deal with female relationships. These relationships paint a vivid picture of the kinship, deception, challenges, and associations that affect friends and family as they journey through life.
"Spelling" is ...
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Robert Frost: Biography And ReviewRobert Lee Frost, b. San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874 d. Boston, Jan. 29, 1963, was one of the leading poets of the 20th-century and a four time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Frost was a poet often associated with rural New England, although his poems could be felt and related to in any region of ...
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Abbey, And His Fear Of ProgressEdward Abbey
The day that the gray jeep with the U.S. Government decal and "Bureau of Public
Roads" on it, Edward Abbey knew that progress had arrived. He had foreseen it,
watching other parks like his, fall in the face of progress. He knew that
hordes of people and their "machines" would come ...
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Myths In Human CivilizationThroughout the history of human civilization, myths have been an integral part
of human society. Myths have no cultural boundaries as they can be found in all
cultural societies. The word myth can be referred to the classical Greek and
Roman mythology or a contemporary myth. Regardless of the ...
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A Review Of Colin Palmers SlavColin A. Palmer. Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.
In the introduction to Slaves of the White God, Colin A. Palmer noted that his research on blacks in colonial Mexico was inspired by the protests of the Black Consciousness movement ...
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A Review: The Day Of The JackalThe Day of the Jackal, written by Fredrick Forsyth, is a fictional novel that
displays the author's brilliance by setting a mood and connecting you with the
characters. The Day of the Jackal takes place in post World War II in France.
The Jackal is a professional assassin, whose name is not ...
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