It is based on the book Guns, Germs and Steel: The fate of human societies by Jared Diamond, professor of Geography and Physiology at the University of California Los Angeles.
The second part of the book looks at the Al Qaeda's activities in the rest of the world. The book covers some of the problems faced in the fight against terrorism, especially the lack of [...]
In the case of the red meridian, the gang's agenda was to take complete control of the Mexicans and Native Americans.
The sheer amount of views and in-text lifting from other authors lends the work a certain degree of veracity in terms of the accuracy of the arguments and how they conform to current methods of [...]
Mainly, the book discusses the workers especially the Irish and Chinese, who assisted in the construction of the railroad along the United State.
Through the voice of the main protagonist named Richard Powers, the author raises important problems of body-mind duality, the possibility of investigating consciousness and the links between art and politics.
It relegates the piece of work to the level of dialogue, where a speaker is allowed to use personal pronouns, as this informality therefore makes a piece of writing lack the necessary academic formality.
For instance, in Texas, the state's folklore society contributed immensely to the growth of modern folklore literature in the mid west.
In this chapter, information helps to realize that only historical fiction makes students learn and analyze the effects of war on people, the impact of past actions on future life, and the ideas of how [...]
The concept found in book, World is flat, is a series of transformation described as "world flatteners" which are said to have occurred in the economic and business sectors which have significantly contributed to equalization [...]
Writing for a living is a serious issue: on the one hand, it helps to improve the quality and efficiency of the writing tasks and, consequentially, speed up the economic and social progress.
The Irony of being at war is that Peace and conflict are both inevitable; it is the way we handle either of the two that determines our opinion of life in general both in the [...]
Furthermore, it confirms that friends are very important in life and help students to commit to their friendships. Characters are also important in this book, for instance, Charlotte is found to be kind and selfless.
The authors argue that as much as most of the professional writing is learned on the job, it is the prerogative of the trainers to ensure that the graduates they produce are worth the professional [...]
The story of a quarter-black baby born in a young family of Desiree (a deserted child adopted by the family of Valmonde, and Armand Aubigny, the son of reputable aristocrats, slave-owners, shows how deprived both [...]
This female sex only society resulted in a culture of peace among the inhabitants, the women had a good social order and they followed the laws set to the latter.
The Hunger Games series 1 is a science-fiction drama that delineates the situation of enslavement among the citizens of Panem to the governing class that reside in a city called Capitol.
Thus, the study of swearing ought to be understood in terms of the origin and historical development or adoption of the words and the expressions.
Providing the description of the volunteering experience in the Little Princes Children's Home, Grennan refers to a lot of examples which are associated with the individuals of children in order to personalize the global problem [...]
As well, an action is "wrong" if it results in the opposite of happiness to the people. Mill's utilitarian theory can be used to assess the ethically of Jay Gatsby's action, as presented in the [...]
The poem relates to the history and heritage of African Americans as Hughes compares them to some of the greatest rivers of the world.
How the authors understand the ways in which racism has influence the levels of poverty of the books' characters Based on the two books content, it is apparent that the authors understand the manner in [...]
In the book, Amy Chua discusses the phenomenon of "market dominant minorities, which are believed to be the Jews in Russia, whites in Zimbabwe, Indians in Fiji and East Africa, and the Chinese community in [...]
However, the growth of the telecommunications industry around the telephone presents the importance of the country in development and improvement of the telephone as a product.
The short story was also the subject of debate when it was first written because it failed to fit in any particular genre at the time."The Yellow Wallpaper" was mostly considered a horror story when [...]
London nails down the major problems of the post-war U.S.society: "This tower [.] represented [.] the serenity of nature amid the struggles of the individual nature in the wind, and nature in the vision of [...]
Though it is truly hard to say that the motif of gambling is new to most of the world literature would be a considerable stretch, it goes without saying that Ellison adds a specific touch [...]
This is a one sentence summary of Rodriguez's career who managed to achieve much by means of reading and education in general, but at the same time he has lost his family having created a [...]
Consequently, the popularity of the proverb also encourages the Welsh to venture in the production of a range of fruits and vegetables.
Despite the fact that the Tale and the Prologue revolve around the issue of morality most of the time, the two stories manage to touch upon a range of other issues, among which the one [...]
He expected people in the north to be poor and miserable and he regarded that poverty as "the necessary consequence of their being non-slaveholders".
Another ironic thing in the book is the character of the person who is described as being a pioneer in the atomic bomb.
In "Sean," the author uses an urban setting to show how race is "constructed" by people and places that surround the characters. Here, the author uses the circumstances surrounding Sean and the narrator to show [...]
The short story gathered the attention of the public that made it to be among The Enormous Radio and Other Stories collections.
Thematic analysis In this poem, Nixon's main theme is to develop a critical description of her body in comparison to the physical characteristics possessed by the athlete Dominique Dawes.
The struggle between the individual and the society is one of the main themes in The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.
Even though these son's relation to father is explained through the whole chapter, the main purpose of the discussion is the attempt of James Baldwin to understand the role of black people in formation of [...]
Precious examines the situation of her family, and she says that her family is invisible to the world. Precious believes that the sketch is that of her and her family, and she is much troubled.
In this case, the visit to the supermarket reveals Jack's true nature as an American who is proud of his way of life, and the satisfaction he feels after buying goods from the supermarket.
He claims that since the clergy is not willing to listen to them and give them their rights, they have to show the importance of the matter by holding non-violent demonstrations.
The reason is that the face value of the content impairs the ability of the reader to dig deep into the book and unravel some disturbing traits about Holden.
The method of survival reflects their determination to succeed in life through doing the small jobs and in the end improve the economy of the country.
The book dwells upon the journey of a Hispanic boy to the USA. Of course, the loss of mother is one of the hardest traumas.
The American society in The Age of Innocence and Manhattan Transfer reflect these changes, and the society is divided in issues concerning the new changes; there is a conflict in the society.
One of the central themes in this play is the life of little people and "the tension between little people and big issues".
It also enables governments to protect the economic activities that take place in their countries as well as the choice of the consumers from the adverse effects of the international market.
The paper summarizes the reasoning of the writer and goes a notch higher to analyze some of the themes in order to establish the relevance of the book to the modern political environment.
The check is on life insurance and is to be given to Lena due to the death of her husband. Wilter asks for the insurance money in order for him to work with it and [...]
The pleasure of parody's irony comes not from humor in particular but from the degree of engagement of the reader in the intertextual bouncing between complicity and distance.
As the representative of the Harlem Renaissance, the author describes the life of Harlem community after the Second World War and the civil rights movement.
The memoir "Hope's Boy" portrays the childhood experiences of Bridge which depicts the U. The anger of his childhood leads to the belief that there is a hope that the future can be better.
In addition, what determines the production of goods most is the organizational structure as opposed to the question of whether the producer is from the private or public sector.
The different themes and characters issued and depicted in the book can be applied in management to provide a basic guideline in terms of the principles of management and the current growth being experienced around [...]
Faulkner presents death in the story through death-haunted life of Emily. Emily also refuses to acknowledge the death of Homer, though she was responsible for his death.
Over 60000 British men were killed during the war and the author depicts vividly in a grotesque picture the emotional and physical effects of the war on the soldiers leading to disillusionment in the war.
This essay seeks to argue that Finkel, in his story, is telling the truth and to this end, a critical evaluation of the elements that define a war story shall be carried out before an [...]
The fact that the author never expressly mentions the real name of the narrator, who is the main character in the story, can actually be perceived as a way in which the author portrays the [...]
The key purpose of the author in writing this book is to inform the public that change is inevitable. The lack of growth in a rapidly changing environment leads to loss of jobs and opportunities [...]
Completed only by the end of the novel, the ceremony as one of Native American rituals enables the main protagonist and his people to restore their national identity and save the Native Americans' community.
The story throws us to different times: the 'present' moment of the execution, the past that led to the execution and most notably, to an 'imagined present'.
In Proulx's The Shipping News, death is the end of Quoyle's silence and the beginning of his voiced, well-articulated future. Wavey is a point of connection between Quoyle and the new place he is in.
A good example of a typical fallacy in the text is the metaphor that links the homeless people to the homeless animals, in the given case, the squirrels in the park.
In this paper, I will aim to explore the legitimacy of an earlier suggestion in regards to how the deployment of a literary irony had helped Shirley Jackson and Nathaniel Hawthorne to emphasize the philosophic [...]
In these chapters, the author addresses the issues of emergence of capitalism and construction of market institutions, as well as explores the notion of freedom of the individual in a complex society.
History as a Novel/ The Novel as History is a subtitle of the book which proves that Mailer intentionally mixed the two genres for enriching the content of his work and experimenting with the manner [...]
This is the difference in the connotation meaning of the language used in everyday life and at work. The connotation of the language used at work is the desire to impress others and to make [...]
An interpretation of the ending of the play is given with the impact that is felt as a result of the play is brought light.
The book contains two essays which include "My Dungeon Shook-Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary Emancipation" which discusses the central role of race in American history written in the form of a [...]
In the last part of the book, the federation warships come to the moon. This is evident in the book as the people on the moon are being controlled by the governments of the earth.
They learnt the important lesson that, the rich do not work for money; no, money works for them by employing other people to work for them In Chapter 2, the author explains the importance of [...]
The Hong Kong International Literary Festival sessions for children's books are therefore an appropriate avenue for the introduction of the inspirational story of Rick Hansen depicted in the book, Boy in Motion, to the Asian [...]
The main theme in her book highlights the lives of families of Haitians in the US. She believes the impact of the US stay is the cause of constant devastations and rebuilding, self governance and [...]
The battle against chaos as the main function of the societal regulation as it is outlined in the social order model and challenging inequities as the driving force for the social transformation as it is [...]
The words "it is that he has one foot in the finite and the other in infinite, and that he is torn asunder, not by four horses as in the horrible old times, but between [...]
The social revolution of the thirties had a lasting impact in shaping the social and cultural intelligentsia of America, the play Waiting for Lefty is definitive discourse on the ills of capitalism and the reasons [...]
Still others are very much convinced that whatever differences there may be in languages can easily be eliminated if translations are done without the use of idioms to make sure that the meaning of the [...]
The Open Boat begins with four men battling for their life in a lifeboat at a sea."These waves were of the hues of slate, save for the tops, which were foaming white and all of [...]
The two works by the authors are related in that one work is the rewrite of another or almost the duplicate of another and therefore almost all the themes are the same in both books [...]
Henry does not know how to live with the burden of war in his heart, and can not imagine his further life. Henry is the victim of the war, who can not adjust to his [...]
Furthermore the completion of the railway in 1869 enabled businessmen to come and exploit the land for gold and other minerals.
The dog that accompanies the man is also indifferent to the man even though it seems to be have more aware of the danger posed by travelling in that kind of weather than the man [...]
Jeff and Melanctha's interaction in their domestic setup is evidence of Melanctha's complex relationship with desire, in the sense that, her interaction with Jeff is not a conventional one, or of a woman befitting her [...]
The golden middle in adult literacy education is in being able to transform the theories and rules of language into the forms and meanings that are understandable to learners.
In that regard, the elements of both cultures would interact and blend in the child's consciousness, representing the fusion of both cultures.
Instead of simply listening to the accounts of other individuals, she decided to travel to Florida, Maine, and Minnesota, with the intention of assuming the role of a minimum wage employee.
However, her The Fall River Axe Murders is not about sexuality and fantasy, it is about the real events, which happened at the end of the 19th century, where the case of Lizzie Borden was [...]
The accuracy in this book brings out clearly the story of James McBride as he tries to understand the realities of life.
American literature depicts the period 1865-1910 as a turning point of events and a clash between the past and the present, the old and the upcoming.
In his works, Berry makes a wonderful attempt to compare a soldier's attitude before and after war, analyze what aspects of war are able to change a soldier's mind and principles, and explain why war [...]
Instead of listening to the perspectives of other workers, the author herself gave up her middle-class comforts and assumed the role of a minimum-wage worker in America to experience the daily hardships they go through.
World War 1 and the social and cultural changes in the United States accelerated the growth and popularity of the alliance during the start of the 20th century.
Since the concept of identity has been traditionally considered abstract and more often collective, the present stage of socio-linguistic study marks the revelation of individual identities and group identity features in a separate individual clearly, [...]
Through this analysis, the techniques used by authors and speakers to control the effects of the message they are delivering, the pros and cons of these kinds of techniques, and the meaning of these messages [...]
This is one of the problems that the author is forced to encounter. This is one of the reasons they were reluctant to deal with him.
Apart from that, it is important to mention that his parents failed to safeguard Jeff against risks that one could face in the neighborhood.
In particular, the writer shows that in the course of his life, he reached the state of moral degradation, recognized the causes his downfall, and profoundly changed many of his worldviews.
This is one of the aspects that can be distinguished. This is one of the issues that can be singled out.
The aim of this essay is to analyze the theme of the irony of humanity in The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connel.
It focuses on the personal characteristics of the presidents and aligns it to the public lives the men have led. There are many events that are described, relating to both public and private lives of [...]
Great literary writers in the 18th and 19th centuries dwelled on the issue of slavery as they tried to depict the experiences of slaves in a comprehensive manner.
The author begins by explaining how he became the commander of the infantry platoon at the age of twenty-four. From the book, it is notable that the author displayed and lived most of the army [...]
He is the son of Mintus, who was a slave under the Northup family. The initial chapters of this publication discuss the history of the Northup's and the author's marriage to Anne.
Jordan remarks that this story is about her and the time she spent living and working in Maningrida and that the story is a personal account of her experiences in Arnhem Land.
Farquhar agrees with the saying that "all is fair in love and war" in spite of the fact that he believes it to be a "villainous dictum".
As described by the writer, anxiety and tension dominates the place as the clock ticks towards the hour of the reading of the news.
Dillard has described Ackerman's work in A Natural History of the Senses and Synesthesia as "a history of her extraordinary enthusiasms," one that continues in the vein of the poet's "effort to draw scientific and [...]
The author introduces the story to the reader with a description of an ideal life story to which everybody aspires, but the successive several stories are not so happy, though the author offers the readers [...]
As aforementioned, Alison uses Bone and the people around her to exploit the issues of gender, race, sexuality and class in a clamorous manner.
We, however, do not subscribe to such point of view, because there are good reasons to believe that the actual explanation as to this novel's iconic status is the fact that in The Catcher in [...]
In the book "Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas", the author takes his readers through their experience in the chase of the American Dream.
In addition to that, Dandaneau posits that social imagination is the only remedy to get the world out of this deep slumber.
However, going a bit further, one must admit that the crime of the leading character was not discovered by the police; nor did another Sherlock Holmes ripped the veil off the mystery quite on the [...]
The main goal of the scientists depicted in "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "The Birthmark" is to make the world perfect with the help of their great knowledge and practice that is why there are no barriers [...]
Therefore, the issue of the prevalence of diverse local dialects in a substantial number of countries is an impediment to the learning of national languages, and by extension a barrier to the learning and usage [...]
In the 1930s, African Americans were discriminated in all spheres of their lives and it was uncommon for a white person to help an African American. The entire conversation is the symbolic representation of the [...]
In this book, the author talks about the relationship between the vagina and the brain. The author of this book personifies the vagina in order to emphasize its importance in the life of a woman.
Even though a person is considered to be a rational creature, everything is directed by feelings and the greater the feeling is, the more rational pull there is to the object of affection.
The protagonist's encounters as well as that of the rest of her colleagues indicate that social mobility is locked out to many in the lowest stratum of the working population.
The major theme that has been around for some time is that a person is either limited by ignorance and leads a life of blind and chaotic movement or an individual tries to find out [...]
At the same time, Nora is fighting her own dissatisfaction with her life, and is even ready to sacrifice it in the name of her husband's reputation, which is a paramount example of altruism.