Essays on Book Review

Justice can be defined as just treatment or behavior, and it can also be compared to the word fairness. In both The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell and The Trial by Franz Kafka, there is a lack of justice and fairness. Both books describe…

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a fascinating book that goes through various dangerous viral biological outbreaks occurring mainly between the 1970s and the 1980s. The Hot Zone is not a fictitious work, rather, it is documentation of a series of dangerous virus outbreaks…

Waiting for the Barbarian is a small book with only a hundred and sixty pages, but it contains a wealth of information: The Imperial War, colonialism, clashes of civilizations… It is a story about an uncertain time, place and character. It is based on fictional…

The Hot Zone is a book written by Richard Preston. Richard Preston is an American writer that has written over a dozen books both fiction and non-fiction. The Hot Zone is a book of non-fiction based off of interviews and extensive research. The primary focus…

Books, stories, etc.offer alternate insights to someone’s writing, by providinga wide perception of a given topic for viewers. Writers allow readers to have a chance to dig into a problem’s past. Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone is one of suchbooks. A book on the origin…

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again.” — Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne As a small child, I adored Winnie the Pooh, a plump yellow bear with a fondness for red crop tops. Pooh’s attempts to get his paws on delicious honey…

Taoism was founded in Shundi around 126-144 AD. Before the Communist Revolution, Taoism was one of the strongest religions in China. Aristotle once said, “Happiness is the chief good and that is the end towards which all other things aim”. In The Tao of Pooh,…

The fantasy is a literary genre that is believed that its only public are children since adults opt for a more realistic literature, but if we think about the benefits fantasy gives is the capacity of allowing readers to visualize the world in different ways….

When put up against death, what extreme measures should one go through to survive? Often times we are unprepared for the events that are going to occur, leaving us with the two options of a fight or flight response. How we handle a situation has…

“The Thing Around Your Neck” is a short story in which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author, presents two characters, Akunna, the main character in the story and Akunna’s boyfriend, also known as The boy in the story. Akunna wins the “American visa lottery” and gets…