Essays on Book Review

In Carolyn Dean’s article, “The Trouble (with the term) Art”, she conducts an inquiry into what exactly the qualifications of art truly define. She argues that the term art is too widely and generally used. Specifically focusing on “non-western art” also referred to as “primitive…

The Billionaire Raj is an informative and intriguing book in which James Crabtree makes an analogy comparing India with the United States gilded age in the late 19th century. This analogy implies that other countries have been through similar periods, many including in Asia over…

This book, seeks to evaluate how food, has brought human being together and how it has connected people together. Sugar, being one of those items, has significantly done this. In Britain, sugar, at a commodity came at a time when there were vast changes in…

Renowned comic extraordinaire Scott McCloud believes that comics have been in presence for a relatively long time. He argues that many fine works of art are mistakenly classified as other works of art rather, as opposed to being referenced as comics. McCloud also clarifies the…

In 2017, the 7th most challenged book in the American Library Association was Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird (1960). In the book a white lawyer, Atticus Finch, defends a black man, Tom Robinson, after he has been accused of rape. In addition to rape,…

A structure The Handmaids Tale is a dystopian novel written by Margaret Atwood. It is set in “near-future” New England where a group of religious extremist that call themselves the Republic of Gilead overthrow the United States Government. This novel is not only dystopian but…

The greatest story ever told isn’t the stories you hear or read on the news. In fact, it isn’t even the great fictional stories you have read in high school for a class assignment. What if I told you that the greatest story ever told…

What I enjoyed most in reading the story of Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers within the book The Soloist, were the great metaphors and lessons for life within the story. Steve, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, notices a homeless on the street and…

For my essay I will be discussing the intersectionality that have a combination of the Intersection Theory aka RACE + CLASS + GENDER, all of the following passages include two or more of the theory. I will be discussing Poverty and Welfare, Sunday Football, Race…

Becoming the dragon is the first book from the fantasy series The dragon inside written by Alex Sapegin. It is a short book which is 178 pages long. The main story revolves around a schoolboy named Andy, who after an accident finds himself in another…