Essays on Books

Based on the highly recognized work of Dereham Acemoglu and James Robinson, the book called Why Nations Fail, the origins of power, prosperity and poverty are discussed. Acemoglu, being an economist, realized that he could not find a straightforward answer to this mysterious question only…

There are various questions that economists have resorted to when trying to promote the development of a country through the elimination of poverty. Questions that address the persistent poverty in developing countries, reasons why some nations are poorer than others, and the characteristics that lead…

Plot Summary The book Treasure Island is a book full of craziness and adventure. Jim Hawkins is the main character and narrator. After the death of his father, he tried his best to help his mother work at the Inn. His parents owned an Inn…

About the Author and the Novel “Treasure Island” was written by Robert Louis Stevenson. He was born on 13 November 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a novelist, poet, and travel writer. During his early age, he suffered from poor health due to which it…

Jim Hawkins He is the book’s main narrator. He is a young boy who starts as timid and mostly insignificant but matures through the course of the novel. He ends up going on a solo adventure, rescuing the ship and saving Long John Silver. He…

During the 1950s, Americans feared the concept of Communism. This is when the government has complete control over the economy. America was built on democracy and free-enterprise, while the Soviet Union based their country off of Communism. After World War II, China had its own…

McCarthyism was spoken to as an in all cases fear of communism that made the US look for after superfluous assessment, confinements and as often as a possible unjustifiable act against the people who were simply remotely accused of being a ‘dreaded communist’, while the…

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves”. Henry Thereau wrote this statement in his essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” that corresponds to his book “Walden”. The disobedience he refers to in this quote is civil disobedience that he…

If we look around at the whole universe today, there are tons and millions of cultures centered everywhere around the globe. With this much cultures in the universe, people are bound to believe that they’re all divergent. Even though they are dissimilar in some aspects,…

Hawthorne’s tragic romance novel, ‘The Scarlet Letter’ centres on the adulterer Hester Prynne who is condemned to live a life of solitude and singlehandedly raise the child she produced out of sin in a harsh, critical puritan society. Hester has an illicit affair with a…