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A Review of Transcendentalism, The Philosophy of the Mind (1037 words, 5 pages)

Transcendentalism The Philosophy of the Mind Transcendentalism is the view that the basic truth of theuniverse lies beyond the knowledge obtained from the senses, aknowledge that transcendentalists regard as the mere appearance ofthings (Adventures 162). Transcendentalists believe the mind iswhere ideas are formed. The transcendentalist ideas of God, man,and the ... Read More

A Review of the Story of Hephaestus And Aphrodite (1273 words, 6 pages)

As Hephaestus was walking down Rhea Street on Mount Olympus, he noticed hiswife, Aphrodite, kissing Hermes, the messenger-God, next to the areasone and only Burger God (very well-known for its char-broiled Whoppers). "Wait just a tootin minute," he said aloud to himself."Why is my wife kissing Hermes? She is supposed ... Read More

A Review of How Mosquitoes Came to Be a Tlingit Legend (1169 words, 6 pages)

Daily 1Ben DailyCarolyn KremersEnglish 213-002The Giant Lives On Every time I read the Tlingit Legend, "How MosquitoesCame To Be," there are certain questions that come to mind about where thelegend came from and who wrote it. The legend was first published in 1883and later found by Richard Erdoes, who included ... Read More

A Review on the Greek Epic, Odyssey (1394 words, 6 pages)

The Odyssey Report In The Odyssey , Homer uses guest-host relationships asan ethical norm against which behavior is measured. When the ritual is preformedcorrectly by guest-host, good results ensue. In contrast, the violationsof this ethical norm results in misfortune. This idea was taken very seriouslyby people of that time and ... Read More

A Book Review of Guide to Getting It On (638 words, 1 pages)

Guide to Getting It OnBook reviewSince the Victorian era the subject of sexuality has been carefully confined to the private arena of the home. Sexuality has been restrained to the function of reproduction. Sex has become something that people feel that they need to hide from others. During the past ... Read More

A Review on the Main Character’s Sexual Arousal in The Awakening by Kate Chopin (661 words, 5 pages)

By Alan Eugene Sims, Jr.Awakening by Kate Chopin- How Marriage CanShould WorkMarriages in the 1990's have become uncommon, or they become unstable astherelationship between the individuals progresses. The book Awakening, writtenby KateChopin, that was written about a woman named Edna Pontellier's sexual awakeningshows repeated examples of how a marriage should ... Read More

A Review of Novel Gulliver’s Travel (1293 words, 6 pages)

Gulliver's TravelsAs a seemingly wise and educated man, throughout the novel Gulliver's Tarvels,the narrator cleverly gains the reader's respect as a thinking and observantindividual. With this position in mind, the comments and ideas that Gulliverinflicts upon those reading about his journeys certainly have their own identityas they coincide with his ... Read More

A Review of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 (610 words, 1 pages)

In Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. Petrarchan conceit was a figure used in love poems consisting detailed yet exaggerated comparisons to the lover's mistress ... Read More

A Review of The Day of the Jackal by Fredrick Forsyth (510 words, 3 pages)

Josh HollowayPeriod 2, English 3-4A Review The Day of the JackalThe Day of the Jackal, written by Fredrick Forsyth, is a fictional novelthat displays the authors brilliance by setting a mood and connectingyou with the characters. The Day of the Jackal takes place in post WorldWar II in France. The ... Read More

A Review of Suzanne Kessler’s and Judith Lorber’s Essays on Gender and Intersex Condition (1197 words, 2 pages)

Intro to Women's StudiesWsp 101 What is a hermaphrodite? The definition that Suzanne Kessler, The writer of Lessons from the Intersexed, gives us is that a "true hermaphrodite" is where a baby has either testes or ovaries, but the genitals are indistinct. This birth defect has been happening to a ... Read More

A Review on Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (1652 words, 2 pages)

Pashazade by Jon Courtenay GrimwoodThe sound of fountains came in stereo. A deep splash from the courtyard below and a lighter trickle from the next room, where open arches cut in a wall that over-looked the courtyard had marble balustrades stretched between supporting pillars. It was that kind of house. ... Read More

A Book Review of Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell (1015 words, 2 pages)

Book Review Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John BoswellThe question of same-sex unions and their legitimacy in many different societies is a topic that has been hotly debated for centuries. One society in particular is pre-modern Europe. Noted author and historian Dr. John Boswell looks extensively at the ... Read More

A Review on the Face as Well-Crafted and Utterly Sickening (594 words, 1 pages)

Gone for a BurtonThe Faceby Phil Whitaker246pp, Atlantic BooksThe Face is Phil Whitaker's third novel. When he's not writing, he works as a GP and forensic medical examiner. It shows. The book is appalling in its detail, steady in its gaze, and deeply penetrating in its insight into flesh and ... Read More

A Review on the Science and Pleasure of Sleep and Dreams by Pauk Martin (906 words, 1 pages)

Tuck in for a gourmet sleep Counting Sheep The Science and Pleasure of Sleep and Dreamsby Paul Martin 416pp, HarperCollinsLast frontiers are hard to find these days, but Paul Martin thinks he's found one the pleasant land of counterpane, that which "knots up the ravelled sleave of care", kip the ... Read More

A Review on the Myth of the Holy Cow by DN Jha (1024 words, 2 pages)

One man's beef...The Myth of the Holy Cowby DN Jha183pp, VersoShortly before he died, at the age of 101, the Anglo-Bengali scholar and polemicist Nirad Chaudhuri received the leader of the Hindu nationalist BJP party, LK Advani, at his home in Oxford. The Hindu nationalists, who recently presided in Gujarat ... Read More

A Review on the Thinking Machine, the Consciousness by Rita Carter (716 words, 1 pages)

The thinking machineConsciousnessby Rita Carter319pp, WeidenfeldThe science of consciousness is like a car revving loudly while stuck in neutral. Just a decade ago, mind researchers were bright with confidence. Neuroscientists had scanners with which they could take intimate snapshots of the human brain. Psychologists were getting together with philosophers to ... Read More

A Review of Nine Lives by Bernice Rubens and the Against Therapy by Jeffrey Masson (858 words, 1 pages)

Don't kill me, I'm only the therapistNine Livesby Bernice Rubens247pp, Little, BrownIn his pioneering book Against Therapy (1988), the former psychotherapist Jeffrey Masson tried to come to terms with having wasted years of life in what he had come to believe was a corrupt and wicked profession. He called for ... Read More

A Review of the Book, Great Waters: An Atlantic Passage by Deborah Cramer (1183 words, 2 pages)

Blue heaven Great Waters An Atlantic Passage Deborah Cramer 442pp, Norton Adventures in Ocean Exploration Robert D Ballard 288pp, National Geographic Historical Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean Derek Hayes 224pp, British Museum Encyclopedia of Underwater and Marine Archaeology ed James Delgado 493pp, British Museum If all Earth's history were ... Read More

The Zagat 2002 Guide to US Hotels, Resorts and Spas with 20,000 Reviews (790 words, 4 pages)

Book endsZagat 2002 Guide to US Hotels, Resorts and Spas8.99Probably the only hotel guide to have 20,000 reviewers,Zagat's guide is based on surveys issued to frequenttravellers. The average respondent stayed at hotels formore than 30 nights per year, and Zagat funnels theirexpertise into a handy guide with plenty of usefulindexes ... Read More

A Review of the Book, Chance Governs All by Marmaduke Hussey (653 words, 1 pages)

Duking it out Chance Governs All Marmaduke Hussey 326pp, Macmillan In September 1986, the doomed director-general of the BBC, Alastair Milne, was on a platform at the National Film Theatre when he was handed a note. It told him that a new chairman of the BBC had been appointed. Milne ... Read More

A Review of the Book, Biography of a Germ by Arno Karlen (618 words, 1 pages)

A bug's life Biography of a Germ Arno Karlen (Phoenix) Various scientific disciplines have proved rather more popular with us now we are grown up than they were with us at school. Now it's a biologist's turn. (Actually, Karlen isn't really a biologist. He's a psychoanalyst, which you may find ... Read More

A Review of the Book Gaudi by Gijs Van Hensbergen (950 words, 2 pages)

Catalan who got the creamGaudGijs van HensbergenHarperCollins 24.99, pp322A sensational building by an eccentric architect transforms a provincial Spanish capital. No, not Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao. It happened long before in Barcelona when Antoni Gaud built the astonishing church of La Sagrada Famlia. Yet 'built' is the wrong tense. ... Read More

A Review of the Book, An Act of Treachery by Ann Widdecombe (656 words, 1 pages)

MPs and misdemeanoursAnn Widdecombe is a virgin. It's one of the few facts we know about her, observed Sam Leith in the Telegraph, reviewing her new novel, An Act of Treachery . It ought to be as irrelevant as knowing "that Philip Larkin was an onanist or that Malcolm Lowry ... Read More

A Review of Book and the Film Puckoon by Spike Milligan (1041 words, 2 pages)

'It's fantastical, magical stuff' 'I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there at the time." As Richard Attenborough recalls Spike Milligan's famous quote, he roars with laughter, rocking back in his chair. Milligan died in February this year and the throwaway joke has now become the great ... Read More

An Analysis of Articles in Reviewery by Christopher Ricks (599 words, 1 pages)

Jobs for the boys and girlsAn existential moment in the Spectator almost did for this week's column. Sebastian Smee had taken on Reviewery, by Christopher Ricks, and was feeling anxious. "Placed in the somewhat invidious position of having to review a book of reviews entitled Reviewery - a book which ... Read More

A Review of Strange Boy by Paul Magrs (435 words, 1 pages)

Children's book features gay boyA mainstream children's books publisher has released a novel aimed at teenagers that features a 10-year-old boy's experiences of homosexuality. Strange Boy is thought to be the first "gay book" aimed at the youth market since the Thatcher government introduced the Section 28 legislation to prevent ... Read More

A Critical Review of The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (261 words, 1 pages)

What's selling in children's booksPhilip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass, winner of this year's Whitbread, is only fifth in this list from the Children's Bookshop in London's Muswell Hill, but it was compiled before the prize was announced. Pullman's inclusion on the shortlist has clearly prompted a new readership to rush ... Read More

A Review of the Novel The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger (782 words, 1 pages)

In the right, but irritating The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger 246pp, Verso The brilliance of John Pilger's reporting is, or ought to be, beyond dispute. Whether he describes the effects of the "Rockeye" cluster bombs which the US air force dropped on Vietnam or the rows ... Read More

The New Book Review Section of the Guardian and the Art of Professional Critism (1202 words, 2 pages)

Offshore havensThis fine new section of the Guardian is mainly devoted to book reviews, which, if you believe books to be important or at the very least interesting, is an absolutely commendable thing.The pages that follow this one allow more space for the notice and discussion of books than any ... Read More

Brief Review of the Books The Boy Who Lost His Face, Fake, Across the Nightingale Floor, In the Middle of the Night, Memory, Strange Boy, and Life on the Line (934 words, 1 pages)

Falling pants and other worries'Her green eyes were looking right at him. "You want my phone number?" "I guess," he said. He stretched again. As he raised his arms, the drawstring on his trackpants became untied and his pants fell down. In one motion, he turned, pulled up his pants ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013