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A Review of Two Essays by James Madison: The Federalist Number 10 and The Federalist Number 51 (551 words, 1 pages)

The Federalist No.s 10 and 51 The Federalist, No. 10, by James Madison is a clear expression of views and policies for a new government. Madison was a strong supporter and member of the Federalists whose main beliefs favored the Constitution. They also believed that the Articles of Confederation needed ... Read More

A Short Review of The Dragon Can’t Dance, a Novel by Earl Lovelace (1663 words, 3 pages)

The Dragon Cant Dance Often when one comes to the realization of delusion in the understanding of an event, anger at defeat kicks in. In this particular passage from The Dragon Cant Dance, Lovelace manages to provoke in his readers a sense of loss concerning ones roots and customs. The ... Read More

A Review of Gosta Berlings Saga, a Novel by Selma Lagerlof (1214 words, 2 pages)

The epic tradition in Gsta Berlings Saga. Having been born and bred in Vrmland, Selma Lagerlf is conversant with the peasant culture and its folklore. In Gsta Berlings Saga, she is primary occupied with a provincial type and investigates deeply into the spirit of the folk-life of Vrmland. It took ... Read More

A Review of The Age of Wonders, a Book by Aharon Appelfeld (1546 words, 4 pages)

Age of Wonders Essay The book Age of Wonders is an excellent example in portraying the crisis of not only the European civilization but also racism which still very abundant in todays society. The author is trying to send a strong message that racism is indeed wrong, and only through ... Read More

A Review of Taxi Driver, a Film by Martin Scorsese (578 words, 1 pages)

Taxi Driver The Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver represents a "descent into hell" through society's acceptance of pornography, violence and loneliness. The characters of Travis, Betsy, Senator Palantine and Iris are all typical of real people, either surrounded by or living in a world of lies. After the passenger (or ... Read More

A Short Review of the Dubliners, a Novel by James Joyce (1368 words, 5 pages)

Dubliners, a collection of shorts stories, by James Joyce, is centered around the everyday lives of ordinary people in Dublin, Ireland. According to Joyce himself, his intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of his country and he chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed ... Read More

A Review of Quest for Fire, a Movie by Jean-Jacques Annaud (427 words, 1 pages)

Quest for Fire This story happens 80,000 years ago when our ancestors first discovered the power of fire, but did not know how to master it. One day, a peaceful tribe is attacked by apes and wolves. Many die in the fighting and the tribe is forced to leave their ... Read More

A Short Review of When I Was One-And-Twenty, a Poem by A. E. Housman (1081 words, 2 pages)

One and Twenty When I was one-and-twenty by A.E. Housman, is a poem about one young mans growth, from twenty-one to twenty two. He is given advice, which is, the greatest gift in which a person can give to another is that of your heart. However at the age of ... Read More

A Review of Dante’s Canto XXVIII (1640 words, 2 pages)

Dante's Canto XXVIII Dante begins the opening of Canto XXVIII with a rhetorical question. Virgil and he have just arrived in the Ninth Abyss of the Eighth Circle of hell. In this pouch the Sowers of Discord and Schism are continually wounded by a demon with a sword. Dante poses ... Read More

A Book Review in Chapters (1503 words, 3 pages)

At Richards' grandmother's house. He sets some curtains on fire, which leads to the house catching on fire. The family moves to Memphis. Richard hangs a cat after his father tells him to (sarcastically) Richard's mother punishes him. At six while hanging out at a saloon he becomes a drunkard. ... Read More

A Review of Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1420 words, 2 pages)

A Tale of Two Cities By CHARLES DICKENS Published by THE NEW AMERICAN, INC. Published in the year 1960 354 PAGES Guillermo Chiu Social Studies Period G Summary of Novel "A Tale of Two Cities" is written by Charles Dickens and it takes place in France and England during the ... Read More

A Review of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country (686 words, 1 pages)

1. This of course is an ever-popular book report book because it is so essential. That is why I chose it. 2. Stephen Kumalos village of Ndotsheni, on the east coast of Africa, is the setting of this novel. 3. Cry the beloved country, by Alan Paton, is a book ... Read More

A Review of the Silent Film Battleship Potemkin (258 words, 2 pages)

Battleship Potemkin The silent film Battleship Potemkin started off on a high, the sailors refusing to eat the meat and soup they were served because it was covered with maggots, for some reasoned really captured my attention. The setting was on a large ship that showed us many areas, so ... Read More

A Review of John Donne’s Poem Batter My Heart (1150 words, 3 pages)

I was completely blown away by John Donne's Batter My Heart. I normally enjoy poetry more than any other Literary form, and this poem was no exception, aside from the fact it meant more than any other. When the poem was first introduced to me in class, I was very ... Read More

A Review of a Play Babes in Toyland (395 words, 1 pages)

Babes in Toyland Babes in Toyland was recently preformed at Lacordaire Academy by K.T. productions in Montclair New Jersey. It is a seasonal play for Christmas, which includes toys, which come to life. The play was consistent with the original version with only minor adjustments here and there. The audience ... Read More

A Review of Elizabeth Young-Bruehl’s Book Anna Freud:A Biography (925 words, 2 pages)

Elizabeth Young-Bruehl is a professor at Haverford College and a member of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis this psychological background is very much evident in her writing. Young-Bruehl's obvious knowledge of psychoanalysis, often times made reading Anna Freud a Biography difficult. For example, the book covered many of Anna Freud's ... Read More

Mandy McCurdy’s Review of Allen Ginsberg’s Poem Howl (2133 words, 4 pages)

Mandy McCurdy EN 372 3 May 2001 Angelheaded Hipsters What living and buried speech is always vibrating here, what howls restraind by decorum -Walt Whitman When Allen Ginsberg wrote his poem Howl in 1956 there were many reactions. To many it was shocking and profane, involving words and subjects that ... Read More

Review of Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1044 words, 4 pages)

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque All Quiet On The Western Front was set in Belgium, Germany. The novel covered about three years beginning in 1916. The setting was as important as the war itself, because it was told from a German perspective. No one knew ... Read More

Clinging to Tradition: A Review of Stories A Moment before the Gun Went Off and The Lottery (785 words, 4 pages)

In the stories 'A Moment before The Gun Went Off' and 'The Lottery,' there is the situation in which a group of people cling to traditions very blindly. In both stories the traditions are so dug into the people's way of life that questioning them is considered sacrilege within these ... Read More

An Analysis of Book review in “My Brother Sam is Dead” by James and Christopher Collier. (548 words, 1 pages)

My Brother Sam Is Dead James Christopher Lincoln Collier Copyright 1974 Some of the major themes in this book were that Tim and his family has to survive through out this book. Another theme was to keep their store going and not to close it because that is where they ... Read More

A Loss of Language: A Review of Richard Rodrigueze’s Story Gains and Losses (886 words, 1 pages)

A Loss of Language In Richard Rodriguezs Gains and Losses, we are told the story of how he learned English as a young boy, and, in turn, stopped using his familys language, Spanish. The story is the portrayal of a Latino family that does not speak English very well and ... Read More

Memories of Holocaust: A Review of Mark Baker’s Novel The Fiftieth Gate (256 words, 1 pages)

Mark Baker's novel The Fiftieth Gate explores the memory of two holocaust survivors, yossl and Genia Baker, with Mark who interprets their memory and uses documented evidence to recreate the history of the holocaust event. The scope and focus of memory only adds to the gand sweep of history and ... Read More

A Review of the Movie A Civil Action (1033 words, 2 pages)

A Civil Action The movie A Civil Action brings up an interesting idea that many people in the public don't see or hear about very often. The idea that the big corporations often don't take into account the safety of the people that work for them or the people that ... Read More

A Review of Spencer Johnson’s Who Moved My Cheese (585 words, 1 pages)

Who Moved My Cheese? "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson, is the story of two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little people, Hem and Haw, who are searching for Cheese. When I recommended this book to a friend, he seemed pretty skeptical. I bet he was thinking how ... Read More

A Review of Martha Brooks’s Short Story What I Want To Be When I Grow Up (794 words, 1 pages)

Brooks, M. "What I Want To Be When I Grow Up" Paradise Caf and Other Stories, Thistledown Press Ltd. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1988 Martha Brooks' short story called "What I Want To Be When I Grow Up" is about a 14-year-old junior high student, Andrew, who has to take the public ... Read More

Evil Is a Human Invention: A Review of the Novel Tomorrow When the War Began (1459 words, 3 pages)

Good copy "Evil is a Human invention" Introduction "Tomorrow When the War began" tells a powerful, intensive exciting, story of Ellie and her friends who struggle in the grips of war. One of the central ideas in this novel explores the concept of evil. In his book, it is evident ... Read More

A Review of a Book Written in Chapters (12113 words, 14 pages)

Chapter One Scout, formally known as Jean Louise Finch, talks about how her brother Jem, older by 4 years, broke his arm badly at the elbow when he was thirteen. To this day she insists that the entire incident began with the Ewell family, the most wretched family in Maycomb ... Read More

A Critical Review of the Musical The Wizard of Oz (356 words, 1 pages)

On Friday, May 13, 2005 I attended the showing of "The Wizard of Oz" in a form of a musical play which was quite appealing. The cast did an amazing job playing the roles of all of the characters of the original Wizard of Oz and concentrating on the musical ... Read More

Proctor as Hero: A Review of Act Four in Arthur Miller’s Tale The Crucible (1860 words, 2 pages)

At the end of Act four in Arthur Miller's allegorical tale, 'The crucible', the play reaches its final and conclusive climax. John Proctor is forced by his conscience, his reason and the authority to reach a decision. On this decision balances his life, his reputation and his soul. The audience ... Read More

A Review of Douglas Adams’s Story Life, the Universe and Everything (918 words, 1 pages)

Arthur Dent, the protagonist in the story Life, The Universe, And Everything by Douglas Adams, is just an ordinary person who has to save the universe in his pajamas. This book is the third in the hitchhiker series and is one of the best. The best thing about Douglas's books ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013