Book Report Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 2

In this world right now approximately 3 billion people are living in poverty, young women and children are being sold in the thousands for labor and sexual exploitation; families are living in unsanitary slums and camps and trying to fight off diseases that could be treated in my hometown of Houston with some simple antibiotics….

Cultural assumptions and stereotypes hold back an individual from reaching their potential and don’t allow them to feel that they belong within the environment. The story The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick is focused on a teenage boy named Billy who runs away from his abusive home and goes to a small town called Bendarat…

Cancer is one of the world’s worst diseases; they can affect anyone, anytime. Due to this, many people die at young ages and never get to truly experience life. However, this wasn’t an issue for Hazel Grace Lancaster. In the novel, The Fault in Our Stars, written by John Green, Hazel tells her story of…

Slaves constituted about one-third of the southern population in the United States during the 1790s to 1860s and most slaves are bought to work on large plantations to help their masters on the sugar and cotton plantation which requires a lot of manual work and hard labor. Slave owners made their slaves completely dependent on…

The fiction book The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom is a story about a young girl whose parents passed away when she was 6-years old. She had been living in Ireland at the time and became an orphan. At the turn of the 19th century on a tobacco plantation in Virginia, young, white, Lavinia arrives…

According to Maya Angelou’s autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, she describes the hardships faced growing up as an African American girl in the southern states of America and California throughout the 1930’s and 1940’s. It is an evocative story of the horrible experiences of her childhood, during which she shuffled to and…

The book ‘Six Easy Pieces’ was written by Richard Feynman and it was published in 1994. Feynman was a well known college profesor at the time of the books release. He had a focus on teaching physics which made this book very easy to believe. Throughout the book, he goes into a range of physics…

Many people shy away from topics that are outside of social norms, but when these topics are intertwined with dehumanization, they darken in silence. Pornography is not easy to discuss openly on account of it being so raw and embarrassing, but few topics are of greater importance than this to Mikkola. As a feminist philosopher,…