Book Review Essay Examples Page 10

Rebecca Skloot, the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is author that depicted activism through her narrative. Skloot is arguing the importance of the privilege of informed consent. She became an activist on the behalf of Henrietta Lacks’ family to uncover the identity of a woman whose consent was worth less than a…

Stephen Smith is the author of the book The Russian Revolution, a senior research fellow at All Souls College, and is currently a professor of history at the University of Essex. His research interests are in the histories of modern Russia and in comparative communism. His interest in Russia led him to attend the University…

War is far uglier than most people who live in wealthy nations realize. Most people do not understand nor care about violent conflicts in Africa, the continent that has suffered unimaginable violence and poverty, because of indifference to and a lack of knowledge of the abominable suffering that is caused by the perpetrators of war….

The movie Watchmen and Watchmen the comic are intended for different audiences and are therefore different in many aspects. The book Watchmen, is a more intricate story to follow compared to the movie. It is also darker, it is taking place in a world that is on the verge of war, while superheros are banned….

The book this review is about is A Short History of the Russian Revolution by Joel Carmichael. Mr. Carmichael is a specialist in Soviet Studies and Russian history. Although the title of the book says “a short history” it was indeed very thorough by all accounts. It also includes several excerpts from The Russian Revolution…

The novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is about the adventures of a young boy named Huck who is running away from his father and his civilized life. Along the way, he runs into Jim, a runaway slave. Together, they travel down the Mississippi River and become friends along the way. Huck faces…

The article, “The Sociology of Leopard Man,” by Logan Feys, discusses the world’s most tattooed man, who chose to cover himself in leopard spots and live in solitude whenever possible. Feys discusses whether Leopard Man was an attention seeking conformist, or if his rash decision was based on what he truly wanted, and not for…

Eric Schlosser’s Command and Control is a well-formed, investigated analysis of the Cold War and America’s expansion and deployment of its nuclear weapons. Addressing the Damascus accident and how people are only provided with an illusion of control. Depicting tremendous courage, unprecedented reports of calamity, many near mishaps in the last 50 years. The rhetorical…

The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night Time, by Mark Haddon is a thriller published in the year 2003. Christopher is a 15-year-old boy with autism and a big talent for mathematics. One night Christopher sees his neighbor’s dog, called Wellington stabbed with a garden fork laying on the ground. He likes the…

“That night, as I tumbled into bed, I kept thinking how we could ever survive in such a place and how dusty soil could be made into fertile fields” (Chiyoko Morita). People like Chiyoko Morita were taken from their homeland and placed in relocation centers and internment camps by the American government during World War…