Book Review Essay Examples Page 12

The book, Anne Frank The Diary of a young Girl is written by Anne Frank. The book has so many main characters but the three I picked all had a different part to the story. The first is Anne Frank, she was a 13 year old girl when she started her diary and was almost…

Barbara Ehrenreich begins her book by discussing her preparation for her endeavor: to enter the low-wage workforce for a period of time as a way of investigating poverty. Her objective is to experience, first-hand, the daily obstacles that the poor encounter as a means to survive. She sets up a few rules for herself —…

Having recently finished reading Mr. Rodriguez’s book and giving myself time to think about what I can write without coming off completely crazy, I am confident that after the editors and professors read the book and criticized it the readers will be critics, too. Hard Measures is a shameless defense of torture, and it is…

Nicholas Stargardt is a Professor of History at Oxford University. According to his biography on Oxford University’s webpage, Stargardt’s research is in modern German History, understood within a European context. He started his career as an intellectual and political historian. Since 1994 he turned his work towards history of children and childhood, and to social…

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a story published in 1990. It is about a group of soldiers in Vietnam war. As any good author O’Brien wanted to write a story worth reading. O’Brien with use of various literary devises showed us what it was like to be at war. No one wanted…

Introduction I have always been fascinated by how our environment effects how our mind works; so when I was given the opportunity to choose a book to read and review, Brain Rules: Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina caught my attention. Developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, wrote this book to help…

In Seattle, Washington there is gentrification in process, but is gentrification good or bad. The system of Gentrification can be defined as economically good or often biased and unfair, however, those who understand the exact nature and consequences of gentrification have an altogether different perspective depending on whether or not you’re displaced or displacing. Henry…

Grit is overall a book about hard work and how you should never give up. It opens up about how the author Angela Ducksworth wins an award called the MacArthur award (p.29). She wins this award after her father always tells her how terrible and underachieving she was all of her life. This is the…

In ‘An Account of Oneself,’ by Judith Butler in the first chapter she talks about the ways in which one can give an account of oneself. According to Judith Butler you can give an account of one’s self by taking into consideration many things. Those things are, the way in which the Other is involved…

In Anne Frank: Diary Of A Young Girl the characters are only family friends and the Van Daans”. The only problem in the book is these characters were real and we only have a one sided view of what the characters were like but this essay will explain to you what Anne thought of them…