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That urge that one develops to enable them go through a lot of challenges and distraction just to come and persevere and finally they achieve their goals, this can be summarized by the term Grit. Duckworth tries to focus on one’s personal characters’ traits that she refers to it as grit. She goes further to…

What is a Hero? A hero is someone that is admired for their courage, achievements, and noble qualities. In Anglo-Saxon culture to be a hero they had to be warriors, they had to be strong, intelligent, have courage, face and fight to the death for glory. The Anglo-Saxon hero could be all of this and…

Joby Warrick makes the story of how ISIS came to be in his book Black Flags: The Rise of Isis. He walks the reader through events before ISIS came to be, that he feels is what created a situation for ISIS to be made and to flourish. Both directly and indirectly Warrick blames events on…

This Mean Disease is a great book, written by Daniel Becker, that tells us about his life, and how he and his family suffered because of his mom’s disease. Anorexia Nervosa is the name of the disease that Daniel’s mother had suffered from. Becker says that one of his earliest and not very appealing memories…

Eventually, everyone faces their inevitable death; however, no one could handle it as gracefully as Morrie Schwartz had. In the book, “Tuesdays With Morrie”, after years apart, Mitch Albom reunites with his dying college professor, Morrie, to be taught a series of life lessons from him before he meets his end. They meet every Tuesday…

Well, I am very smart and thought this book was about something else, but oh well. I know Jane Austen writes with a third person omniscient narrator, as the narrator starts out talking about what Sir Walter Elliot thinks and perceives and then switches to Elizabeth. She does not begin the story with only telling…

Throughout time there has always been different perspectives on whether you learn more from failure or success. They always say if you fail to always keep trying until you succeed, but once you succeed what happens next? I disagree with the scientist’s statement because Skloot’s account of the story does not support it. The novel…

The author named Rebecca Skloot made a book about a woman named Henrietta Lacks. She expressed about an African America women named Henrietta Lacks whose cells were taken without permission. Mrs.Lacks than later died in 1951 of cervical cancer. The doctors then saw Henrietta’s cancer cells become the first immortal human cell line called HeLa…

A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn sheds a different light on historical events that are often misinterpreted in the classroom when learning of America’s past. Zinn used his writings to inform and educate readers on specific details and hidden truths that are quite often brushed over while including subtle opinions on…

Anton Powell teaches Greek Classics at the University of Wales. He is the author of several books and has been founder and Director of the University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History. “Classical Sparta: techniques behind her success,” is a collection of essays. This book is a first edition and was published in…