Book Summary Essays and Research Papers

Ngugi focuses on his beliefs concerning colonialism in his novel A Grain of Wheat. In the novel, he uses his characters to express his beliefs and portray the feelings of Kenya just before independence. Mugo, is a man who is lonely and consumed by guilt. He has no family in the village. He also knows…

In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi this novel about her life growing up in Iranian Islamic revolution. This book take place during 1980. At the beginning of the religious and political turmoil, Marjane was forced to wear the veil to school when the boys and girls were separated. She told her parents she wanted…

Author and Neurologist writes a book named “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”, and the title intrigues you the most, because you sit and think that there is no way a mistake like this can be made. It intrigues you to read the book and find how that in fact this tale…

I read the book How To Stay Christian In College by J. Budziszewski. It is a fantastic book describing the experience of college life and how it can be harmful to a person’s faith. He then goes on about ways to use college as a way to grow closer to God. He also discusses many…

In “The Witchery of Story”, Jonathan Gottschall emphasizes what it’s like for the mind to imagine a story. Gottschall gives many intriguing thoughts regarding the matter of stories and their significance. He incorporates his thoughts and identifies them with development. He talks about the delight individuals get from narrating. Gotschall approaches upon the prospect that…

In Here is New York, E.B. White takes us on a journey through the city that is the “concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance,” New York. E.B. White had been in his New York hotel room in Manhattan “curiously affected by the emanations from the immediate surroundings, “because…

Introduction “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.” These are borrowed words from Peter Thiel. There are countless books available in the world with brilliant and motivating words that could be a source of inspiration to a young graduate most specifically, to decide on following a career path or…

Chapter 17: The purpose of the Goverment(state) is individual security. without forcing to kill covenants are words and not enough to secure the men. Security cannot be achieved with a majority that is not managed by a single decision maker. And the only decision maker should be constant. While the compromise between the unreasonable creatures…

During the early nineties, Luis Rodriguez, author of the book Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., was inspired by writing a memoir on his early life in Los Angeles, named Always Running after learning that his son, Ramiro Rodriguez, was getting involved in the la vida loca, or according to Luis Rodriguez,…

Introduction In his introduction Reisner opens by describing his observations from the window of an airplane as he crosses the western United states. Traveling 9 miles a minute he observes the pockets of light dotting the otherwise bleak landscape signifying the presence of human civilization. The congregation of humans into some of the largest cities…