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Aging: In the short story Cyclops, Sedaris’ father tells him about stories from “his childhood”… But, David Sedaris soon finds out that all the stories were a lie and his father was just trying to teach his children to be careful in life. The children did learn how to be vigilant, however, they grew up…

The speculative fiction, “Brave New world”, written by Aldous Huxley in 1931. Tells of a future overwhelmed by technology and state control where people have no dignity, values, morals and emotions, a loss of humanity. Readers can recognize certain elements of their own world. As the world state in the fiction text can be recognised…

The case of “In Cold Blood” was an eye opener. It made people realize that such punishment can be done upon criminals. Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith were convicted of murdering the Clutter Family; four family members were killed; two teenage children Nancy and Kenyon, Bonnie the wife and Herbert Clutter were all…

I decide to choose this book because I love the dogs and the cover of this book attracted me to take for myself to enjoy reading book. Moreover, I love everything that is belong to nature including animal and plants. I am not afraid any kinds of animal or plant in our life because all…

Six Days of War, by Michael B. Oren, is a historical nonfiction book account of the war that broke out between the Arabs and Israelis in June 1967 that lasted only six days and resulted in the Egyptian occupation of Gaza and the Jordanian occupation of the West Bank. The culture in Southeast Asia is…

The battle against sexism is a great and daunting one. Women such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of “the Yellow Wallpaper,” know this all too well. But how does one begin to understand and recognize sexism, much less resist it? This is where stories such as ‘the Yellow Wallpaper’ come in. The purpose of…

I really enjoyed William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” it was very weird and interesting. I really liked the description used in the story and the foreshadowing (only knew it foreshadowed after I read it with the teacher) but, when I read first read it by myself I could not understand every word…

Since its publication in 1932, Brave New World has been considered by many to be Aldous Huxleys greatest work. Most people think it is his only work but it is not. In that time this novel has been praised and condemned, dismissed and welcomed, a source of controversy, a subject for sermons, and required reading…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story with many messages, but it contains a rather valuable feminist perspective. There are various underlying details that protest the “Resting Cure,” a method in which a patient was restricted from doing anything but lay in bed, leading to emotional suppression and distress. The text also confronted the subjection of…

A family decides to take a vacation down to Florida, but the real journey is within each family member and their lives together. The biggest question in the story is what a good man really is and how there are few and far between left in society. Most of the people in the story think…