Book Summary Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 61

Soma and orgy-porgies, sex hormone chewing gum and erotic play among children-all of these things further the power of the centralized world government in Brave New World. In a civilization that is without disease, old age, and all negative emotions, the people are forced to pay a price without even realizing it. That great price…

The enigma of why we read and what books do for us is as former as the written word itself, and as appealing. Galileo saw learning as a way of having extraordinary abilities. For Kafka, books were “the ax for the frozen sea within us”; Carl Sagan possesses them essentially “proof that humans are capable…

I hate the summer. The heat, the sweat, the smells, and especially the bugs. You know what I’m talking about; you’re sitting around a bonfire with your friends, but you can’t enjoy it because of all the bugs flying around your face, biting at your ankles or crawling down your shirt. It honestly sucks, and…

In the small village of Pleasantville, the annual tradition of the lottery has been upheld for generations. It is a seemingly harmless event, eagerly anticipated by the villagers, as they gather in the town square on a warm summer day. The atmosphere is festive, filled with laughter and chatter. Children run about, and adults exchange…

In Charlotte Perkins Stetson’s, The Yellow Wallpaper, and Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” the role of women is characterized to be secondary to the roles of men by illustrating that the two women, from Stetson and Plath’s works, are not putting their foot down and they are just letting the men control everything which in the women’s…

If someone were to boast about women always being treated as equals, he or she would be shut down with historical evidence and data. Many works of art and pieces of literature beautifully demonstrate the hardships women have faced in the past. We have made leaps and bounds toward achieving the goal of equality since…

In life, things happen. Sometimes they affect one positively, and other times they impact one negatively. We have all dealt with our fair share of negative impacts, but in the end, positive and negative come together to make us who we are as people. In both The Metamorphosis (1915), and The Color of Paradise (1999),…

Prisoners of Our Thoughts should be on a mandatory reading list for universities all over the world. The husband and wife team Alex Pattakos, PhD was a colleague of Victor Frankl, and Elaine Dundon, MBA a personal and organizational leader, who are both the founders of the Global Meaning Institute, modified the words of Frankl’s…

During the 19th century Victorian society, social class played a very important role in the lives of the civilians. Although it still plays a significant role in society today, the separation of classes and how it was determined was quite different. In a conservative era with strict rules and regulations, the pressure to go up…

My belief on marriage is that it’s a covenant between two people who absolutely love each other and couldn’t imagine life without sharing their sacred union. Although this belief is pretty common, unfortunately it’s not always the case and people for a variety of other reasons get married and often feel imprisoned. In the short…