Non Fiction Essay Examples

In How Dare The Sun Rise, author Sandra Uwiringiyimana recounts her ordeal at a Banyamulenge tribe refugee camp and how she and her family survived the harrowing ordeal. They provided meager food and water rations, barely enough to live. While there, National Liberation Front (NLF) rebels brutalized and targeted Banyamulenge tribal members for extinction. Rebels…

The invigorating events that occur before, during, and after the assassination of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, are recounted by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard in their bestselling novel released in 2011, “Killing Lincoln”. This is a historical nonfiction novel that is told in a captivating way that will make it…

Richard Wright’s “The Price of Keeping One’s Place” nonfiction essay is very detailed and may be explicit to some. For example, Richard Wright’s uses ethnicity, gender, and race to capture the harsh memories of his past creating an explicit point of view in his nonfiction essay The price of Keeping One’s Place. On the first…

In Barry Strauss’ The Trojan War: A New History, Strauss takes the subject of the Trojan War—a subject that has written about and exhausted to death—and puts his own spin on the war. Strauss provides different interpretations about the war, while also providing his own arguments on the matter. What Strauss tries to do with…

Gender gap is always an issue of society which no one can resolve as society changes, so the gender roles also change to keep up with modern life. In the essays “Between the Sexes, a Great Divide, by Anna Quindlen and “Being a Man, by Paul Theroux, readers can see how differences are related to…

In Prospects for Survival, Noam Chomsky describes the two ways that human civilization is doomed to destroy itself: nuclear weapons and environmental catastrophe. Chomsky argues that environmental disaster will inevitably cause human destruction. “While the world is taking halting steps toward facing the existential challenge to survival, the richest and most powerful state in world…

The book “The Hot Zone” is a nonfiction novel written by Richard Preston in the mid 1990s. The author of this novel discusses the horrifying process and experience that ebola and marburg victims go through when they acquire these lethal diseases. This book also examines the outbreak that occurred at a monkey facility in Reston,…

I chose the theme “Exploring Life Purpose Through Achievement and Adventure” because I like to live my life with adventure and helping other people. This theme means to me that you are up and out in the world living it with adventure and achieving instead of sitting at home like a couch potato. My theme…

Eric Schlosser’s Command and Control is a well-formed, investigated analysis of the Cold War and America’s expansion and deployment of its nuclear weapons. Addressing the Damascus accident and how people are only provided with an illusion of control. Depicting tremendous courage, unprecedented reports of calamity, many near mishaps in the last 50 years. The rhetorical…

“That night, as I tumbled into bed, I kept thinking how we could ever survive in such a place and how dusty soil could be made into fertile fields” (Chiyoko Morita). People like Chiyoko Morita were taken from their homeland and placed in relocation centers and internment camps by the American government during World War…