Book Review Essays

Technology has advanced a lot and has been greatly impacting our lives since the Industrial Revolution. The appearance of the mobile phone, the computer, and the tablets have all changed our ability to communicate with people around the world. Although technologies have greatly improved our lifestyle, they have brought many …

“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ by Ernest Hemingway are both excellent literary works that express artistic choices in the modern world. Fitzgerald’s story centers on the wealthy eccentric Jay Gatsby as told by Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner who lives on Long Island but …

Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions, written by Elizabeth Perez is an extensive dive into the complexities involved in practicing Lucumí, the Afro-Cuban religion practiced by the people of the Chicago-based community called Ilé Laroye. Lucumí emerged in Havana as devotees of the orishas …

The world as we know it is an interesting place and continues to change as humanity advances. We make such an impact on this world and in many ways this impact can be inherently negative. Pollution, deforestation, exploitation, and other habits we humans have are just some ways that we …

In ‘The Metamorphosis’ by Kafka, Gregor who is a traveling salesman that supports has an abrupt transformation which turns him into a bug. Because Gregor is the exclusive provider of the family, this transformation deprived them of their sole source of income. While their father can work, he elects not …

The famous novel The Metamorphosis (1916) by Franz Kafka is highly contested as a novel open for a myriad of kind of interpretation. The classic tale of a man, Gregor Samsa, waking up to find himself in the form of an insect leaves some obvious question marks in terms of …

Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka, is a story about a man’s unexpected transformation into a bug and the spiritual and physical encounters that come with that transformation. Kafka was born into an upper-middle-class family in Prague, in 1883. ( His family was Jewish and while he did attend synagogue a …

When asked “What do you want out of life,” the majority of people will say their goal is to be happy. This is a simple answer, but with a deep, foggy meaning. Many people want to be the epitome of happiness, but what exactly is happiness? Happiness by definition is …

A swing and a miss, that is what Happy Gilmore does more than a few times in this hit comedy movie. Happy Gilmore was written by Adam Sandler and produced by Robert Simonds. Happy is a want to be hockey player who finds he has a gift at hitting the …

Ever since the beginning of humanity as we know it, people have been trying to find reasonable and logical answers to some questions that have always troubled their minds and haunted their thoughts. These questions are considered philosophical questions, which brings us to focus on philosophy, a faculty of thoughts …