Books Essays

In “ If You Assign My Book, Don’t Censor It” published in the Washington Post on November 28, 1999 Mark Mathabane argues that the decision taken by officials of Kearsley High-School in Flint, Mich. of censoring “Kaffir Boy” is unnecessary and disrespectful. He gives a series of examples of how …

Workplace “has one source of authority and one source of loyalty” (Fox 1996: p. 3) – Dunlop (1958) argues that in a unitary theory, work organizations are integrated institutions with workers and management working in harmony. – Thus no conflict thesis is a dubious integration. It thrives on assumptions that …

Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre, shows an enormous amount of relevance to the Victorian era while establishing the Victorian respect for high standards of decorum and moral conduct. The main character Jane Eyre proves by the results of her moral choices that in Victorian society the idea that women who …

Life of Pi was first published in 2001. A year later, Yann Martel wins the Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi, the fourth book written by this author. Histoire de Pi, its French translation could have easily been the original title of the book, since Martel is Canadian with …

Donna Jo Napoli, the author of Alligator Bayou got her insperation from a newspaper article. It was about five Silician grocery workers in Louisiana, who helped an african customer before a caucasian customer, which was sadly lynched by a town mob. Alot of the characters in the book are historical …

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, published in 1885, is the sequel to his novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer published in 1875. Huckleberry Finn tells the bond of friendship between Huckleberry Finn, a southern teenager, and Jim, an uneducated slave, encountering various characters and events as the …

In our modern day world where the government is the leading actor for their respective countries, the citizens would say that most of the leaders are incompetent because they are dissatisfied with what they are doing. Most leaders who achieve fame and recognition are not always the ones who had …

The shipwreck in Act I, Scene 1, in a 1797 engraving based on a painting by George Romney The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set …

I have always been a man of God, and I used to believe with all my heart that what I did was for him. I took it upon myself to find impurities in the world and banish them, whether they be cursed spirits, demons or, most common, witches. I was …

In “if you assign my book don’t censor it’’ published in Kernersville, N.C on November 28, 1999, Mark Mathabane argues the high school that assign his novel ‘’Kaffir Boy’’ should not censor chunks of his book that contributes to the meaning of the novel. This novel is about Mathabanes childhood, …