Books Essays

Adam Smith’s name manifests itself most profoundly in his own creation, “The wealth of Nations”. His An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published on 9th March 1776, is all about the wealth, Nations have in store and how various economic dimensions of the country …

“Gods be with us,” a tiller man mouthed as the ship, Spearwa, began to sink. Anyone watching the tragic scene unfold would not have guessed that there could be any lives saved.  The intriguing book of the first book of the Darkest Age series, “The Coming of Dragons,” begins with …

            In Albert Memmi’s (2003) most astounding book entitled ‘The Colonizer and the Colonized’, the person who reads it will get a clear and vivid picture of both the colonizer and the colonized from the point of view of the realist and mythologist.  As Part I presents Memmi’s (2003) view …

Introduction             ‘The Children of Darkness’ written by Stephen Oates reflects the life of black slaves, specifically Nat Turner, which started in the year 1800 to come to a final blast by the early 1830s.  It talks of the mystic, prophetic Nat Turner of Virginia’s Southampton County… “an isolated, impoverished …

Brief introduction             People around the world have witnessed the historical patterns of restoring and winning democracies. One of which was the fall of the Berlin Wall during the mid-1990’s when East Germany finally united with the West Germany. Moreover, the cold war between the US and the Soviet Union …

The Wedding Dance by Amador T. Daguio is about Awiyao and Lumnay, a long married couple from the Mountain tribes. Awiyao is going to marry another woman, Madulimay, because Lumnay was not able to give him a child. Awiyao went back home to see Lumnay because he didn’t find her …

There are many characteristics that identify Jay Gatsby as a tragic hero. Some of the characteristics of a tragic hero include greatness, a weakness or a flaw, an undeserved fate and a punishment exceeding the crime. Jay Gatsby encompasses all of these characteristics of a tragic hero. Although, the author …

There are certain novels that should be taught in the high school setting because of the messages of life that they teach.  The Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska is one of those novels.  Even though it was written in 1925, it is deals with universal themes such as discrimination, racism, …

Introduction             Book for manners are not new. They are definitely not unique to the modern world. Even during the Renaissance period, there were some attempts to prescribe conduct to ladies and gentlemen and people who are performing different kinds of roles and behaviors.             The Book of the Courtier …

Question 1: Like Socrates and Jesus, Confucius was a teacher with disciples who had some trouble understanding the import of his words. Why did these masters simply not say what they meant?             Confucius as well as other great teachers chose not to spoon-feed their disciples with their teachings. Instead, …