Books Essays

A Literature Review Ancient tradition indicates that Peter provided the basic information for Mark’s Gospel, and this would agree with the fact that Mark was associated with Peter in Babylon. According to Origen, Mark composed his Gospel “in accordance with Peter’s instructions.” (The Ecclesiastical History, Eusebius, VI, XXV, 3-7) John …

Introduction             This paper seeks to unravel the historical information: authorship, date, occasion and purpose and origin and destination of the Book of Esther. It also tackles the answers to the literary questions like, the genre, outline of the book, the major and minor themes and the critical issues. Author …

The Book of the Dead, is a collection of funerary text which Ancient Egyptians refer to as “the spell for coming forth of day.” This title refers to the ancient belief that the deceased take a whole night to travel to the realms of the dead; and the spirit shall …

            The book “In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio” by Philippe Bourgois is an in-depth look of the working community and family lives of inner-city Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem and gives important answers to many of the difficult questions facing policy-makers, social scientist, journalists …

The Book’s Perspective     The Body Project is a book that shows the change from focusing on inner beauty to outer beauty.  The main point is how the body of young women is an all consuming “project.”  The quest to be beautiful, thin and perfect has replaced the need to …

The Blackboard Jungle and Rock ‘n’ Roll High School are two films that both embody the social awareness inherent in the genre of male mellow drama.  These films have a very significant influence on the trans-generational depiction of adolescence in film.  This can most apparently be seen with such films …

            The Bible in a general and broad perspective contains narratives with themes and elements similar in almost every aspect.  The Binding of Isaac and the Suffering and The Suffering and Death of Jesus Christ, for instance, appear to constitute a similar concept, though the two narrations are found in …

             A plant used to manufacture pesticides meant to boost the “green revolution” program of India which was, in turn, intended to achieve food self-sufficiency, killed around 8,000 people instead, aside from injuring at least three hundred thousand more, most of them for life.  The culprit was the pesticide plant …

The Awakening was Chopin’s major work and the most recognized in the literary world although added to the list of neglected American masterpieces. The work of an author who, soon after her death in 1904, was remembered, if at all, for the short stories set in New Orleans which she …

Persuasion is an art (Wikipedia, 2007). It requires skill and a cleverness that is able to catch and keep the eye of all attempted to be persuaded. When Senator John McCain wrote Torture’s Terrible Toll (2005), he wrote the piece in an effort to assist readers in recognizing an issue …