Books Essays

The first five chapters of the book ‘The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us’ by Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook, titled ‘Winner-Take-All Markets,’ ‘How Winner-Take-All Markets Arise,’ ‘The Growth of Winner-Take-All Markets,’ ‘Runaway Incomes at the Top,’ …

            The Ways We Lie written by Stephanie Ericcson, explains ten specific lies that she believes are prevalent in our day-to-day lives.    The reading begins by The White Lie, being the most harmless lie. Ericsson believes telling the truth could impose more damage than a simple, harmless lie. The …

The Wars by Timothy Findley is one of the best-known novels that are concerned with the challenges facing the fighting soldiers.  Findley writes this novel in the camouflage of a researcher trying to reconstruct the life story of a soldier.  He analyses and conveys his theme by the use of …

Ernest Gaines’ The Sky is Gray towered the heights of fame in the years 1930 to 1940 that it had been accepted by the contemporary masses as one by which introduces the African-American scene in prose (Bloom, 1994).  This inspirational story of an eight year old boy which served as …

Introduction             20th century Europe saw the rise and fall of many political factions and styles of government.  With the onset of two ‘world’ wars, that presented the opportunity for multiple changes in power.  The desire for change is always there among at least a few people, but war and …

Introduction In trying to find the similarities and differences between Fascism as practiced by Nazi Germany and the Communist system of Russia under Joseph Stalin, it is important to first understand the term ‘fascism’; what does it mean?             Fascism has been described variably and has sometimes generated very interesting …

Tim O’Brien is probably the best known and most acclaimed novelist of the Vietnam War O’Brien’s mastery of the short story can be seen best in The Things They Carried. He uses this short-story collection/novel as an occasion to reprise and extend some of his deepest themes and to comment …

Introduction Colonization is a recurrent theme dealt by Shakespeare throughout his play The Tempest. The paper would evaluate and discuss the story being the range of interest of an expedition to colonize part of America as it inspires Shakespeare to write ‘The Tempest’. The European greed is a driving force …

While the early works spelled the beginning of success for Gotanda, it was his bittersweet drama about the dissolution of a nisei marriage, The Wash (1985) that placed him firmly in the public’s eye as a playwright of standing. Originally, The Wash was workshopped at the Mark Taper Forum’s New …

The road to the presidency in the United States consists of two formal stages. The first stage is composed of primary elections and caucuses lasting from early February to late June. Its purpose is to select a party nominee through a series of intra-party and usually competitive state contests.  Most …