Aliens Book Reviews Samples For Students

Butler’s work is based on the character Lilith. She is saved by an alien tribe called the Oankali who harbors her in their ship. The events described occur after the destruction of the earth by the humans, in a hypothetical, third world war. The humans annihilate each other with the Oankalis moving in to salvage whatever can be found in the planet, reforming it into a habitable place once again. For their service to the few humans left, the Oankali offer a deal to the humans to trade their genes with them for the restoration of the earth. There are two ...

Stephanie Meyer's novel The Host presents incredibly original ideas in a way that is fairly palatable to young audiences. This tale of identity crises and mixed memories, all in the wake of an alien invasion, provides an interesting setting for this science-fiction love story. The protagonist's struggle for understanding and control of the very body it lives in carries many unique scenarios that are presented in a sometimes fascinating way. This paper will overview many different aspects of the first part of The Host, including setting, character and conflict.

The first setting the book takes place in is a facility where the ...

Introduction

Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education, written by accomplished and known scholars, highlights the fact that students can acquire effective and useful learning only when educational institutions across the United States focus on transferring knowledge to students, rather than administer instruction with the sole objective of complying with state and donor funding regulations (Kuh et al., 2014). To this end, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of teachers in ensuring that their students are actively engaged in the pursuit of real knowledge that will help them in their career and future studies, as opposed to ...

As the authors point out in the opening chapter of Moral Issues in business, "Stories of business corruption and of greed and wrongdoing in high places have always fascinated the popular press, and media interest in business ethics has never been higher" (Shaw et alt, 4). Part of this fascination must stem from humans interest in "bad new" of disasters terrorism and threats to peaceful living. Some of the interest might be a self defense mechanism that seeks to guard against unwanted circumstances that could happen in people's lives through protection themselves of the knowledge of what has happened to ...

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Introduction
The most appreciated and widely applied parenting programme in the world today is the Parental Effectiveness Training (P.E.T), which was devised by Thomas Gordon, an internationally reputed psychologist. Gordon developed the PET programme while intensively researching on humanist psychology at the University of Chicago, with assistance from Carl Rogers. This programme attained popularity when Gordon published a comprehensive book by the same name in the year 1970, which has been reviewed as under. The book revolves around the idea that every group interaction involves conflicts and differences of perspective that must be resolved in order to sustain the ...

The main theme for the book entitled “The Spirit Level: Why equal societies almost always do better” was about how inequality can affect even those who are not well off. This information is vital for someone in the planning profession because the economy and the labor force affects the job outlook as well as the other important factors in a certain area. The book was well written and was done with extensive years of research, not focusing on only one country, but doing a case study on many. When it comes to someone from the planning profession, it is important that ...

Actin in Plant Cells

Actin, one of the most abundant proteins, occurs in all eukaryotic cells constituting almost five percent of cellular protein. Actin is the predominant component of the cytoskeleton. It is worth noting that the all-important cytoskeleton of a plant has three principal components; actin filament, microtubules and intermediate filaments (Jeon, 2003). As a component of the cytoskeleton of plant and animal cells, actin is of crucial importance in a plethora of cell processes that act in concert to govern cell growth and morphology. The cell processes influenced by the actin cytoskeleton include; cell division, organelle movement, vesicle trafficking, organelle motility, and cell signaling, ...

The Host by Stephenie Meyer is the novel which will not leave one indifferent. To my mind, this novel touches one of the most timely and critical questions of the contemporary world – humanity. Even though the book tells a story about aliens who invade the world and subdue minds of human beings, we can track quite a similarity between that imaginary world and contemporary one. Thus, the main idea of the novel is actually triumph of humanity and love.
The whole novel is a struggle between an alien soul and a human soul. From the very beginning we are involved into the ...

The setting of the novel, for the most part, remains the caves wherein the group of human survivors attempt to keep on living, all the while attempting to figure out what to do about Wanda. The caves provide a nice, claustrophobic setting that help bring out the themes of redemption and paranoia that run throughout the book. All of the characters are trapped in their own caves - Melanie is trapped inside her own body, as is Wanda; the human characters are trapped into a hard life that none of them asked for, and so on. The claustrophobia helps to bring ...

The River and the Chimp is an analytical book written by David Quammen about how the HIV originated from chimpanzees in an African forest (Quammen, 2015). The acumen of this book challenges the many unscientific beliefs about the origin of HIV and spread. There is a great need to understand where this scourge originated to beat the diverse stereotypical and unscientific beliefs. By examining the works of David Quammen in the book The River and the Chimp, this research paper shall focus on discussing the origin of HIV. The knowledge of the origin of HIV is of immense importance ...

Elizabeth Clerk-Lewis in her book narrates the experiences and lives of African American in Washington and how women worked for wealthy white families. This writer has given detailed and reliable information regarding the African American racism, since a grandmother was part of the great migration of the African American, and she could give an oral history regarding the migration. This has enabled her to publish a book with first-hand information that is not biased. Over the last few decades, the essential meaning of gender and sex had been transformed to mean something different apart from its actual meaning. Racial discrimination was ...

Book review, ‘Almost All Alien’

The book by Paul Spickard ‘Almost All Aliens’ tackles the issue of immigration in an unconventional way by integrating the study of immigrant people in relation to the native people, slavery, freeing of slaves, race and ethnicity in general. The author analyses the various approaches in understanding immigration. The assimilation approach as tackled in the book requires that various cultures converged in the United States and into some modified, median American culture. He does not agree with this theory however, as African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and the Native Americans never fitted the bill for assimilation to the Anglo-American culture. ...

PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology
This paper gives a critical review of the scientific non- fictious Thinking, Fast and Slow. It was written by Daniel Kahneman to provide a detailed coverage of the research done by him in the psychological field in which he was well known for. The 499 page text was published by the Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the year 2011. As already highlighted, Thinking, Fast and Slow is an educative novel which gives an in depth encounters of this research and explains the various findings he made during his studies. Some of the major topics covered in the book include, ...

Summaries of Articles

Tutorial Two
Introduction
One of the landmarks of the 20th century was the unprecedented growth in the field of Psychology. However, some pertinent issues (which remain unresolved) threaten the credibility of this noble profession. For example, there is little data to support the classification of “mental illnesses” and use of drugs to treat nonmedical conditions.

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Psychology and the Status Quo by Isaac Prilleltensky
Prilleltensky (1989) argues that the rise of Psychology has been immune to skeptical ideology. In some way, Psychologists learn not deviate from contemporary ideology. As a result, no questions have been raised about some ...

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Barbara de Angelis “Secrets about Men every Woman should know”
"There is nothing secret, which will not become known" - this old adage comes to mind when you become acquainted with the original and colorful book of famous American psychologist Barbara De Angelis. It is unlikely that the readers have ever held a manual on "How to handle a man”, such a mysterious and incomprehensible creature from another planet. At least, in such a way the author characterizes the stronger sex. Moreover, we must admit, not without reason. There is hardly a woman, even with the extensive experience of ...

Supply chain management is an important tool in a firm because it helps organizations to control the processes involved in product movement, inventory still considered work in progress and delivery of finished products. This paper will provide a review of an article by Duflou et al. that focuses on SCM, although with a focus on planning layouts that are used in manufacturing plants. The article focuses more on the energy and resource efficiency.
The main issue in this article is improving the efficiency through the adoption of a structured approach, which the authors explain is necessary for differentiating scale ...

1. Why does Quail want to go to Mars?
The unknown world of another planet attracted him very much. Douglass was obsessed with the idea of trudging among its valleys again because he had already visited the planet as a secret Interplan agent.
2. Why does Quali’s wife always try to discourage his interest in Mars?
Douglas himself stated that it was a wife’s job to bring him down to Earth. In fact, Kirsten knew about his previous trip to Mars.
3. How does REKAL, INC. provide trips to Mars?
They incorporate extra-factual memory implant and provide ...

Introduction

‘Dibs in search of self’ by Virginia Axline presents series of chronicle play therapy sessions. It is an account that covers a year of therapy sessions for an emotionally crippled boy from a wealthy background. Although, ‘Dibs’, the boy shows the obvious signs of a gifted human being, their parents still insist that Dibs is mental retarded. This is because Dibs also present an abnormality in social behavior since he isolates himself from social contacts (Axline, 1964). Dibs further rarely speaks and physically lashes out at everyone including his parents, caretakers, sister and even classmates during school time. Throughout the ...

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“The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy” is a book that developed a reasoned argument about the vaccines versus autism debate. The writer of the book, Seth Mnookin, is aware that the vaccine has been an explosive issue not only in the United States but also across different cultures in the world. Mnookin provides an insight on the effects of biotechnology and how parents, scientists, sociologists, and politicians, among others have perceives it. In other words, the author injects a dose of reality to into the commonly known myth about the link between vaccination and autism (Taylor et al. ...

I believe this book helped me in multiple aspects which pushed me to succeed. It plays a positive role on my thought and enhanced my experiences and assisted me to discover my skills and develop them well through certain strategies. In deed, this book helped me to know a lot of things to do in order to be a good and successful student.

Besides, I also learnt how to write great papers. Freeman gave me a lot of tips on how to write quality and appealing term papers. These can be used both for academic and non academic purposes. If I follow all ...

- Welfare recipients and culture of poverty
- In the chapters 2 and 7 of the book Flat Broke with Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of U.S welfare from the inside of the welfare office, and also from the inside of mothers involved in welfare. She aptly describes the challenges that recipients of welfare face in the management of their families, work. Moreover, she tells the regulations and rules that pertain to welfare reform. Her research is hands on because it involves one on one interaction with the welfare recipients. The hands-on approach she takes makes ...

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The rise of the use of information systems has been an issue of concern and has attracted much attention by many business entities. The development of competitive advantage has been enhanced and developed with the use of information systems. Many organizations have adopted the use of information systems and enhanced the undertaking of business processes. In this paper, a review of information systems in the business context will be looked and assessed. The paper will focus on the content that the authors have focused and done research about. It will help to bring the issues that are of ...

Introduction

In every country, literature is a sort of mirror that reflects all changes in society. The Shanghai Express by Zhang Henshui is a good example of Chinese literature and helps us to understand the nature of Chinese modernization. This social and psychological portrait of modern China pays special attention to the issues of gender, class, and modernization.

Modern and traditional China

Each country that has a period of modernization, experiences the same problem of the conflict between traditions and modern patterns. China's response to European model of modernization produced turmoil and chaos. China demonstrated the specificity of its national spirit and responded with feebleness. The author ...

Paul Spickard’s book, almost all aliens is a book that examines three concepts; immigration (which concerns the study of native people), emancipation and slavery. It attempts to integrate all these three concepts into one. It examines ethnicity and race from the year 1600 to the present. He uses three approaches to enable understanding of this subject. The first approach he uses is the approach of assimilationist whereby be converges the notion of immigration groups into some median in the American culture. He finds this concept to be very flawed. This is because many white Americans have never considered African ...

The Hart-Celler Act is also known as the Nationality and Immigration Act of 1965. It replaced what was formerly known as National Origins Formula which had been enacted in the United States since 1924. The NOF was enacted to put a quota on the immigration of national from other foreign countries into the United States. The Hart-Cellar Act therefore abolished the quota system of national origins. Instead of putting the numerical restriction of immigrants at 150,000 people per year as was in NOF, this Act extended it to a maximum of 170,000.
The Johnson-Reed Act was the Act ...

In the beginning of 1924, the United States’ immigration had reached a record high. It is said the percentage of immigrants entering the country from foreign countries was so high that it warranted government intervention. The White Americans who are still the majority population up to the present started fearing that the immigrants would star taking over their businesses and infringe on their culture and traditions. Since they were the ruling class, they had to make due with law provisions that would restrict immigration. The major immigrants were from Europe, Mexico and the larger Latin America and the African Americans. ...

The European central bank establishes policy for all countries that use the euro. Among these countries, there is disparity in economic development and strength. The euro as an international currency is used in many transactions in many countries within the euro zone. Any economic decision made by the ECB and the countries that are at the core of the euro zone potentially affects the economies of Italy, Spain, Greece and Ireland.
Germany and France are strong economies in the euro zone and trades with relatively weak economies in the zone on a day-to-day basis. They largely control the euro and ...

The book, The Quest for Prosperity, is written by, Justin Yifu Lin. Mr. Lin is the chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank. He illustrated in his book, a fascinating overview of development, development of economies, development for the underdeveloped countries and economies particularly after the Second World War. The book written by Justin Yifu Lin has been notable and it has been acknowledged as a knowledgeable and highly sophisticated book for people that have their interest in economic development, economic policies, economic growth, development of economies and development for third world countries that are struggling to improve ...

Book Report: Left BehindCadet Christian Thomas

Book Report: Left Behind

A bored airline pilot Rayford Steele is not happy with his marriage. Having an affair with the beautiful flight attendant, named Hattie Durham is a dream come true. However, fate changes right when the plane takes off for London, almost all of the travelers on the plane strangely vanish into thin air. On earth, mothers run around terrified trying to find their vanished children. Babies are zapped up and pregnant women stomachs suddenly disappear. Yells and screams are heard everywhere as terror takes over the earth. The Rapture has occurred, suddenly driverless cars are colliding everywhere, ...

Book review: The Clone Redemption

The clone redemption is a science fiction book where an irresistible force meets an immovable object as Steven L. Kent puts it in The Clone Republic saga. The events take place 2516 A.D on earth where a united authority spreads out colonies of human across the Milky Way under strict orders from a powerful galactic military consisting entirely of clones who have now created empires of their own and are planning to keep it no matter who they are up against.
Wayne Harris, a marine clone born and brought up to fight for the U.A (United Authority), unleashes his anger as he ...

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Some additional settings to this novel are presented in chapters 14-20. First, there is the cavern where the human underground lives; it is musty, dirty and makeshift; everything is improvised, with people seemingly keeping on the move and attempting to remain productive and on their guard. Meyer's description of the cave manages to sell just how desperate the human resistance is, as they are forced to live in terrible conditions just to stay alive. The claustrophobia of the caves adds to both Wanderers' and the human characters' paranoia.

Next, several chapters in this section take place in ...