Clan Book Reviews Samples For Students

Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. New York: Grove Press, 1999.

On the afternoon of October 3, 1993, more than one hundred and sixty men prepare themselves with a mission to capture the two men. Following the starvation of Somalis, food is brought into the country but the people do not benefit from it as warlords store it and in turn, cause further starvation among the people. However, the mission on that day targets the two men, Salad Omar and Awale Mohammed, the lieutenants of Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The rangers manage to capture the two men ...

Book Review

The Book is basically detailed in defining the two different perspectives of two different cultures in medical sense of being. The first culture is about US biomedicine and how the medication affects people as well as how it can be used as a form of social control. The other perspective includes the Hmong perspective which is entirely about spiritual causes and other causes that are not related to biomedical performances or the concept of biomedical healing. The book is excellent in terms of how it defines the distant gap between the two cultures and uses Lia, a Hmong child, as a bridge ...

“A man's life was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer to his ancestors” (Achebe 122). – One of the impacts of colonization is the disappearance of cultural or traditional practices. This quote shows how a life of an individual is related to his or her culture or origin.
“Behind them was the big and ancient silk-cotton tree which was sacred. Spirits of good children lived in that tree waiting to be born. On ordinary days young women who desired children came to sit under the shade” (Achebe 46). – This quote illustrates the richness of the culture of ...

During the late 18th century, the power of the Ottoman Empire Began to decline, this is when the Eastern Question emerged. The Eastern Question in the European history refers to the political problems that came about once the Ottoman Empire started falling apart. The Eastern Questions does not refer to a particular question but refers to the many problems that came by once the Ottoman Empire declined in the 18th,19th and 20th Century. These problems were mainly on the European territories that were subjects of the Ottoman Empire; they were experiencing instabilities after the collapse of the empire.
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Chinua Achebe, in the famous novel, Things Fall Apart, goes on to delve deep into the culture of two different communities through the story of the life of the protagonist, Okonkwo, who is a heroic character of his village in Nigeria. The protagonist is an acclaimed man who has three wives and many children. He is someone who has shown his valor and warlike skills for which he is known among all. The character has a tragic flaw, nonetheless, that leads to his ultimate downfall. He is obsessed not to reveal any sign of emotion or weakness to people.
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