Cruel Book Reviews Samples For Students

“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave” is a memoir of Frederick Douglas. Douglas was an African American who born as a slave and spent his early life in slavery. Douglas, in his memoir, describes his own life, experiences, sufferings and life of other slaves in a very realistic manner. This narrative was published in 1845 and has been revised several times due to its popularity. This paper proposes to discuss Frederick Douglass and analyses his memoir and several other related aspects.
Frederick Douglas talks about his date of birth and about his parents in First chapter of ...

Introduction

In the history of genocide crimes, the question of responsibility always crops up. International organizations of justice have always argued that responsibility for genocide and war crimes is a collective and individual responsibility. Everyone is responsible in their own right but also it is the duty of the society as a whole to work against forces that would otherwise promote occurrence of war atrocities. This paper is a comparative piece drawing evidences and incidents between the works of Slavenka Drakulic in the book “They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague” and Heda Margolius Kovaly works in ...

What is the civilizational cycle?

Currently the history of Western civilization is coming through its worst times. It fades gradually for the last hundred years. There is a complete stagnation in the economy and culture. Faith in its future falls, idea of democracy no longer seems so attractive. Science has put forward its response on the matter - a new direction in science has established, which explains the process of cyclical development of civilizations. This science is called biohistory.
Each civilization passes a certain stages or lets call them cycles of development: generation, development, flourishing and fading. From the point of view of biohistory, civilizations tend ...

The Irish Way

Analysis of Chapters
The book, “The Irish Way” by James R. Barrett describes the life of Irish immigrants who went to start new lives in America after conditions at home became un-accommodative. The author of the book has structured it in a very interesting manner. To show the various interactions of the Irish immigrants, the book has been subdivided into sections namely, The Parish, The Street, The Stage, The Workplace, The Nation and The Machine. This essay however focus on two of three sections that is, The Workplace, The Stage and The Nation as well as the introductory part ...

Introduction

The book, “The Irish Way” by James R. Barrett is a masterpiece written to describe the life of Irish immigrants who went to start new lives in America after conditions at home became un-accommodative. Widespread insecurity, callous English colonizers and the ghost of great famine still lingering on and on in their lives, made this ethnic group be convinced that home was longer a home anymore. They descended in United States of America in large numbers. James R. Barrett in his book notes that these people were the first group of immigrants to settle in America. According to him, there were a ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poetry that originates from Mesopotamia. It is among the earliest known literature in Mesopotamia. Many scholars believe that it originated from a series of Sumerian poems, and legends about Gilgamesh who is the protagonist. It is known to be the oldest recorded story in the human history that is over 4000 years old.
The story portrays Mesopotamia’s society in the third millennium B.C.E vision of after life. In addition, the story tells shows the reader how the people in Mesopotamia believed in the gods, and offered sacrifices for their prayers to ...

The novel “Daughter of Time” written by Josephine Tey and published by ‘Simon and Schuster’ is one of the most interesting literary works well-disguised as a novel. The classic, published in the year 1951 for the first time dates back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gives an account of Richard III . The story has a fascinating plot with likeable characters. The most interesting part of the book is the way Tey presents history in the form of a mystery. She portrays history as a science, which involves a constant effort to analyze and learn from the truth rather a mere recitation of names, ...

Elie Wiesel’s Night, the author’s autobiographical tale of his experiences in German concentration camps during the Second World War, is a harrowing story of family, helplessness and the simple human drive to survive. While the story focuses primarily on the Jews who are imprisoned, tortured and killed in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, one fascinating perspective is how the German soldiers are portrayed. The Nazi soldiers of the book are depicted as largely inhuman monsters, who strip the Jews of their identity and agency; while there are the occasional moments where the Germans are shown to just be following orders, ...

Plot summary

Heart of Darkness is set in colonial Africa and revolves around Marlow, a meditative sailor, and his expedition through the Congo River to meet Kurtz, an optimist with myriad abilities. While working as a riverboat captain for a Belgian company trading in Africa, Marlow meets face to face with high handedness and cruelty meted against the natives in the Company’s stations. They are forced into hard labor, and are heavily overworked and mistreated by the Company’s agents. Marlow turns up at the central station under the care of general manager and discover s that his steamship had been grounded and ...

Raphael capitalizes on the social stratification that characterizes many societies today. Inequality within society has been perceived by many as being inevitable. Each society has both the rich and the poor. In Raphael’s perspective the rich continue being rich as the poor constantly grapple with lack. This paradigm is existent in many societies because it is difficult of move from one social class to the other. The lack of equal opportunities within society creates a situation whereby only the rich are able to progress being they have access to resources. However, Raphael introduces the idea that self-sacrifice and desiccation ...

The Known World by Edward P. Jones:

The author’s fictional assessment on this unusual phenomenon begins with the death of the 31-year-old Henry Townsend who is a former slave turned now a master of his own 33 slaves. In Manchester County, he also owns way beyond 50 acres of land. Townsend is critically concerned about the eventful destiny his holdings after his early death. During his time as a slave (his youth), Henry certainly works particularly hard to make himself essentially indispensable to the master, William Robbins. After Henry's parents manage to secure the family's freedom, Townsend maintains a high level of allegiance to Robbins (Parrott, 2003). On the ...

Hitler’s Table Talk is written in a way to make you feel as if you are having a direct conversation with Hitler over the dining room table. Or maybe it is more like being lectured by him because the talk offered in the book are monologues. The date and time of day is noted as well as who is with him during his talk. His conversations in the book explain the beliefs he holds dear such as the superiority of the Aryan race and who he considers to be a part of that race. He discusses his feelings on breeding pure ...