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Book Review: ‘The Farming of Bones’ by Edwidge Danticat

The canons of literature around the globe are bestrewn with great works about wars. A curious thing about war literature is that there is almost always a clear heroic, moral victor who triumphs against a ‘worthy’ adversary – one who is able to fight back and is in no way victimized. Unlike such ‘glorious’ narratives, there are books which deal with less black and white forms of violence. Books such as ‘The Farming of Bones’ by Edwidge Danticat dive headlong into violent narratives where there really is no glory in death. ...

"All animals are equal, but some animals

Are more equal than others"
Alexis de Tocqueville has been quoted as saying that the skills used to create marvelous literature do not necessarily produce coherent and well-founded political thought and in most cases one might say that he was right. But that was not the case for English novelist Eric Arthur Blair more commonly known as George Orwell, whose work is characterized by political insight, linguistic clarity and irrefutable literary value, a work that can still inspire almost sixty four years after his death. A keen analyst of his turbulent times, Orwell was, according to Newsweek magazine, the ...

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One of the most unique works of English literature is a fairy tale allegory "Animal Farm» by George Orwell. The story of “Animal farm” is very simple and dramatic. The action of this story occurs at the manor house (farm “Manor”), the owners of which are Mr. and Mrs. Jones. The animals here, as in any fairy tale, endowed with human qualities. All exposition begins with that the old leader (Meyer) tells the other animals his dream, in which all people disappeared from the earth and the world is ruled only by animals, there is no oppression and all are ...

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The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is a 2006 book by American author, Michael Pollan that takes readers through an enthralling expedition of the American food system. The basic question that Pollan tries to pose in this book is what people should essentially eat. To explore more on the modern food choices, Pollan divides his book into three parts that follow the particular food chains that sustains the human race. These are industrial food, pastoral food and the food that we normally store for ourselves (personal).
The second part of the book, which is the pastoral ...

- Bathsheba Everdane’s relationships with Farmer Boldwood and Sergeant Troy do not succeed.
- There is no true love between Bathsheba and the two men.
- Although she takes long to realise it, Bathsheba’s true love is Gabriel Oak.
- A good marriage is founded on mutual love between the partners.
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- A marriage should be based on honesty, patience, forgiveness and the willingness to help each other.
- People who plan to marry to ensure that they are both truly in love with each other.
- Relationships ...

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The animal farm is a book written by George Orwell during the Second World War and published during the rise of the Russia. This short novel is a satire on totalitarianism as was practised in the Soviet Union..
The book is a fable whose casts is Mr. Jones and his farm particularly the animals. It depicts how he oppressed them continuously. The animals in the farm, motivated by Major’s (an old pure breed pig) death and tired of oppression from their farmer, Mr. Jones, planned a revolution to overthrow him. The revolution was based on the insights of Major and the ...

Jonathan Safran Foer has entertained enormous significant approval and international awareness for his writing approach in novels for example Everything Is Illuminated: a Novel. The most recent book, however, is a factual and on edge. Eating Animals is a comprehensive Foer’s individual description of disagreements with the principles of eating animals subsequent to the delivery of his son. The book is sectioned into eight chapters, each one containing a title that is not completely obvious but more reminiscent and figurative. For “All or Nothing or Something Else” for the second chapter plunging into the predicament of the quantity and type of animal ...

Growing a Farmer by Kurt Timmermeister is a book about living off the land, and self-discovery. Overall, the book is a personal narrative about going back to one’s roots to a more holistic way of living.
Some years ago, around 1990, Timmermeister, a former chef, purchased around four acres of land for his family. He sought to buy an affordable piece of land that wasn’t too far from the city of Seattle. As he started to make their newly purchased property a home, he discovered that there was a lot more potential there than he first thought. ...

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1. The book “Of the Mice and Men” has a grim lesson on the nature and characteristics of human existence. All the character in the story such as George, Candy, Curley’s wife, Crooks and Lennie admitted to having profound some sense of themes related to human existence (Steinbeck & Sinise, 2011).
Themes that resonate with human rights, social and economic justice, and the strength perspective in the book Of Mice and Men by the author John Steinbeck are discussed fully as bellow.
Theme of powerless is evident in the story. The story suggests that oppression comes from different ...

This composition presents the relationship issues that arise from Bathsheba Everdane’s relationships with three men Gabriel Oak, Farmer Boldwood and Sergeant Francis Troy. This composition contrasts and compares the three relationships, and the Issues about marriage that people can learn from the novel. The relationships between Bathsheba and Boldwood and Bathsheba and Troy do not work, Bathsheba’s relationship ends in marriage. The love the two have for each other is genuine and they are bound to make it work since each of them is mature and has faced challenges to harden them. The relationship between Bathsheba and ...

Introduction

Social determinants of health can be described as the environmental conditions in which individuals live, work, learn, age and worship that significantly affect their levels of health, life quality, functioning, risks and outcomes. Among the most essential social health determinant is a healthy and safe physical environment and a good power, money and resources distribution. Water is indeed a very important resource and thus it often pops up whenever social determinants of health are being discussed. To explore this issue in more elaborate terms, it is good that we use a case study.
Mountains beyond Mountains is a book by written by American ...

History breeds nobility. The American President George Washington needs no introduction; who was a great political leader with a heart of gold that always thought about the people. He served as the first president of the United States and paved the way for the institution and his work procedure, legal policies and constituencies become the foundation of the American Presidency. However, despite his two-term service as the Chief Magistrate of a great nation, his early life was a mystery which was presented to the audience through the book "Ten Facts About Washington’s Presidency''. The story of his life ...

Eragon is a remarkable work of fantasy in that it was written by a 15-year-old boy, Christopher Paolini. The scope of the action, inventive language and overall idea make the first offering in the Inheritance Cycle an enjoyable read and all the more amazing for having been conceived of by a teenager. On the other hand, it is difficult to think of Eragon as a truly original work because of its many similarities to other works of literary fantasy, with influences ranging from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter and the Star Wars saga. A story featuring a dragon, ...

4 Immigrants Manga is written by the Japanese author Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama. Manga is the name given to Japanese comic books that focus on adults and children. 4 Immigrants Manga revolves around the experiences of the author and his three friends who arrive in San Francisco as immigrants. “It is one of the first modern-format comic books ever published in the United States, especially with all-new material and a documentary, autobiographical theme” (L, 2013).

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Born on January 9, 1885, in a little village called Neu, in Western Japan, Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama was a good artist and a story teller. ...

Summary of the Book Tejanos&Texas under the Mexican Flag 1821-1836 by Andres Tijerina

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The publication of the book Tejanos& Texas came in the backdrop of the lack historical data regarding the invasion of the Anglo-American’s military, their political and economic espionage of the during Mexican flag. After 1836, the Anglo-American invaded the Mexican lands. Therefore, this book gives credible details of the lives of Americans after they had exerted their dominion over the Mexicans beyond 1836. Principally, this book gives historically rich information regarding the social cultural and political exchanges that occurred during these critical years of the war, and invasion of the Anglo-America into Mexico. Andres Tijerina, in this ...

In his book ‘The Time it Never Rained’, Kelton describes an environment that is very harsh especially to ranchers. The drought that hit the area during that time was very severe, and the worst recorded in Texas’ history. The descriptions given in the book well suits Texas, a state that had problems with water. Drought was a common phenomenon in Texas, and the inhabitants knew this.
Texas is a place that expects drought at any time. The areas geography is such that the humidity and the aridity are always at war. In almost every decade, Texas experienced droughts. However, ...

Book Review: Realistic Visionary A Portrait of George Washington

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Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington by Peter Henriques tries to explain the first president of the United States of America as a person and not a symbol as most books have done. It is because it focusses on both his public and private life. The author looks at the reputation of George Washington as he tries to merge them with the facts about him. The book describes the first president as a war hero who is very serious and uptight. It means that the book explains the character of the president and relates it with the way he ...

The book, “the ocean at the end of the lane," by Neil Gaiman, starts with a prologue that acts as a window to the idea in it. The prologue begins with the narrator at a funeral, dressed for the occasion. He states that he has done his part through the speech that he was to give. The writer wants to escape the tense situation in meeting all the people that he had known when he lived in his hometown. Page nine discloses the narrator’s discomfort at being asked personal questions when his life was so unorthodox. He was divorced, practiced pure ...

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The book An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears finds its basis in the historical context of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The dispute between the two groups took place with President Jackson Andrew leading the Americans and Ross John leading the Cherokee Indians. Smith attempts to give an account of the events following the aforementioned Indian Removal Act of 1830through the eyes of the Cherokees. The Red Indians felt betrayed by the white man and as a result, tension mounted between the two opposing sides and eventually ...

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 ...

The book “The Farming of bones” by Edwidge Danticat is about two lovers Amabelle Desir and Sebastian Onius. The story is based on true facts from a true account that existed long time ago. Edwidge Danticat researched all the incidents and used panopticon ideas to put them clear from a given perspective. Panopticon is defined as a building especially in prison or library which enables one person overlook all places from one perspective. Panoption idea may be viewed the ideas that 6 million people were captured in one single photograph. This reflected the war that claimed 6 million people just in a small ...

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This influential book by writer and translator Kwan reckons his tumultuous coming-of-age in China during and after World War II. This direct and poetic work clarifies the contradictions of wartime as set through the eyes of a child. Kwan is alienated from his Swiss mother as a young boy and servants take care of him while his father remarries an Englishwoman. Thus, David is emotionally distant from his father who is a wealthy administrator for China's railroads, and a role model to those he interacts with. Kwan's story is as much about his father as it is about him. He explores interesting details ...

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals: Book Review

Introduction
‘The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals’ is a highly acclaimed book by American author, Michael Pollan. The book was published in year 2006 and whole book seems to search the answer of a simple question, what should we eat. In this book, Pollan marks out record and component of different foods with his very specific findings. This paper intends to discuss the book, ‘The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals’ and further focuses on some related aspects.

Discussion

There are several interesting things in this book for readers and since Pollan is a journalist, his approach ...

Book Review: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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This review is of the best-selling book in the self-help genre by Stephen R. Covey, entitled “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, which – according to the front cover – has sold over 10 million copies since it was first published.

Following Covey’s extensive study of “success” literature going back over 200 years and in particular his and his wife’s experiences with their own son, Covey – using the ideas and lessons he had learned firsthand – wrote the book to provide others, his readers, with the means to improve their effectiveness on a personal level, by following a series ...

There are two radically different and competing versions of family and community in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. One of these is the semi-feudal status quo of rigid divisions by race, gender, caste and social class and the other a more democratic, integrated and humane community of the future symbolized by Atticus Finch, his children and supporters. Broadly speaking, these two conflicting ideologies are not simply taking place in the small, fictional community of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. They are in conflict throughout the entire country and perhaps the world, and are not confined to one particular ...

The Dust Bowl has been associated with the Midwestern plains, especially the southern part of the country such as in Texas and Oklahoma. The Dust Bowl area suffered black outs from the blowing dust and the loss of good soil in the 1930s. Some of the dust storms were so terrible they were called dust blizzards. The history of that tragic time is chronicled by Donald Worster in his book Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, the 25th Anniversary Edition. The book was first published in 1979 and it won the Bancroft Prize that year; a prize which ...

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America in the early post independence years was a country with huge potential yet there was not much to get a look in at the time either. Larkin’s narrative is exciting in the extreme as it paints an intriguing and satisfying picture of what was really going on at the time with inch perfect details of the clothes and customs worn by the population as well as other aspects of everyday life both rural and in the city. One has to acknowledge the fact that a lot of information about the United States’ past history is muddled in the extreme and ...

Terry Alford "A Prince Among Slaves"

This book tells the astonishing true story of Abdul Rahman who was born in West Africa as a royal prince, but was sold into slavery, shipped to the U.S.A. and endured forty years of slavery before finally being released. Alford does not really put forward an argument in his book: Prince Among Slaves is a narrative account of Abdul Rahman’s life. However, records were not especially accurate two hundred or more years ago and Alford has done his research painstakingly so that he is able to write a fluent narrative account of the man’s life drawn from scanty historical documents ...