High School Book Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

The ability to convey information through exchange of messages or thoughts is enhanced by a good understanding of English grammar. Writing as a medium of communication is complement to the spoken language or speech. Writing is basically a powerful tool for studying since it plays critical role in education. Among the benefits of writing include generating new ideas, helping us to both absorb and master fresh information, and discover what we know. A number of English textbooks have in one way or another improved the use of English grammar in both writing and speaking among many students. One of these books is “ ...

The book Whale down which is also known for its whale philosophy is written by Dr. Ken Blanchard. He tells a story of a poor man who has difficulties in managing his complex relationships with humans. After watching a whale show and afterwards applying the whale trainer’s training skills to his family and work, he greatly improves the relationships in his family and performs a more productive work.
The book introduces the power of the positive relationships which is of high importance for creating high performance in any type of relationships. The author indicates that the positive behavior ...

ABSTRACT

In Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, C.J. Pascoe reported on his fieldwork in a California high school, where he observed how the norms of ‘institutionalized heterosexuality’ were enforced through formal and informal strictures that were embedded deeply in the structure and culture of school life. This included ritualized and routinized threats, ostracism, bullying and harassment of students who did not fit the expected masculine or feminine gender roles and ‘institutionalized heterosexuality’. Indeed, for adolescents, an important part of the very definitions of masculine and feminine originate in contrast to those of their peers perceived to ...

Relating Literature to Experience: Literary Masterpieces that Speak.

Literature has existed in our lives since the invention of formal standardized writing. Writers have used literature to express their thoughts and opinions on various subjects relating to human life. Fundamentally, literature has always been about relating to the human life and experiences. Literature employs elements of writing such a plot, point of view and dialogue to express the ideas of the author. In most cases, authors approach a subject by writing about experiences and using humor to pass the point across rather than approaching the subject head on. Literature has been used over time to record experiences and ...

Chapter 1

The main idea of “The Matthew Effect” is that people frequently attribute success to individual characteristics that they consider to be rare, such as genius or talent. However, oftentimes the real explanation for that success has to do with advantages that are not accessible to the public. The analogy that he provides has to do with the factors that create the tallest tree in a particular forest. It is true that the tree came from a quality seed, but that seed (and sapling) did not have any other trees blocking its sunlight, and the seed was planted in fertile ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Project DARE has been developed in the nation as a school-based drug-education program that receives an annual funding of over $200 million, with the aim of equipping elementary school children with skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. In my opinion the idea is great, and is effective for the first two years but then wears off and hence is not effective with high school and college where peer pressure and contact with drugs is seen amongst juveniles, this is explained in the book “Juvenile Delinquency”, Eighth Edition, by Clemens Bartollas and Frank Schmalleger. They ...

Book Review

Book Review 2: ‘Children of Dust’ by Ali Eteraz
Background Introduction
The book ‘Children of Dust’ by Ali Eteraz focuses on his narrative regarding his religion centered childhood. He grew up in a deeply religious Islamic family, and like most children, he follows in the same religion pathway as his parents. However, Abir Eteraz’s relationship with the religion identity is far way complex than his peers and age mates in his neighborhood in America. With time, the young boy becomes fanatical and obsessed with Islamic faith with the limited comprehension of a child. Largely, his parents are a ...

A reading of Wakatsuki Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar and Melba Pattillo Beals’ Warriors Don't Cry reveals that racial prejudice in the twentieth-century societies of the United States was against anybody who was not Caucasian. In other words, while Houston’s work focuses on the Japanese-Americans’ experiences after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the internment that came after, Beals talks of black segregation and the laws that declared black people inferior to the whites. Hence, there are similarities between the two books as they revolve around ideas of white supremacy that placed persons of African and Japanese descent ...

1. Name and describe the four main characters in the book.

The main characters are two mice, “Sniff” and “Scurry” and two little people, miniature humans named “Hem” and “Haw”.

2. The cheese is a metaphor for what? Provide some examples.
Cheese is a metaphor for what you want in life albeit a job, money, a loving relationship, etc. For example, Cheese represents the changes in life and in the end Haw finds the largest cheese wall left by his friend Hem. The foursome is lucky in the beginning to find the cheese wall in Cheese Station C. Day after day all four return to eat the cheese. The mice go looking for change because they knew that ...

With the world in turmoil and far bloodier, gorier scenes being created in video games than could ever be captured in a book, one would think a war novel, translated to English in 1929, would have lost its impact over the years. The startling, but very real truth, is the impact of the novel has not faded over the decades. It has been nearly a century and the words are still as powerful as the day they were written. Originally written by Erich Maria Remarquee and translated later by A.W. Wheen, anybody who reads it would be stunned by how true the ...

Ralph Reavis wrote Apostles of Self-Help and Independence as a history of the Virginia Seminary and College (since 1996 the Virginia University of Lynchburg) of which he has served as the current president since 2000. Like the majority of the university’s past sixteen presidents, he is also one of its graduates. He has written works on Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, and has taught at William and Mary and Howard Universities and the University of Richmond. Reavis defends the Seminary’s tradition of autonomy and freedom from the control of white donors and institutions, which was a ...

Dean Smith, who retired from the University of North Carolina as the all-time winningest collegiate basketball coach, shared his philosophies of the game soon after retiring. In 1998, his book “Multiple Offense and Defense” was published, and immediately labeled by a must read by players and coaches of all levels.
Smith looks at both sides of the court in a thorough manner, letting the reader know about the strategies, tips and secrets which helped his Tar Heel teams win two national championships. In particular, his description of the “motion” offense is unique with its in-depth descriptions and all-around analysis into ...

Journal Entry 3: Book Review

Journal Entry 3: Book Review: Season of Life by Jeffery Marx
Part One

The best thing about Season of Life by Jeffery Marx is that boys are allowed to have feelings in this book. Feelings can range from deep sadness that causes them to cry as well as happiness when they are part of a winning sports team. The book is about true experiences from Gilman High School football players and from Joe Ehrmann, who is famous from his days as a college football player. Marx takes a different approach from other books when he shares ‘coming of age’ stories of ...

Leadership in Season of Life:

Leadership in the book takes many different forms. However, the main character Joe Ehrmann exhibits excellent leadership skills. He is a former football player who in his playing days was a star who is an excellent leader. The plot of the book follows the story of two old friends separated for almost a quarter century. The two friends are Jeffrey Marx and Joe Ehrmann. When the two finally reunite, Jeffrey Marx realizes that he can learn a lot from Joe’s leadership. This is mainly because Joe proves that he is a great leader who coaches a high school football team as well as running a ...