O. Henry Book Reviews Samples For Students

The dialectical relationship between love and material objects is complex. In the United States of America different elements in culture often take opposing sides: some, like most spiritual organizations, favoring the former, and others, like the capitalistic worldview, favoring the latter. O. Henry was one of this country’s most famous turn-of-the-nineteenth-century writers, who constantly incorporated its culture into his texts; “The Gift of the Magi”, one of his most famous and important short stories, deals with this dichotomy. Using many of O. Henry’s staples, it rests on irony to construct a bittersweet tale where love ends up prevailing. ...

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 ...

The historical context of the trial and eventual execution of Mary, queen of Scots is of quite significant for those who take interest in English history and particularly for them who want to know about what happened in the discourse of history when the Holy Roman Catholic Church split into two divergent branches i.e., Catholic and Protestant. At that time, i.e. in 1543, Henry VIII of England decided to set up the Anglican Church and to break the religious ties with the Catholic Church. Rather than to call the English Church as both Catholic and Protestant, it was defined ...

Henry V is the final part of a four part series of plays written by Shakespeare about English kings and which deals principally with the exploits of the great King Henry V particularly against the French.
The first scenes of the play are concerned with the embarkation of the English fleet towards France and there is also an incident where an assassination on Henry is foiled – this was apparently the mastermind of the earl of Cambridge. We also see a change of character from the homely Prince Hal of Henry IV in the king’s wily uncovering of the plot ...

An industrialist, a trend setter, entrepreneur, all these define one personality- Henry Ford. Starting off with a single car manufacturing, he went on to develop a completely new concept that would become world famous pattern of manufacturing in the longer run. He also had a trace of philanthropic element in him and aimed at improving the working conditions and overall life style of the workers involved in different industrial processes.
Henry Ford was born in the year 1863 in Michigan. His family had a descendance of farming and agricultural background. His personal inclinations did not show compatibility with the agricultural work and he ...

Book Review of Henry Kissinger’s

MEMORANDUM

This book review aims to analyse the content of Henry Kissinger’s On China. The content will include critical evaluation of arguments, theories and viewpoints presented in the book as well as summarize the geopolitical and strategies mentioned therein.

1 On China – Points to be noted
For over two decades before Henry Kissinger visited China as president’s Nixon’s delegate, no high level diplomatic interaction had taken place between the U.S. and China. Very little was known about the nation and its foreign policies. However, post the cold war and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., China ...