Realism Book Reviews Samples For Students

In his work, Hume distinguishes between ideas and impressions. While impressions are caused by sensory inputs and vivid mental phenomenon, ideas are the thoughts or beliefs related to these memories. Three laws of association—resemblance, contiguity, cause and effect -- come into play in determining the link between impression and idea.
He links the notion of causation to inductive reasoning. He opines that an individual reasons inductively associating constantly conjoined events. This mental act of association is termed by Hume as the concept of causation. In literature, his theory is interpreted in three ways.
In the logical ...

How does the style of this novel compare to the Great Novels of the 19th century that you have read? Why might a very transparent, "classical" realist style be well-suited to the subject matter here?
It is a great novel which creates the sense of Tolstoy in Anna Karenina as well as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The realist style is suited to the subject matter as there is a lot of socialist realism in the book and the main character has a lot of traits which are quite similar to the classic Romantic novels. 2. If you know anything about Socialist ...

“I Want to be a Veterinarian” by Michaela Muntean

- Is the story age/developmentally appropriate? Yes How and Why? Preschool, teaches about careers
- Is the subject matter interesting to children? Yes Is the content well written? Yes
- Do the text and illustrations work together? Yes, a: Is the language suitable for children? Yes b: Are the illustrations good quality? yes
- Is the information accurate? Yes, information is accurate but could be more through
- Are characters depicted positively? Yes a; Free from bias? yes
- Relates to learning areas? Yes, Learning Area: learning about a career, Yes, the area of science could ...

Charles Dickens and Ford Madox Brown

REALISM, EXPLOITATION AND THE RISING MIDDLE CLASS

Charles Dickens’ Hard Times is typical of the author’s social consciousness and biting, satirical style. The novel criticizes the exploitative amorality of 19th-century Industrial Age England, which was transformed, economically and socially, by the rising middle class. The country’s middle class espoused economic equality and opportunity, but in many cases simply parroted the behavior of the nobility, to which most aspired. The realism of other artists, such as the English painter Ford Madox Brown, portrayed the day-to-day realities of life for the working underclasses.

Keywords: Hard Times, Charles Dickens, Industrial ...

Book Review: Realistic Visionary A Portrait of George Washington

Introduction
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 ...

“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 ...

1. I read Akira Vol. 1 by writer and illustrated Katsuhiro Otomo. I borrowed a copy of the version published by Dark Horse Comics in 2000. The series was first published, however, during the 1980s in Japan.
2. I selected this specific issue because it introduces the readers to the interesting world created by Otomo. When I started reading Akira, the story immediately grabbed my attention because of intriguing story and the interesting characters. Moreover, the idea of a post-apocalyptic Japan was both stimulating and daunting.
3. Otomo worked on Akira. What I like best about the illustrations is ...

Compiled by Silberman together with his colleague Freda Hansburg, “PeopleSmart” is undoubtedly a useful tool for learning that should be adopted for operational managers as well as corporate executives. It is an easy book to understand that is well organized and user friendly. PeopleSmart is a book with the potential of transforming the work environment particularly due to its practicality. For people interested in sharpening their interpersonal skills and individual growth, the inspirational book is a sure guide for success.
The main aim of the book is to encourage its readers to be socially astute through attempting to mould them into ...

Historian Stephen Hall keenly engages in the nineteenth-century history of the African American intellectual life in his book, “A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America” (Hall, 2009). His work traces the long nineteenth century and how various black American writers induced various themes during different moments, which include, the biblical story, the American slavery paradox, ancient African story and the challenges of the black citizenship in the era of Reconstruction. He uncovers the overabundance of the black historical sources during the nineteenth century in different forms, which include; sermons, literary texts, newspapers and ...

Main themes

The Greed of Colonialism
Hochschild shows King Leopold’s greed when he sent the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley to collect signatures from the tribal leaders handing over their land to him, by taking advantage of their ignorance. They did not consider that the people living in Africa had their way of life and already had their own forms of government. The European colonizers did not consider the misery and pain they would be putting Africans through with their plans to take over their land. They considered Africa empty and the inhabitants primitive and uncivilized. This was not ...

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to analyze the non-fiction short story "The Price of a Dream" by Andrew Lukonis. The analysis is conducted on the basis of correspondence of the short story to the contemporary reality and accuracy of the described issues. Attention is also paid to political, psychological, sociological and personal matters of the topic. Place of entrepreneur's action in the story is analyzed from the point of its correspondence to cultural traditions of his society.

Compassion - Hope of Humanity

With the development of human civilization, each society liked to consider that its rules and customs were more advanced and civilized ...

Book Review Pride and Prejudice

Historical and cultural context of Pride and Prejudice
One of the cultural change that occurred during Jane Austen’s lifetime was the expanding of literacy and print culture in England. By the year 1800, most of the people either in the middle class or above could read.
The novel Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen has been a very popular novel since its original publication. It has attracted wide coverage in reviews across different members of the society. From the literally reviews, academic, novelists and general public readers. The novel has sold more than 20 million copies since the ...

Book Review of the True Story of ah q

Book Review of the True Story of Ah q
Introduction and book analysis
The novel, a true story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun was first published in 1921. However, this book’s content has a lot to be desired about the time it was set, the twentieth century. Precisely, the author takes the reader through the life experiences of Ah Q, a peasant, spiritual and ambitious man, who lacks regard for the authority. Lu Xun was born on the 25th of September 1881 (Xun, 2009). He exhibited a great passion for writing over the years and maintained a ...

Bainbridge, B. (1991). The Birthday Boys. London: Hachette UK.
“The Birthday Boys” is an acclaimed piece of literary work by Beryl Bainbridge. This novel was published in the year 1991and presents an imaginary tale of South Pole mission by captain Robert Falcon Scott. This story describes the emotional aspect of human endurance and misguided audacity in a very realistic manner. This paper intends to discuss the novel with a focuses on courage as central them of the story.
Beryl Bainbridge is an English author who is named as one of the greatest authors of the United Kingdom. The author ...

Introduction

The novel ‘Silent Spring’ was authored by Rachael Carson. The novel, ‘Silent Spring’ presents a vivid review of the manner in which the environment has been bargained or compromised by some of the most effective pesticides. An example of these pesticides is the DDT. Carson’s major argument in this book is based on the negative impacts of the pesticides that were used in agricultural activities. She insisted that the pesticides killed bugs. However, there was a more serious issue that she intended to address than just mentioning the obvious reason behind implementing the pesticide solution in agriculture. The book was ...

What Is Your Attitude Being a Manager?

A manager in any field is deemed to have all the required attributes of being a manager. The manager is responsible for planning and then directing the duties allocated to individuals. They are expected to act in an effective manner through coordinated monitoring the work done and carrying out the necessary and sufficient correction of the failed actions. This is done when it is deemed necessary. Ideally, the management posts fit the individuals who have supervisory abilities. In most areas, the managers are expected to have the proceedings in the organization or firm that they are allocated the responsibilities. That ...

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestseller book, authored by Iris Chang. The book is based on the atrocious acts, committed by Japanese army after Nanking was captured by them. The book is a realistic portrayal of massacres and rapes by Japanese in Nanking. The book also presents how Chinese people still remember the horrifying incidents of Nanking. This paper intends to discuss the book and delves deep to examine several other related aspects.
‘The Rape of Nanking’ portrays the rape and massacre in Chinese capital of those days, Nanking. Japanese army captured ...

‘Bread Givers’ is an acclaimed story written by Anzia Yezierska. The story gives readers a glimpse about a Jewish American family that struggles with financial problems. Anzia Yezeierska is known for depicting problems related to migrated Jews women and other immigrants who migrated into America. This paper intends to discuss the story, ‘Bread Givers’ along with discussing the challenges that Sara Smolinsky faces as a woman in her traditional family.
The story revolves around a Jewish family having Sara Smolinsky, a young girl in the centre. Beginning chapters of the story indicates that Sara’s family is migrated into America for a better life ...

“The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs” by Ilardi (2009) is a self-help book for people who suffer from depression that helps them make lifestyle changes associated with improvements in depression scores. The book is divided into three sections, which include understanding depression, therapeutic lifestyle change, and making the change. In understanding depression, the author begins with describing a case study of a patient he had personally treated for depression. Of course, it is noted that names throughout the books were changed to protect the patient-therapist privacy while allowing the author to build trust and expertise by writing ...

Book review Breach of Trust by Tom Coburn

In his book, Breach of Trust, Tom Coburn narrates some of his experience in the US House of representatives as a congressman. He is a former businessman and a practicing physician with equally ardent views about the congress, religion and implementation of the constitution. Tom Coburn is a true legislator and he even honored his pledge of serving for only three terms as a congressional representative then leave Washington. Breach of trust offers a candid look at the internal workings of congress, and why ‘Washington turns insiders into outsiders’. The reader’s are served with shocking behind-the-scenes stories and why the reforms that the country ...

Leadership is an attribute of a person with the capability of organizing a group of people or workers for a common goal or objective. In leadership, power pays less influence as compared with the influence. Leaders are visionary, with viable ideas and strategies aimed at achieving a given set of objectives predetermined in the activities. In today’s management leadership plays crucial roles in influencing the managerial processes to be adopted by an organization. Without key strategies of motivating workers or influencing them for a common mission, the organization performance trend is likely to be in a decreasing trend. Leaders in an organization are required ...

Throughout the book, several characters discuss the differences between Western and Eastern ways of painting. Two major parts of that difference are style and anonymity. One initial difference lies in the purpose of painting. As Enishte says, “Every picture serves to tell a story If there’s something within the text that our intellect and imagination are at pains to conjure, the illustration comes at once to our aid But painting without its accompanying story is an impossibility” (Pamuk, 27). In the Eastern view, art exists to serve the story, not as something worth existing in and of itself. Likewise, ...

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One of the most powerful elements of The Lord of the Flies is the universal applicability of the story. This series of events could have happened to any group of boys, from any developed nation on the planet, that ends up shipwrecked on an island together. This is why Golding does not give the reader much information about the boys' lives before they came to this island. Once they are shipwrecked and form their own society, all of the events that had happened earlier in their lives became irrelevant – all of their slates were wiped clean.
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Globalization can be defined as the increasing relationships in the globe concerning culture, economical activities and political influences. In economics, economic globalization refers to the unrestricted movement of goods and services across the national borders with little or no barriers. It has been argued that economic globalization can result in economic growth in developing and developed countries through specialization, reduced labor and technology importation and comparative advantage. Critics have challenged the idea of globalization by claiming that the people encouraging globalization only looks exaggerates the advantages and underestimates the costs of globalization. It is in this perspective that we ...

PAUL COLLIER’S CONDEMNATION OF INEFFECTUAL AID AND RESOURCE ADMINISTRATION AMONG ‘THE BOTTOM BILLION’ A REVIEW OF ‘THE BOTTOM BILLION: WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT’

Paul Collier’s assessment of one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history explains, in practical terms, the social, economic and political conditions that have brought much of Africa and the rest of the underdeveloped world to the brink of disaster. Collier’s intelligent analysis marks a badly needed departure from other studies, reports and books on the subject, many of which have concluded that the ...