Song Book Reviews Samples For Students

Girl by Jamaica Kinkaid

Girl is a short story that provides a mother’s instructions to her daughter. The instructions basically relate to issues such as good manners, household chores, cookery, social conduct, and relationships with men. Although the foregoing instructions seem challenging to the reader, the instructions are ultimately based on the parental efforts that are geared towards providing the girl-child with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop proper habits as they develop.
All through the narrative, the mother accuses her daughter as concentrating on becoming a ‘slut’. Notably, the suspicion of the mother is not based on the behavior of the girl ...

The character of Socrates in Aristophanes’s Cloud resembles the character he put across in Plato’s Apology. In both cases, Socrates is a master sophist, the ideal philosopher. He is well versed in sophistry, science, rhetoric, and atheism. He appears removed from reality, is ready to defend his stand however outrageous it sounds and refuses to give in to coercions by his critics, students and authorities. Socrates maintains the character of a model philosopher and intellect who combines simplicity with an air of importance to converse convincingly with his challengers regardless of the nature of the topic at hand.
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Introduction

The Song of El Cid is an Epic Spanish poem based on the Story of a medieval warrior from the era of Alfonso II’s reign between 1072 and 1109, Rodrigo de Viva “El Cid,” who lived between 1043 and 1099 as a knight. He fought for the Christians and sometimes for the Muslims during the Spanish Reconquest (Reconquista) and conquered the King of Valencia, which has been in the hands of Arab leaders. This earned him a great reputation, leading to his name as El Cid or “The Lord.” The Story of El Cid lends itself to analysis based on several ...

Summary

Chapter 3 mostly deals with main principles of two-dimensional design and things connected to this subject, displaying a wide array of examples to go with it, so the reader can clearly see how they work in practice.
The chapter defines the pattern, one of the main principles of design, as a visual element that is systematically repeated over the extended area; patters are mostly based on a module or a basic visual unit. The chapter says patterns are often used to decorate walls, fabrics and books. Moreover, multiple parts of visual information can be unified in a composition using a certain pattern. In its ...

The book paranoia gives a gripping touch and fantastically intruinging imagination that keeps you glued to the end. It combines high-tech business with corporate security and espionage that thrills all through the book. Adam Cassidy is the quintessential slacker who is tired of his job at Wyatt Telecom. He diverts corporate`s funds of about $80 grand to throw a party for his fellow loading dock employee, and he fully commits to be fired for his crime.
The company`s security finally catches up with him and his boss at Wyatt, Nicholas Wyatt a rich and influential individual offers Adam a way ...

Historical Background and Overview of the Book

The term Viewpoints as used in theater arts refers to a set of terminologies given to some specific principles of motion/movement through time and space; they simply describe what happens on the stage. The viewpoints can also be defined as an improvisation technique that emanated from the postmodern world of dance. The technique was developed in the 1970s by choreographer Mary Overili by breaking down space and time. Composition on the other hand is the art of selecting and arranging the individual components of theatre language into a combined work of art. Directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau expanded and adapted ...

Book Report: “Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children’s Lives”

Introduction
The book entitled “Songs in Their Heads: Music and Its Meaning in Children’s Lives” is written by Patricia Shehan Campbell and published in the year 2010. It was published by the Oxford University Press in New York. Besides being a requirement on the reading list, the book is much appealing to me because of the way it addresses a real life scenario concerning the implication of music. The author brings together a masterpiece that entangles various themes concerning the relationship between music and life. The plot of the story is also quite interesting and entertaining.

Summary

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The authors of the book seek to identify the reasons that can be attributed to Israel’s economic success despite the nation’s small size both geographically and by population. Israel as a nation is faced by the some of the most formidable challenges in its pursuit of economic development. The country exists in a neighborhood of hostility, and many of its Arabic neighbors do not have any economic ties with the country. This economic isolation has meant that the country does not enjoy the economic benefits of regional integration. However, despite this challenge, the country has experienced tremendous economic growth ...

A Christian View of Sexuality Within Marriage

Abstract
The Gift of Sex, by Clifford and Joyce Penner, is a comprehensive, Christian educational guide for married couples about sexuality. Divided into a preface and five sections, the book uses Scripture and the authors’ expertise in marriage therapy to offer important information to couples concerning sexuality so that readers may overcome problems or enhance a relationship that is already good. The book educates married couples on Bible-based considerations about sex, physical aspects of sex, and unifying the religions and physical aspects of sex in order to have a more fulfilling relationship with each other. It answers questions, offers exercises, uses anecdotes ...

Book Review - Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politic

Lester K. Spence's 2011 book Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politics takes a long, hard look at the current state of African-Americans in the predominant political discourse. In essence, Spence explores through this book and its scholarship the idea that rap and hip-hop culture may actually be bad for black politics; "this work represents an attempt to examine the core questions of black politics as well as the politics of the present using rap and hip-hop as the vehicle" (Spence 157). Despite galvanizing many African-Americans and creating a unique subculture, it is claimed that the ...

Book Review: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Introduction
The published dissertation for Millett’s PhD in Literature from Columbia University was a book called the Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. In 1970, Millet finished her dissertation however she started it way back in 1969 but successfully defended the dissertation and published it almost ten years later. The book was known to be a master piece and also looked at as being very much successful and notoriousduring the time it was written. Research shows that Sexual Politics and economics was a piece that assisted influence and inspiring the move of feminism. Millett’s controversial thesis in Sexual Politics and ...

In the story the lord of the flies paints a clear picture on how the human behavior can be highly influenced by the society. In the story the laws and rules put a clear show of the need of rules and regulation in order to keep the human dark side in place. This rules and regulation usually lay down the dos and don’ts of the society in the story this is brought out clearly by how the tribe is govern by rules and the basic need for the rule is paramount in order for the individual to form any organized ...

(Task #1) Introduction
This paper will look at Treasure Island a young adult, coming of age, adventure fiction novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story was first published as a book on November 14, 1883 by Cassell and Co., after originating in as a serial in the children’s magazine Young Folk from 1881-1882. The original title of work was Treasure Island, or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola and Stevenson was credited under the pseudonym of Captain George North. However, the first title that Stevenson had wanted to bestow on his story was the Sea Cook which was a ...

20th of April 2016

Barbara de Angelis “Secrets about Men every Woman should know”
"There is nothing secret, which will not become known" - this old adage comes to mind when you become acquainted with the original and colorful book of famous American psychologist Barbara De Angelis. It is unlikely that the readers have ever held a manual on "How to handle a man”, such a mysterious and incomprehensible creature from another planet. At least, in such a way the author characterizes the stronger sex. Moreover, we must admit, not without reason. There is hardly a woman, even with the extensive experience of ...

Part one

Biodiversity is essential in the sustainability of the environment. In fact, lack thereof compromises the nature’s ability to adapt to environmental changes, therefore, enhancing its vulnerability. The development of science and technology paved the way for the incorporation of genetic engineering to living organisms. Precisely, since its introduction in 1996, many nations have embraced the conveniences offered by the genetic modification of crops to enhance their resistance and overall sustainability (Rifkin 15). This method is influential as it enables scientists to combat the development of a crop disease by altering the genetic composition of an organism. However, this ...

The following project is going to discuss an album of one of the most famous and significant music bands representing the hard rock scene. In particular, the paper is going to analyze Guns N’ Roses and one of their most famous records. To start with, it is necessary to state that the band was formed in 1985, in Los Angeles with its classic and famous lineup consisting of lead guitarist Slash, vocalist Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin as the rhythm guitarist, bassist Duff McKagan and Steven Adler as the band’s drummer. Still, it is necessary to admit that the ...

Abstract

Efficient teamwork is an important prerequisite of a company’s productivity (Maddux, 1994, p.8). This statement can be substantiated by the fact that synergistic effects arise, when several individuals and entities start to work together. However, as it was emphasized by P.Lencioni (2010), the team-building and subsequent effective functioning of the team requires meeting two criteria (pp.9-10).
Firstly, the group of people shall constitute a team by sharing goals, as well as rewards and responsibilities, stemming from the achievement of these goals (Lencioni, 2006, p.9). Secondly, the members to a team shall be ready to invest significant time and ...

Part 5

This part involves the delivery of speech. This part has categorized this topic into several chapters. They include the methods of delivery, nonverbal communication, delivering the actual speech, verbal communication and designing and using the presentation aids. A speaker always has the option of selecting the methods with which he or she can deliver a speech. There are indeed four methods used in the delivery of speech. They include manuscript speaking, impromptu speaking and memorized speaking as well as extemporaneous speaking. It is the duty of the speaker to select which method of delivery is more comfortable to him. He ...

In the semi-arid south-west of the United States of America (U.S.), there exist rare and lush wetlands that form habitat to majority of the US’s desert most spectacular biota. Basic biological concepts confirm that where there is permanency of adequate water at the surface or even a few feet below the ground, numerous diverse water dependent floral communities can develop. In this part of the US, there is the Sonoran Desert Ecosystem. The ecosystem is one of the few rarest and most exquisite habitation in the continental North America since majority of the original riparian habitats has long dried ...

In this paperwork, I am going to write a critical book review paying a particular attention to issues of race, class, religion and gender. The paperwork requires of me to be a historian, hence evaluate the book from the perspective of its contribution to cultural and social history.
Daniel Sugerman, Jerry Hopkins, No One Here Gets Out Alive [Jim Morrison] (2006).
No One Here Gets out Alive; the work of two great men- Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman- caught me by surprise when I first saw it on the library bookshelf. The title by itself just blew up my inquisitiveness ...

The remarkable story of The Prime of Miss. Jean Brodie illuminates two interlaced eras; the 1930s when most of the action takes place and the 1960s when it was published. . Most of the novel takes place during the 1930s at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, The book center on the schoolmistress, Miss Jean Brodie and her girls, a small group of students, known as "the Brodie set." The girls are six, junior level, ten year old girls when they became Miss Jean Brodie’s “crème de la crème” and started a two year tutelage with ...

Book Review of ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk, which was first published in the year 1903, is an influential work in African American literature and is rated as an American classic. The book contains nine previously published articles with a few more added to them. The essays presented in the book, deal with a mixture of subjects such as social studies, historical documentation, political science and above all the author’s personal recollection of how the color line cut through his life and many others such ...

Introduction:

Palestine: Peace not Apartheid is a strong and general forceful book written by former President Jimmy Carter which attempts to portray the issue of Palestine and Israel in a more clear and factful light. Some writers and especially Jewish scholars have contested several of Carter’s theories in the book where he espouses the dictum that Israel’s hostile control and semi dictatorship in the occupied Palestinian territories are principal obstacles in the peace process. Carter also focuses at length on the talks he had hosted between President Begim of Israel and Anwar Sadat that led to the famous Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty ...

Book Review of Pat Southern’s, The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History

ABSTRACT
In The Roman Army: A Social and Institutional History, Pat Southern covers over one thousand years of history in which the Roman military evolved from its original base of citizen-soldiers defending a city-state to a force of perhaps one million troops defending far-flung frontiers in Europe, Africa and Asia. She uses a wide variety of historical sources including written records, coins, statuary, and archeological materials, with a good understanding that the surviving information is quite limited, even about the total population of the empire and the size of its legions. Southern’s description of the Roman Army is highly detailed and ...

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 ...

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Introduction
The purpose of the essay is to pull together my understanding of Humanities. This essay discusses the socio-political changes in Europe and United States and these changes were reflected in the Arts of that time. Furthermore, the essay discusses how the changing concept of man is portrayed in the various Art forms in the chapters 34 and 36 (p.1114-1180).

Discussion

Cubism
Fauvism
It is an art movement launched in 1905, its works were featured by dazzling and transcendental colors, and plain forms; influenced the expressionists. It is explained how in the era of ...

Question 1

Karl Marx
Karl Marx theory of conflict has a lot to offer about wilding behaviour in the United States. Wilding behaviour is all about self interest, individualism and many others which do not conform or are not supported by others resulting in a conflict. Conflict is a misunderstanding that is derived from any decision made by another with or without the intentions of hurting others but mainly as a way of being in power. This is shown in the Karl Marx theory of conflict where there are two classes in the society, one is the ruling and the other is the ruled.
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Introduction:

In this excellent book, Thompson takes the old myth on the Old Testament God to task explaining the fact that life is not to be taken for granted in any way. Many view God as someone who is forbidding, always ready to castigate and create situations where his obedience is unquestioned and/or without any sort of parallel. Thompson does attempt to dispel that myth accordingly focusing on life in general and how the many episodes in the Bible can be said to dispel this theme accordingly.

The main points of the book:

Principally the book attempts to tackle certain aspects of life which are seen ...

In Douglas Rushkoff’s article “Bart Simpson: Prince of Irreverence,” he refers to the FOX sitcom The Simpsons as “the closest thing in America to a national media literacy program.” (Graff et al, p. 241) Within this program, the Simpson family deconstructs memes and cultural landmarks of television at a breakneck pace, holding a lantern up to the way that media works and displaying it for all to see. Due to its irreverence and ability to recognize and lampoon the structure and politics of the media industry, The Simpsons educates its viewers to view media with a more critical eye. In this paper, ...