Fun Literature Reviews Samples For Students

The book “Fun Home” which has a subtitle “A Family Tragicomic” represented a graphic memoir that was written by Alison Bechdel in 2006. In this book, the author makes an account of her childhood and the memories she had while growing up in the small town of Pennsylvania. The focus of her story revolved on the complicated relationship she carried throughout her lifetime with her father. The common themes of the book of revolves around gender roles, sexual orientation, dysfunctional life with the family, suicidal tendencies and the function of literature in appreciating the relationship with your own family. ...

Article Review Guidelines (each Article Review totals 100 points)

- Quote what you take to be the author’s thesis (using proper citations), and explain it in your own words. (10 points)
Here the author seems to like the idea of human exposition. He thinks that it is a good idea for exhibitions to be put up which demonstrate the costumes and ways of life of people from different cultures and different eras. He is not averse to people being exhibited for others to be able to learn from them. However he shows a sense of disappointment: ‘the observer does not stop to learn; rather he or she strolls, ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a close reading of a specific paragraph from the short story by Katherine Mansfield ‘The Woman at the store’. The paragraph which has been chosen to be presented in this essay is the one of the first meeting of the three men with the Woman, the main female figure and protagonist of this short story. It is a paragraph which describes the situation of confronting each other. The essay is structured in three steps. Each step emphasizes and highlights one particular aspect of the essay. The first step is the writing of ...

(i) Tree Tree (Arbole, arbole) by Kenneth Koch.

Color is a valuable resource in education especially if it comes in the form of pictures. Colors add to the attraction in learning and establishing the relevance and significance of learning. This poem, written in both Spanish and English, is an example of how bilingual language can be used in learning and teaching. I chose this poem as a resource since I felt that there is a dreamy use of color in it that initiates a sense of magic. This looks appealing in learning especially to children. The purpose of this resource is to heighten the sense of sound and color among students ...

Alcohol is the world’s oldest known drug that is abused by people. Alcohol has been used by many people for several years and its abuse has become a major societal health problem. The consequences of excessive alcohol intake vary from a mild hang-over to mass destruction, diseases, and death at its worst. When consumed in moderation, it has no or little effects for the drinkers and the people around them. Nonetheless, its misuse has become very dangerous to the drinker and the society. We all agree that, occasional taking of alcohol does not hurt, nonetheless it can lead to addiction ...

Fun at home is a novel with medium popularity as it allows the reader to look at the character's developing prejudice in unusually cherished technique. Despite the fact that it places the reader to view the subject's experience and thoughts, the author places the readers in the scenes as the beholder, giving them a chance to look at both the cultural forces and the subjectivity of the narrator that molded her. Fun at home focuses on Alison's family and revolves around her relationship with Bruce, her father. Bruce worked as a high school teacher and funeral home director.
Various themes arise ...

Introduction

Ernest Hemingway is a well-known American writer of famous poems and short stories. He is the first son and second born child of Dr. Ed and Grace Hemingway. He began writing pieces of art at the age of seventeen as a newspaper writer and became an ambulance volunteer under the Italian army. Eventually, he returns to the United States to continue his career and became a war correspondent. He was sent back to Europe for an assignment to cover the Greek Revolution. He then won the 1954 Noble Prize in literature. Ernest's mother, who has a talent in music, wished his son would ...

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In his novel, Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie presents his readers with a fantasy world named ‘Neverland.’ The properties of this place are that you must be a child to go there and that it exists outside of the solid, real world. The novel of Peter Pan discusses the idea of never growing up and maintaining child-like innocence for an eternity. Peter Pan, the character, does not grow up and his band of ‘Lost Boys’ are also permanently children. The obvious implication of this is that Barrie has carved out an allegorical message of why, as adults, it is ...

One of the interesting things about the writing of John Steinbeck is the way in which such an ostensibly egalitarian writer condescends toward so many of the characters in his novels. The life story of four peasants was told by a writer with a cheerful sense of humor and at the same time was permeated by a sad sympathy for ordinary people, who were noble, honest, faithful to each other, but did not find their place in life. Even though those people live a simple (even poor) life, they are happy, because they are not suffocating from the spirit ...

All children grow up in the magical world of fairy tales that have been so gripping and inspiring. Most of the legends are about challenges and tough times plus how the main character deals with injustices in their lives. Although the primary motive behind telling those fairy tales is pure entertainment for children, the tales are well known as a literary genre. Thus, there is a lot more to those fairy tales as they have a lot to offer to people of all age groups. The setting of the storyline sis simple in nature and magical. The characters are ...

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Introduction to Burnout

Burnout refers to the condition of exhaustion of physical or emotional strength, or loss of motivation to work. Usually, burnout is caused by prolonged stress or frustration affecting the involvement of employees for meaningful impact on work. Burnout has also been described as extreme fatigue, inefficacy, and loss of idealism and passion for the job. Burnout syndrome can be illustrated by the “feelings of emotional exhaustion, negative attitudes and emotions towards those who are beneficiaries of the service (depersonalization), and sentiments related to professional failure and low accomplishment (lack of personal accomplishment)” (Schaufeli, & Maslach, 1993). Any person with ...

Scientists are concerned about the lack of student interest in studying science (Dillon & Manning, n.d.). Researchers have conducted various studies. They have determined that the influence of teachers, curriculum, and classroom environment has an impact on student interest. This literature review describes current research regarding this dilemma as well as some recommendations. According to authors Dillon and Manning, “science teachers are made, not born”. This is very important to consider as it speaks loudly about a teacher wanting to teach science. It is better for students to learn science from a teacher that wants to share their scientific knowledge (and any ...

One of the most important novels in 20th century American history, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is an influential novel about the need to discover one’s meaning in life, and often acts as the thesis for the Beat movement of the 50s and 60s. The novel follows Sal Paradise, a stand in for Kerouac, and his free-wheeling friend Dean Moriarty as they wander and hitchhike across the United States, searching desperately for belonging and a newfound sense of purpose in Cold-War America. This book provides an interesting portrait of 1950s America and the anxieties of its youth, showing the ...

Distance learning is a study delivery technique that is also referred to as e-learning or distance education. In this type of learning, tutors are also called lecturers do their introductions and broadcasting over the internet or by a connection to learners. This is done with the students not necessarily having to appear physically in a class. It is a scheme that seeks to take priority in pedagogy and puts into implementation the ever changing technology and design models in cutting short distance as a barrier to education. This goes against all odds, to defeat the traditional education systems that are hindered by the geographical ...

Loneliness is part of human condition

Steinback’s novella Of Men and Mice is set in a grim economic dystopia of migrant workers on a Californian ranch where the two protagonists Lennie and George share the dream owning their own farm someday despite the meagre conditions they were subject to. The novella has been applauded as well as criticized for its staunch realism or what was portrayed as realism in cases of excessive sentimentality. In this paper, we shall compare and contrast the two main characters of Lennie and George in order to reflect on a theme that is relevant for each and every one of Steinback’s ...

Both “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Autobiography in Late Middle Age” by Zulfikar Ghose discuss getting older. The difference is Dylan Thomas is writing the poem to his dying father while Zulfikar Ghose writes to anonymous young people. The tone of Thomas’s work is much darker than the tone of Ghose’s work. Thomas treats growing older and death as a tragedy while Ghose celebrates life. Ghose’s work has a comedic tone. The message of both poems is the same: Fight against old age and death.

Thomas seems to be angry at ...

INTRODUCTION

In “Because I Would Not Stop for Death,” Emily Dickinson expresses a certain peace with death, as she sees Death approaching and walks with him for a time, observing everything that had come before in her life, and awaiting what lay next. This poem is one of her most well-known works, and is indicative of her attitudes toward the afterlife. (“Verse Cities,” 2008) This explication will examine each line of the poem in detail, and determine how it uses language and symbols to thoroughly examine this particular subject.

‘Because I could not stop for Death’

The beginning line establishes the fact that Death was not something that the ...

A Response to a Sonnet by Shakespeare

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I am going to write about my response to ‘Sonnet 130’. I chose this sonnet because it made me laugh at Shakespeare’s stated attitude to his lover, because it is so unexpected when you first read the poem, but the the sonnet is read you come to understand that Shakespeare is also making a serious point baout love and the stereotypical images of feminine beauty that were dominant in his day. Those stereotypical images have their parallel in our society too, because through the media images of what women should look like ideally are carefully used to ...