Essays on First Chapter

The political elements of Star Trek show that the series had more insight than what is apparent. The show started in the 1960s when the Cold War was at its height. Many authorities argue that Star Trek is an exploration based on self-interest, colonialism, collectivism and control . However, George Gonzalez takes a different approach in The Politics of Star Trek where he undertakes a critical review of the story within the context of the actual implications of the actions of the characters. This paper will review the first two chapters of the book in order to present the critical ...

Graff and Birkenstein in their book “They Say, I Say” explain the methods how to become an effective writer. The book is divided into three parts, the first part is called “They Say” in which it is explained how to engage into the voice of other people and how a writer should give his response over it. The first part has three chapters and the first chapter is about writing down other writers’ work and then giving one’s own ideas. The second chapter tells about the ways of writing a good summary and the third chapter focuses on “ ...

Book report

The considered book to be analyzed is Blink: The power of thinking without thinking. The first to consider is the word title blink which is the action to shut and open the eye in an instant. The Author develops the idea that it is possible for humans to train the brain with experience and techniques to give a response to an external stimulus in a short time. The subtitle "thinking without thinking", from my point of view is a words play that gives the idea of the reader of the instantly of the process. It is possible to have ...

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“Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine” is a book written by Candace B. Pert, a molecular biologist having an important role in the discovery of the endorphin molecule. She is also considered as the mother of psychoneuroimmunology, a field of science dealing with different aspects of brain, immunology, and neurology. Her work on the biochemistry of the brain at the National Institute of Mental Health helped in giving new insights about mind and body (Candace Pert, n.d.). Main theme of the book is that peptides, which are present throughout the body, are “molecules of ...

Background

Thinking Strategically by Dixit and Nalebuff is a book that aims to give strategies to help the reader increase their IQ while not necessarily providing solutions to all problems. The book is subtitled "The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life." The book is a worldwide bestseller because of the timeless advice, strategies and case examples given throughout its pages. The book was originally written in 1993 but is still listed as one of the best business books around.

Overview

The first chapter of any book usually sets the tone for the rest of the work. In this book, ...

Introduction

The main mission of the ethnographer outlined in this paper was to carry out an investigation of the traditional Han society and culture (Jarvenpa, 1998). The ethnographer investigated how the Han lived in the early days, including if they still hunted for food or fished, how the Indians and members of the white community interacted, the communities’ hopes and fears, and how they saw their future. In this regard, the ethnographer investigated the traditional Han society and culture through cultural immersion and participants’ observation of the members of the community.

Methods

Methods: The ethnographer used two methods of collecting information. ...

Varney the Vampyre Analysis

Varney the Vampyre by James Malcolm Rymer is a very early vampire story that predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 50 years (Dracula n.p.). James Malcolm Rymer was apparently the given name for a writer of many popular novels and stories in London in the 1840s through the 1860s. He wrote and published works under many names however, but one of his specialties was novels and stories about the supernatural, horror, and terror. He was a “hack” writer, meaning that he wrote voluminously on many subjects for popular publications. “Hack” is generally defined as “a mediocre and disdained writer” (“Hack ...

The fact why the book "The end of overeating" by David A. Kessler is considered a bestseller becomes evident from the very first page. The author provides the reader with rather pressing issues, which are perceived very easily. The proposals are not very complicated; hence, the material is presented very succinctly. Kessler presents the up-to-date problems regarding overeating and excess weight in a facile manner. From the very first chapter of his book, he interests the reader to the point that s/he wants to read it all at once. His approach to the problem of overweight can be defined ...

Introduction

Human resource management is an essential part of each organizational process. No one organization can successfully exist without such management as it contains the main approaches, techniques, systems and policies that will help to modify and influence the behaviour of the workers, their attitude toward their job and their proficiency in the work field.

Managing Human Resources

The first chapter of the book tells us that most managers fail to understand that material resources such as invested money, equipment and facilities do not play the integral role in the managing the company (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2016). In fact, human resources management ...

Chapter one of the Fullan is about practices drives theory. This theoretical construct is well-established in chapter one, and it provides various instances that leadership can be applied to effectively transform an organization. Action-oriented leadership is thus a sure way in which core leadership precepts are manifested for the good of the organization (Fullan, 2011). I will make a personal reflection of my leadership qualities with regards to the maxims of chapter one. In the first respect, leadership entails actions on behalf of others. As a leader I must be able to champion for transformation by positively leading others. ...

The main event which happens in the first chapter is the introduction of the narrator, Nick Carraway. He is the person who is related to Daisy which is why he is befriended by Jay Gatsby along with the fact that the two of them are neighbors. Nick is a wealthy man who graduated from Yale and he chooses to support all of the characters in the story. He is unbiased and the readers find out everything they need to know from his point of view. At the beginning of the story Nick introduces himself as the man who has ...

O’Brien’s novel “The Things They Carried” entails different tales that ranges from paragraphs to pages demonstrating how impossible it is to know the absolute reality of war. Sometimes the narrator begins a story only to abandon and continue it in another chapter. Other times, he lets another character finish the tale while others are told as if they are true only to be questioned later. O’Brien uses a technique that allows the reader to determine which of the stories are true, leading to the different angles that one can view the ways of telling war stories ( ...

Myths have been around longer than just about every other form of literature. From the beginning, it is clear that humanity has wanted some sort of explanation for the way the world works, and myths have long served that purpose. Whether it is the myth of Apollo driving his chariot across the sky each day to explain the bright light that traverses the sky (and to provide some sort of comfort that the gods are running things, even though the Greek gods certainly were not the benevolent sort) or the myth of Hades and Persephone’s twisted love that ...

The House of Spirits by Isabella Allende

1. Introduction. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende is the first novel that she published. The book became highly popular and the style of “magical realism” was used to describe the novel. Rogers (2002) explains that “magical realist writers write the ordinary as miraculous and the miraculous as ordinary. The miraculous, on the other hand, is described with a precision that fits it into the ordinariness of daily life.” That is exactly what this novel does until gradually it cycles through about seventy five years of one family and ends in a place that is more real than magical. ...

In the first part of Walls’ book, he talks more about transmission of Christian faith from a more historical perspective. The first part has six stages which show how coherent culture is. He talks about continuities and discontinuities of faith throughout history. I think that Walls really illustrated the importance of culture in this section. The first Chapter talks more about the historic Christian faith (Walls 6). In this chapter, Walls talks about the indigenizing and pilgrim principle which is illustrated throughout the whole section until the sixth chapter. The indigenizing principle means that we take elements of Christianity ...