Book Review Essay

to their age, deemed too old to fight in the German army. Browning’s book includes both narratives of the actions that this battalion performed and statements from the interrogations of 125 men to explore their transformation from “ordinary men” to killers. The…

is illustrated within the second chapter of the novel. Lisette, a daughter of a resident living in a homeless shelter, is described by her mother as having “potential”, however, the schools are inadequate. Lisette’s mother notes that “an A-plus on a book report doesn’t mean a whole lot at this school she goes to,” (Kozol 21) illustrating how this school system and ones like it will push students along, giving them passing grades even though they are not earned. These school systems are failing…

Throughout the quarter, we have read books that address a number of complicated legal topics. Author and journalist Barry Siegel’s book, Claim of Privilege, concerns the case Reynolds v. United States, a suit against the US government that began as a simple investigation into a freak Air Force plane crash but quickly metastasized into a conversation about the necessities of governmental secrecy. Author and journalist Jon Krakauer’s book, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town,…

standing that they [India] should declare independence from Britain. 2. The Awakening of the Arab Nation: The Awakening of the Arab Nation was a book written by a man named, Najib Azouri. The book was written in the year 1905 before both World Wars. Awakening of the Arab Nation would publicize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is ongoing. This book was written in response to the mass migration of thousands of Jewish immigrants to the Palestine region. This mass migration was a result to an…

According to Bill O’Reilly’s and Martin Dugard’s novel Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency, “Scores of police officers are called into line the route but cannot prevent the strikers from pelting the vehicles with rocks and bricks. Everyone on board is instructed to lie down on the floor to avoid being hit in the head by broken glass and projectiles.” The two authors later go to point out Reagan’s complete and utter hatred for the pro-communist protest by stating that…

Through everything he’s been through, being free, but came back to teach which is a vast risk, getting his toes cut off, and escaping the second time, then come back to create a school, the reader can tell that Gary Paulsen wanted the theme of this book to be, in order to help more than just yourself you to be compelled to prepare and risk sacrificing. John was free, but he got caught on purpose, he wanted to come back and teach people how to read. “‘You ran and got away?’ Mammy asked……

only give the HOW but also, gives the WHY. The section is informative to the reader who may want to know more about the movement of the Latinos/as into the US. On the same note, the section delivers in that it prepares the reader to read more of the book in order to know how comes today the Latinos/as are treated the way they are. In conclusion, the Latinos may have been content with what they had, but a false promise drove them out of their…

The Collapse of Evolution The collapse of Evolution by Scott M. Huse is a book on the controversial evolution vs creation debate. It is not meant to be a tiring effort on Biblical creationism or a detailed refutation of evolution; however, the evidence provided within its pages easily destroys the evolutionary theory. Huse moves swiftly from one line of reasoning or amount of evidence to the next. This style makes the book very readable as the reader isn’t bogged down in little details or…

Crawley, explores breathing as an act of racial politics. The book discusses Garner's last words and what might otherwise have been – suggesting that it is possible to break from experiences of violence. The book’s subtitle, The Aesthetics of Possibility, shows Crawley to be steadfastly hopeful about the potential…

this most recent book, in order to write a comprehensive social and political history of religion in Latin America. Lynch brings to bear his considerable expertise in administrative and institutional history to the analysis of New World religious institution . Lynch's project is richly interpretive and his unsurpassed knowledge of latin america history to sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives .the book focuses…