Book review

Book Review: “Great by Choice” by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen Title Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All Author Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. Major Thesis/Summary Mr. Collins's book addresses the question of how to conduct a company to durable success in an environment determined by change, uncertainty and even chaos when says: “Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not?”…

Means to Be Daddy Fatherhood for Black Men Living Away from Their Children,” I knew this was the perfect novel to write a book review on. I can relate so much of my own life, being a father, to other father’s statements given in the story on a live-away father. Ms. Hamer breaks the book down in three different parts which are broken down even further into eight sections. The book describes the transition of fatherhood for black men during slavery years to the fatherhood in today’s world. Each…

Book Review In the “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” the author, Frederick Douglass brings to our attention many different aspects and details about the harsh people and events occurring in the 1800’s. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery between 1817 and 1818. He was moved from plantation to plantation to live and obey for several different masters and learn to read and write before he was able to flee the life of a slave. Through his process of slavery, Douglass is able…

came to his actual written material. It simply looked sloppy, as this was a full book not an editorial or high school textbook. Past Imperfect is fluid and largely well written. Hoffer is extremely passionate in his arguments and engages his readers. He brings up important questions regarding the practice and study of historical writing and issues of professionalism and ethical conduct in scholarly work. This book would be recommended for anyone interested in the historiography of writing in…

concise history of queer scholarship that has led to the privileging of urban spaces and urban perspectives. She then challenges this metronormative notion by exploring the lives and identity formation of young queer people in rural Kentucky. Gray’s book differs from the articles first and foremost in that she focuses on youth rather than adults; the median age of her interviewees was just sixteen and a half years old. In focusing on youth, she observes active identity formation as opposed to…

The Pilgrim's Progress Book Review What is it like to be a Christian? John Bunyan paints an accurate picture of the Christian life through his allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. Through the characters and locations in the book, Bunyan points out the false views of God people have, the flaws of having these views, and the rewards one receives when he obeys the Bible. A couple of Bunyan's characters Talkative and Christian show the difference between having head knowledge about God and having…

Cold mountain book review Cold Mountain is a historical novel during the civil war and two people who love each other are caught in the middle of it. Inman is a damage war soldier takes a journey across america after being injured in a battle and now tries to find the woman she loves Ada a young farmer girl. While Inman was in the hospital mainly looking out the window staring at the mountains.The view brought old memories from his past back home in black cove with his love Ada. He…

artifact research into a new genre. Several genres were reviewed and I made the decision to use a children’s book as the genre for my fourth paper. The genre was interesting because I looked at books that made me think of my parents reading to me when I was young, and this enabled me to reflect on the start of my lifelong literacy. I tried to better understand this genre by looking at books that I have at home, and doing some research at the library. I was able to use the basic story that the…

In the early eighteen hundreds, slavery was in full swing throughout the Southern states of America. Butler’s Kindred is set during this tumultuous time, with slavery’s end in Maryland a distant fifty years away (Rowland 12). This fictional book is a blatant, candid work on slavery through the eyes of the twentieth century. From white slave owners to black slaves, we are given a glimpse of what slavery in the South was like. One of the most prominent characters, in my eyes, was Nigel, who is…

Unequal Childhoods is a book by Annette Lareau. It looks in the lives of 12 different families to study how class impacts children and how their parents raise them. The working/poor-class and middle-class families acted as the focus of the study. In addition to economic class, she made sure to have multiple races represented as well. There were at least two Black middle-class families that she studied, and two white working/poor-class families. Race was not the only factor that she wanted…