Comparison of e-book readers

Around the world and through many different time periods every person has encountered intolerance, extremism and duality. The idea of the aforementioned words are constant themes within the book “The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet” by Jasmina Dervisevi-Cesic. Throughout the story Jasmina speaks of her encounters with each of these situations and how her duality allows her to learn and come to peace with the terrors she has endured. Around the world the act of intolerance is taking place. From…

slave trade during the mid-nineteenth century. His contention that the majority of Mount Airy’s slaves, which the Tayloes sent to Alabama, were kept together on the family’s southern plantations, contradicting the slave accounts in Edward E. Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told (58, 183, 273-274). This exemplifies the dangers of using one plantation as the representative for an entire system, especially one that seems to be the exception rather than the rule in several ways. It is interesting…

works of literary fiction are narratives: in other words, they all in some sense present readers with a ‘telling’ rather than an ‘enacting’, and this distinguishes them in an important sense from the drama[,]” and “generally restricted to works with characters, action and a plot” (Hawthorn, 2010, pp. 6 & 237). In this paper, The Cave by Jose Saramago, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the third book of the global phenomenon from the Potter series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of…

The book Bomb: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon is a thrilling, fast-paced story that refines a great deal of history into interesting and understandable literature for practically any age reader. The author, Steve Sheinkin, writes to tell the story of the first atomic bomb, the people who made it possible, and those who challenged its progress. Any person who is interested in science and history, or who likes “a quick read” can easily understand the creation of…

pantheon of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century. They were negative reactions to the story center on what some readers perceive as Sammy’s misogynist views. Other critics consider “A & P” a slight story, though one into which a lifetime of dignity, choices, and consequences is compressed. Either way, critics responded enthusiastically to “A & P,” and readers’ identification with Sammy’s predicament has contributed…

Reading Attitude of young people and how social media encourage reading Reading is a complex make up. It is an aspect process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Others prefer to read printed texts (such as books, newspapers, journals etc.) while others prefer to read online, especially now that we are living in the 21st century or most preferable named as the digital era. Online reading on the other hand, is a process of getting information or meaning of the text…

However, Carr underestimates the massive source of knowledge that the internet has brought to people, overlooks humans’ responsibilities in using and controlling the internet and he also misses some internet’s advantages over printed books. This article, sad to say, has still not persuasively indicated a harm of the…

Gary W. Gallagher introduces his book by stating propositions made by other historians, along with their arguments and sources, as to why the Confederacy lost the Civil War. Most of these arguments pointed to lack of desire, or commitment for independence. These historians made their proposals by working backwards from the surrender of the South to the beginning of war. Gallagher’s argument is that a majority of citizens in the Confederacy had the will and determination to fight for…

and smiles, while saying: Yes, despicable as it may sound, my initial reaction was to be remarkably pleased. (on Page 55 of my 133 Page E-book). He then comes back to find all of America changed, starting from his thorough search at the airport. With the India-Pakistan standoff happening in his homeland, the nostalgia that has taken over Erica, the comparison made by Juan-Barista of Changez to janissaries, and the gaze by which his surrounding fellows look at him post 9/11(his coworkers and…

ebrary. Web. 1 Nov. 2016. This e-book plays off the debate of whether race is the overall theme of Othello, or if racism is considered an underlying aspect in the intended theme? The writer is showing evidence for both arguments stating it 's mostly open to the reader for interpretation. The author states the topic of race can be viewed as a theme alone, or can be considered a leading factor to the main theme of the story, love. For example, some readers may believe racism…