New York Times Best Seller list

Looking for Alaska. This book is a 221 page, hardback and paperback, young adult novel. Published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile, this would be the first book he would publish. During the week of July 29, 2012, Looking for Alaska hit New York Times best seller list at number ten. The book takes place in Alabama at Culver Creek Preparatory High School. Narrator, Miles Halter, leaves his what little of a life he has in Florida to attend his junior year at a boarding school to “start seeking a…

is based on a real life best seller “Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream”, by author H.G. Bissinger. The movie’s setting takes place at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas in 1988 when the tension between races were still strong in some areas of the south. There is some focus in some areas of the film that has to do with racial tension and the ongoing conflict between the student body and the city as a whole. Even though desegregation had happened by the time the book was written…

Rowling, known under the pen name, as J.K. Rowling, is a British author and screenwriter, best known for her seven-book Harry Potter fantasy series. After the first fantasy novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone became a global hit in 1999, Rowling became an international literary sensation when the first three parts of Harry Potter took over the top three slots of The New York Times best-seller list after achieving a similar success in her native country. Being sold in more than 500…

She believed in individualism. She was a “radical for capitalism” and came up with “objectivism,” a philosophy that stated there is no greater moral goal than achieving happiness. But one cannot achieve happiness by wish or whim. She could have been a math teacher or gotten into Broadway, but her thoughts and philosophies drove her to share her ideas and write about them. “Ayn Rand was considered a writer of unpleasant, anticommunist potboilers” (Buchanan). She continues to be a controversial…

She is one of the first people who introduced this controversial topic about our planet. Publish in 1962, “Silent Spring”has became one of the best seller books on the New York Times list. In the book, Carson 's main argument is that pesticides (she like to calls them “biocides”) have detrimental effects on the environment. She said that Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane is harmful to bird populations and can be…

Marisa Tobias Dr. Langston CM9341 1 April 2017 Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: Feminist and Funny Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are best known for their comedic work on Saturday Night Live, hilarious performances in films such as Baby Mama and Sisters, and impeccable improvisation capabilities, however, both comediennes can add inspiring feminists to their list of accolades. In their respective memoirs, Bossypants and Yes Please, Fey and Poelher share humorous stories and introspection that they may not…

many forms. She is a three time Olympian, a mother, a wife, on the New York Times best seller list, and a motivational speaker. She was a professional runner for Nike and a Las Vegas escort. The largest battle she faced and faces to this day is the battle of mental illness, in her family and her own mind. In her own words she states, “Mine…

change what women are going through now but instead just saying what women do now that doesn’t work now a day. Before this Sandberg wrote “lean in” there had never been a feminist work on the New York Times Best Sellers list which was a big movement in feminist teaching, but was it good publicity for long time feminist? Sandberg emphasis mostly on three main points: the life of woman in her family before she came about, the difference between how girls…

(Essay) 15 May 2016 Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is classified as one of the most popular and best-selling stories worldwide. According to Www.ancient-orgins.net, “William Shakespeare 's world renowned Romeo and Juliet (written sometime between 1591 and 1595) stands in the historical record as one of the greatest love stories ever written...it is a lot of differences on a story told many times from the fourteen hundreds onwards…borrowed from poets as far back as ancient Greece.” There…

Rhetorical Analysis: The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Help is a novel written in 2009 by Kathryn Stockett that has been featured on the New York Time’s best-sellers list. The story is set in Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s and tells the story of black maids working in white households. The story addresses issues such as racism and gender equality roles. The story is told in the perspective of three different characters: Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter. Aibileen and Minny are working…