Nonfiction

An African-Canadian journalist, novelist, author, and academic named Cecil Foster, specifically spoke about multiculturalism, race, immigration, and ethnicity. Foster originally came from Barbados and later emigrated to Toronto, Canada where he flourished as a public intellectual. Before moving to Canada, he already worked in Barbados as a news broadcaster and editor with the Caribbean News Agency (CANA) and Barbados Advocate-News. Eventually, his journey in broadcasting triumphed through…

Seaver had brought up to defend his claim how Grove Press had “published Games People Play which became one of the biggest nonfiction best-sellers” and as seeing that this book was successful, it had “spawned conscious imitations” (21-23). In saying so, Seaver is claiming that the fact that companies are “stealing” from one another is not a situation that should be taken seriously…

How would a person feel and act if they had to pick up their belongings and move to a different country as an undocumented immigrant? These are three different stories with three different main characters, that are all going through or have gone through exactly that. The three following stories: “The Trip”, a fictional story by Laila Lalami, “Exile”, a poem written by Julia Alvarez, and finally “Outlaw: my Life as an Undocumented immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas all have three main characters…

When looking at a children's book it is difficult to evaluate what is good and what is bad. The book “Grandma Jenny’s Trip” written by Bently Spang and published by Rigby does a good job. The book is nonfiction about his grandmother Jenny, who lived on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation when Native Americans were just getting used to reservation living. Jenny’s life was in a time where Native Americans were starting to understand how to live like the “White Man”, this was the only way to…

On the genesis of hate. Second Opinion, 08901570, Oct94, Vol. 20, Issue 2 In this interview with Elie Wiesel they talk about his experiences in the concentration camps . This will aid the book because it will give me great insight on what it was like in the camps. I can make a general description on things that were happening in there besides what we all know about the terror camp. Faulstick, DH 2010, 'PROTEST OR PROCESS: THEODICY RESPONSES TO ELIE WIESEL'S THE TRIAL OF GOD', Renascence, vol.…

Genetically Modified Organisms: The Future of the Food Industry. An Annotated Bibliography Pamela Bailey, “GMOs Are Nothing to Fear”, US news, US news, 4 November 2013, January 19 2016. There hasn't been enough and substantial evidence to back up the claim that GMO are bad for you. This article states how they are good for you and rebuttals against claims against genetically modified foods.The author is the president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association.This is relevant because it…

Moonwalking with Einstein: The art and Science of Remembering is a nonfiction book based on many cases of people with spectacular memories by Joshua Foer. The reader gets to learn about all of these cases where events or environment has caused someone to increase their memory or decrease their memory. I learned about all of these cases of incredible memory like Daniel or Kim Peek who inspired the 1988 academy award winning movie Rain Man. He was a savant who could not use logic or reasoning…

throughout the history of the world there has always been the issue that man is superior to woman. This has been an ongoing fight that women of all races and ethnicities have been faced with in some way or form. In Patricia L. Bryan and Thomas Wolf’s nonfiction novel Midnight Assassin, the authors portray Mrs. Hossack’s as a weak feminine character, this causes her trial to be slanted due to her presumed feminine traits: through the lenses of feminism, this brings the issue of categorizing women…

Engerman, and Genovese, have interpreted the attitudes American slaves had toward their work experiences; however, each historian presents a unique perspective, which often conflicts with the view of other historians. The Peculiar Institution, a nonfiction book published in 1956 and written by Kenneth M. Stampp, contains a chapter titled “A Troublesome Property.” In his chapter, Stampp disputes the claim that slaves “...unthinkingly accepted bondage as their natural status.”(257) Utilizing…

bus in the barren Alaskan wilderness. His death was a mystery to the world— even his family barely knew his motivation of living off in the desolated and uninhabited Alaskan land. An American nonfiction writer Jon Krakauer investigated McCandless 's belonging and interviewed his family, and composed a nonfiction Into the Wild depicting McCandless 's trip from his home to his cold grave. In the last chapter, Krakauer suggested McCandless 's death was resulted from consuming poisonous mold seeds.…