Essays Tagged: "write a book"

"Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

Griffin hopes to achieve is enough information about the relationships between blacks and whites to write a book about it.The overall main obstacle is society, and the racial divide in the south with ... They arrived in Hattiesburg and John took a cab to a hotel to rest. In the hotel, Griffin tried to write a letter to his family, but there were too many things blocking his mind. Afterwards, Griffin ...

(4 pages) 83 0 4.1 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

A Student's Reading of The Politics of Rich and Poor

A Student's Reading of The Politics of Rich and PoorOften times, a political analyst/scientist will write a book on the politics and economics of the time. This writer may also create a work which ema ...

(4 pages) 73 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

7 Reasons to Read the Glorious Qur'an.

o Read the Glorious Qur'an1. InimitableIt dares you to disprove it. How? It says that humans cannot write a book like this even if they pooled all their resources together and got help also from the s ...

(2 pages) 91 2 4.1 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Islam

Transformation of America by Revolution.

some people decide not to discover a new formula, vaccine, or cure for a disease, but to create and write a book, either out of their own and personal ideas, or existing facts. Gordon S. Wood, author ... nto three smaller and more precise categories; monarchy, republicanism, and democracy. Why did Wood write this historical text? Was he vying for a place to speak his personal thoughts or was he trying ...

(6 pages) 160 0 4.4 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Report on Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five".

ratives. The first is that of Kurt Vonnegut. In the first chapter he tells us that he has wanted to write a book about the firebombing of Dresden for some time and also about his efforts to do so. Von ...

(4 pages) 41 0 3.7 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

This bookreport is about the little prince and how this book relates to my mom and me

the Grown-ups, whom the book mentioned about thus I could not understand why the author decided to write a book about a young man, who hated the lifestyle of Grown-ups and a little prince, who observ ...

(5 pages) 33 0 3.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Social Criticism in Literature

fromfamily, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity.For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events,the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint o ...

(5 pages) 27 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

da in many important discussions and debates of slavery. Frederick Douglass was the first slave to write a book about the life of a slave. He was a pioneer trying to use his great intelligence to sh ...

(7 pages) 166 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Communist Manifesto (By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels)

zens. This was the collective philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which compelled them to write a book on their ideology/theory of communism, The Communist Manifesto. Vladimir Lenin was a re ...

(5 pages) 156 0 1.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives"--Some opinions about the nature of the photograph for historical purposes.

s disappointed with the lack of action his articles were stirring. Eventually, he left reporting to write a book, How The Other Half Lives, chronicling the horrors of the slums. His logic being a book ...

(3 pages) 80 1 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Henry David Thoreau - "Why I Went to the Woods"

st, some background; in 1842, his brother John died of lockjaw. Three years later, Henry decided to write a book commemorating a canoe trip he had taken with John in 1839. Seeking a quiet place to wri ...

(2 pages) 55 0 5.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A in-depth analysis on Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby"

e as a world of lies. In the Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," Jonah, the protagonist, aims to write a book accounting "what important Americans had done on the day when the first atomic bomb was ...

(2 pages) 27 0 3.4 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Dr. Seuss, A Biography

1950s kids thought books in general were boring because they used plain wordsDr. Seuss was asked to write a book using less than 250 wordsTherefore Seuss wrote The Cat in the HatAnd he started the beg ... want to read.the betBennett Cerf was Seuss' publisherCerf bet Seuss fifty dollars that he could not write a book with fifty words in itSeuss won that bet by writing the book Green Eggs and Hammessages ...

(1 pages) 40 0 3.5 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Math History: The Life and Numbers of Fibonacci

nd now called Bejaia.About 1200 Leonardo returned to Pisa and used the knowledge he had acquired to write a book called "Liber abaci" ("Book of the Abacus"). The book introduced Europeans to Arabic nu ... ies, and problems which had originated in China.The mathematical problem that inspired Fibonacci to write about the number sequence in Liber abaci was the rabbit problem. According to The Golden Ratio ...

(3 pages) 53 0 3.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Social Criticism in Literature

fromfamily, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity.For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events,the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint o ...

(5 pages) 37 0 5.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"Between Hope and History" by Bill Clinton.

terest in him because I heard many mixed messages about him.Bill Clinton is definitely qualified to write this book. He was the president of the United States of America. That is probably one of the b ... o be elected as president. Being elected shows that he is a smart person and should be qualified to write a book. Bill Clinton didn't need the money. He was one of the most important people in the wor ...

(2 pages) 26 0 3.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

ALL ABOUT Me!!!

books. One day on her e-mail she gets a letter from Bill Gates saying that she could come over and write a book on the Inside of a computer-Bill Gates. "Filled with joy she wrote him back saying-Sure ...

(3 pages) 25 0 3.7 Jun/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

William Gerald Goldbergs concerns about the world and reason for why he might of written "Lord of the Flies" the way he did.

William Goldberg had many situations in his life which may have inspired him to write a book like Lord of the Flies. Goldberg was in the Navy for five years. He was part of some ve ... eople can be to each other, and not just people on the other side. These experiences allowed him to write a book about human nature called "Lord of the Flies".After that he went to a school and taught ...

(1 pages) 8 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

Huck Finn: To be or not to be? Is the book racist and should it be thought in schools?

ly African Americans, however it is only used to make the book more real. It would be impossible to write a book about slavery without the use of some offending words, and even if someone could manage ... is one century later condemned as racist trash"(Haley 121) By this she means that Twain intended to write a book against slavery and a century later it is viewed as a racist book. The book has been cr ...

(3 pages) 13 0 3.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain