Vittorio Bufacchi has written an intriguing book on social injustice. It’s a combination of twelve essays‚ ten written over the duration of 2000-2008 and two written specially for this volume. He covers a wide a range of subjects through his essays to show how social injustice is present in the society. A thought-provoking essay on torture has been co-authored by Jean Maria Arrigo. Another one is a response to his critics (Matthew Fetenstein and Eddie Hyland) on political ‘scepticism’. Several essays
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his experience and his life in Gorazde‚ a U.N. designated Safe Area in Bosnia. This graphic narrative also features personal anecdotes of many Bosnians themselves as they talk about their role in the war or how the war affected them. I will use this book to argue that National Memory can be used to compare how the memory of a nation differs from individual memories of survivors. Safe Area Gorazde demonstrates how the Bosnian War differs from others recollection of it. First‚ I will begin by discussing
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Bridget Finnegan Ackerman‚ Diane. The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ Inc.‚ 2007 368 pages To consider a story about the Holocaust to be lovely appears grotesque and ironic. However‚ Diane Ackerman’s non-fiction work The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story‚ begs to differ. Ackerman presents the true story of compassion and its polar opposite very wisely‚ and in an manner that manages to be both grim and exuberant. The tale to be told set Ackerman up for greatness
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importance to the world of physics is staggering given the recent advancements in the world of quantum physics. Yet Einstein the man is a much a different person than Einstein the scientist. It is Einstein the man that we see here‚ in this wonderful book by Maree Ferguson Delano. Delano‚ who also wrote The Photogbiography of Thomas Alva Edison‚ returns to the photobiography format here as well‚ and it’s a good thing because Einstein is difficult enough to digest as it is. Photo after photo shows Einstein
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distance is the problem for John‚ even if in different ways. Dear John is told in first person from the point of view of John Tyree. The main location that this novel takes place is John’s birthplace: Wilmington‚ North Carolina. Even though the whole book is set in a few different locations‚ John feels at home in Wilmington. “I grew up in Wilmington‚ North Carolina‚ a city that proudly boasts the largest port in the state as well as a long and vibrant history‚ but now strikes me more as a city that
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To Sir with love Author – E. R. Braithwaite 1. About the book - To Sir‚ With Love is a 1959 autobiographical novel by E. R. Braithwaite set in the East End of London. The novel is based on true events concerned with Braithwaite taking up a teaching post in a school there. The novel was made into a British film by James Clavell in 1967. In the novel‚ "To Sir with Love"‚ various human characteristics are portrayed. Throughout the story‚ the idea that humans are able to adapt and change their
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“Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful‚ but I wouldn’t wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom‚ and who chooses not the hands that claim her‚” (Hill‚ 4). This quote signifies one of the many important messages that The Book of Negroes tries to convey. Lawrence Hill‚ the Canadian author who wrote this novel does a tremendous job to magnify an area of history that many of us have neglected over the years. He uses Aminata Diallo‚ as his main character who is abducted from her home
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In Bill O’Reilly’s thriller Killing Lincoln he opens the book with shifting point of views between Lincoln’s killer‚ John Wilkes Booth‚ and the front lines of the increasingly hostile Civil War. Taking place at the end of the war‚ O’Reilly goes into great detail describing the malicious battle between two famous generals. Robert E. Lee‚ general of the confederate army and Ulysses S. grant‚ general of the Union forces. Detailed plans for battle and battle strategies are explored for both the Union
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SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK MARLEY AND ME Soon after their wedding‚ John and Jenny Grogan escape the brutal Michigan winters and relocate to a cottage in southern Florida‚ where they are hired as reporters for competing newspapers. At The Palm Beach Post‚ Jenny immediately receives prominent front-page assignments‚ while at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel‚ John finds himself writing obituaries and two-paragraph articles about mundane news like a fire at the local garbage dump. When John senses Jenny
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James Seckelman May 29th‚ 2013 English 1A Instructor Tera Martin Contents of An Empty Room Life‚ in the desire for possessing an unbent will for achievement and material prosperity has crippled us of our own emotions. To think like a machine is to feel like one. A slaving regiment‚ dictating peoples lives‚ telling you what to do‚ what to think or what to feel‚ creates inauthentic and plastic humans . It is a reflection of someone who ’s been crafted by the dogma of society and the result of
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