Speak Book Report

... become a mix of both old and new traditions. Since this book is about change, and basically cultural change is the biggest factor in the Fantanese peoples" lives, this paper will also focus on change. After reading the report, I decided that the most change has occurred in aspects of ... they are not generally nomadic people, so most Fante people stayed in generally the same place their whole life. The Fante had no real economy to speak of, aside from some barter and trading. They followed simple tribal laws and a "government" that was basically made up of a council of elders ... They ...

• Word Count: 1369
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

For this book report, I read the book "Ecotopia" by Ernest Callenbach. I chose this book because my mom had read it and recommended it to me. Moreover, I chose it because it was a non-library book, which is good. I can't go to the library ever again since I have such a large fine. "Ecotopia" is set ... The Ecotopians are very comfortable with themselves as biological beings, they stroke and touch each other while they speak, and they relish all aspects of their humanness. 20 years before the events in the book occurred Ecotopia succeeded from the US in exchange for a more communal, Eco-friendl...

• Word Count: 755
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The drive behind this paper has been the recent publication of Fredric Jameson's 1991 Welleck Lectures, The Seeds of Time. 1 As these lectures were delivered a decade after Jameson's initial attempts to map the terrain of post modernity it appeared to me to provide an occasion to reflect upon the current status of Jameson's highly influential and much criticized theory of postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism. It also enables me to return to, what I consider to be, one of the most troubling aspects of Jameson's writing on postmodernism, that is to say, the "waning", to use Ja...

• Word Count: 4016
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Outsiders - by SE Hinton The Book I have chosen is the "The Outsiders- by SE Hinton. The author wrote the story when she was just 16 years old, in the 1950s. The book was successful, and it was sold, and still being sold, as a young adult's novel. There was a movie and plays made about it, and today there are still many high schools that use this book for English classes. The Outsiders is about a gang. They live in a city in Oklahoma. Ponyboy Curtis, a 14 year old greaser, tells the story. Other characters include Sodapop and Darry, Ponyboy's brothers, Johnny, Dallas, and Two- Bit, who are...

• Word Count: 1470
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Man on the Grassy Knoll, by John R. Craig and Philip A. Rogers, devises a conspiracy theory in which the CIA was responsible for the JFK Assassination. According to the book, the CIA hired a psychopath named Charles Rogers to be the triggerman standing along the Grassy Knoll on November 22, 1963, when the President's motorcade was to proceed along its scheduled route. Charles Rogers was the man that the CIA purportedly used as a contract killer in this incident. In my opinion, the authors failed miserably in making their case that Charles Rogers was even in the City of Dallas on that day i...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are many ways of seeing. Images around us differ in what they may mean from one person to another. John Berger explores this concept in depth in the book Ways of Seeing. He clearly emphasizes the different aspects of art throughout history and its impact on human life as we know it. The book's general approach, organization, argument structure, images, the book's value, and personal opinions of it are all important aspects that must be analyzed. The author's general approach is quite straight forward. He takes the basis of the reader's understanding as minimal, and explains his theories ...

• Word Count: 1286
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

AMERICA FIRSTHAND: READINGS FROM SETTLEMENT TO RECONSTRUCTION America First Hand, by Robert D. Marcus and David Burner is written in distinct detail about several accounts by American colonists that are written and relay what it was like in the colonies during the first couple decades. The accounts describe how teenagers, men, and women, all in their own way, questioned society, religion, and government in order to improve themselves and have their own effects on a changing county. The author compares and contrasts religious, political, and social issues that were dealt with during the early 1...

• Word Count: 1306
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Number of pages: 189 Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction in New York Copyright date: 1991 Setting: Around the summer of 1921or 1922 in Long Island and New York City Type of book: Classic novel The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway but he also implies that he is the author. Carraway narrates in both first and third person, just talking about what he observes. Nick gives his own interpretations of the story's meaning. Fitzgerald uses literary devices such as motifs and symbols. The motifs are used in geography as well as in the weather. Thro...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The book "Lord of The Flies " by William Golding is about a plane carrying a group of english boys because there country is at war. The plane wrecks on a remote island leaving the boys to set up their own rules and survive on their own. The boys on the island represent society as a whole. Theres Piggy who represents intellectuality and always trying to do the right thing. Ralph who represents politics and social order but he fails to control the evil within the rest of the boys. Jack represents a dictator and ignorance, he is also a hunter and soldier on the island. Roger is a symbol of pure e...

• Word Count: 824
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School