ReviewEssays.com - Term Papers, Book Reports, Research Papers and College Essays
Search

Book Reports Essays

5,067 Book Reports Free Papers: 2,161 - 2,190

  • Jack London: To Build a Fire

    Jack London: To Build a Fire

    Nature is always pushing man to his limits. When man heeds the warning signs that nature has to offer and those warnings of other men, he is most likely to conquer nature. When he ignores these warnings, nature is sure to defeat man. To build a fire is a prime

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 963 Words / 4 Pages
  • Jack the Ripper

    Jack the Ripper

    It all started in the East End of London in 1888, from August 7 till November 10. All killings occurred within one mile area and involved the districts of Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Aldgate, and the city of London proper. The man I am referring to is no other then the

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 716 Words / 3 Pages
  • Jack Welch and the Ge Way

    Jack Welch and the Ge Way

    When Jack Welch was named CEO of General Electric, Welch saw a company in trouble even though the business world saw GE as an intrinsically healthy corporation, secure in its position as a world industrial leader. Welch knew that the company was too large to fail yet GE was

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,664 Words / 7 Pages
  • Jack Whitmore Case

    Jack Whitmore Case

    Jack Whitmore, age 16, grows up with normalcy until he finds himself highly intoxicated on a park bench. Drinking one night at a party with his best friend, Connor has Jack hitting the streets to wonder about pointlessly in a drunken stupor. For a resting point of the night, he

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 852 Words / 4 Pages
  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. His mother, Mallie Robinson, raised Jackie and her four other children on her own. They were the only black family on their block, and therefore encountered a great deal of racial prejudices. For a man coming

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 289 Words / 2 Pages
  • Jacob Have I Loved

    Jacob Have I Loved

    Jacob Have I Loved is a great book for any child that resents their siblings, because that's how this twin sister relationship is best described. Sara Louise recalls her difficult adolescence on Rass Island and her intense jealousy of her own twin sister Caroline. Caroline is a selfish, over protected

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 328 Words / 2 Pages
  • Jakie Robinson

    Jakie Robinson

    Jackie had a hard childhood. His father left one day to go to Memphis to look for a new job and never came home. Being the youngest child Jackie could not help his mom make money like his older brothers and sister but whenever he got the chance to help

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 549 Words / 3 Pages
  • Jamaicans in Montreal

    Jamaicans in Montreal

    Research Project - Jamaicans in Montreal In this paper I will be discussing the Jamaican ethno-cultural group of Montreal. Through the research I have done and the information I have collected, I hope to give anyone who reads this paper an in-depth look in to the history of Jamaican people

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 650 Words / 3 Pages
  • James

    James

    I'm depressed. Well, how could I not be? I just finished reading Washington Square. I'm happy it's over, but I'm not happy I finished it. No, that doesn't make sense does it? Lets just say, I had a feeling how it was going to end up; I just hoped that

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 887 Words / 4 Pages
  • James Agee and Walker Evans Entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,

    James Agee and Walker Evans Entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,

    Throughout reading the essay by James Agee and Walker Evans entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, my eye was drawn away from the essay and I began thinking about a couple of different ideas when reading one particular excerpt. In the paragraph it was stated: "Above all else: in

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 2,271 Words / 10 Pages
  • James and the Giant Peach

    James and the Giant Peach

    "Even though all modern fantasy stories contain some sort of magical elements, some stories have a higher fantasy quotient than others" (Jacobs & Tunnel, 89). There are six basic fantasy motifs, as discussed by Jacobs & Tunnel, including magic, other worlds, good versus evil, heroism, special character types, and fantastic

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 888 Words / 4 Pages
  • James and the Giant Peach

    James and the Giant Peach

    "James and the Giant Peach" The reason that I picked James and the Giant Peach is because it sounded interesting, also because I like made up stories, and finally because I like new books to read. James Trotter a four-year old boy who lived with his mom and dad,

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 462 Words / 2 Pages
  • James Baldwin's Story "sonny's Blues" Is a Deep and Reflexive Composition

    James Baldwin's Story "sonny's Blues" Is a Deep and Reflexive Composition

    James Baldwin's story "Sonny's Blues" is a deep and reflexive composition. Baldwin uses the life of two brothers to establish parallelism of personal struggle with society, and at the same time implies a psychological process of one brother leaving his socially ingrained prejudices to understand and accept the other's flaws.

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,326 Words / 6 Pages
  • James Baldwin's- Sonny's Blues

    James Baldwin's- Sonny's Blues

    War and Power All three of these poems tell of the appalling aspects of war, hatred and power which still exists in today's world. In Carolyn Forche's, "The Colonel", she describes, in my opinion a visit to the colonel house where she wants to discuss probably human rights issues or

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 606 Words / 3 Pages
  • James Clavell Essay - Taipan and Shogun

    James Clavell Essay - Taipan and Shogun

    James Clavell's Exploration Of Ancient Oriental Customs By Jeremy Setterfield Nov. 26th, 2004 Setterfield 1 James Clavell certainly had his work cut out for him when he chose to write his "Asian Saga" series of novels. Exposing the customs and culture of the ancient Orient is a daunting task for

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 3,544 Words / 15 Pages
  • Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    Throughout Jane Austen's novels she suggests marriages that are for wealth are more common as those for love. This idea is revealed in the course of her novels by the examples of marriages she provides. One example is Willoughby and Miss Sophia Grey in Sense and Sensibility, married not because

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 808 Words / 4 Pages
  • Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

    Family Ties In Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, she created a realistic family image, by introducing some of the imperfections that many families encounter. The Bennet family, consisting of five daughters, a marriage obsessed mother, and an unhappily married father, contain many of these difficulties. Throughout the love, joy,

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 842 Words / 4 Pages
  • Jane Case

    Jane Case

    In the novel Jane Eyre, we are told the life story of Jane from her days as a little girl up to her marriage and birth of her first child. Jane is an orphan who lives her life with no real mother or place to call home. Because of this

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 352 Words / 2 Pages
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    When General Rochambeau met General Washington in 1781 to determine their next move against the British, Washington wanted to attack New York City. Rochambeau convinced him that the wiser move was to move South. Word had come from General Lafayette in Virginia that Cornwallis had taken up a defensive position

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 678 Words / 3 Pages
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    When General Rochambeau met General Washington in 1781 to determine their next move against the British, Washington wanted to attack New York City. Rochambeau convinced him that the wiser move was to move South. Word had come from General Lafayette in Virginia that Cornwallis had taken up a defensive position

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 678 Words / 3 Pages
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Passion and Responsibility In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte uses Jane Eyre as her base to find out how a character confronts the demands of a private passion that conflicts with her responsibilities. . Mistreated abused and deprived of a normal childhood, Jane Eyre creates an enemy early in

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 607 Words / 3 Pages
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre is about a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel aunt. One day as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John, Jane's aunt locked her in the room in which her Uncle Reed had died. While there Jane scares herself into believing that she

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 689 Words / 3 Pages
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Summary Jane Eyre is a coming-of-age novel about an orphan child that must face the challenges of life alone. It begins with the main character ten year old Jane Eyre living with her deceased uncle's wife and miserable children. Jane's Aunt Reed is a cruel woman who withholds any form

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 450 Words / 2 Pages
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea has developed a character for the depth of time. Antoinette's childhood story of outmost unhappiness, contrasted with her attempt at love, and finally the arrival to her concluded state depicts the single condemnation of her soul. Misguided and unloved, Antoinette is forced to raise

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,298 Words / 6 Pages
  • Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer.” (Bronte

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 348 Words / 2 Pages
  • Jane Eyre and Feminism

    Jane Eyre and Feminism

    Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre embraces many feminist views in opposition to the Victorian feminine ideal. Charlotte Bronte herself was among the first feminist writers of her time, and wrote this book in order to send the message of feminism to a Victorian-Age Society in which women were looked upon

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,801 Words / 8 Pages
  • Jane Eyre and the Metamorphosis Comparison

    Jane Eyre and the Metamorphosis Comparison

    The most evident archetype in the novels Jane Eyre and The Metamorphosis was the theme of the necessity and the crucial impact of having a competent, efficient provider is within a relationship. In Jane Eyre, Jane's conflict ultimately led to her lack of assets which displeased her. In The Metamorphosis,

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 884 Words / 4 Pages
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront

    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront

    In Jane Eyre, by Charlotte BrontÐ"«, the main character, Jane Eyre, is a low-class feminist woman that stands up for herself and is not afraid to express her opinion in public. Throughout the novel, she receives two completely different proposals for marriage, one from Mr. Rochester and one from St.

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 526 Words / 3 Pages
  • Jane Goodall

    Jane Goodall

    Jane Goodall is one of the foremost authorities on chimpanzees after having studied the primates' behavior for more than 30 years. Jane Goodall is known worldwide for her studies of the chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania, Africa. She is well respected within the scientific community for

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 480 Words / 2 Pages
  • Janus: Shakespeare's Playful Dual Nature in the Taming of the Shrew

    Janus: Shakespeare's Playful Dual Nature in the Taming of the Shrew

    Trent Dahlin Jessica Tvordi English 2010 Janus: Shakespeare's Playful Dual Nature in The Taming of the Shrew John Dryden said, regarding Shakespeare, "He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other." One

    Rating:
    Essay Length: 1,885 Words / 8 Pages
Search
Advanced Search