Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a narrative that describes the life of one of the main characters from her early years until she becomes an adult. Marjane is a young girl who grows in two nations with different cultures, both affecting her way of life. The setting is in Iran and the character grows amid…
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Love and Hate in Jamestown
Introduction The English Americans faced a lot of hardship in their first period in the colonial America thus the book known as “Love and Hate in Jamestown” by Price David depicted the issues of colony and struggle for life. However, critics argued that the book was merely historical by connecting comprehensible storylines with scholarly research…
The King’s Three Faces by Brendan McConville
Introduction Written by Brendan McConville, The Kings Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America is a masterful study of the colonial American approach toward monarchy, and the way this attitude was in political cultures just before the revolution. Just like other scholars who rush to promote their work, Brendan exaggerates his claim leading…
Tea by Velina Hasu Houston Book Report
Velina Hasu Houston is American award-winning playwriter, editor, poet, essayist and an author. Houston has produced, published and presented many works that are focused on shifting identity boundaries regarding culture, ethnicity and gender. Her works also do embrace a transnational way of viewing identity basing on her American and Japanese background. The themes of her…
“The Gospel of Wealth” by Andrew Carnegie
The paper entails a rhetorical analysis of “The Gospel of Wealth” by Andrew Carnegie and identifies and provides a brief explanation of the author’s argument through identifying two effective strategies that the author uses to support his argument. Also, an analysis of how the strategies might persuade the reader to support the claim and the…