Malcolm Gladwell explains in Outliers, The Story of Success, the unimaginable reasons why certain people are significantly more successful. Malcolm Gladwell clarifies the issue by breaking down his book into sections on opportunity and legacy. Malcolm Gladwell’s success theory has …
The book that I selected to read at the book discussion is “The Selection”. The book is a bestseller, with over 3 million 500 000 copies sold worldwide. The summary below gives you more information on the book I’ve read.…
Lanval’s story was unusual in its day. A beautiful woman and a helpless knight meet. Lanval cannot tell anyone about this woman. This was the condition that she set. He must depend on his lover for help when he violates …
John C. Maxwell’s best-seller There’s No Such thing as “Business” Ethics focuses primarily on the idea of focusing on simple ethics (personal ethical standards) rather than on business ethics. Maxwell suggests we should live by the “Golden Rule”, which he …
The American Revolution changed everything in American society. The American Revolution is a major historical event which has helped shape our country and produced many important works of American literature. Rip VanWinkle is a great piece of literature that shows …
The “infinite diversity” of modern life and political change was a familiar experience for the original audience. Shakespeare uses the imagery of water to illustrate the idea of paradox. He then goes on to subvert his own claim that wild …
Homer’s epic The Odyssey superimposed onto a background of typical ancient Greek culture. While Odysseus’s companions and he travel to Ithaka on their way home, they are welcomed by various people in an ancient Greek tradition of hospitality. Such hospitality …
T.S Eliot opens The Waste Land, his novel about T.S Eliot. The epigraph is a latin phrase that tells the story of Sibyl Cumae, the prophetess who was Apollo’s lover. Apollo offered to be the prophetess’ lover in exchange for …
The poem “The Raven”, a horror-poem, is about the grief of a raven over his love Lenore who will never return. Edgar Allen Poe, an American author, illustrated the poem. The poem was first published in 1845, and despite being …
Chekhov’s short stories focus on small details of Russian life. By focusing on a single character’s perspective on an event, they comment on them. Agafya by Chekhov is a longer short story told from the point of view of a …