Essays on Book Page 12

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is an open letter addressed to his son Samori. Coates writing was fueled by the recent killings of Eric Garner, Renisha McBride, John Crawford, and Mike Brown. For Coates, it is a troubling time in America, and he wants to impart wisdom to his son. This paper…

The war on Drugs has never been about Drugs —Charles Bowden (American non-fiction author, journalist) Eugene Jarecki was born Jewish from immigrant parents who fled Europe during the holocaust in the early 1930s. He is a director, author and film-maker who has been awarded the Grand jury Prize twice for two of his documentaries. In…

Americans have come to overlook their chaotic past, present, and future to the point where racism has become embedded in the natural fabric of their glorious red white and blue legacy of “torture, theft, and enslavement.”(Coats 6) Ta-Nehisi Coats wrote his book, Between The World And Me, after his draft of The Case For Reparations,…

Many times, we look at the lives of others and envy them. Many of the people we envy seem to have it all figured out. From the classy cars, beautiful homes with the white picket fences, to the happily married mom and dad, they indeed seem to be living their best lives. We tend to…

The English well-known biologist Charles Darwin states that “if the misery of the poor caused not by the laws of nature, but by our initiations, great is our sin” (Voyage of the Beagle). The primary problem that threatens the existence of mankind is a vast number of issues and conflicts that have political and ideological…

Throughout history across the world, one of the primary mediums implemented to convey a message to an audience is in the form of art. The definition of art is both broad yet abstract enough to encompass a vast array of formats, such as film, video games, and literature. However, art can be categorized into two…

Studies show that most people were desperately poor and many were suffering from starvation and disease during the time Johnathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” was written. Suffering is defined as the state of undergoing pain, distress or hardship which many underwent throughout this time (www.dictionary.com). Women were treated like breeders, the rich stole from the…

Jonathan Swift, a well-known writer did many topics and used satire in his works to express his message. This was a technique he used to reach his audience and make sure the message reached the targeted group. In this research paper, we will focus at discussing one of the topics he did. Among the research…

The essay by Jonathan is among the greatest irony in the history of language. The first describes the tough situations of the beggars and their survival techniques. Thus, the second section explains the remedy of generating incoming to these sets of persons. Therefore, Oldenburg (2014) explains that the children after proper feeding should be converted…

Ireland was a colony governed and controlled by the British and their empire, and just like any other colonies, they had people who struggled in a day by day basis. Hearing about the poor, children who were starving to death, amongst others who were unwaged, was nothing uncommon for them to hear, in fact, most…