There are a few Batman graphic novels that every fanboy and comic book geek worldwide agrees are essential reading. Anyone who is a fan of comic books knows how hard it is to get any of us to agree on anything, but there are some. Most would say Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns,” Alan ...
The peak of socialist ideology dawned during the industrial revolution when class divisions were constructed to rule the labor force. Charlotte Bronte places the protagonist, Jane Eyre, in the position between lower and upper class to critique social injustices. This world Bronte has created for her is polluted with tyranny, disease, deception, and a false ...
Whenever I bring up the name Ayn Rand, as I converse with various bodies of intelligentsia, all eyebrows head north. Nobody ever wants to discuss her work. They say: “Ayn Rand? Whoa! She’s crazy, she’s out there.” Who is Ayn Rand? Ayn Rand came into this world on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. ...
Every Semester College students throughout the country purchase Text Books. Most of the time, the Text Books are only used one time, and then put aside to gather dust. A College Student can save money by trying to purchase a used Text Book, and then reselling the book. There are solutions to save money. Check ...
Have Anne Rice’s novels literary quality? I don’t think she will win the Nobel Prize of Literature ever, but again, literature quality is subjective. Anne Rice wrote some entertaining books, she sells like crazy, and with no doubt, she is part of the contemporary literature world. I read her books in Spanish first, and I ...
I saw I Am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot sitting on the discount table at Books-A-Million and passed it up several times due to the cheesy artwork on the cover. It struck me as something that would be perhaps for young children, or just poorly written. When it went down to a dollar, I could ...
There have been many articles about this subject and the views aren’t always the same. BDSM has been around for quite some time and some definitions have been developed to describe someone’s role and point of view. It helps to define roles, as it helps people who are looking for a partner to distinguish exactly ...
In the article An Ambivalent Alliance: Hostile and Benevolent Sexism as Complementary Justifications for Gender Inequality, Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske stated that polar characterizations of women still exist in today’s society. Hostile sexism (antagonistic views) are aimed towards women who challenge the power men have (i.e. through seduction, feminist ideology, ambition). Benevolent sexism ...
With the news at the time of this writing that even ubiquitous bookseller chain Borders is having problems in America’s sagging economy–you know that booksellers in general are in big trouble in the age of Walmart eating up the world…one store at a time. And Walmart doesn’t even have a comprehensive collection of books (and ...
The book of Ruth begins with Naomi, her husband Eimelech and their two sons Mahlon and Chilion fleeing the famine in Bethlehem and going to the land of Moab. While in the land of Moab, Eimelech dies and her sons marry two Moabite women, Oprah and Ruth. Shortly after her two sons die as well ...
