book reviews
Book reviews for scholastic growth; read material from the world's top educators with our collection of novels, memoirs, biographies, philosophical texts and textbooks.
Why A Beach Chase is the Perfect Back-to-School Gift
One of the clearest memories I have from preschool was kneeling on the floor, the gray carpet creating indents in my knees. A jack-in-the-box sat on the floor in front of me. I'd seen the toy in some of my favorite cartoons and had never played with one before. I turned the handle slowly, careful not to distort the song.
By Sarah Shea4 years ago in Education
The Motif of Comparing Characters to Animals to show the impact of generational racial trauma in “Beloved” by Toni Morrison
In nature, it is survival of the fittest. Only the strongest beasts will make it out alive, and the most vulnerable will die in the wild. Humans are believed to be better than animals; they have self restraint and control over their choices and fates. Therefore, when people are compared to and treated as nothing more than animals, it strips away their humanity and disregards their inherent worth. In the novel Beloved, Toni Morrison includes the motif of comparing the characters to animals to show how being dehumanized consistently can alter one’s core beliefs and their actions, and how dehumanizing people can cause them severe emotional trauma.
By Angie Seminara4 years ago in Education
Increase Your Financial IQ Review & The Little Book of Common Sense Investing Review
It is time to review two more books that will help you on your way to financial success and they are Increase Your Financial IQ (Intelligence Quotient) by Robert Kiyosaki and The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle. If you want to invest or become an investor and build wealth you must educate yourself first and these books plus the books, I have recommended in previous stories are essential. I highly recommend these books.
By Ferrari King4 years ago in Education
Why Fiction Matters
We’ve all met them, those furrow browed grumps who claim fiction is a waste of time. They insist, with all the finality in the world, that there is no knowledge to be found in a novel that can’t be found elsewhere. And of course you nod, better that than try to argue with the bore. However, sometimes we must defend not only that which is dear, but that which is important.
By Leigh Doughty4 years ago in Education
The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind From leftists, to leftists: A warning against wokeism. Recently, I’ve reviewed Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds. For a conservative like myself, it’s an easy book to like. Murray criticizes modern woke thought in terms that resonate with my own beliefs, indicting modern Marxism’s quest to re-invent itself as the genesis of our current madness.
By Grant Patterson4 years ago in Education
Talking Witold Gombrowicz's Trans-Atlantyk
Recently I had been working on a few projects with my mentor when she proposed the idea that I, an American of Polish descent, consider reading more work from my ancestry. I of course came to this with my own prejudices, as I always imagined Polish works would be, well, grim to say the least. For reference, at this time the most I had known about Polish would be men like Zdzislaw Basinski, known for his dystopian landscapes of a world conquered by hellish atrocities, or Eli Wiesel, who I had just assumed was Polish because his novel, Night, and if someone is writing about the Holocaust, they must be Polish. Excuse my American naivety.
By Michael DeNicola4 years ago in Education
Beware the Fall
A Spanish proverb states, ¨Pride comes before [the] fall.¨ So many people, revered or hated, have been influenced by hubris or ego. Sometimes, pride can lead to great people taking up the mantel, Other times, this can have disastrous consequences. As it is so common among people as a whole, pride has a large part in how society is shaped through the generations. It molds the individual, whether by personal traits or another's actions, and builds up vastly different societies on very similar foundations. This is very evident in plays, books, and articles, such as “The Importance of Being Earnest” and Persuasion. Pridefulness is a main factor in the social norms and behavior of people.
By Jocelynn L. Taylor5 years ago in Education
How to Apply the Use of Data Analytics In Retail Industry
Data analytics in retail sector is very important for small scale retail shops, who often need help from customized platforms, who also give the support of big data technologies that are available these days. Besides this, there are other organizations, mostly start-up ones, who provide retail data analytics to make the sense of new products in social media as well. In fact, data is of great importance for retail traders, as it gives them a clear idea of their customers. But sometimes too much data is just the wrong thing to put all that data in one place. This is where predictive analytics tools come into play.
By Yash Sharma5 years ago in Education
