Book reviews

I confess that before reading the book Korea: The Impossible Country (and taking classes in college), I did not know much about South Korea or North Korea. The focus of this book is on South Korea but as both Koreas are historically intertwined, North Korea is also many times cited or referred to in the pages of this work. Korea: The Impossible Country, written by the journalist and writer Daniel Tudor and published by Tuttle Publisher - Tokyo, is a book acclaimed by the international press.

because the struggle between good and evil endlessly battles amongst one another. Thrill seekers enjoy the novel, embracing the worst fears of hell and expressing Inferno in various music, video games, stories, and art. With modern media advertising the book, more readers take interest into the story in inspiration of what lies within Dante’s fate. In 1306, the Divine Comedy composes of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, laying out the basic structure of Christianity’s belief on life after death. Hell

Strange. Omari followed the curves of the older man’s back as he helped him with his armor, scared and torn from years of abuse, not too far from his own. He put as much warmth into his voice as he could as he traced the notches of the man’s shoulders, attempting to find even the smallest bit of comfort in the tension. Daksha turned his eye to him quickly, his greying hair brushing against Omari’s face in the motion. The Ashari pulled his hands back quickly, a string of apologies rushing from his

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you were judged by where you are from? No matter how smart or special you were you would always be seen as trash. The book The Outsiders expresses how a young boy, Ponyboy Curtis, has to embrace and cope with a life where he is constantly tormented by the Socials who make fun of, and beat up the Greasers. The Socials, or “Socs”, are the rich kids in town who do not seem to have any worries in the world. The Greasers are the kids who live on “the wrong

Gonzales explains that while on personal time, Badiuk responded to a colleague's FB posting, in which his co-worker discussed The Comeback, a book written by John Ralston Saul (2014, Gonzales). Saul expresses the importance of repairing relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada for the sake of human rights. Gonzales' report triggered a sequence of events, which keep

In the early sections of this book, Tanaka deliberately archives the chronicled procedure that brought about the foundation of [comfort stations] as military general arrangement amid World War II, including broad cooperation between the arms of the Japanese military, government services and the prostitution business in Japan and Japanese-controlled Korea. As Tanaka reveals, while at first the ladies enrolled for ianjo were proficient Japanese whores and bankrupted Japanese and Korean ladies, soon

read this book. Dr. Dweck’s book would be beneficial to anyone. Everyone has some aspect of their life in which they have a fixed mindset and might not realize it. Some people are not aware of their fixed mindset and this book could help them realize it. 3. Personality and intelligence are not fixed. With a growth mindset, it is possibly to work towards becoming your ideal self (Chapter 1). I am not particularly fond of social gatherings and much prefer to stay at home with a good book; however,

Overachievers, by Alexandra Robbins, is an exposé about the lives of driven high school students at Walt Whitman High School in Maryland. Throughout the book Robbins argues the point that college admission expectations have made high school a very cut-throat environment, leading students who try to meet these expectations to have deteriorating mental and physical health. Robbins defends the idea that over achieving students’ health worsens because of high school stress. Julie, the high school superstar

Collins belongs the credit of having introduced into fiction those most mysterious of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors.” So said Henry James in an unsigned review of another author’s work. But his view was certainly not shared by all those who cast their opinions into the fray. An unsigned review in the Saturday Review said of Collins’ work, “Estimated by the standard of great novels, the Woman in White is nowhere. Somewhere between these two points are friends and correspondents of Mr

Secret Since the revelation, she shut herself away in the consultant’s office and shouted at everyone who dared to enter. No member of staff dared come close, even when it was regarding a patient; they knew now it was best to steer clear and that there would only be one person who could possibly settle Serena’s mood. That person was none other than Ric Griffin, he had been vacant in Hospital life for almost a year; when all of a sudden her reappeared and he and Serena had this blossoming romance