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Book Review: The Toxic Legacy of DDT by Andru Okun In 1945, Rachel Carson, then a marine biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, developed an interest in DDT, a powerful pesticide used to eliminate insects that destroy crops and carry disease. A decade and a half later, “Silent Spring” was released, a book […]
Lolita Written by Vladimir Nabokov: A Product of Modernism As a more logical, scientific mindset is being developed in North American culture, it has become increasingly common for individuals to look for the simplest, cause-and-effect version of reality. Modernism, however, as a literary movement, rejects this notion, believing rather that reality is […]
Comparing the Writing Styles of Poets Anne Sexton and Slyvia Plath – Focusing on Their Works Regarding Death and Suicide This paper will attempt to compare the writing styles of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath, focusing on their works regarding death and suicide. The biographical history of both will be examined […]
2022-05-11 Book Review: Anatomy of an Environmental Tragedy by Peter Andrey Smith By the late 1970s, the odor seemed just about everywhere on the east side of Niagara Falls, New York, in a neighborhood with thousands of residents and two area public schools. Noxious fumes seeped into basements. The stench filled backyards. It clung to one […]
Booktrib’s Bites: A Potpourri of Diverse Reading Choices (NewsUSA)“As Time Unfolds” by Barbara ZerfossBethany Miller inherits an ancestral home from the biological mother she never knew. Inside a grandfather clock named The Timekeeper, she discovers a family journal. For three centuries, generations of women each wrote one entry, sharing family secrets, chronicling courageous acts, the […]
BookTrib’s Bites: Secrets, Poetry, Celebrities, Plot Twists (NewsUSA)“An Upside-Down Sky” by Linda DahlWhen Lidia, a blocked Latinx artist in her sixties, goes on a group tour of Namyan, a fictional Southeast Asian country reopened to the world after a long dictatorship, she gets much more than the vacation she thinks she’s signed on for. Against […]
Spiritual New Age Parapsychology Books By: David Gau-Ghan Many people believe that new age books are different from spiritual books, even though there are so many books available that are described as new age spiritual books. If we look at the terms new age and spiritual, we find similarities, where spiritual refers to soul […]
French Women Don’t Get Fat – Book Review By: Nicole Beck French women seem to enjoy breads, desserts, and wine, but then don’t gain the weight. American women, on the other hand, just think about snacking and magically put on ten pounds. In her bestselling book, French Women Don’t Get Fat : The Secret […]
Garnet and Raphaella – A Series by William Bell: How Bell is Able to Blend the Real and Spirit Worlds in this Novel Blending Worlds Mystery is usually caused by the combination of the real world and the spiritual world. Bell was somewhat effective when he mixed the real and spirit worlds […]
How To Make Your Writing Meaningful Writing a book is a huge endeavor. It means someone has decided to dedicate a certain amount of time to putting words on paper. But so many people don’t finish what they start. Maybe they’ve run out of ideas. Maybe they lost interest. Maybe they got […]