Jennifer Crosson

This is How You Lose Her is written by Junot Diaz. The collection of nine short stories ("The Sun, The Moon, The Stars", "Nilda", "Alma", "Flaca", "Otravida, Otravez", "The Cheater’s Guide to...

"Devils in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood" was written by Jennifer Traig. The book summarizes Traig's childhood by recalling her obsessive compulsive disorder. Traig was also...

Written in the early 1900s, the play Cathleen ni Houlihan focuses on the 1798 Rebellion. The play was written by Lady Gregory and William Butler Yeats and is considered a one-act play. Cathleen ni...

The novel "Venus in Furs" was written by an Austrian writer by the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The book pulls different happenings from the author's life, such as female dominance. The...

The book "Morning Star of the Reformation" by Andy Thomson is a great book and very easy to read. The book is roughly 130 pages and takes place in medieval England. The main character in the book,...

Fielding has insisted that his work Tom Jones is based upon realism, but the characters in the novel are more theatrical than anything. Even before becoming a writer, Fielding was a dramatist, so...

Napoleon trained at a military school, which was shown during his control of the French Army of Italy. While Napoleon was leading the French Army, things were falling apart in France. Financially...

The novel The House Behind the Cedars is a wonderful book written by Charles W. Chesnutt. The story takes place right after the U.S. Civil War in North Carolina and South Carolina. The story starts...

The Spanish-American War occurred in 1898 between Spain and the United States, mainly because of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. As a result of the U.S. attacks on Spain's...

In John Locke's "First Treatise on Government" he wrote against the divine birth right of rulers. Locke believed that the people should be in control of choosing their leaders. He believed that...

Romeo and Juliet is a play that is set in Verona, Italy. The play is about love between two young lovers. In addition, it also chronicles the fate of two "star-crossed lovers", who end up taking...

Jim Ironheart, a retired teacher, risks his own life to help save the lives of others. While in Portland, Ironheart saves a boy from a drunk driver in a van and in Boston, he saves a child from an...