Book Review Undergraduate 1,854 words

So Far From God: The U.S.–Mexico War 1846–1848 Review

A book review of S.D. Eisenhower's So Far From God, examining leadership, Manifest Destiny, and the causes and outcomes of the U.S.–Mexico War of 1846–1848.

History

~10 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 1,648 words

Book Review: When Memory Speaks by Jill Ker Conway

A critical review of Jill Ker Conway's When Memory Speaks, examining gender, autobiography, identity construction, and feminist narrative theory.

Literature

~9 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 676 words

Chinese American Women Defense Workers in WWII: Review

A review of Xiaojian Zhao's article on Chinese American women who worked in the defense industry during WWII, exploring identity, patriotism, and historical memory.

History

~4 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 1,281 words

The New Jim Crow: Race, Mass Incarceration, and Drug Policy

A critical review of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, examining how the War on Drugs created a racial caste system through mass incarceration in America.

Social Issues

~7 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 2,914 words

No Shame in My Game: The Economic Sociology of Poverty

A critical analysis of Katherine Newman's No Shame in My Game, examining the working poor in Harlem, racial stigma, education gaps, and barriers to upward mobility.

Sociology

~15 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 1,475 words

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison: Bipolar Memoir Review

A book review of Kay Redfield Jamison's memoir An Unquiet Mind, exploring her personal experience with bipolar disorder, lithium treatment, and identity.

Psychology

~8 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 1,094 words

Corporate Waste Doctrine and Excessive Executive Compensation

A review of Caywood's Michigan Law Review article on using the corporate waste doctrine to challenge excessive CEO pay and protect shareholder rights.

Business

~6 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 1,360 words

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Book Review

A critical review of Karen Joy Fowler's novel exploring human-animal ethics, the chimp cross-fostering experiment, and Rosemary's identity through a literary lens.

Literature

~7 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 2,821 words

Book Review: Berkhof's Introduction to the New Testament

A critical review of Louis Berkhof's 1915 Introduction to the New Testament, examining its systematic method, strengths as a reference tool, and limitations.

Religion

~15 min read

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Book Review Undergraduate 1,620 words

Book Review: Sacred Hermeneutics and Biblical Interpretation

A critical review of Sacred Hermeneutics examining its eight-lesson framework for Protestant biblical interpretation, its strengths, and its historical limitations.

Religion

~9 min read

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