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Well as the thread title says, I'm looking for a non-fiction novel for my English course which I have to make a period long presentation and write a short essay on afterward. I can't use biographies unless they're biography/memoir is based more or less around a idea/theory which I can make into a thesis and explain to the class with my own opinions/conclusions of the content in the novel.
My teacher says there is no restriction on the subjects, as long as its cleared with her and that is should be I am fairly passionate/interested in. I've already done similar assignments on medicine (doctors without borders, the ethics/morals of medicine, memoir of a ER Nurse) and I'd say my other main passion/interest is the military but its a pain to find a topic that firstly I can discuss and devise a thesis from, something I can actually talk about in a school environment (shes fine with it, its my classmates that might have issues with the content presented. Some classmates had to leave the classroom when I did a similar assignment on Dave Grossman's: On Killing where I more or less explained the societal implications, effects, causes and dabbled a bit in the martial component to set a base of understanding for the duration of the presentation) but the problem is a majority of military novels are special operations fantasies, memoirs and biographies and very few propose ideas as you would see in books like A Brief History of Time.
Anyways, I'll continue to surf the amazon for any novels that can fit that billet, hoping you guys can give me a trickle of advice what to look for.
My teacher says there is no restriction on the subjects, as long as its cleared with her and that is should be I am fairly passionate/interested in. I've already done similar assignments on medicine (doctors without borders, the ethics/morals of medicine, memoir of a ER Nurse) and I'd say my other main passion/interest is the military but its a pain to find a topic that firstly I can discuss and devise a thesis from, something I can actually talk about in a school environment (shes fine with it, its my classmates that might have issues with the content presented. Some classmates had to leave the classroom when I did a similar assignment on Dave Grossman's: On Killing where I more or less explained the societal implications, effects, causes and dabbled a bit in the martial component to set a base of understanding for the duration of the presentation) but the problem is a majority of military novels are special operations fantasies, memoirs and biographies and very few propose ideas as you would see in books like A Brief History of Time.
Anyways, I'll continue to surf the amazon for any novels that can fit that billet, hoping you guys can give me a trickle of advice what to look for.