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Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

Kristin Ross/May '68 and Its Afterlives

down the entire country. Nine million people, "across all sectors of public and private employment-from department store clerks to...

The Importance of Baseball to the “Miko Kings”

during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...

Thompson/Concentric Circles of Concern

Dr. Thompsons classic work, which was published posthumously and revised by Claude V. King, the reader finds a detailed model for ...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Trimbur's Call to Write/Narrative of Frederick Douglass

the chapter that addresses writing profiles of specific people, Trimbur writes, "This impulse to describe, to analyze, and to unde...

Rereading America: Education

are quite different, and sadly so. He puts it right out there: Americas schools are as segregated now as they were in the 1950s, o...

Test Taking Skills (A Literature Review)

skim the questions as they are worried that they will run out of time. However, this could lead to a misinterpretation of some of ...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

there are also elements that speak of the political and military struggles in the region. For example, Laila has two brothers who ...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

sources in examining some of the validity of Desmond and Moores work. Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist Clearly studying...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

William J. Bennett: “The Death of Outrage”

about sex, even under oath, dont really matter" (Bennett, 1999, p. 8). Bennett argues that if we accept these attitudes, which he...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

them in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ("Bateson, Gregory 1904-1980"). At this time too his influence on mainstream anthropology beca...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

Ondaatje/Anil’s Ghost

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

A Review of Time on the Cross

is true despite the fact that it is somewhat well known that economics were important in the context of this issue. Of course, the...

Victim Compensation

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

“Chimpanzee Politics”

the quest for power. For chimps that quest is most often loud and apparent. For humans it is often more subtle and calculated....

Layne/Peace of Illusions

the U.S. undermined the British Empire through a combination of "conditional aid and political leverage," which made eradication o...

Marshall Plan America by Michael Hogan

that by offering technological solutions for problems, the US would be able to introduce American marketing and engineering method...

Canadian Education Literature Review

decades. The greater diversity in our schools has resulted in new curriculum and instructional methodologies. Weatherspoon hints a...

'Crossing Border Street' by Peter Honigsberg

during that time. Whenever Honigsberg visited Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he had covert meetings with a black group, the Deacons of...