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A Review of The Thief Lord

He steals so that he can make sure the boys get enough to eat and get clothes. At one point in the story there is a pawn shop o...

A Review of The Longest Winter

men is a rare story, and a very powerful story in the history of WWII. It is a story of humanity, as well as the lack of humanity ...

Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

the job at the time. It was his combination of intelligence and knowledge of the outdoors that made him the perfect candidate to b...

A Review of The Colors of the Mountain

see from the beginning that this story will not be one about a family who lived well during the changes in China, but a family tha...

A Review of the Poem As Watchers Hang Upon the East

A 4 page review and explanation of the poem by Emily Dickinson. 3 sources....

Caroline Knapp's 'Drinking A Love Story'

not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...

Thomas and James Spradley's Deaf Like Me

how this is often the fault of the parents and society that insist they should be able to live in such a hearing world. The follow...

Maxwell's There's No Such Thing As 'Business Ethics' There's Only One Rule Reviewed

As well see below, Maxwell is not highly in favor of so-called "ethical behavior," because he believes that ethics is very simply ...

A Review of Commodifying Bodies - Man, Machines And Body Parts

components invented in the 1940s that ultimately paved the way for computer technology - the only people who were capable of opera...

Philip Sugden's 'The Complete History of Jack the Ripper'

Sugden presents many different angles and references we look at one chapter, where he states how "The records of the Chapman inqui...

A Review of Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry

decision that he will go on an adventure and seek his own courage. He is a very brave boy for even beginning this journey because ...

Anthony Kemp's D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy

was paramount to any further success in ending the Second World War. His work is primarily aimed at simply offering facts, at show...

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

escape into a book and start living someone elses. Perhaps this factor accounts for his disconnect from reality that led him to ag...

A Review of "Comeback Cities" by Grogan and Proscio

of block clubs and churches. Most of these groups, typically called community development corporations, or CDCs, began forming in ...

A Review of How to Tame a Wild Tongue

considered to be bad, considered to be an arrogant young girl who betrayed her people by speaking the language of the oppressors. ...

Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...

Avi's Don't You Know There is a War On?

The experiences recounted in this book, although fictional, have their basis in the deep emotional trauma which World War II wield...

Risk Management Plan

low. Given that, more resources should be dedicated to management of risk in the event of a hurricane, rather than in an earthquak...

The Empire of the St. Lawrence by Donald Creighton

region is his awareness of the influence of commerce and the manner by which it shapes history. Certainly other historians realiz...

Michael Pertschuk's Smoke in Their Eyes

kenneled, so to speak, in the US, these businesses have such an extensive network that they will not be hurt in any way by the US ...

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order by Ellis Hawley

kicked off something else that was interesting - the worlds first mass consumption economy. The Industrial Revolution had been und...

Simon Bolivar, Liberation and Disappointment by David Bushnell

killed. He fled to Jamaica, then later to Haiti where he was able to gather together enough rebel fighters to mount another attack...

Exam Testing Review Methods

stick to it. The student can benefit most from covering all the materials, but short of this, the students should study enough ma...

Aleksandar Fatic's Reconciliation Via the War Crimes Tribunal Reviewed

length or breadth to accurately cover his subject matter. In fact, the first twenty pages read more as a propagandist pamphlet tha...

Randy Roberts and James S. Olson's A Line in the Sand, the Alamo in Blood and Memory

he was God" (6). As each man is introduced by the authors, such as William Barret Travis, the leader of the Texans; Davy Crockett,...

Homer on Life and Death by Jasper Griffin

example, he describes the heart-rending scene in which Andromache sees the dead body of her husband Hector being dragged behind Ac...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

Sandra Brown's Mirror Image

the daughter who has lost a mother and does not know it: "She was growing too attached to the child and wanted desperately to help...

Book Review of The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader by John C. Maxwell

Throughout the book, in fact, the key goal of Maxwell isnt necessarily how to grow and develop leadership, but rather, how to grow...

John Leslie Livingston and Theodore Grossman's Edited Text The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting Third Edition

While the book is certainly comprehensive in most ways, it has a couple of problems. First, as with all "compilation" type of book...