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Adventure in John Eldredge's 'Wild at Heart'

lives, stating, "The idea is almost laughable, if it werent so tragic, laments Eldredge. Men have been taken out right and left. S...

River's Significance in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Finn" but also in many others of Twains tales. This importance is made apparent even by the chosen pen name of the author. Samue...

Race According to Kate Chopin and Mark Twain

for the homeless boy. This novel has garnered severe criticism in recent decades because Twain makes use of nineteenth century la...

Huckleberry Finn's Character

into the world and into society. He plays with different roles because he can in light of the fact that everyone thinks he is dead...

Jesus in the Qua-ran and in the Bible

is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...

Racist Text The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

about slavery reveal the horrors of slavery and the injustice which the system of slavery imposed on the lives of so many black pe...

John C. Maxwell's 'Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know'

agendas, personalities, and motivation toward a single and common goal. Truly successful leadership is the result of one person or...

Brave Ship Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott

courtesy of the personal log book entries that comprise the narrative. The heart and soul of the story is May 3, 1945, which seem...

Predator Film and Fantasy Rewriting of History

group of weapons specialists embark on their latest hunting mission. The film is a consistent metaphor of the predator (hunter) a...

Susan Forward and Craig Buck's Betrayal of Innocence Incest and its Devastation

1988 reprint of Betrayal of Innocence, Dr. Forward wrote, "I, too, had been victimized in a similar way by my father. I had kept...

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

from his name and his pursuits that he is something of a dishonest boy and a boy who will stop at nothing to gain some power and m...

Adventure Concept

If one were to look at a university catalog or perhaps a regional newspaper more than likely there would be an announcement for...

Frank Abagnale's Catch Me if You Can

really required to fly. He pretended to be a pilot for about 2 years and then moved on to pretending he was a doctor, with no on...

The Paradox of American Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

difficult to keep in intervening in internal matters that may affect American security or revenues, but Nye suggests it is essenti...

Likely Interest Rate Change Assessment

the economy and will also reflect elements such as consumer confidence. Here there were positive signs and a general increase was ...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys

wrong. For the most part it appears as though Gurians work is focusing on how bad single mothering is for sons, and how mothers ...

What My Heart Wants to Tell by Verna Mae Slone

about a life now gone. A Remarkable Family and Its History If there is any hesitancy about reading what is an unashamedly a...

Joseph Plumb Martin's Ordinary Courage

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

Up Country by Nelson DeMille

may give information to the cause of the death and while Brenner has no idea why the military is so interested in the answer, he i...

17th Century American Economic Thought

The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...

Martin Rees' Our Cosmic Habitat

the question posed in his Prologue, "Could God Have Made the World Any Differently?" with a resounding, "Yes!" The author also ma...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom

Civil War. Battle Cry for Freedom McPhersons work covers, as mentioned, a great deal of subjects that directly involved the Ci...

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

Emulating Homer

Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...

In Harm’s Way by Doug Stanton

of the work is involved with events as the ship sunk and after the sinking. It is titled Sunk and is comprised of chapters four th...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Research Statement and Annotated Bibliography

up with some sort of thesis. Perhaps the thesis could be that Twain was only writing about his society, writing an entertaining st...