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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 ...

Roots & Wings/York, Early Childhood Education

such as the idea that young children do not notice or understand bias. Chapter three discusses racism, addressing key questions an...

Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

Gary Jennings/Aztec

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

Paulo Coelho/The Alchemist

he meets, as well as the lessons that he learns. This plot sounds simplistic and stereotypical, and in many ways this is true; how...

“Human Built World”

that probably springs to mind first is a computer. This is only one part, and a very small segment, of the vast human enterprise t...

MacDonald : Private World

the internal, the public life versus the private life and we each need a private world where we can become refreshed and recharged...

Eight Men Out, Book and Film

widely considered to be one of the greatest teams in baseball history. However, eight of the teams stars lost their brilliance in ...

The Glass Castle

neglected their children. But, at the same time they also clearly instilled in their children a love of adventure and knowledge. ...

The Glass Castle

This setting moves, however, to West Virginia where things truly crumble. The father, who grew up in this town, seems to be immedi...

Chris Matthews/Hardball

with the name of Chris Matthews because this is the name of the MSNBC television show on which Matthews appears as the host. Howev...

Transforming Discipleship by Greg Ogden

This book review focuses on the first three chapters of Greg Ogden's Transforming Discipleship, Making Disciples a Few at a Time. ...

Mary of Plymouth by James Otis

This book review pertains to a book authored by Otis in 1910, which is designed to appeal to young readers and provide them with a...

Searching for Urban Theology

This paper presents a book review of City of God, City of Satan by Linthicum. The main ideas in the book are reported as are the r...

A Theology As Big As the City by Ray Bakke

This book review pertains to Rau Bakke's A Theology As Big as the City. First of all, the writer/reviewer describes Bakke's primar...

Bondage Breaker by Neil Anderson

This book review is on Neil T. Anderson's "The Bondage Breaker." After summarizing the overall text, the writer offers commentary ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza and Marie

This essay pertains to two women characters, Eliza Harris and Marie St. Clare, who are featured in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The wrier ...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

Natasha's Dance/Orlando Figes

the Great gave the Russian upper class a split personality, divorcing them from all things Russian, by introducing European custom...

AN ANALYSIS OF LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME

Americans like history, they dislike their history classes with a passion. Too much of what is considered "fact" in histor...

This is a paper that discusses Uncle Tom’s

because they are swimming on a white persons property they find trouble, and violence. Big Boy and Bobo backed away, their eyes fa...

Socialist Feminism: Past and Present

a branch of feminism created in the early 1970s to get women to win reforms that will improve their lives, give them a sense of po...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Depictions of Slaves

the institution of slavery and as such the focus is on slaves, slavery and race relations. That is the theme of the work overall. ...

Information Privacy and Web Pages

In fact, that has been the case in more than one instance in the past (Hoy, Grubbs, and Phelps, 2003)....

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

John Moretta/William Penn & Quaker Legacy

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

Boeing vs. Airbus: The Question of Government Subsidies

of the latter company. Boeing, on the other hand, has relied more on internal strategy to keep the company afloat. The battle ha...