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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 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. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Walter L. Arnstein's Queen Victoria

on Queen Victoria allows the reader to judge for themselves if the book may be worthy of note from the beginning. And, what seems ...

Extraordinary Minds by Howard Gardner

malign) (Gardner 49). By the time the twins are born, B has had 1,300 positive experiences, while M has had 1,300 negative experie...

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 ...

Children's Language Development

This paper reviews and offers conclusions on empirical literature that pertains to young children's language development. Seven pa...

Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Church Reviewed

"New Evangelicalism," the religion that bases its teachings on the New Testament and Christs Word, and how to best frame the Bible...

Book Review of Burton Gordon Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Malkiels particularly applicable considerations is the fact that risk capacities vary for individual investors according to a numb...

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

Review of Martha Ballard's Diary, A Midwife's Tale

perform verses women and the social differences which existed at that time between the two sexes. Ballards writings unveil ...

William Leach's Land of Desire

and leisure. Leach attempts to illustrate that the materialistic world of consumerism was around many decades prior to this time. ...

John Morton Blum's V Was for Victory Reviewed

the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...

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...

Lydia Chavez' The Color Blind California's Battle to End Affirmative Action

gives certain people preferential treatment. Interestingly, this book reveals, with significant candor, both sides of this now co...

Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

US Independence and the Ideology that Achieved It

This paper reviews the book 1776 by author David McCullough. No additional sources are listed. ...

Dispossessing the Wilderness by Mark Spence

traces of people from it. The book drips with interesting stories, case histories and fascinating tidbits about how Native America...

Irvin D. Yalom's Love's Executioner

revealing aspect of "Loves Executioner" which makes the book a tremendously useful and constructive resource to practicing psychot...

A Review of Gabriel's Story

the April sky was not a thing of air and gas. Rather, it lay like a solid ceiling of slate, pressing the living down into the prai...