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Indeh An Apache Odyssey by Eve Ball

Ball encountered it in the late 1940s, was an untapped resource of historical investigation. It took Ball years to win the trust...

Motorcycle Diaries of Che Guevara

In five pages a book review of Che's letters and diaries while on a 1952 South America motorcycle trip are discussed as they revea...

Exclusivism vs. Inclusivism: An Examination of the Question of Who Will Reach Heaven

heaven. This theory places a considerable weight on morality as a deciding factor in determining our final fate. The logic is th...

“Managers not MBA’s”

ate part of a larger team. In additional to this Mintzberg (2004) also argues that the type of people attracted to MBAs are not th...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

An Analysis of Charlottes Web By E.B. White

This 5 page essay reviews this phenomenally popular childrens book about a learned spider and a young pig. 3 sources....

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

The Boxed Slave Known as Aunt Jemima

fictitious biography for her, while a succession of real-life women portrayed Aunt Jemima at county fairs and various bake-off com...

Richard Bessel's 'Life in the Third Reich'

mentioned, there are eight essays in this work. The first one is by Richard Bessel and is titled "Political Violence and the Nazi ...

The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer

is referring not to a political orientation, but rather to a general stance toward society. This is the same sentiment expressed ...

The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

as it is assembled by robots (27). While one part of the world is concentrating on "building a better Lexus," and is dedicated to ...

Karl Sabbagh Skyscraper

are decided benefits to a "fast track" situation. Developers are the guys who front the money for the building -- and theyre the o...

Woman and Man in Paul by Naubert Baumert

the other parts of this analysis. In part D, the final section of the text, the author avails himself of various other theological...

Kathleen R. Fischer and Thomas N. Hart's Christian Foundations An Introduction To Faith In Our Time

relate their text to modern life. For instance, the authors discuss the fact that even though so many Americans have all of the ma...

Shanghai Modern by Leo Ou Fan Lee

known political revolutions of this century. The movements principal focus was disdain for traditional Chinese culture, which was ...

Thinking About Music, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music by Lewis Rowell

however, is preliminary, a basic orientation, if you will, before settling down to discussing the books main argument, which conce...

She Walks These Hills by McCrumb

those velvet petals...--they looked just the same as they had in Mamas old ditch garden up home" (McCrumb 39). Rather than being r...

Phantoms in the Brain and Why Do They Act That Way? Annotated Book Reviews

tyrannize their teachers" (Walsh; Bennet, 2005; 1). They then indicate that adolescence is the time between childhood and adulthoo...

Boylan’s “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders”

transsexual individuals is that they do not feel that their true identity is fulfilled in being the sex they were born. Many strug...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Book Report: Finance

evaluate expected future gain on the basis of present value. Assessing investment alternatives according to present value methods...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

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...

Barrett/Interpreting Art/Chapters 2, 7 & 8

7 : In this chapter, the author broadens the topic of discussion, i.e., artistic interpretation, so that the reader is exposed to ...

Say It With Confidence by Margo T. Krasne

In five pages this paper presents a review of this book that removes the mystique from public speaking. There are no other source...

Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking

In four pages the book chronicling a nun's interactions with a Death Row inmate is critically reviewed along with the inclusion of...