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Children and the Psychosocial Effects of Television Violence

to real-world violence, and thereby less empathetic to the pain and suffering of others (Chidley 37). Observations of teenagers re...

Synopsis and Review of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this novel is summarized and reviewed....

Death of a Salesman South Coast Repertory Theatre Performing Arts Review

In four pages this version of Arthur Miller's play is reviewed in terms of Willy Loman's character development and simplistic sett...

Review of the 1997 Pantages Theatre Performance of Phantom of the Opera

In four pages this paper reviews this musical performance in terms of structure with staging improvement suggestions offered....

William Shakespeare's Hamlet Performing Arts Review

In four pages this review includes discussion of character and plot development, staging, and considers how they support the actio...

Mel Gibson's Hamlet

In two pages this essay reviews the Gibson film adaptation and the writer includes a personal reaction....

Tremors Science Fiction Film Review

to avoid being consumed, Bacon, Ward, Finn and a number of townspeople spend a significant amount of time on the roof of houses, h...

Thomas Jefferson by Joyce Appleby

the United States. The book begins around the time he was elected as President, which took place at the end of the 18th century. I...

Fahrenheit 9/11

administration, were not incredibly worried, and at the same time this demonstrates just how incapable Bush is as president. He cl...

“The Gates of Fire” by Steven Pressfield

on history, on ancient people and cultures. Pressfield has obviously researched the types of weapons the people used, the struggle...

The Hero’s Journey

sight of their original teaching passion, or the education system insists that teachers simply instruct, as though the children we...

Jana Childers' Edited Text Birthing the Sermon

the most part, it is a book aimed at other preachers and religious individuals. It seems to aim at an audience that may, or may no...

Janet Wilson James' Women in American Religion

This text is reviewed in five pags. There are no other sources listed....

Review and Summary of Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller's Charlie Company (What Vietnam Did to Us)

In five pages this 1983 memoir on soldiers' Vietnam War experiences is summarized, reviewed, and critiqued....

Reviewing Depression Causes

story of depression either. The entire subject of depression is one that is widely misunderstood by the public. Depression is of...

Article Summaries on Cosmology and Black Holes

In five pages two articles about cosmology and black holes are reviewed....

Analysis of the Movie How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days

be funny, but it winds up just being painful, sad, and unpleasant to watch. Since Andies goal is to drive Ben away, she delibera...

Surviving the Applegates by Stephanie Tolan

at this point, E.D.s Aunt Lucille intervenes and persuades Jakes social worker that he can be successfully home schooled with the ...

Walter J. Boyne's Clash of the Titans

Then, in the Mediterranean there were numerous battles taking place, and still yet, in the Pacific Ocean there was the beginning o...

Review of Flyboys by James Bradley

- one that describes some pretty gruesome behavior on the part of the enemy, as well as a cover-up of two governments (United Stat...

A Review of An Hour Before Daylight

and gather a crop. "Good or bad fortune for owners of smaller farms would inevitably be shared by their tenants," Carter noted....

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...

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...

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 ...

Seven Samurai

and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...

Dorothy Rabinowitz's No Crueler Tyrannies

changed by Gerald Amirault and the mother began to notice the boy was now wetting his pants. This led to the belief that the boy w...

The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb

Year and the Best Appalachian Novel (Who Dunnit). She has also received the Edgar, Nero, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity awards (Who ...

Social Security System and Its Impacts

to restore security by those that had lost it as a result of changing lifestyles associated with their changing occupations. As f...

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 ...

Stephen Flynn's America the Vulnerable

9/11 have declined and are honestly not very effective. He claims that once the initial fear and anger, on the part of the public,...