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Inside by Michael Santos

by working as prostitutes within the jail (Santos 17). However, horrible conditions and high violence are not indicative of all ja...

The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

This essay describes three Supreme Court cases, Bowers v. Hardwick, Lawrence v. Texas, and Bush v. Gore, which are described by To...

Samurais, 2 Books

This essay pertains to two texts that relate samurai culture, The Last Samurai by Mark Ravina and Bushido, the Way of the Samurai,...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

Misreading Scripture by Richards, O'Brien

This essay pertains to aspects of E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien's text Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes. The n...

The Complete Book of Discipleship by Bill Hull

This book review is on Bill Hull's text The Complete Book of Discipleship, On Being and Making Followers of Christ. The report pe...

An Environmental Literacy Walk for the Preschooler

Young children know very little of their world. They have, after all, only been exposed to a limited...

Literacy Development Site for Preschoolers

with a minor detail missing from one picture within a line of identical images. Spotting the missing detail aids children in devel...

Literacy Lesson Plan

them), but she draws them (using paper in pen). Amelia Bedelia is asked to dust the furniture (meaning to take the dust away), bu...

Art of War by Sun Tzu

hid their true persona and this may very well pertain to Sun Tzu ("About," 2010). About the text: Modern history tends to regard...

Introduction to Christian Theology/Gonzalez and Perez

points out that the authors approach their topic principally from the standpoint of church historians, and that their "vision of U...

The Etiquette of Texting

Texting has become a more and more prominent means of communication throughout the world. It is...

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...

How to Promote Literacy

The idea that people choose not to read is evidenced by the vast number of people who claim they do not have time nor the inclinat...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

What Made Sparta a Military Power?

BC). Lycurgus was responsible for encouraging Spartan civic duty to the commonwealth; developing a social structure designed to s...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

Analysis of Sandra Steingraber’s Living Downstream

Both have been linked to cancer" (p. 6). This began, for Dr. Steingraber, a lifelong crusade to educate herself and others about ...

Book Report on Mark Sanborn’s The Fred Factor

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

Book Summary of Daniel J. Levinson’s The Seasons of a Man’s Life

"the underlying pattern of design of a persons life at a given time" (p. 41). This pattern evolves through a sequence of events, ...

David Halberstam/The Best and the Brightest

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

What ‘Literacy’ Means Today

search engines and cant find the information she wants, its because she has either spelled something wrong, or searched "for the w...

Gross and Fink/Telecommunications

of this text. Part 1: Electronic Media Forms While the original form of telecommunication, i.e., the telephone, can trace its o...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Desmond Seward’s Wars of the Roses

All five opposed King Richard III and, at various times, were personally accused of treason by Richard. Chapter 2 gives a brief in...

Critical Review of Jules Tygiel’s Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

and celebrities alike. Tygiel takes great pains not to overwhelm readers with too many facts and figures. He is well aware that ...

Campano/Immigrant Students and Literacy

child with immense social capabilities and skill, and someone capable of discussing weighty issues, such as the colonization of th...

Thomas Aquinas, On Law

reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...

Sundiata: The Text and the Man

in Africa. The importance of the character in the book is that he becomes a true hero. Conde frames the story of Sundiata "with g...

Review of Thomas á Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ

first published anonymously in 1418, and has become the most widely read Christian text with the lone exception of the Bible. Sub...