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The Progressive City by Pierre Clavel

In five pages the 1970s and 1980s civic government progression featured in Pierre Clavel's text is the focus of this book review. ...

Intergovernmental Poltics and Uncovering the Dome by Amy Klobuchar

This is a book review consisting of six pages that discusses how politics impacted upon the early 1980s creation of Minneapolis's ...

A Review of Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory

views, and also goes on to suggest that his seemingly tenuous perspective on the application of science to social theory is based ...

Mary Tudor by W.F.M. Prescott

The writer reviews the W.F.M. Prescott book Mary Tudor, which is a detailed study of the reign of Queen Mary I of England, the wom...

Childrens Literature The 2011 Newberry Medal and Caldecott Medal

Childrens literature is extremely diverse both in content and in style. The most notable authors always...

Culture and its Relation to Aviation Disasters

867 Humans, by their very nature, are not infallible....

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

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...

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...

A Film Documenting Growing Old and Dying

"Tuesdays with Morrie" is based on the book by Mitch Albom. Mitch was a previous student of sociology professor Morrie...

Peace and Freedom by Simon Hall

(Hall, 2006; 28). This also brings into play the truth wherein many African Americans sought out communism as a solution to the pr...

The Twelve Caesars/Suetonius

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

From every People and Nation, A biblical theology of race/J. Daniel Hays

who subsequently play a central role in Hays study, as the Bible clearly indicates that these people were black Africans. He offer...

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 Problem of Evil - A Review

Errol Harris revisits a question that has stumped philosophers, theologians and ordinary folks for centuries: if God is good, how ...

The Traveling T-Shirt and Public Policy

This 4 page essay reviews the book "The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy" by Rivoli and the effects of cotton on public ...

The Story of Arabs in America

World Trade Center, damage the Pentagon, bring down three planes and kill thousands of people; they also confused Americans as to ...

Killer Angels

to keep the Union together for that was the main focus of the war in the beginning. The South fought for their right to possess a ...

The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren

any aspect of the church that is antithetical to the purposes of the church should be eradicated. Essentially, Challies points out...

Out of Place

was as a child, but also later as an adult as he attended Princeton and Harvard. The theme involves both a historical examination ...

Examining Existentialist Thought a Book by Ronald Grimsley

literary genre and includes writers such as Sartre himself but also Ibsen, Kafka and Ionesco (Crowell); these writers are usually ...

A Review of The Peculiar Institution

many planters, and at least somewhat profitable for many others, a reality not truly experienced in any other institution at the t...

Robert F. Kennedy's 'Thirteen Days'

This paper consists of 14 pages and provides both a book review and a glimpse into the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen through the ey...

Literature Overview on Medical Errors

Mistakes are sometimes made in transcribing data, or at the level of the practical or registered nurse. If patient data is not app...

A Review of Galileo's Daughter

all previous centuries" (Sobel PG). Based upon one hundred and twenty-four remaining authentic letters that Maria Celeste wrote t...

Jacques Maritain's 'The Dream of Descartes'

chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...

Cross My Heart

A 5 page review of the book by Maureen McCarthy. The focus is the character Michelle and the essay is presented in the form of a ...

Women Guarding Men by Lynn E. Zimmer

One of the most difficult tasks involved in data collection came from trying to obtain permission to interview male inmates. Howev...

Stephen Jay Gould Panda's Thumb

socially constructed food choices-and the availability of manufacturing plants, the creation of new food products and marketing-th...

Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...