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Evaluating John Adams's Presidency

the lions share of the credit" (Bruns, 2007). McCullough says that Adams had an "astute political mind" as well as being an eloqu...

Lives of Quiet Desperation

other people, and from the conventions that bind us together. We might also consider the way in which Thoreau considers his hous...

Organizational Culture Management 6 Levers

resolution, and managing customers (Young 20). 3 Important Facts Supporting Main Idea The student...

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...

Myers/Exploring Psychology/Chaps. 1-9

intriguing to him because of his current assignment in Iraq, as he can observe that the current criticism of the American occupati...

Myers/Exploring Psychology, Chapters 10-15

a baby to term and survive than a thin woman. Chapter 11 : Emotions, stress and health Myers begins by discussing different theo...

Appropriation, Simulation and David Carson

new. One artist who does this is Yasumasa Morimura; his work is "often understood as part of that international tendency of the la...

Living Simply: Emerson and Thoreau

complexities that can be lived without. This sort of perspective is further seen in a statement in his work wherein he sta...

Noble's Opposition to Technology

as email. This all saves time. Long gone are the two necessary carbon copies that the typists painstakingly created and filed and ...

King David

King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle

thesis is how this fire changed something in America. The author begins by illustrating many people and movements involving...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

David McCullough, A Great Historian

The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...

Language in Miller and Mamet’s Plays

of the language in the beginning (Miller 56). Even though he is not "the finest character that ever lived" he does deserve some re...

Ways to Improve Personal Credit (Article Review)

2006, p.44C). The article overall provides a few interesting questions about credit and does respond with general information. How...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

Smith, Ricardo and International Trade

good for the people who work in those industries (Smith mentions corn, wool, silk and linen), but not for everyone equally; Smith ...

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...

Kingship in Israel

by a monarch entailed certain secular dangers, such as possibility that a king might become oppressive in his rule or lead the peo...

The Bursting Point by David Brooks

the truth. He didnt prepare the first responders for a terrorist attack. The Office of Emergency Management was a joke that day. T...

Thank You Letter to Lissa Weinstein

was especially moved by your frustration, and the way you felt that all your education and training was useless to you in this sit...

Children Who Murder

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

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Critique: “God in the Wasteland”

and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...

The Great Convergence Model of History

isolated communities also developed distinctive styles of art and architecture" (Northrup). But the communities didnt remain isol...

Analysis of the Second Chapter of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

that regards Walden as the "story of a person who traded a flawed reality for an idealistic, isolated sanctuary" (845). A close re...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Jesus vs. Thoreau, a Comparison

public inconveniencey, it is the will of God... that the established government be obeyed--and no longer" (1755). Christ was also...

Hermeneutics, Theology, and David Tracy

to the studies of the French Revolution but finds that "the events, texts, symbols, movements, individuals, rituals multiply. And ...