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John Ortberg's Philosophy

simplest gift of God" (Ortberg 67). In other words, celebration is when we stop to appreciate Gods wondrous gift of life, such as ...

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...

Elisha and the Romans

As a Driven Leaf. The book is a fictionalized account of the life of a real person, Elisha ben Abuyah, an early Talmudic scholar w...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

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...

SUZE ORMAN AND BOOK REVIEW

paying upwards of 10% on interest for credit cards verses the paltry 3% or 4% that one earns on a savings account, this is a solid...

The Bone Woman by Clea Koff

governments to prosecute mass murderers for their crimes. The expose writing: This term usually refers to someone who is knowledg...

The Glass Castle

neglected their children. But, at the same time they also clearly instilled in their children a love of adventure and knowledge. ...

The Glass Castle

This setting moves, however, to West Virginia where things truly crumble. The father, who grew up in this town, seems to be immedi...

The Google Story

set their sights high, despite being rejected early on by some potential business partners and investors, and their enthusiasm con...

Identity Construction

identity formation are represented in specific works. One of the outcomes of the childhood socialization process is that the child...

Hospitality in the Telemachy

(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Would Black Reparations be Redistributive Justice?

our current system of redistributive taxation follows a set pattern that is characterized by an inherent inequality between those ...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...

Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber

nations universities, in order to stay viable financially, have placed undue emphasis on their sports programs, utilizing a perspe...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Susanna Rowson Writes the Truth

more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...

The Development of the British Film Industry: Cultural Influences

here is that the film industry, even in its earliest days was driven by economic concerns and considerations. Throughout the 192...

Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin

These two facts would seem mutually exclusive, since the impression most people have of autistic individuals is that they cannot f...

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...

Book Industry Approaches to Communication Technologies

communication technologies have led to our age being branded the "Information Age". What this means in todays business environment...

Books: The "Least Mass" of the Mass Media

books as a whole. Even if fewer people read books than listen to music or see movies, the cultural impact of those books can still...

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

An Examinations of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

most significant cons, according to critics, is President Bushs imperialist implication. Since the events of October 11th, Presid...

An Analysis of Rosemary Ruether's Book, Gaia and God

beginning of a very slippery slope where mankind lost his spiritual footing and began to make a distinction, a separation of faith...

Donald Chidsey's The American Privateers

objectives. Though the historical context provided by Chidsey relates the idea that privateering was not a new concept, he does ...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

A Deuteronomy Structural Analysis

chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...

Epicurean Concepts of 'Ataraxia' and Aristotelian Concepts of 'Human Good,' 'The Best Good,' and 'Function Argument'

positive reinforcement, for the happiest people are also those who are feeling well and living prosperous lives. These are not me...