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Essays 331 - 360

Seeing is Believing by Margaret Miles

religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Quran and Woman by Amina Wadud

within a larger holistic framework. For instance, in considering the first verse of the surah, which is entitled "Women" and dis...

Bas van Fraassen's A Defense of the Observational/Theoretical Distinction and Grover Mazwell's Theoretical Entities

He admits that the higher powered the glass through which we are looking, the more vague our observations may be, but he also indi...

Bossidy's Execution Getting Things Done

potential is never fulfilled. But dont most companies have some kind of a people process? According to this book, yes and no. The ...

Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

Toward a World Theology by Wilfred Cantrell Smith

another level, it is a matter of theological truth. His goal in this study is provide evidence and links between these two realiti...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

Robert Cialdini's Influence The Psychology of Persuasion

the society has done well with this product and everyone will need one. Another term, scarcity seems to indicate that it is an app...

T.J. Davis's Rumor of Revolt

fire to many of the largest buildings in the middle of town, and when the firemen and volunteers came to put out the blaze they we...

Robert Putnan's Bowling Alone Summarized

group meetings like they used to. He brings in the idea of bowling, as seen in the title, indicating that there has been an incr...

The Boxed Slave Known as Aunt Jemima

fictitious biography for her, while a succession of real-life women portrayed Aunt Jemima at county fairs and various bake-off com...

Infectious Greed by Frank Partnoy

been -- being overstated by as much as 25 percent. This drastically changed Bankers Trust balance sheet, effectively erasing the c...

Communities of Violence by David Nirenberg

the Shepherds Crusade, as Nirenberg posits that this was, indeed, the case, that is, that the poor people who enacted the violence...

Analysis of William Ury's Getting Past No

"cluttered attic, full of old resentments and angers, gripes and stories" on page 59). In this regard, the steps involved mean def...

Mappings, Feminism and Cultural Geographies of Encounters by Susan S. Friedman

cultures" (Friedman 5). This is what Friedman attempts to offer her readers in this text. Part I focuses on the encounters betwe...

The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler

of managerial hierarchies and conclude with the observation that as businesses grew to dominate certain sectors of the US economy,...

Gender, Politics and Islam Edited by Saliba, Allen, and Howard

significance of networks in formulating that identity (Meyer 424). The specific topics covered are diverse. For example, Hegland a...

Eve's Seed by Robert S. McElvaine

evolution" (McElvaine 5). In accomplishing this goal, McElvaine also states as one of his texts objectives the goal of exploring h...

Suzanna Lonchar's A Brooklyn Rose

are also incredibly personal stories that come from the view and experiences of a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the infor...

Review of Coming Apart An Informal History of America in the 1960s by William L. O'Neill

extended outline of the 1960s and piquing our interest. ONeill clearly illustrates the decade as one of change, and one of desi...

William Greider's 'Who Will Tell the People'

faithfully perform its most basic function-enforcing laws." (Greider, 1993; 107). His work is focused on letting the reader know...

Paradise Lost, California's Experience, America's Future by Peter Schrag

that imposed minimum spending formulas on schools, three-strikes sentencing laws, land conservation measures and measures abolishi...

Isabel Fonseca's Bury Me Standing and Ilona Lackova's A False Dawn

of being marginalized and stereotyped, and just beginning to understand that they have a collective identity (Maslin, 1995). The ...

Hero in Vasilis Arvanitis by Stratis Myrivilis

working for the occupying Turks to anti-Turk resistance (Machin, 1998). Vasilis, similarly, changes his role, both in relation to ...

Yanomamo by Napoleon A. Chagnon

kinship and marriage. There is a great deal of marriage of cousins within this group. This trend is interesting as it differs a g...

Richard Bessel's 'Life in the Third Reich'

mentioned, there are eight essays in this work. The first one is by Richard Bessel and is titled "Political Violence and the Nazi ...

Michael Klare's Resource Wars

violence, thus setting a deplorable example that will certainly result in more violence, and another round of resource wars. Chapt...

The Hitler Myth by Ian Kershaw

had been only political, economic and social division. Kershaw begins by explaining that the "idea and image of a Fuhrer of the ...

The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer

is referring not to a political orientation, but rather to a general stance toward society. This is the same sentiment expressed ...