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Galbraith's The Great Crash of 1929

It is true that on some level, the people are much wiser today than they were at the time and there are many new economic theories...

Steven Johnson/Everything Bad is Good For You

that the judgment of future generations as to what is valuable and what is in error in the past is frequently surprising. In other...

Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

Kristin Ross/May '68 and Its Afterlives

down the entire country. Nine million people, "across all sectors of public and private employment-from department store clerks to...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

Community Nursing and Sarton's As We Are Now

Rose, "sleeps somewhere else" (Sarton 16). Mrs. Hatfield only experience as a "trained nurse" was two years employment as a nurses...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

“War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma”

There was, therefore, a pressing need from the British perspective for address. There was also, however, a British recognition of...

Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action

This 14 page essay reviews Harr's popular book examining his narrative style and outlining the main points that are covered. An e...

A Review of The Many-Headed Hydra Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

This 5 page essay reviewing the book by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. This paper accentuates the thirst for economic profit...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Economic Commentary in Fat and Mean The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial 'Downsizing' by David Gordon

In seven pages this research paper presents summaries of the book chapters and then summaries a trio of text reviews. Four source...

A Revies of Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato

A 5 page essay reviewing issues surrounding the working class characters depicted in this book. 1 source....

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

A Review of I Know This Much Is True

A 3 page review of the book by Walley Lamb. This paper analyzes the plot and discusses the emotional baggage that characterizes t...

Perspectives on Multiculturalism

A 5 page review of the essay Crossing Cultures in Crossing Cultures Readings for Composition, a book edited by Myrna Knepler, et a...

A Review of The Broken Spears The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

arrival of the Spanish using Aztec omens. Chapter 2 provides us with the first impressions of the Spanish presented from Aztec ey...

Identity and Politics in An African-Nicaraguan Community

A 6 page review of the book by Edmund Gordon. The focus is on the downfall of the Sandinista regime. A brief history of Nicaragu...

The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law by Norval Morris

cars during the 1970s. But while for many of the terrible crimes committed the severity of the penalty would not have mattered, it...

David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot's 'Learning Together'

has gone the way it has of late, and that some of these changes, and perhaps problems, can be related to issues of gender in regar...

A Review of Fences

An 8 page review of the book by August Wilson. This paper focuses on the theme of oppression, a theme that affects not just Afric...

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...

Test Taking Skills (A Literature Review)

skim the questions as they are worried that they will run out of time. However, this could lead to a misinterpretation of some of ...

Trimbur's Call to Write/Narrative of Frederick Douglass

the chapter that addresses writing profiles of specific people, Trimbur writes, "This impulse to describe, to analyze, and to unde...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

there are also elements that speak of the political and military struggles in the region. For example, Laila has two brothers who ...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...

The Myths of Innovation (Book Review Summaries and Analysis)

the processes used by several investors, something that might be used as inspiration (Matazan, 2008). The gist of this review, asi...