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Surviving the Applegates by Stephanie Tolan

at this point, E.D.s Aunt Lucille intervenes and persuades Jakes social worker that he can be successfully home schooled with the ...

Walter J. Boyne's Clash of the Titans

Then, in the Mediterranean there were numerous battles taking place, and still yet, in the Pacific Ocean there was the beginning o...

Marcia Riggs' Awake, Arise, and Act

or their personal relationships. However, most religions, Christian or not, still do not value women as much as they value men. I...

264 BC to 133 BC Roman Empire

results of this long and complex war was that Carthage and Rome decided to essentially share, or divide Spain. However, a bit late...

The Empire of the St. Lawrence by Donald Creighton

region is his awareness of the influence of commerce and the manner by which it shapes history. Certainly other historians realiz...

Introduction to the New Testament by Raymond Brown

describing these aspects of the New Testament in detail. For example, he begins his book, in the preface section, by indicating im...

E.M. Forster's A Room with a View and Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses

Koran, and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, are sentenced to death. I ask all Moslems to execu...

Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China by Merle Goldman

up information that is broad and generalized and thus perhaps unbiased, her intention is to inform the reader that she believes Ch...

Hindu Society and Women's Roles

are not to be allowed any form of independence - they cannot even undertake religious fasts on their own initiative, but must join...

Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck's American Terrorist Timothy McVeigh

home, he was given an opportunity to be a part of the Green Berets but he did not make it due to the rigorous physical training ne...

Brian Moynahan's Rasputin The Saint Who Sinned

became Alexandras advisor because Rasputin has the ability to stop her sons fits. Her son was a hemophiliac and Rasputin was able ...

Comparative Analysis of Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

father" (Mukherjee NA). Without even getting into the specifics of this story we can immediately see that the patriarchal society ...

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order by Ellis Hawley

kicked off something else that was interesting - the worlds first mass consumption economy. The Industrial Revolution had been und...

Simon Bolivar, Liberation and Disappointment by David Bushnell

killed. He fled to Jamaica, then later to Haiti where he was able to gather together enough rebel fighters to mount another attack...

Michael Pertschuk's Smoke in Their Eyes

kenneled, so to speak, in the US, these businesses have such an extensive network that they will not be hurt in any way by the US ...

Overview of Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors

his conviction that what she was doing for him was in his best interest. The problem was, his mother was a selfish...

The Godfather Part I by Mario Puzo and The Client by John Grisham

Power -- and all the ill will it attracts -- is key to Grishams novel and how it directly relates to the image of Italian Mafia ac...

Delhi Sultanate by Simon Digby

In five pages this text is summarized and analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

J.P. Vandenakker's Small Christian Communities and the Parish

In seven pages this text is summarized and analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Fatima Mernissi's Beyond the Veil Reviewed

In five pages this text on Islamic women's sexuality is reviewed....

Comparison of An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

In eight pages these texts are contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

After the Season by Jack Hodgins

In five pages this tutorial essay examines the text in terms of the relationship that exists between theme, setting, and character...

Max De Pree's Leadership Jazz

pull up a chair. De Pree correlates the skills of a jazz musician: improvisation, innovation, freedom, and inspiration, with wo...

Paul Johnson's Modern Times

created the modern political zealot--and his crimes--so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the...

Robert E. Kelley's How to be a Star at Work

star at work." Kelleys research with Bell Labs discovered that workers and bosses often did not even have the same "idea" of who ...

The Outsider by Albert Camus and Perspective Narrative

a "benign indifference of the universe." This discussion will examine how the narrator, Meursault, aka Camus, gets that message a...

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Paul Kennedy

In five pages a review of this text is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

Spartas men were its walls. Training: Pressfield divulges that training for Spartan "high-born" males begins at age thirteen. ...

Timothy Egan's The Good Rain

In four pages the author's exploration of the Pacific Northwest is the focus of this text summary....

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Liberation

really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do? My brother i...