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William Bratton and Peter Knobler's Turnaround: A Book Review

the cornerstone of his plan to tackle crime in New York City concisely and with great clarity. Shortly after becoming commissione...

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...

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...

Melton McLaurin's Celia, A Slave A True Story

issues raised in "Celia, a Slave: A True Story", however, were not confined to the South alone, nor were they limited to the rela...

Book Review of Richard Nelson Bolles’ and Carol Christen’s What Color is Your Parachute? For Teens

The message of the book is simple: People who actually like their jobs and enjoy what they are doing are both happier and successf...

Thompson/Concentric Circles of Concern

Dr. Thompsons classic work, which was published posthumously and revised by Claude V. King, the reader finds a detailed model for ...

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...

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...

Scott Cook/Colonial Encounters

in his conclusions, the "patterns of subjugation, resistance, readjustment and accommodation" that are evident in this period of h...

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...

Terry Castle's The Female Thermometer

as important as overall philosophy. These ideas are apparent in nearly every facet of society at the time, states Castle. In parti...

Book Review of Dorothy Roberts' Killing the Black Body Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

with knowledge. Dorothy Roberts "Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty" is a reflection of that ...

In Praise of Wolves by R.D. Lawrence Reviewed

not to present any sort of challenge to the animals as he remained "crouching", "speaking softly" and "kept his gaze away" not wan...

'Rocket Boys' by Homer Hickam

of resignation which sent young mind after young mind into the coal mines, but there were a few who hoped to change that statistic...

Melvyn Leffler's The Specter of Communism

to promote hostility and fear in the American public. As such, then, liberals and progressives were able to sell their programs an...

Analysis of Fouad Ajami's The Arab Predicament

said to fail miserably in the modern application, Islam fights against the nature of man. Some say that this is not necessarily a ...

Summary and Review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed

for contemporary social issues has been reflected in her thirteen books. In 2001, her text Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By ...

Leon Bing/Do or Die/Youth Gangs

youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...

Book Review of Tom Standage’s A History of the World in 6 Glasses

served as a form of currency in these regions because it was used as wage compensation. A crucial point Standage made is that bee...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Summary, Review and Critique of Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6 by Fountas and Pinnell

the teachers or can be used as scheduling factors in setting up classroom units. In addition to the resources which relate directl...

The Park and the People A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar

4) Redefining Central Park; 5) The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City; and, 6) The Past Fifty Years, in additio...

Summary and Review of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

to their religious existence. Pointing an accusatory finger at the progressive nature of globalization, Huntington (1998) c...

Article Analysis: Japanese Architecture

a renowned Japanese architect who makes his home in Osaka. The new museum is "dedicated to the relics and techniques of ancient Ja...

Roots & Wings/York, Early Childhood Education

such as the idea that young children do not notice or understand bias. Chapter three discusses racism, addressing key questions an...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

Difficult Conversations

that is, having a difficult conversation, was extremely difficult for this writer/tutor. I avoided confrontation at all costs. The...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...