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Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill

For example, she is intrigued when the ship passes islands that have herd of cattle grazing on them. The captain explained that lo...

White Like Me (Reaction)

of racism on a daily basis. Understanding how race figures in society will be helpful for me as I continue my career path as a cor...

FREAKECONOMICS: A REVIEW

everything can be connected with microeconomics 101, namely, the choices that an individual makes to better his/her utility. ...

Riot and Remembrance by Hirsch

Depression looming on the horizon. Hirsch tells the reader that when the Depression did come to the region Greenwood was devasta...

HALF THE SKY AND EDNA’S HOSPITAL

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Warren, Reeve and Fess's Accounting

all businesses accounting methods the same across the board. Although there are some differences between GAAP and International Ac...

Review of Anthony Horowitz's Point Blank

a book by its cover. The boys, when sent to Point Blanc, are bonafide, out of control, juvenile delinquents who suddenly become mo...

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...

Randy Roberts and James S. Olson's A Line in the Sand, the Alamo in Blood and Memory

he was God" (6). As each man is introduced by the authors, such as William Barret Travis, the leader of the Texans; Davy Crockett,...

Maxwell's There's No Such Thing As 'Business Ethics' There's Only One Rule Reviewed

As well see below, Maxwell is not highly in favor of so-called "ethical behavior," because he believes that ethics is very simply ...

Angela's Ashes

the 1940s when McCourt was a child and young adolescent. It is a story that speaks of how hard it was growing up with no one who t...

A Review of The Longest Winter

men is a rare story, and a very powerful story in the history of WWII. It is a story of humanity, as well as the lack of humanity ...

Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

A Review of The American Privateers by Donald Chidsey

or her to make allowances for the various aspects of the book that seem somewhat sensationalized or overblown. It will also serve ...

Ellen Lewin's Lesbian Mothers Accounts of Gender in American Culture

And, by presenting the reader with both sides, so to speak, a reader cannot immediately start stereotyping the results as they app...

Avi's Don't You Know There is a War On?

The experiences recounted in this book, although fictional, have their basis in the deep emotional trauma which World War II wield...

Itah Sadu's “Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room”

will not clean his room, no matter how much he is told to do so. The room gets so out of hand that the two goldfish he owns begin ...

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...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Waldo E. Martin Jr's Brown v. Board of Education A Brief History with Documents

related to this trial. He states, "Indeed the legal cases that have influenced the status of the African Americans historically ha...

Arthur Paul Boers' 'Never Call Them Jerks'

in the end of his first chapter Boers leaves the reader with an even deeper understanding of the purpose of the book, stating, "An...

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

in the book we first examine the introduction. In this introduction Lewis indicates that there are many different types of Chri...

William Leach's Land of Desire

and leisure. Leach attempts to illustrate that the materialistic world of consumerism was around many decades prior to this time. ...

A Review of Eight Million Ways to Die

is approached by a woman, Kim Dakkinen. It is here that we discover he was once a police officer, a reality that may well prove to...

Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Church Reviewed

"New Evangelicalism," the religion that bases its teachings on the New Testament and Christs Word, and how to best frame the Bible...

3 Reviews on Religious Books

a thumbnail description of the rise of modern science beginning in the sixteenth century. This discussion offers insight into this...

Let The Nations Be Glad! & Paradigms In Conflict

faith" (2 Timothy 4:7). And, Paul told Timothy: "Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life . . . ." (1 Timo...

Proverbs, Job & Ecclesiastes

chapters, which are made up wise sayings, consisting of two lines of poetry. The majority of the book is attributed to King Solomo...

Theology of C.S. Lewis

seen in the Narnia series. For example, in the Narnia stories, a principal character is Aslan, the "Lord of the Wood," is a "Chri...

Creating a Sense of Community

describes in his book, neither side truly listened to the other. They were all primarily concerned with converted the opposing sid...