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Moral and Physical Resistance During the Holocaust Depicted in The Book and Film Versions of Jacob the Liar and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several ...

“The Beat of a Different Drummer”

to look at John Goodlads ideas and see if he really is a "different drummer." For centuries, the educational model has been teach...

Arch and Martin Flanagan: “The Line”

one of whom is reluctant to talk and the other who is struggling to understand. Its probably true to say that unless one has bee...

Barack Obama: “Dreams from My Father”

for much of his childhood, in Hawaii, a state where the races mix freely and easily and where his mixed heritage didnt seem to be ...

Betty Freidan's The Feminine Mystique

This paper provides a reading of Betty Freidan's book, The Feminine Mystique. The author points out how the role of the woman has...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

An Analysis of Purity and Danger

ideas. Some examples provided by the author respect the Jewish dietary traditions as well as ideas about sexuality and cleanliness...

Marvin Harris's "Cannibals And Kings"

of more people, more food, more impact upon the land repeats itself every time cultural modify themselves in order to maintain the...

Alexie: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”

an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...

Barbara Kellerman: “Bad Leadership”

man was right" (Kellerman, 2004, p. 29). This is the dilemma which, Kellerman argues, no one wants to acknowledge: that bad, even ...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

Characters Who Are Trapped

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

A Million Little Pieces and Tao te Ching

thrown up and obviously experienced writhing agony, yet he falls asleep, after her call, "Still. Eyes closed. Smiling" (Frey 130)....

Illegal People by David Bacon

the immigrants, creates a situation wherein they are seen as a problem rather than a beneficial source in the nation. This is furt...

A Look at Tally's Corner

written word" (Liebow, 2003, p.16). Here, the man described is someone who did not have the benefit of being raised by his parents...

The Relationship Between Michael Jordan and September 11th

than a dozen endorsements would go to these other charities" (p.166). The author minimizes the generosity of Jordan and continues...

“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Murder in the Deep South

Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...

The Nature of Evil

permit others to do so on your behalf" (p.5). Despite the fact that the book is titled The Lucifer Effect, what makes people tick ...

Nace: “Gangs of America”

many instances of corporations actually writing legislation favorable to them, though its rarely blatant. Rather, they "remind" th...

Picoult: “My Sister’s Keeper”

wrong with Anna; her pain and suffering - which are very real, given the type of procedures she undergoes as a donor - are all to ...

Gangs of America

The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...

“The Line” by Arch and Martin Flanagan

five men he knows who "fought and suffered in the Asian theatre of World War II," four returned with "the imprint of Eastern philo...

McWhorter's Losing the Race

have gone by with many of the problems in the black community magnified and tied to race relations. Yet, one has to wonder whether...

An Examination of the Salem Witch Trials

Introduction In the dead of winter in...

Miller, Hawthorne, and the Impacts of Public Morality

morality, through exploring how public morality encourages deceit and dishonesty, causes distress and trauma, and ultimately destr...

Why Teams Win: 9 Keys to Success in Business, Sport, and Beyond by Saul Miller

health care and the arts is when teams achieve a "synergy of intelligence, energy, talent and spirit" (Miller, 2009, p. 8). Mill...

The Capture and Escape of Colombian Presidential Candidate Ingrid Betancourt

Born in Colombia, raised in France, Ingrid Betancourt ran for the president of Colombia in 2002....

Facing East from Indian Country

history of the United States but are all too often not the focus of American history. While other authors seem to circumvent the r...

Columbus - Exploring Fact and Historical Distortion

the understanding of students, but reinforces the social privileges of the same social classes and national groups who have enjoye...

Renovations of the Heart by Dallas Willard

and possibly diverting thought processes from Divine guidance. Willard offers various categories of transformation, which are de...