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“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...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Book Report: Finance

evaluate expected future gain on the basis of present value. Assessing investment alternatives according to present value methods...

Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

sources in examining some of the validity of Desmond and Moores work. Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist Clearly studying...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Reviewing Mary Ann Keller's Collision

In three pages this book review focuses on the auto industry and recent US migration. There are no other sources listed in the bi...

A Review of Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory

views, and also goes on to suggest that his seemingly tenuous perspective on the application of science to social theory is based ...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's Birds Without a Nest

In five pages this book is discussed in a critical review along with a consideration of the author's intention. There are no othe...

The Early Music Revival A History by Harry Haskell

with significant insight to the concepts about which he wrote; without such influence, it is likely that the writers intensity tow...

Joseph and Julia Quinlan's Karen Ann The Quinlans Tell Their Story

In five pages this paper presents a book review that features a parents' firsthand perspective on the 'right to die' ethical contr...

Martin Duberman's Stonewall

In a paper consisting of three pages the gay uprising that occurred in New York from June to July 1969 is examined in the text and...

John W. Thomason Junior's Fix Bayonets

In five pages Thomason's text is the focus of this book review. There are no other sources listed....

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

This paper consists of five pages and presents a book review on the author's stirring account of the U.S. Marine Corps during the ...

Judicial Process

In five pages a book review of Benjamin N. Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process is presented. There are no other sources list...

Tim O'Brien's If I Die in Combat

In five pages this book by Tim O'Brien regarding a young soldier's Vietnam War experiences is reviewed. There are no other source...

Poverty and Single Mothers

In five pages a book review article by Judith Stacey entitled 'Through My Own Eyes: Single Mothers and the Cultures of Poverty' is...

An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Anabaptism

This five paper paper reviews the book The Anabaptist Story An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Anabaptism by William R. Estep. 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...

Jack Schaefer's Shane

In five pages this book on the courageous men of the Old West is reviewed. There are no other sources listed....

Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima

In five pages a critical review of this book is presented. There are o other sources listed....

Jo Ann Mort's Not Your Father's Union Movement

AFL-CIO, compiled by Jo-Ann Mort, exemplifies that sentiment. Of course, each writing presented has a different attitude to an ex...

Robert Munsch's Love You Forever

In five pages this children's book is reviewed in a discussion not only of the text but also considers Sheila McGraw's effective i...

Review of Mary Frohlich's Text on St. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle

In five pages this paper discusses the life and work of Saint Teresa in this review of the book by Mary Frohlich on this important...