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"Marketing, the ethic of consumption, and less-developed counties"

identification is (more or less) closely bound up with what one owns or consumes" (Brenkert, 1998; p. 93). These are the people t...

Anthropology on Mars by Oliver Sacks

so rare as to be almost unknown to science-they might as well be on Mars. Sacks methods of investigation appear to consist largel...

Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship

Christians believe facts that cannot be empirically proven. That is, in fact, the definition of faith. A manager who is a Believer...

The Golden Thirteen

The Golden 13 were a group of black officers. This is three pages that look at the book about the men by Paul Stillwell. There is ...

The Edge of Disaster

in the effort to make the nation more secure is the private sector, but it has not done so (2007). Instead, the government has tak...

Management Lessons from Proper Confidence

vision and they are passionately committed to that vision. The most effective leaders are capable of having others adopt the vis...

The Quiet Room

Mental illness can strike anyone and should not be stigmatized. This paper discusses the issues a student might face if he or she ...

On The Trinity by Augustine

Shedd (1886) points out that Augustine is especially guilty of this in the last eight chapters/Books. This may be because the firs...

Comparing and Contrasting Dracula and Nosferatu

is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

“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...

“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 ...

Chapter Summaries of a Text on Youth Gangs

The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...

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...

COMPARING CONSUMER SPENDING IN THE US AND ATLANTA DISTRICT FEDS

poor retail results (Sixth District). Tourism-related spending was also weak, though theme park attendance and cruise bookings wer...

Making a Nation of the Hebrew Slaves

raise his staff and stretch out his arms and the Sea parted, allowing all the Israelites to get to the other side at which time th...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

HOW THE FINANCIAL CRISIS HIT HOMEOWNERS

late 1990s and early 2000s in the wake of the dot-com bust, and how all of those low interest rates (not to mention greedy lenders...

Supporting Chastity and Authentic Human Sexuality

In a twelve page paper, the writer gives some insights into the views presented in two books, Real Sex, by Winner (2005), and Auth...

The Confessions of Nat Turner

questions the institution of slavery but it is not until this turning point that Nat truly decides to rebel. In the fourth chapter...

Obama's Dreams from my father

were tears running done the cheeks of many Americans, and even those who voted against him. They were touched by the fact that an ...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Writing Back to the World

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

How Successful People Think

founder of EQUIP, a non-profit organization that has trained more than 5 million leaders in 126 countries worldwide" (Maxwell [1])...

Confederates in the Attic

their family connections to this time in history. For example, in looking at one particular mans journey Horwitz asked him why he ...