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The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex De Jonge

De Jonge places particular emphasis on his spiritual transformation in early adulthood, pointing out that such transformations, su...

Cynthia Arem on Anxiety About Math

text is logical and begins with a diagnostic process that aids the reader in determining whether or not he or she truly does suffe...

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

being the spiritual problems of modern man. We must keep in mind, of course, that Jungs reference to "modern" is dated to say the...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

'Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians' by Norma Basch

contends that, "Regional variations in divorce law were more pronounced on an east-west axis than a north-south one."3 For instan...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

for myself. I began to blame Danny, Butch and the Kid for my present fate...But then I thought, aw, hell, it wasnt their fault--as...

March 9, 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads and its Importance

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'The Experience Economy'

Information is becoming a big component of the economic market as well. While at one time the consumer was dependent on informati...

Machine Guns and Warfare

employ the use of the new technology in the battle of Petersburg in Virginia(Bellis 2003). Interestingly enough, the inventor of ...

Benjamin F. Schemmer's The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

Contemporary Manifestations of Terrorism

indoctrinate, train, and reward the individuals, but they do not seek out depressed or mentally disturbed people to go on their m...

Comparing Poems about War to Beowulf

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

Thinking About Music, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music by Lewis Rowell

however, is preliminary, a basic orientation, if you will, before settling down to discussing the books main argument, which conce...

She Walks These Hills by McCrumb

those velvet petals...--they looked just the same as they had in Mamas old ditch garden up home" (McCrumb 39). Rather than being r...

Warfare Turning Point, The Tet Offensive

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

Shanghai Modern by Leo Ou Fan Lee

known political revolutions of this century. The movements principal focus was disdain for traditional Chinese culture, which was ...

Seapower, Artillery and Their Importance to Warfare in 1492 and 1815

"expansionist policies required France to develop a naval force which could challenge the world -- particularly the fleets...

Modern Warfare and WMD Justification

was not going to tolerate anything like this battle again, finding itself compelled to drill this fact home to the Japanese. "If ...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

In eight pages this text which covers the 1980s Palestinian and Israeli conflict and tensions in Lebanon is the focus of a summary...

Evolution of Submarine Warfare Between 1776 and 1918

in the U.S. Revolution, 2004). It was egg shaped and was propelled by two hand-cranked propellers. One propeller was for...

Overview of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey

The cognitive aspect of the work seems to be the most important. Making a paradigm shift, as the author reiterates, is the highlig...

Masculine Image and Warfare

towards the existing stereotype, and the purpose of this paper will be to demonstrate this bias and retrenchment of the masculine ...

An Analysis of Rosemary Ruether's Book, Gaia and God

beginning of a very slippery slope where mankind lost his spiritual footing and began to make a distinction, a separation of faith...

A Review of The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

news item which it is likely that the vast majority of those in the audience will recognize. For example, recent news stories of c...

Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese

the nature of ones goals (the cheese) and the role it plays in a persons life. The contrast, of course, is between...

Desert Storm, Desert Shield, and Lessons Learned From Them

a former assistant secretary of defense, in his report to the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee a dozen years ago....