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The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer

is referring not to a political orientation, but rather to a general stance toward society. This is the same sentiment expressed ...

Laura C. Hammond's This Place Will Become Home

set about "transforming an unknown and anonymous space first into a personalized space and finally into a home" (Hammond 3). Acco...

High School Football and H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights

above understandable within the socio-cultural context of the town. Bissinger explains how Odessa, in 1988, when he was doing his ...

The Cajuns by Bernard

In three pages this book report includes text summary, critiques its use of sources, discusses how it may be ordered and any other...

Medieval Cultural Influence of The Apocalypse of St. John and Illuminated Glory

survive from this "last and most extraordinary expansion of the medieval Apocalypse cycles" (Lewis, 1995, p. 1). Illustrated Gothi...

A Concise History of the Catholic Church by Thomas Bokenkotter

rule of the Church during the Middle Ages (1). He points out that during the Renaissance, Church authority was undermined by "soci...

Process of Helping

do alone" (p. 1). Keith-Lucas differentiates between what the helper does, which is an action, and to what use the person being he...

Contemporary American Culture and Class and Community by Alan Dawley

his look at one town in America during the Industrial Revolution. Dawley (2000) breaks down his book entitled Class and Communit...

Francis A. Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live

Schaeffer moves into the time of Enlightenment and then modern science. It is perhaps this section on modern science that one can ...

The Hitler Myth by Ian Kershaw

had been only political, economic and social division. Kershaw begins by explaining that the "idea and image of a Fuhrer of the ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

'Writing in Images' and Cinema

In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...

James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son

the black man as one who thinks deeply, spiritually, and intelligently. In a time when the narrator is oppressed and ridiculed ...

Puritan Themes in Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restoration

Rowlandsons tale is subdivided into twenty removes, which are a combination of her own harrowing experiences as an Indian captive,...

Virginia Woolf's Professions for Women

nothing. She is not arrogantly assuming she is a great success, but rather sucking the listener/reader into a position where they ...

A Court Divided by Tushnet

does suggest that, like a game of chess, the future of he state is to some extent contingent on who is president. Depending upon t...

Speech on Using Seat Belts

age between 3 and 33 (2002 Top Causes of Death by Age Groups, 2003). At 35 and through the age of 64, cancer moves into the lead ...

Toward a World Theology by Wilfred Cantrell Smith

another level, it is a matter of theological truth. His goal in this study is provide evidence and links between these two realiti...

David Tyack's The One Best System

informal close relationships between school and community becoming more like a factory than like the school it once was. It was be...

Communication as Culture by James Carey

in all industrial cultures-and dominates contemporary dictionary entries under the term. It is defined by terms such as imparting,...

Anti Semitism and Adolf Hitler

the ideals are those that encourage seeing others in a light that is negative and threatening. Hitler made use of such realities. ...

Woman First Eleanor Roosevelt

about sex" (Young, 1999; 183). She was, however, incredibly devoted to her husband, even despite the fact that he had strayed and ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien as Fact or Fiction

without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...

Discussion and Summary of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

never really told what happened and she looks very similar to Susie so she seems to bear the hardest burden of all because people ...

Rise and Collapse of Socialism and the Theories of Mark Pittaway

realize that when the reunification took place, East and West Germany were not on an even footing. There had been something occurr...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Uses of Imagery

extensive use of tree imagery. E. How the tree imagery is connected to milk imagery. Conclusion As Morrisons dedication suggests, ...

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's On Loving God and Prayer

out, but that he would do his best to convey his thoughts on loving God in the hopes it can help others, focusing only on loving G...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson and Revelation

inner most desire is that God would "notice and...talk to him also" as he did to men in the Old Testament (55). Bentley comes to s...

The Devil in the White City by Larson

is something that cannot be ignored. It was after all the Civil War that freed the slaves. Black people, or Negroes as they were r...