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The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle

This paper consists of a five pages review of this text in which various questions are answered. There are no sources listed....

The Mexican Revolution by Alan Knight'

In nine pages this text is critically examined and its view of history is presented within a contrasting view provided by another ...

Watchman Nee's The Normal Christian Life

In seven pages this paper presents a synopsis on each chapter of this inspirational Christian life text. One source is cited in t...

Class in America by Paul Fussell

In nine pages this essay considers the author's primary points made in this 1983 text and disputes his position regarding the cult...

Misunderstandings in Forster's A Passage to India

This paper examines two examples of misunderstanding from the text. This five page paper has two sources listed in the bibliograp...

Kenneth Stammp's The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877

of Negroes were literate." Slavery had given few opportunities to develop initiative or to think independently. A writer for Harp...

Multinational Corporations and Globalization

In five pages this paper discusses how multinational corporations have been affected by globalization with The Lexus and the Olive...

Presidential Power by Neustadt and Persuasion

In five pages this text by Neustadt is discussed in terms of the power of the President that according to Dahl resides primarily u...

Mexico During the Late 19th Century and Sport

war had ended in 1848 and since that time, American-Mexican relations would change. The latter nineteenth, and early twentieth, ce...

Concept of Hero in Fatal Light by Richard Currey and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...

Them by Joyce Carol Oates

In five pages this paper describes what the writer personally enjoyed about the text and what value can be gained from reading it....

Roxana, the Fortunate Mistress by Daniel Defoe and Amy and Roxana's Relationship

in a few short years. Roxanas lone confidant was her trusted maid, Amy, in whom she could confide her innermost hopes and dreams....

Classical Era Transformation and Richard Tarnas' The Passion of the Western Mind

to accomplish this, Tarnas considers he authorship of men like Plato, as a basis for understanding the views of man and religion p...

Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

human mind contributed to the displacement of Christianity several centuries later from its central position in the formation of ...

Religious Theories of Emile Durkheim in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

premises the concept that religion is rooted in the nature of things and that any system of belief which dos not have this groundi...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War by Frances FitzGerald

ways that non-students of foreign policy can easily understand. FitzGeralds attitude concerning her subject matter is established...

Robert D. Behn's Rethinking Democratic Accountability

In seventeen pages this report examines public accountability and its problems as considered in the text by Robert D. Behn. One s...

Power in Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and The Republic by Plato

body defines justice that makes it so. Therefore, as Plato points out, rulers must be able to distinguish between justice or inju...

Comparing World Wars in Two Works

of a generation. This may not have been The Greatest Generation written about by Tom Brokaw, but one gets a sense that the men and...

From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality by Richard Rohr: A Reaction Essay

combination of male spirituality and a feminine soul. He explains that just as women are incomplete without their male spirituali...

Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and Women

study the Vedas. This particular Hindu book says that women "are entirely worthless creatures" (Dharma Universe, 2010). Even so,...

Vietnam War and the Movie We Were Soldiers

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

Do Not Speak the Speech, I Pray You

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

Quran and Woman by Amina Wadud

within a larger holistic framework. For instance, in considering the first verse of the surah, which is entitled "Women" and dis...

Voltaire's Candide, Misogyny, and Gender Bias

his audience, and this is something that will probably change the world for the better. He wants to display evil in such a way tha...

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...

Seeing is Believing by Margaret Miles

religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...

Ivo Daalder and Michael O'Hanlon's Winning Ugly NATO's War to Save Kosovo Reviewed

allegation is NATO, which has been plagued with a variety of formulaic problems. NATO has undergone many significant changes with...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...