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Balkan Ghosts A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan

Croatia, "Old" Serbia and Macedonia, and Belgrade, also known as "White City." Part 2 is a physical and historical journey throug...

Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

Critic's Role

put into words the experience for people to identify with. In many ways a critic is there to let the consumer know, who will pay ...

A Lovely Tomorrow by Mabel Esther Allan

of the background. It is not as if Frue picks up a gun and joins the military. Rather, this girl goes from London, a place where s...

Crime in the Making by Robert Sampson and John Laub

overwhelming temptations, from the smallest infraction of stealing candy to the most contemptible of all crimes: murder. Ke...

Valerie Polakow's Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America

children, Polakow says makes it seem as the nations elected officials and policy-makers think and act as if poverty seen is a priv...

A Review of Masks in Modern Drama

depravity of which he is capable. The satiric mask isolates a characteristic, distorts or enlarges it, and freezes it permanently....

eCommerce and Barnes and Noble

was an increase of sixty million individuals using the Net, and in the space of twelve months between 1996 and 1997, the number of...

Women Guarding Men by Lynn E. Zimmer

One of the most difficult tasks involved in data collection came from trying to obtain permission to interview male inmates. Howev...

Langdon Winner's The Whale and the Reactor

and private lives. Indeed, our private lives are becoming very much less private due to the way in which the internet feeds off o...

Stephen Jay Gould Panda's Thumb

socially constructed food choices-and the availability of manufacturing plants, the creation of new food products and marketing-th...

Culture Clash in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

as intimate terms, yet knowing little about their culture, has always seemed a shame. But, there were no individuals who this read...

Literature Overview on Medical Errors

Mistakes are sometimes made in transcribing data, or at the level of the practical or registered nurse. If patient data is not app...

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and 'Nothing To Fear'

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes how the issues the book raises lend themselves to the quote 'nothing to fear by fear...

A Review of Galileo's Daughter

all previous centuries" (Sobel PG). Based upon one hundred and twenty-four remaining authentic letters that Maria Celeste wrote t...

Jacques Maritain's 'The Dream of Descartes'

chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...

The City of God - Two Cities

of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...

Jane Addams' Twenty Years at Hull House and Themes

to social cause, as it relates to industrial cities and the location of Hull House which, although it existed within the city, see...

Review of William McNeill's Plagues and Peoples

In five pages this paper discusses disease spread in a political interpretation of this book as it applies to the contemporary wor...

A Review of The Peculiar Institution

many planters, and at least somewhat profitable for many others, a reality not truly experienced in any other institution at the t...

William Close's Novel Ebola

was unconscionable. Little did these religious people know that they would face an insurmountable medical problem. Ebola was on it...

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and Satan's Characterization

to choose between good things there would be no point in free will. Satan also serves as a tool for God in relationship to mank...

Professions and Disciplines by Daniel Rossides

deals with knowledge about how knowledge itself develops. From this starting point, Rossides goes on to discuss a brief history of...

A Discussion of Babette's Feast

This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...

Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth

In five pages this book is discussed in terms of synopsis and theme and is then reviewed in terms of organization, content, discus...

Changes in the Land by William Cronon

non-existent, which meant that the dams these industrious animals built were also. Without dams, several low-lying regions became...

Concepts of Restraint and Freedom in Utopia by Thomas More

the society of sixteenth-century England. For example, the Utopian cities are all built on similar lines, at least as far as possi...

Violence, Conflicts, Contact

In five pages culture and contact, a conflict that often escalates into violence, are examined with references to three books Jiha...

A Review of Holes

A 5 page analysis of irony and dark humor in the book by Louis Sachar. Character and plot development revolve around both. 1 sourc...

Robert F. Kennedy's 'Thirteen Days'

This paper consists of 14 pages and provides both a book review and a glimpse into the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen through the ey...