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The Honor Code of the Old South

relatively inconsequential. For those interested in the Old South, however, the book provides an insight that is not so easily ma...

Developing The Leader Within You

evident over the last fifteen years almost makes long-range planning a waste of time but we know that long-range planning today sh...

Nicholas Copernicus and His Times

the duty of an astronomer, which is to observe the motion of celestial bodies and then devise explanations for these motions (Osia...

The Cream of the Crime Crop

more dramatic than embezzlers, and the media is after ratings, so it uses the most sensational material it can. This means that wh...

American Life through Japanese Eyes

were very aware of, and proud of, their ethnic heritage. In addition to saying "Im Catholic," a person might also identify their e...

Stop Fearing, Start Thinking

and try to block all attempts at reform, whether its health care, keeping the Internet free of corporate gatekeepers, improving ed...

Firebrand of Liberty

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

Lincoln and His Odd Cabinet

The writer discusses Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book “Team of Rivals,” which describes President Lincoln’s cabinet. It was unusual in ...

Elkind’s The Hurried Child

of the book the author speaks of schools and society, technology and parents as they all push children in many ways. In a statemen...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

her story and by not putting in the names of locations either. Other than that her story is true. This is further documented in th...

Farewell to Manzanar

She further notes how her mother worked every day and he stayed home and she was "ashamed of him for that and, in a deeper way, fo...

The Deaf of Martha’s Vineyard

- virtually all of them knew it - so that they could "talk" to their deaf friends (Groce). Not only that, but when Groce interview...

The Quintessential Leader

One of the theories from the mid-1990s that is still getting a lot of press is Golemans introduction of emotional intelligence as ...

Howell Raines and the Civil Rights Movement

is today. In order to understand where were going, we have to know where weve been, and Raines shows part of that struggle in vivi...

Grisham Indicts the Criminal Justice System

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

Wanting to Belong

hes written the book in blank verse. This means that it calls attention to itself but it does so with a purpose. Each poem, becaus...

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])...

Death in the Forest

dead for ever" (Turnbull, 1987, p. 42). The reaction to this death is a "burst of uncontrollable grief, not only from relatives, b...

The Galleys at Lepanto

quite a bit, much of what he says could likely be found in other sources concerning the battle. What makes the work intriguing 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...

Puerto Rico as Fernando Pico Knows It

2009). This book is an expanded version of Picos earlier Historia general and is distinguished by Picos use of primary sources and...

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 ...

Property by Valerie Martin

her circumstance. The preface to the quote is that the narrator, Manon, is holding Joels hand while he talks about how things will...

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...

Alienation in Literature

and loved ones. Raoul seeks drugs and partying to find some level of acceptance and happiness in his life, which is often the case...

"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...