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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...

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

was an immediate celebrity. However, many racist whites and quite a few people in the black community were angered by his assumed ...

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...

The Ethics of Death and Dying: Is There a Duty to Die?

right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...

“Human Built World”

that probably springs to mind first is a computer. This is only one part, and a very small segment, of the vast human enterprise t...

Boot: "The Savage Wars of Peace"

his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...

Early Intervention Programs and Student Achievement: A Review of Literature

result in substantial, widespread growth across both emergent literacy domains for those children most vulnerable for emergent and...

Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

David McCullough, A Great Historian

The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...

A Review of Time on the Cross

is true despite the fact that it is somewhat well known that economics were important in the context of this issue. Of course, the...

Victim Compensation

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Horton & Horton/In Hope of Liberty

on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...

Layne/Peace of Illusions

the U.S. undermined the British Empire through a combination of "conditional aid and political leverage," which made eradication o...

Ondaatje/Anil’s Ghost

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

them in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ("Bateson, Gregory 1904-1980"). At this time too his influence on mainstream anthropology beca...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

sources in examining some of the validity of Desmond and Moores work. Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist Clearly studying...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...

Test Taking Skills (A Literature Review)

skim the questions as they are worried that they will run out of time. However, this could lead to a misinterpretation of some of ...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Trimbur's Call to Write/Narrative of Frederick Douglass

the chapter that addresses writing profiles of specific people, Trimbur writes, "This impulse to describe, to analyze, and to unde...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

there are also elements that speak of the political and military struggles in the region. For example, Laila has two brothers who ...