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Four Views On Hell

one harmonize the concept of a loving, gracious God with a God who is righteous and unforgiving" (Walvoord 11). Walvoord admits th...

George Packer/Assassin’s Gate

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

Legacy of Conquest/The American West

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

The New York City Marathon

running is an understatement according to Rubin. "To explain his excitement in the context of physical factors--heightened energy,...

Immigrant Views on Being American

own. Throughout the novel, Yezierska shows how Sara has absorbed the American values. For example, she steadfastly rejects the J...

Genesis/An Overview

the narratives in the books to come (Friedman 295). In Genesis, everything builds on everything else. Therefore, in order to under...

Review of "Making Horses Drink: How to Lead and Succeed in Business"

Southwest function, "220 adults do the chicken dance ... They clap and flap their wings with abandon - and were only an hour into ...

Starship Troopers: Fascist

many have actually won, yet they continue to wage war against nationalistic tendencies to seek out cultural conformity in the name...

Math Through the Ages, A Gentle History

as, in this case, devising symbols for replacing long strings of tallies. In this section of the book, the authors present math ...

How We Live & How We Feel About Dying

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

Pharr/Losing Face, Status Politics in Japan

cultural heritage of Confucianism (Pharr xiii). In Confucianism, supreme emphasis is placed on maintaining harmony, which is seen ...

Kenneth Roberts/Arundel

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

This paper consists of five pages and presents a book review on the author's stirring account of the U.S. Marine Corps during the ...

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa

Nothing is quite what it appears in this novel, least of all the characters or the plot. For example, the main character, Police...

Michael Parenti's Inventing Reality

In seven pages this paper presents a critical examination of this book that considers how news media politics often results in pad...

The Politics of Gun Control by Robert J. Spitzer

In five pages the continuing debate regarding the gun control issue is examined within the context of this book by Robert J. Spitz...

Sikorski's Full Circle: A Homecomoing to Free Poland

the stories of his own childhood in a Communist country and the stories of his family and its heritage. Layer upon layer of Sikor...

John W. Thomason Junior's Fix Bayonets

In five pages Thomason's text is the focus of this book review. There are no other sources listed....

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

war, he also lost the only woman who ever loved him. Fuentes has him pay for his greed and love of power in that all of the subseq...

College Students and the Marketing of a Campus Poetry Night

In one page this essay discusses how to plan and promote a poetry night event on a college campus that includes a book signing and...

The Censorship of Catcher in the Rye

A book with a long history of censorship is JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. This novel is discussed in depth along with the atte...

Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman

centuries even after the concept of childhood began to emerge. Children are pictured as small adults?dressed like adults. To a cer...

The Wilding of America by Charles Derber

and this becomes a motivation that people pursue over and above everything else. Derber asserts that we distance ourselves from s...

Tim O'Brien's If I Die in Combat

In five pages this book by Tim O'Brien regarding a young soldier's Vietnam War experiences is reviewed. There are no other source...

The Age of Paradox and Capitalism

Charles Handy's book on paradoxes is explored. The focus of this investigation is on how capitalism is interpreted. How society is...

Thomas Hobbes on War's Inevitability

This topic is discussed within the context of the book Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes in...

Counseling in Times of Crisis by Judson Swihart and Gerald Richardson

what particular name may have been designated for a specific category such responses fall into groups that can be labeled as eval...

Overview of Outstanding American Marjory Stoneman Douglas

In five pages this paper examines the life and work of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and includes her 1947 book The Everglades River o...

Que Vivan Los Tamales Food and the Making of Mexican Identity by Jeffery M. Pilcher

as their identifying factor not because they chose it, but because that was all the fickle soil would harvest. During a time when...

Marrone and His Vision of Dying Dying

Death and dying are a major concern in American society today. Robert Marrone addressed the various issues in Death, Mourning, and...