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Madam President and the Ferraro Campaign

about it. With Gina Davis looking presidential, people are beginning to feel more comfortable with a woman at the helm. The book ...

Energy At The Crossroads by Vaclav Smil

of coal, gas, renewable energy sources and nuclear power. By contrast, however, one who is aware of the damaging impact these res...

Henry James's 19th Century Critique of John S. Sargent's 'Lady with the Rose' Painting

lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Shinto The Kami Way by Ono

kami intuitively at the depth of their consciousness and communicate with the kami directly without having formed the kami-idea co...

Mexican Immigration According to Rodolfo Acuna and Ernesto Galarza

culture and was a leader in the Chicano movement of the 1950 and 60s. Galarza saw the treatment of Mexican agricultural workers as...

Cultural Values in History

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

Depression According to Kay Redfield Jamison and William Styron

before the author has a chance to build a life with him. However, what comes across in Jamisons account is how this relationship p...

Karen Armstrong's Buddha

happy married life. However, Siddhartha Gotama started to question what he observed in the world. At the time, it was accepted tha...

King Leo's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

his rights to the Congo--his personal rights. The region only became known as the Belgian Congo and was ruled by the Belgian gover...

A Variety of Viewpoints on Racism

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

1776 by McCullough

sense of completion after each portion. Further, the chapters do flow well into one another within the distinct parts. The book a...

New York Tenements and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat" (Riis, 1971,5)....

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

Revelation and Gospels Portrayal of Jesus

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

Henry Petroski's 'Small Things Considered'

different ways. Another, even more important point is that good design isnt perfect design; indeed, there is no such thing as perf...

I Rode with Stonewall by Henry Kyd Douglas

the military critic... It is not my intention nor is it within the scope of this book to give a detailed report of the battle of B...

Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway's We Were Soldiers Once… and Young

battalion (2/7) in order to hold off the plentiful Peoples Army of North Vietnam (PANV). The following morning, the Peoples Army ...

The Woman Who Watches Over the World by Linda Hogan

on to become one herself for a time. She states, "One of my friends describes drinking as the lost years. Many of us have had them...

Planning and Assessing Learning Objectives

understand the impact and potential influences of teacher expectation. 6. The student should understand and be able to design appr...

Reading Fluency

read aloud together (Welsch 180). This strategy actively engages the learner for a longer period of time in oral reading than the ...

Epidemiology Journal Entries

cause of the Ebola virus was never determined, other then to say that it was African origin. The reader has to wonder, however, wh...

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...

Time to Dig Out (Case Study Analysis)

The governor wanted to eliminate parole and one conservative legislator was looking for input from people involved in the system (...

Religious Topics

and altar" and would "designate subordinate priests for duty" (Naves Topical Bible, 2007). They maintained control over the treasu...

Maggie’s American Dream by James Comer

the story talks of how Maggie was a determined young woman and how she actually became financially stable enough, even during the ...

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...

The Golden Thirteen by Paul Stillwell

The Navy was apparently not happy with this decision and they generally believed they would have no luck in finding officer materi...

Becoming Charlemagne by Sypeck

seemed incredibly successful, especially considering that his legacy is still powerful today. However, it also appears as though t...

The Last Voyage of Columbus by Dugard

2005; 44). In light of this information it appears as though Dugard is likely a very entertaining writer, but perhaps also ...