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Sharon Kay Penman When Christ and His Saints Slept

which involves the story of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Penman, 2002; Penman, 1995). Maude was considered as t...

Reviewing Burawoy's Text on Manufacturing Consent

had in the early part of the twentieth century when workers rights were important and factory work was paramount. Today, much of t...

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

at a bar before moving on and a Native American woman deposits a three-year-old girl in her car and begs her to keep the child. ...

Stephen Jay Gould's Bully for Brontosaurus

books, and view the publishing arm of their diversified empire as but one more item for the ultimate balance"(Gould 157). Apparent...

George Anastasia's Blood and Honor Inside the Scarfo Mob

that George does. There is no longer a threat that the information is valuable, or any threat that one could be harmed by giving u...

C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Capturing Readers' Minds

rather dull and dismal life? In this land are animals that talk, evil witches which control people and animals, and most important...

Likely Interest Rate Change Assessment

the economy and will also reflect elements such as consumer confidence. Here there were positive signs and a general increase was ...

1847 Reader Appeal of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

the time who had attended anything remotely resembling one (as Charlotte Bront? herself had), the abuses struck a chord of familia...

Ideas and Economics

up embracing them. When it comes to this particular theory, the authors are definitely correct. History points out that id...

Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

What My Heart Wants to Tell by Verna Mae Slone

about a life now gone. A Remarkable Family and Its History If there is any hesitancy about reading what is an unashamedly a...

Relaxation Techniques

Reading a book is also a relaxation technique for many people. Often, people read before going to bed, allowing them time to unwi...

The Concept of 'Freedom' of Choice as Perceived by Epictetus, Epicurus, and Aristotle

be regarded as involuntary because it is not externally rooted in another person; but it is irrational and therefore not represent...

An Analysis of Orwell's 1984

member of the Thought Police, and his role is to discover individuals going against the society and bring them out. Mr. Carringto...

John Hall and Charles Lindholm's Is America Breaking Apart?

of political culture based on the democratic ideology. Perhaps no other example more successfully demonstrates this than the clo...

Eliezer Ben Rafael's Jewish Identities

Many disagreed on issues of conversion, or how one becomes a practioner of the Jewish faith. For example, the Orthodox believers p...

Analysis of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

attributed to Shelton. It was first published in 1612 (Ormsby, 2003). The translation of the Second Part, however, would not be ...

Darwinian Influences in Louis Menand's Work, The Metaphysical Club

influence of his surroundings is critical to forming his racial image. Attitudes are spread from generation to generation, commun...

Epicurean Concepts of 'Ataraxia' and Aristotelian Concepts of 'Human Good,' 'The Best Good,' and 'Function Argument'

positive reinforcement, for the happiest people are also those who are feeling well and living prosperous lives. These are not me...

Business and Christian Ethics

short cuts are not. In order to create a business enterprise based on Christian morals, one may want to follow the six basic busin...

Joseph Plumb Martin's Ordinary Courage

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

One Man's View of the Sixteenth Century

Worms, Ginzburg presides over marriage of history and anthropology by considering how the separation of cultures into "high" and "...

El-Nawawy's Al Jazreera

In three pages an overview of this book in terms of a discussion of opinions and various relevant topics is presented. There is o...

Japan Questions Answered

individual judgement in the name of spirit" (195-196). While military traditions are honored in the US, they are not innately asso...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Book of Hebrews in the New Testament and How the Teachings of the Old Testament are Utilized

and they therefore are telling their stories from that point forth. While the Old Testament looks forward to Jesus, the New Testa...

Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes

is that of Abrose Bierce, who was an American journalist but disappeared in Mexico in 1913. After joining the revolutionaries, th...

Anger Management from a Christian Perspective

authors then move on to a discussion of anger in terms of a three-paradigm approach. First, the source of anger must be uncovered...

Emergence The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson

in the dark, far underground, and has nothing to do with the foraging and fighting that is part of the colonys existence. A ant co...

Exegesis of John 17, Lines 6 through 10

the world (Lueking, 1997). As this indicates, Luekings interpretation of these verses is fairly straight forward, as he sees it as...