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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

The City of Shells

a shell. Barnaby is a young man who feels somewhat bad because he knows he is not nice in thinking her being stuck is a nuisance...

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...

Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship

Christians believe facts that cannot be empirically proven. That is, in fact, the definition of faith. A manager who is a Believer...

The Golden Thirteen

The Golden 13 were a group of black officers. This is three pages that look at the book about the men by Paul Stillwell. There is ...

Management Lessons from Proper Confidence

vision and they are passionately committed to that vision. The most effective leaders are capable of having others adopt the vis...

GloboChrist by Carl Raschke

of Westerners who "cling to the outmoded modernist assumption that Christianity is basically the same, or should be the same, ever...

The Quiet Room

Mental illness can strike anyone and should not be stigmatized. This paper discusses the issues a student might face if he or she ...

Dangerous Minds Movie and Gender

well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...

White Gloves

ones life. The author examines childhood, as well as very early childhood, illustrating how people have a tendency to have a sor...

Educational Alternatives for Poverty-Stricken Children

that schools located in working-class neighborhoods tend to be more regimented than schools located in suburban neighborhoods wher...

Analyzing a Visual Text of a Cyclops

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

Summary of Workforce 2020

they also share their knowledge so that everyone profits, and the climb up the ladder of success is swift for all those who apply ...

Rocket Boys by Homer Hickham

(Hickham, 2000, p. 1). That one simple opening sentence tells readers what kind of conflicts the book explores: there is the confl...

Carol Berkin on Women in the American Revolution

propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...

Love in the Time of Cholera

Fuentes and Praust and then moves on to examining the power of the classic Don Quixote, indicating how there are not many, if any,...

James Oakes, Slavery and Liberal Capitalism

the playing field level" (Zimmerman). This idea is still alive today, proposed by progressives who feel that everyone should get a...

Making a Nation of the Hebrew Slaves

raise his staff and stretch out his arms and the Sea parted, allowing all the Israelites to get to the other side at which time th...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

HOW THE FINANCIAL CRISIS HIT HOMEOWNERS

late 1990s and early 2000s in the wake of the dot-com bust, and how all of those low interest rates (not to mention greedy lenders...

Supporting Chastity and Authentic Human Sexuality

In a twelve page paper, the writer gives some insights into the views presented in two books, Real Sex, by Winner (2005), and Auth...

Anthropology on Mars by Oliver Sacks

so rare as to be almost unknown to science-they might as well be on Mars. Sacks methods of investigation appear to consist largel...