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Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

Book Report on Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

in which the Supreme Court justices typically align themselves - usually in either liberal or conservative extremes, which Antonin...

Paideia Proposal - Book Report

of schooling. Another foundational premise is that individual differences must be considered and those children who arrive at scho...

Book Report on Mark Sanborn’s The Fred Factor

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

Price: “Love and Hate in Jamestown”

had no particular skills (Price). Price notes that Wingfield arrived in Virginia accompanied by a number of servants and a haughty...

Critique: “God in the Wasteland”

and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...

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...

The Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

Elkind’s The Hurried Child

of the book the author speaks of schools and society, technology and parents as they all push children in many ways. In a statemen...

John Colapinto: As Nature Made Him

The writer gives a reaction to the book about David Reimer, “As Nature Made Him.” There is one source listed in the bibliography o...

David Carter's Stonewall: Why is it Important?

slice of heaven for the LGBT community in New York City. It was a place to be able to cozy up to a significant (or not-so-signific...

Illegal People by David Bacon

the immigrants, creates a situation wherein they are seen as a problem rather than a beneficial source in the nation. This is furt...

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by Edell and Schrieberg

truth is that as a population, we seem less able to tolerate even slight discomforts. In fact, we view such discomforts as real pa...

The Google Story

set their sights high, despite being rejected early on by some potential business partners and investors, and their enthusiasm con...

Principals and Changing the Educational System

In five pages the influence of principals upon the educational system is considered within the context of the book written by Anna...

Multiculturalism and David A. Hollinger's Postethnic America

with whatever non-descent communities are available and appealing to them" (p. 116). Hollinger calls such a vision "postethnic" t...

Canada as a Multinational Entity

This five page paper investigates the friction in play between French Canadians and those of English descent. The paper relies ex...

Howarth's 1066 The Year of Conquest

"Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the co...

Schools and Gender Bias

the boys can get in there and do their work" (2). The authors ask the reader to imagine how discriminatory it might seem if the te...

The Cultural Transformation of Los Angeles

This paper examines two works regarding cultural changes in LA. The author discusses Mike Davis' book, City of Quartz, as well as...

Contemporary Russia and Democracy

In ten pages Russia's attempts to establish both democracy and a free market economy are evaluated in terms of the concepts discus...

Slave Cultures and Gerald W. Mullin's Flight and Rebellion

In five pages this paper discusses the views expressed in Mullin's book and compares them with those featured in works by David Wa...

David Hamburg on Today's Children

This 6 page paper examines the book Today's Children by Dr. David Hamburg with regard to his treatment of government funding, clas...

The Forensic Casebook by N.E. Genge

This book review is on "The Forensic Casebook" by N.E. Genge. The writer first summarizes the book's contents and then discusses i...

Let's Do Theology by Laurie Green

This book review pertains to Laurie Green's "Let's Do Theology." The author's main argument is described, and a summation of the b...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

Lives of Quiet Desperation

other people, and from the conventions that bind us together. We might also consider the way in which Thoreau considers his hous...

Children Who Murder

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

Thank You Letter to Lissa Weinstein

was especially moved by your frustration, and the way you felt that all your education and training was useless to you in this sit...