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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...

Michael Shaara's Killer Angels

the author notes, "the first troops of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee commanding...is an army of seventy thousand me...

The Craft of Investing

recommending two techniques he believes investors can use with reasonable success (3). First, he recommends buying "growth stocks...

Richard Goode's Bach Concert Performance

Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor (BWV 826). Bachs Partitas are large, expansive musical compositions, which are comparable in length ...

Henry Petroski's The Pencil

Petroski notes this absence of information in Thoreaus list to point out how common pencils were, how they are often taken for gra...

Doris Kearns Goodwin: No Ordinary Time

than the others. It may be that they are all true. However, FDR did change his will to leave half of his fortune to Missy, antici...

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird

was its initial audience?" The audience appears to be anyone interested in a first hand account of a place that they will likely n...

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...

"The Jungle": Unfairness in America

them. Connor is despicable; if this were present day, Ona would have him up on charges of sexual harassment. But it is not present...

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Goffman

that, in general, matters are what they appear to be" (Goffman 1959; 17). This essentially sets the stage for understanding some...

Gatsby & the American Dream

is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...

Stephen King's Misery

well known novelist, would have called authorities. Annie does no such thing. Rather, she keeps him captive. During the time that ...

Shiloh by Shelby Foote

other side. He had claimed "Id fight them if they were a million" (Foote 25). For the most part this section deals with Metcalfes ...

Leviticus and Christianity

does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you." As this suggests, only animals that chewed its cue and possessed ...

Song of the Brook by Matilda Nordtvedt

school program. The teacher has told them all that they need to come up with something. The teacher tells them, "Maybe youd like t...

In Harm’s Way by Doug Stanton

of the work is involved with events as the ship sunk and after the sinking. It is titled Sunk and is comprised of chapters four th...

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 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...

Cather: "O Pioneers!"

she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Thompson/Concentric Circles of Concern

Dr. Thompsons classic work, which was published posthumously and revised by Claude V. King, the reader finds a detailed model for ...

Gangs of America

The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

Synoptic Gospel Problem

means together with and optic means seeing.4 Other scholars have simply translated the word synoptic as meaning with the same eye....

Report: “Teaching the Elephant to Dance”

in the past is actually keeping them from succeeding in the present. That is, because methods worked for them before, they keep do...

REPORT: ENCOURAGING THE HEART

but love, as in chemistry. The authors pointed out that, in an interview with former CEO and venture capitalist Irwin Federman, Fe...

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...

Seaver: “Wallington’s World”

him apart from other artisans; his extreme sensitivity and intensive, relentless introspective self-examination also seems unusual...

Cronkite on Mood Disorders

difficulty in viewing the behavior of people who suffer from mental disorder, such as bipolar, in terms of illness. Susan Crosby, ...

Going Solo by Roald Dahl

flying in WWII and I must say that was a great adventure, although frightening and dangerous too. I am also, I believe,...