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Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

A Review of Masks in Modern Drama

depravity of which he is capable. The satiric mask isolates a characteristic, distorts or enlarges it, and freezes it permanently....

A Review of Genetic Turning Points The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention

embryo warrant more respect and care than mere tissue. The embryo is potentially associated with a human person in the future" (Pe...

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...

Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom by Ceresko

book touches on many mundane matters. How to get through life and understand its wrath is truly lifes most contemplated topics and...

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. ...

Los Premios by Julio Cortazar

Lucio and Nora, and so forth until all of the players in the drama have been introduced. In addition to the teachers, there is Med...

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

them from the depths of depression, it also "deadens" the maniac side Of course, Jamison balances her account of the exhilaration ...

The Straight Path by John Esposito

West has had trouble reconciling Muhammad as a spiritual leader and also as a military conqueror. He explains this seeming dichoto...

Pentateuch from 2 Perspectives

predecessors in the eighteenth century, beginning with Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette. Furthermore, Blenkinsopps discussion of ...

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 ...

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

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...

“Human Built World”

that probably springs to mind first is a computer. This is only one part, and a very small segment, of the vast human enterprise t...

Boot: "The Savage Wars of Peace"

his points, starting with the naval officer Stephen Decatur, "whose leadership skills and actions were central to Americas success...

Early Intervention Programs and Student Achievement: A Review of Literature

result in substantial, widespread growth across both emergent literacy domains for those children most vulnerable for emergent and...

Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

David McCullough, A Great Historian

The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...

Children Who Murder

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

Horton & Horton/In Hope of Liberty

on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...

A Review of Time on the Cross

is true despite the fact that it is somewhat well known that economics were important in the context of this issue. Of course, the...

Victim Compensation

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

Cross My Heart

A 5 page review of the book by Maureen McCarthy. The focus is the character Michelle and the essay is presented in the form of a ...

Women Guarding Men by Lynn E. Zimmer

One of the most difficult tasks involved in data collection came from trying to obtain permission to interview male inmates. Howev...

Stephen Jay Gould Panda's Thumb

socially constructed food choices-and the availability of manufacturing plants, the creation of new food products and marketing-th...

Literature Overview on Medical Errors

Mistakes are sometimes made in transcribing data, or at the level of the practical or registered nurse. If patient data is not app...

A Review of Galileo's Daughter

all previous centuries" (Sobel PG). Based upon one hundred and twenty-four remaining authentic letters that Maria Celeste wrote t...

Jacques Maritain's 'The Dream of Descartes'

chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...

Robert F. Kennedy's 'Thirteen Days'

This paper consists of 14 pages and provides both a book review and a glimpse into the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen through the ey...