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'Rocket Boys' by Homer Hickam

of resignation which sent young mind after young mind into the coal mines, but there were a few who hoped to change that statistic...

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...

Pentateuch from 2 Perspectives

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

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 ...

Living, Loving, and Learning by Leo F. Buscaglia

the US educational system. For example, take the problem of deciding on a curriculum that fits the needs of all school children....

R. Kent Weaver's Ending Welfare As We Know It

All of this serves to work toward the betterment of labor productivity and a basic quality of life. Not everyone knows how or goe...

H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights A Town, a Team, a Dream

that high school football in America is the product of a number of factors. Some of the more concerning, however, are illustrated...

Yogesh Chadha Gandhi A Life

and rely on previous works and historical documents to formulate a guideline. Since the publication of the entire 90 volumes of wo...

Ending Welfare As We Know It by R. Kent Weaver

All of this serves to work toward the betterment of labor productivity and a basic quality of life. Not everyone knows how or goe...

Charles M. Winn and Arthur W. Wiggins' The Five Biggest Ideas in Science Reviewed

researchers have dealt with over the course of time. To answer the question "Do basic building blocks of matter exist, and if so, ...

Wylie Poag's The Chesapeake Invader

at the surface, but you can see the edge of a geological ridge, a scarp, a sharp slope, occurs at the middle of the peninsula," Po...

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. ...

A Review of The Ties That Bound

This eight page paper reviews the book by Barbara Hanawalt. The focus is human interaction in English medieval times. Primary so...

A Review of Cuba Neither Heaven Nor Hell

A 5 page review of the book by Maria Lopez Vigil. The paper focuses on changes in Cubaas they relate to gender issues. 1 source...

Indeh An Apache Odyssey by Eve Ball

Ball encountered it in the late 1940s, was an untapped resource of historical investigation. It took Ball years to win the trust...

Motorcycle Diaries of Che Guevara

In five pages a book review of Che's letters and diaries while on a 1952 South America motorcycle trip are discussed as they revea...

Samuel Adams, Radical Puritan by William Fowler

In six pages a review of this book is presented with the emphasis upon the correlation between Adams' Puritan beliefs and his poli...

Alice Hoffman's Here on Earth

In five pages this book is discussed in terms of synopsis and theme and is then reviewed in terms of organization, content, discus...

The Slavery Journey of Africans in America

In this paper consisting of five pages a book review of Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith's Africans in America America's Journe...

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...

A Review of The Peculiar Institution

many planters, and at least somewhat profitable for many others, a reality not truly experienced in any other institution at the t...

Professions and Disciplines by Daniel Rossides

deals with knowledge about how knowledge itself develops. From this starting point, Rossides goes on to discuss a brief history of...

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...

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...