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Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Yates/Politics of Management

by this organization. Yates begins his text with an introductory chapter that concentrates on the role that business leaders pla...

Wright/Armageddon in Waco

presents views that see the tragedy at Waco as entirely due to the mistakes of government agents in handling the situations and no...

Paulo Freire/Pedagogy of the Oppressed

pedagogical approach is his definition of what it means to be a "democratic" instructor, that is someone who encourages and facili...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Wheatley/Leadership & the New Science

leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine tha...

Immigrant Views on Being American

own. Throughout the novel, Yezierska shows how Sara has absorbed the American values. For example, she steadfastly rejects the J...

Critical Chain By Eliyahu M. Goldratt

in Business Administration (MBA) is no longer as important in the business community as it once was. Higher education must change ...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Reviewing Rhetoric in William Wilson's The Truly Disadvantaged

In this five page review the book's content, language use and organization as ways of establishing credibility are analyzed. Thi...

The Crusades by Riley-Smith

of crusaders, demonstrating that it was religious zeal and absolute devotion to the Roman Catholic Church, which was associated an...

Mathabane/Kaffir Boy

a distinct segment of the society. In US history, anyone with even a drop of African blood was considered culturally to be "black"...

A Theology Book For Everyone

words of major scholars and theologians from the past and present to explain ideas. There is another statement the author makes ...

Introduction to Evangelism by Alvin Reid

chapters in the first two sections and eight in the final section of the book. The first section covers ministers and church leade...

Geraldine Brooks and the Lessons of History

that the flight attendant had "one of those big, perfect German smiles" and referring to her a few lines later as Fraulein Smiley-...

Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber

nations universities, in order to stay viable financially, have placed undue emphasis on their sports programs, utilizing a perspe...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

SUZE ORMAN AND BOOK REVIEW

paying upwards of 10% on interest for credit cards verses the paltry 3% or 4% that one earns on a savings account, this is a solid...

Slavery and Reform in West Africa by Trevor Getz

This book review is on Trevor Getz's Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Senegal and the ...

Jacobson and Gottman/Domestic Violence

informative and it concludes by offering specific, worthwhile advice on how domestic violence should be addressed, offering specif...

Hans Herman Hoppe's Democracy the God That Failed

he illustrates how based on the Ricardian Law of Transformation, one can explain why there have been rising levels of crime, loss ...

Historiography, The Spanish Armada

the Armada, which was pivotal and crucial strategy of Philips II in ambition to invade England. Mattingly starts with the executio...

Should the US Drill for Oil in Alaska?

a minimum. He points out that the protection that the oil companies have "provided for wildlife" at their drilling sites at Prudho...

Nadia Comaneci and Her Life as a Gymnast

Accounts from Nadia's own book and website claim that her childhood was a desirable one. Yet, critics claim that her coach was to...

On Our Own

This essay offers a brief report on the first five chapters in a book entitled, On Our Own. America in the Sixties. It takes the r...

Carles: “A Life of Her Own”

her father was scheduled to go and get a bull from the commune, and because the bull was vital to the village, he went on with his...

Review of An Article on a Text on “The Yellow Wallpaper”

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

Common Themes in Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984

In this five page paper the writer explores two of George Orwell's most popular books. Common themes are discussed in relation to...