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Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Book Report: Finance

evaluate expected future gain on the basis of present value. Assessing investment alternatives according to present value methods...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

Seven Habits of Stephen Covey

Likewise, his conclusions are logical and naturally fit with the reality of his readers. For example, Covey (1989) indicates that ...

Canadian Education Literature Review

decades. The greater diversity in our schools has resulted in new curriculum and instructional methodologies. Weatherspoon hints a...

Jewish Literature and the Jewish Family's Decline

family. He reveals that the stereotypical image of the money hungry Jew is in a sense a reality, that desperation can turn even th...

Mappings, Feminism and Cultural Geographies of Encounters by Susan S. Friedman

cultures" (Friedman 5). This is what Friedman attempts to offer her readers in this text. Part I focuses on the encounters betwe...

The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler

of managerial hierarchies and conclude with the observation that as businesses grew to dominate certain sectors of the US economy,...

Marshall Plan America by Michael Hogan

that by offering technological solutions for problems, the US would be able to introduce American marketing and engineering method...

'Crossing Border Street' by Peter Honigsberg

during that time. Whenever Honigsberg visited Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he had covert meetings with a black group, the Deacons of...

Karl Sabbagh Skyscraper

are decided benefits to a "fast track" situation. Developers are the guys who front the money for the building -- and theyre the o...

Kathleen R. Fischer and Thomas N. Hart's Christian Foundations An Introduction To Faith In Our Time

relate their text to modern life. For instance, the authors discuss the fact that even though so many Americans have all of the ma...

The Boxed Slave Known as Aunt Jemima

fictitious biography for her, while a succession of real-life women portrayed Aunt Jemima at county fairs and various bake-off com...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

Richard Bessel's 'Life in the Third Reich'

mentioned, there are eight essays in this work. The first one is by Richard Bessel and is titled "Political Violence and the Nazi ...

Woman and Man in Paul by Naubert Baumert

the other parts of this analysis. In part D, the final section of the text, the author avails himself of various other theological...

The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer

is referring not to a political orientation, but rather to a general stance toward society. This is the same sentiment expressed ...

The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

as it is assembled by robots (27). While one part of the world is concentrating on "building a better Lexus," and is dedicated to ...

Shanghai Modern by Leo Ou Fan Lee

known political revolutions of this century. The movements principal focus was disdain for traditional Chinese culture, which was ...

Books on Advertising and Marketing

Claude Hopkins, author of Scientific Advertising, the ideas of whom appear to have had a string impact on the way Ogilvy has devel...

The Ramsay Scallop by Frances Temple

For example, the rationale offered to the couple for the pilgrimage is that they should atone for the sins of the local townspeopl...

Teaching Equality by Adam Fairclough

to both slavery and racial segregation. He points out that it did not take crusading "New England missionaries" to teach Southern ...

'Pursuit of God' by A.W. Tozer

that the doctrine of justification by faith "has in our time fallen into evil company and been interpreted...(in a manner) to bar ...

Chapters 4 through 7 of The Transformation of Governance by Donald Ketti

The position of Wilson, from his 1887 text "The Study of Administration" and supported by Goodnow, was that administrative practic...

The European Miracle by E.L. Jones

as Asians, "would have adjusted its breeding strategy accordingly" (Jones 20). Jones argues that while disasters and war struck ...

Locked in the Cabinet by Robert Reich

more progressive and the extension of the Earned Income Tax would cover more of the working poor; however, without significant cut...

Eliot Ness' The Untouchables

story embellished by a person who was there, giving the reader an exciting and passionate story. This story is intriguing for it...