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Richard Hoggart's Scholarship Boy

from even his or her family for trying to improve himself. Hoggart also addresses the working class who have taught themselves s...

Review of John Gray's Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

Gray chooses to characterize men as Martians, creatures who are competent when it comes to activities which require manual skills ...

Gary Nash's Red, White, and Black The Peoples of Early North America

Obviously for each culture this goal largely ignored the importance of the survival and enhancement of the opposing culture. Such...

The End of the Victory Culture by Tom Engelhardt

the United States was proved wrong. Engelhardt argues that through these two things, combined with the threat of nuclear war, the ...

Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

Jill Lepore's The Name of War and King Philip's War

the war with King Philip are addressed as well as the Native Americans view of the outcome of the war. Both the Prologue and the E...

Karen Secombe's So You Think I Drive a Cadillac

and how these welfare recipients dealt with those prejudices. "Some people", she said, believe that if a woman is on welfare in to...

Ekman et al's Smiles When Lying

these survivors. What Bonanno and his colleagues found that survivors of CSA tended to issue more polite smiles, whereas their non...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...

Edwin S. Shneidman's The Suicidal Mind

her story. He agreed and sent her some tapes and a tape recorder. In a sad conclusion to Ariels story, Dr. Shneidman called Arie...

Eye on the Future Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900 by Henry C. Klassen

other scholars for generations to come, as Klassen has established himself as the foremost authority on local business history i...

Summary, Review and Critique of Guiding Readers and Writers Grades 3-6 by Fountas and Pinnell

the teachers or can be used as scheduling factors in setting up classroom units. In addition to the resources which relate directl...

Summary and Review of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

to their religious existence. Pointing an accusatory finger at the progressive nature of globalization, Huntington (1998) c...

In Praise of Wolves by R.D. Lawrence Reviewed

not to present any sort of challenge to the animals as he remained "crouching", "speaking softly" and "kept his gaze away" not wan...

The Park and the People A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar

4) Redefining Central Park; 5) The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City; and, 6) The Past Fifty Years, in additio...

Melvyn Leffler's The Specter of Communism

to promote hostility and fear in the American public. As such, then, liberals and progressives were able to sell their programs an...

Analysis of Fouad Ajami's The Arab Predicament

said to fail miserably in the modern application, Islam fights against the nature of man. Some say that this is not necessarily a ...

Review of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Schlosser is among one of just a handful of writers to explore this darkest side of the fast food industry, its impact on the most...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...

Who Cares? by David Schwartz

of ordering the markers, with the "quality review office" determining "that all of these procedures are being performed as specifi...

Terry Castle's The Female Thermometer

as important as overall philosophy. These ideas are apparent in nearly every facet of society at the time, states Castle. In parti...

'Democracy The God That Failed' by Hoppe

system, he fails to make the point that the society would be much better off with a monarch in charge. Of course, one can look at ...

Man, the State and War by Kenneth Waltz

at least, among nations during the late 1950s, but as well see, a lot of Waltzs theories are still in consideration, even close to...

Review of The Mystery Religions by Samuel Angus

maintain his claims. As one becomes lost in the unraveling of a very ancient tale, one becomes aware that the author is purposel...

Carey McWilliams' Factories in the Field

which it comprises today. This utilization of western lands actually didnt start until relatively recently in U.S. history, in fa...

Hurricanes of the North Atlantic Climate and Society by James B. Elsner and A. Birol Kara

fields, both authors are no doubt responsible for the consideration of the intended governmental and decision-making importance th...

One World, Ready or Not by William Greider

first section, he describes the efforts of various enterprises to reach the top of their markets in regards to profits, while offe...

Randall N. Robinson's The Debt

Fresco in Washington DC says it all. This large monument to history, which was funded by taxpayers dollars, portrays no people of ...

Sueann Caulfield's In Defense of Honor

An additional catalyst to change, Caulfield reports, was the impending visit from the Royal Couple. As a result of the impending v...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...