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Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Paulo Coelho/The Alchemist

he meets, as well as the lessons that he learns. This plot sounds simplistic and stereotypical, and in many ways this is true; how...

Transforming Discipleship by Greg Ogden

This book review focuses on the first three chapters of Greg Ogden's Transforming Discipleship, Making Disciples a Few at a Time. ...

Chris Matthews/Hardball

with the name of Chris Matthews because this is the name of the MSNBC television show on which Matthews appears as the host. Howev...

Searching for Urban Theology

This paper presents a book review of City of God, City of Satan by Linthicum. The main ideas in the book are reported as are the r...

Mary of Plymouth by James Otis

This book review pertains to a book authored by Otis in 1910, which is designed to appeal to young readers and provide them with a...

David McCullough The Great Bridge

over 276 feet above the high water; and weighed an overwhelming 14,680 tons (Wright 616). For anyone who had the opportunity to s...

The California Gold Rush & the coming of the Civil War

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

Review of "Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society"

of the group of Detroits new competition. The purpose of the many trips to Japan was to "find out why the Japanese automakers wer...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The Fragile Bridge

which was eager to join with the silk workers in their fight against the oppression of the factories. The Wobblies were a radic...

Causes of WWII/Pacific Theatre

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

Japanese History in The Pillow Book by Sie Shonagon

In fourteen pages this research paper examines this revealing look at the medieval history of Japan written by an Imperial Court's...

Japanese and American Comic Books

Another difference between the two is the character development found in the Japanese comics (2001). The worlds that are created f...

American Life through Japanese Eyes

were very aware of, and proud of, their ethnic heritage. In addition to saying "Im Catholic," a person might also identify their e...

“The Line” by Arch and Martin Flanagan

five men he knows who "fought and suffered in the Asian theatre of World War II," four returned with "the imprint of Eastern philo...

Shinto The Kami Way by Ono

kami intuitively at the depth of their consciousness and communicate with the kami directly without having formed the kami-idea co...

The Alchemist by Coehlo

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

Bennett: "The Book of Virtues"

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

Last Samurai & Breakfast at Tiffany's

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...

Gaman/A Japanese Cultural Concept

allow the young Emperor, age 8, to fall into the hands of Genji warriors, a "Nun of the Second Rank," instructs the boy to make h...

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...

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...

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...

"Obasan"

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

"Desert Exile"

and wound up in camps. The Issei often simply went along obediently, as was their tradition; but the Nisei were not as willing to ...

Mother's Perspective/Asperger Syndrome

years before Jimmys parents even had a definitive diagnosis of AS. Once Fling and her husband had a diagnosis, they found that exp...

Unshakable Foundations By Norman L. Geisler And Peter Bocchino

and anyone the person speaks with. The authors explain that a worldview is like "an intellectual lens through which people view ...