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Virgil’s Portrayal of Hell in Book VI of The Aeneid

observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...

Through The Gates Of Splendor

four Aucas showed up at the camp to visit them. The missionaries gave each of the visitors more gifts to demonstrate their intenti...

Emerging Christianity in the Book of Acts

have had too much wine" (Acts 2:13). Peter addresses the crowd, pointing out that the men are sober and relating this mira...

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...

Book Industry Approaches to Communication Technologies

communication technologies have led to our age being branded the "Information Age". What this means in todays business environment...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

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

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

Where the Red Fern Grows

"I asked him not to say anything to my father. He promised me he wouldnt" (Rawls 20). He finally has enough money to buy the puppi...

Jesus, Reflected in the Lives of Saints

2004, p. 291). Another characteristic that was demonstrated by Jesus was his humility. John, chapter 13, describes how Jesus, pr...

Reflecting on Team Ministry

of a congregation and moving toward team-based ministry (Ott 1). At the beginning of Otts text, he asks his readers to imagine the...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...

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...

Reporting and Reflecting on Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama Sr., who was a significant if extremely distant presence in his sons life. While a student at the University...

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...

Orlando Beyond the Theme Parks - A Book Proposal

be updated on a regular basis. However, the majority of these travel books focus is exclusively, or predominantly, on the two majo...

Reflecting on John

as well as the "resurrection of Lazarus, Jesus frequent visits to Jerusalem and his extended dialogues...in the temple and in vari...

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS AS A METAPHOR

and dedication to his single goal, he was able to afford two of them; Old Dan (the "brawn" of the duo) and Little Ann (the "brains...

Lincoln’s War

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

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...

Book Report on Isabel Allende’s Daughter of Fortune

prominently into Elizas later life. The first part is also when Eliza falls in love with Joaquin Andieta, who dreams of ending th...

Life of Ernest Hemingway Reflected in his Art

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

A Book Review of a Classic

and that He should have in todays world. unfortunately, that statement made in 1950 is even more true today, more than 50 years la...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

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 ...

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"...

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...

The Day of Battle - Rick Atkinson Looks at the Italian Campaign

on whether or not to invade Italy; its quite another to read about the meeting between FDR and Churchill, the dickering that took ...

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-...

Female Characters and Ancient Texts

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...