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Structures, Habitus, Practices by Pierre Bourdieu and 7 Major Themes

same time united yet also in contrast. III. HABITUS One of Bourdieus most famous beliefs, the concept of habitus reflects how pe...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

Review of Thomas á Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ

first published anonymously in 1418, and has become the most widely read Christian text with the lone exception of the Bible. Sub...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanline...

Critical Review of Jules Tygiel’s Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

and celebrities alike. Tygiel takes great pains not to overwhelm readers with too many facts and figures. He is well aware that ...

Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

John Galtung/Theory and Methods of Social Research

located outside the social scientist himself, and we shall follow this tradition" (Galtung 9). As this indicates, Galtung does not...

Book Summary of Daniel J. Levinson’s The Seasons of a Man’s Life

"the underlying pattern of design of a persons life at a given time" (p. 41). This pattern evolves through a sequence of events, ...

Analysis of Sandra Steingraber’s Living Downstream

Both have been linked to cancer" (p. 6). This began, for Dr. Steingraber, a lifelong crusade to educate herself and others about ...

Book Report on Mark Sanborn’s The Fred Factor

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

What Made Sparta a Military Power?

BC). Lycurgus was responsible for encouraging Spartan civic duty to the commonwealth; developing a social structure designed to s...

Introduction to Christian Theology/Gonzalez and Perez

points out that the authors approach their topic principally from the standpoint of church historians, and that their "vision of U...

Art of War by Sun Tzu

hid their true persona and this may very well pertain to Sun Tzu ("About," 2010). About the text: Modern history tends to regard...

The Etiquette of Texting

Texting has become a more and more prominent means of communication throughout the world. It is...

Natasha's Dance/Orlando Figes

the Great gave the Russian upper class a split personality, divorcing them from all things Russian, by introducing European custom...

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...

Phillips/Socrates Cafe

pundits or the mainstream media happen to be handing out at the moment. This is a process that rekindles a "child-like--but by no ...

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...

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Decisions of the Hero

1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...

California Medical Law Case

the patient (Overview of California Civil Lawsuit Filing Procedures, n.d.). This restriction may or may not apply in Dr. Sanders ...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

Hinchey on Critical Theory

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

Traditions in Hinduism

Water (Matritamah) represents the feminine or maternal aspects of life in the Hindu tradition. An integral function of the ...

Appearances and Looking Beyond Them in Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne Marie LePrince de Beaumont

would stay close to home and her beloved father, reading books and living a simple but personally rewarding life (LePrince de Beau...

Three Film Versions of Richard III

foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...

Scene Analyses from Do the Right Thing, American Beauty, Thelma and Louise, and Taxi Driver

manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...

An Ecological Vision Captured in All Creation is Groaning Edited by Carol Dempsey and Russell Butkus

non-human alike" (3). This feeling is contrasted against the sense of "lived inter-relatedness," which is the obtained by acknowle...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...