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Great Eastern Case Study

be in the region of 3.5 to 4, meaning that for each $1 of physical assets owned by the company the share price may be in the regio...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

Learned Gender

woman or man; the roles allotted to the sexes and similar issues. McCloskey enjoys being a woman, so much so that she is somethin...

“King Leopold’s Ghost”

earned (Hochschild, 1998). But there can be no doubt that he was a historian, and a good one; W.E.B. Dubois called him the "greate...

Demos: “The Unredeemed Captive”

people into the faith was unsurpassed. But the Puritans had come to the New World to escape religion (Catholic) persecution and to...

Reaction: “When Smoke Ran Like Water”

had disastrous results: all of her family members have (or had) respiratory or cardiac problems, along with most of the rest of th...

Scott: The Logistics of War

the lessons learned from the process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is ...

Seneca Falls and the Women’s Movement

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

Galileo, Science, and the Church

that this success could mean tremendous wealth and prestige for Galileo (Maran and Marschall, 2009). Galileo was, after a...

Pollan's Botany of Desire

of focus in this particular investigation-is interestingly the one that is equated with control; it is noted that the potatoes tha...

Beah: “A Long Way Gone”

is exciting-it is New York, after all-and hes happy to be there, living in safety with the woman who adopted him as her son. But l...

“When Smoke Ran Like Water”

for the world as to how pollution is related to human health. Davis inspiration for "When Smoke Ran Like Water" undoubted...

Price: “Love and Hate in Jamestown”

had no particular skills (Price). Price notes that Wingfield arrived in Virginia accompanied by a number of servants and a haughty...

Trimbur's Call to Write/Narrative of Frederick Douglass

the chapter that addresses writing profiles of specific people, Trimbur writes, "This impulse to describe, to analyze, and to unde...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Rereading America: Education

are quite different, and sadly so. He puts it right out there: Americas schools are as segregated now as they were in the 1950s, o...

Bringing Christianity to China

constantly threatened by invasion from the east (Mungello, 2005). In other words, China was at a high point in its history and Eur...

The Impact of “Tuesdays with Morrie”

was no graduation; instead there was a funeral (Albom, 1997). The few months that Albom saw Morrie every Tuesday are probably the...

A Thousand Splendid Suns

there are also elements that speak of the political and military struggles in the region. For example, Laila has two brothers who ...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

Finding Meaning in “Tuesdays with Morrie”

fifth Tuesday, they talk about family. Mitch Albom has no family, whereas Morrie is surrounded by his. He says that family is the ...

Amazon, BMW and GM

be front loaded, so these are likely to be over stated in considered on market terms. BMW BMWS are seeing a pattern of increasin...

Report: “Teaching the Elephant to Dance”

in the past is actually keeping them from succeeding in the present. That is, because methods worked for them before, they keep do...

Reiman: "The Rich Get Richer"

Reiman seems much more forthright and confrontational than Kennedy.. Reiman points out that despite such things as the "three str...

Above All Earthly Pow'rs By David F. Wells

is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...

Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

Jeffrey Reiman: "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison"

(Reiman, 2006, p. 16). This means that although the overall number of prisoners has increased, the percentage in jail for violent ...

William Carey: Pioneer Missionary To India

p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...

Race, Crime, and the Law by Kennedy

crime and thereby creates a racial ideology of crime that sustains continued white domination of blacks in the guise of crime cont...

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...