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Understanding the City

the feminine.1 Woolfs gendered city is found in her "all-pervasive metaphor of street life as river-like, conveying a sense of dyn...

Literary Techniques Used by Girls in Junior High School

year of close observation. The young women allowed Finders to read their notes and listen to their conversations, an amazing displ...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Literary Techniques in Junior High Girls

for teaching: Today there is a substantial movement toward "student-centered" education. The theory is that students rather than t...

Moses Wrote the Pentateuch or Did He?

the "Documentary Hypothesis," a theory that asserts that "the Pentateuch was written by a group of four authors, from various loca...

Essential Church? Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts

that church attendance plays an essential role in his or her life. In other words, the thrust of the book is not only to discern w...

Copyright Protection of Literary Works

the written word, either as a creative work or as a study (Lefevere, 1992). Under the 1988 a literary work has a broader definitio...

The Purpose Driven Church by Rick Warren

any aspect of the church that is antithetical to the purposes of the church should be eradicated. Essentially, Challies points out...

Out of Place

was as a child, but also later as an adult as he attended Princeton and Harvard. The theme involves both a historical examination ...

How Did You Get to be Mexican?

students and he is sometimes amazed by the amounts of money they spend on things; hes equally amazed at high tight-fisted wealthy ...

Hunger for the Past, Hunger of Memory

family lived in Sacramento, only a block from some very nice (and expensive) homes, and that outside of a few taunts, he never hea...

The Unthinkable - Surviving a Disaster

she was in the building in 1993 when another attack took place; and despite the fact that the building actually rocked from the fo...

Going from Good to Great at Walgreens

extreme, painful-one big, discontinuous, shattering break" (Collins, 2001). None of these is true, and believing in them has the...

Suffering in Job and in the Death Camps

who did lie, steal, betray friends, perhaps even murder to save themselves then were left with another truth: the survivors who ca...

A Million Little Pieces and Tao te Ching

thrown up and obviously experienced writhing agony, yet he falls asleep, after her call, "Still. Eyes closed. Smiling" (Frey 130)....

Illegal People by David Bacon

the immigrants, creates a situation wherein they are seen as a problem rather than a beneficial source in the nation. This is furt...

A Look at Tally's Corner

written word" (Liebow, 2003, p.16). Here, the man described is someone who did not have the benefit of being raised by his parents...

Alexie: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”

an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...

Barbara Kellerman: “Bad Leadership”

man was right" (Kellerman, 2004, p. 29). This is the dilemma which, Kellerman argues, no one wants to acknowledge: that bad, even ...

“War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma”

There was, therefore, a pressing need from the British perspective for address. There was also, however, a British recognition of...

Moral and Physical Resistance During the Holocaust Depicted in The Book and Film Versions of Jacob the Liar and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several ...

The Relationship Between Michael Jordan and September 11th

than a dozen endorsements would go to these other charities" (p.166). The author minimizes the generosity of Jordan and continues...

“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Murder in the Deep South

Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...

The Nature of Evil

permit others to do so on your behalf" (p.5). Despite the fact that the book is titled The Lucifer Effect, what makes people tick ...

Nace: “Gangs of America”

many instances of corporations actually writing legislation favorable to them, though its rarely blatant. Rather, they "remind" th...

Picoult: “My Sister’s Keeper”

wrong with Anna; her pain and suffering - which are very real, given the type of procedures she undergoes as a donor - are all to ...

Gangs of America

The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by Edell and Schrieberg

truth is that as a population, we seem less able to tolerate even slight discomforts. In fact, we view such discomforts as real pa...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...