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“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...

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...

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...

Kurt Eichenwald/The Informant

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

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...

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...

Galbraith's The Great Crash of 1929

It is true that on some level, the people are much wiser today than they were at the time and there are many new economic theories...

Steven Johnson/Everything Bad is Good For You

that the judgment of future generations as to what is valuable and what is in error in the past is frequently surprising. In other...

Bennett: “Why We Fight”

to it. Bennett seems to think that even daring to pose the question is somehow disloyal. The subtitle of the book is Moral Clarity...

Hacker's The Great Risk Shift

or adequate benefits. People try to get jobs at companies with good benefits, but as time goes on, benefits appear to be a luxury ...

“Whatever It Takes”

what Canada decided to do (Tough). He started with "a 24-block zone of central Harlem" that he named the "Harlem Childrens Zone" ...

Mouse Lessons: “Gino Badino” by Diana Engel

than saturated; the cover is a dark hunter green with a scalloped red border top and bottom; in the center is a square, also rimme...

Barbara Ehrenreich on the Working Poor and Not Getting By in America

could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...

The Importance of Baseball to the “Miko Kings”

during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...

Thompson/Concentric Circles of Concern

Dr. Thompsons classic work, which was published posthumously and revised by Claude V. King, the reader finds a detailed model for ...

Regret: An Analysis Of Into Thin Air

book there are a number of indicators, both proving the presence of regret both explicitly and with inferences (Kunda, 1999). Look...

Kristin Ross/May '68 and Its Afterlives

down the entire country. Nine million people, "across all sectors of public and private employment-from department store clerks to...

“Cradle to Cradle”

just-in-time delivery of parts to keep things running, rather than having stockpiles of parts to use. This works by making sure th...

Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

Scott on “The Logistics of War”

process. It is the last that might be most valuable. As an example lets look at Grenada, since it is short enough to be easily sum...

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...

The Hurried Child by David Elkind

In five pages the loss of childhood and its related concepts are considered iwthin the context of the book. There are no other so...

Cultivating Gentleman by Tamara Plakins Thornton

In five pages this paper examines the Thomas Jefferson type plantation owner and the social superiority that was associated with t...