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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...

Characters Who Are Trapped

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

Marvin Harris's "Cannibals And Kings"

of more people, more food, more impact upon the land repeats itself every time cultural modify themselves in order to maintain the...

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...

Joe Sacco: “Palestine”

to types and devaluing them) but it also shows the inadequacy of the various responses to the Holocaust; i.e., they were also mini...

The Orchid Thief and Adaptation

a story about finding ones passion in life. This is evident in the following as Orleans makes note of the obsession concerning orc...

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody and the American Civil Rights Movement

and her sharecropper parents were treated differently than the white girls she played with, but she was unable to understand why. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Collins: “Good to Great”

Collinss book Built to Last was a hit around his office, but ultimately useless (Collins, 2001). When Collins asked why Meehan fel...

Community Nursing and Sarton's As We Are Now

Rose, "sleeps somewhere else" (Sarton 16). Mrs. Hatfield only experience as a "trained nurse" was two years employment as a nurses...

Synoptic Gospel Problem

means together with and optic means seeing.4 Other scholars have simply translated the word synoptic as meaning with the same eye....

John Collins on Company Change: “Good to Great”

Meehan told Collins that Collinss book Built to Last was a hit around his office, but ultimately useless (Collins, 2001). When Col...

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...

“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...

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...

'Crossing Border Street' by Peter Honigsberg

during that time. Whenever Honigsberg visited Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he had covert meetings with a black group, the Deacons of...

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

theologian, but living, or rather dying and being damned" (Luther, vol. 5, p. 163, lines 28-29) and he further asserted that "(t)h...

Sexing the Cherry and Time

different birthdays. Time is a funny thing. People mark their lives with milestones attached to the concept of time. At the end of...

A Bell for Adano by Hersey

and goes so far as to shoot a peasants mule when it wont get out of the road so he can get through. He cloaks his foul temper and...

Kevin and Jackie Freiberg's Nuts!

retaliated by matching the $13 fare and offering a free bottle of liquor to anyone who paid full fare ($26) instead of the bargain...

Martin Frye's Views on Sexism

"an instance of a general tendency to make sex relevant where it need not be, which she takes to be a key feature of sexism" (Saul...

Scripture Windows by Peter Pitzele

(Pitzele 24). This process can be encouraged by reading by Bible commentary or even by viewing how filmmakers have interpreted scr...