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'Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians' by Norma Basch

contends that, "Regional variations in divorce law were more pronounced on an east-west axis than a north-south one."3 For instan...

The Republic by Plato and Justice According to Socrates

with sickness, or the pilot who helps friends against "the perils of the sea" (Plato Book I). He then inquires into "what sort of ...

Jonathan Swift and Modernity

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Celie's Self Discovery

by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...

Sociological Intervention Tactics in There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotliwitz

fictional. Indeed, this book vividly portrays the harsh reality which so many of us have refused to acknowledge. The same factor...

Brave Ship Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott

courtesy of the personal log book entries that comprise the narrative. The heart and soul of the story is May 3, 1945, which seem...

Team and Group Dynamics

The white football players talk of boycotting practice because they are certain that the black coach will not allow them to play. ...

American Generalship by Edgar Puryears Reviewed

and the author. Puryears attempts to reveal the characteristics of greatness in military leadership. Here, Puryears has uncovere...

Arab World and Prejudice

Harem was written, it was a time when there was war in the middle east and it was a time when Iraq was being attacked, but by no m...

Shanghai Modern by Leo Ou Fan Lee

known political revolutions of this century. The movements principal focus was disdain for traditional Chinese culture, which was ...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Woman and Man in Paul by Naubert Baumert

the other parts of this analysis. In part D, the final section of the text, the author avails himself of various other theological...

George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky's The Power of Alignment

and Rosansky (1997) maintain that a well-deployed strategy is one that engages employees and customers alike, and draws a straight...

Ancient Rome and the Works of Vergil

by Homer, Vergil, by establishing Aeneas as a Trojan also justifies Romes invasion and conquest of Greece as retribution for the f...

Confessions by Augustine of Hippo

back by the love of temporal pleasure" (Augustine 167). In accepting Christianity, Augustine records that he "no longer desired a ...

Washing My Life Away Surviving Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by Ruth Deane

to help herself. For example, being afraid to touch things without the aid of a barrier (tissue, etc.) for fear of contracting ge...

Mappings, Feminism and Cultural Geographies of Encounters by Susan S. Friedman

cultures" (Friedman 5). This is what Friedman attempts to offer her readers in this text. Part I focuses on the encounters betwe...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

Islam vs. Christianity, a Comparison

sixteenth century when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nailed 95 complaints against the Roman Catholic Church on the church do...

Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

Rwandan Genocide

In four pages this paper discusses the Rwanda genocide that resulted from the Tutsi and Hutu tribal clashes as depicted in Keane's...

Jacobson and Gottman/Domestic Violence

informative and it concludes by offering specific, worthwhile advice on how domestic violence should be addressed, offering specif...

Facing East from Indian Country

history of the United States but are all too often not the focus of American history. While other authors seem to circumvent the r...

Comparing the Book and Film, Shaara's The Killer Angels

to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...

Overview of Amy Chua's Book

to practice a musical instrument for 30 minutes or an hour each day but Chua requires her children to practice for three four hou...

Feminist Elements in Bradley's Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley viewed the legend with a historians eye. The time period of King Arthur supposedly took place at the time wh...

The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff

needs of all human beings and must be translated into the politics and philosophies of modern life. He emphasizes the need that hu...

Analyzing Steve Jobs' Ethics

ways, this is unscrupulous behavior. Xerox would sue him down the road and then when Bill Gates stole the Apple platform for his W...

Oliver Twist, A Dickens Tale

cases out of ten," the child dies from one cause or another, such as starvation, illness or neglect. However, Oliver survives, and...

Communism and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

put aside old notions about social stratification as they do believe there is opportunity. Yet, at the time, things were dismal. A...