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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...

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...

Travels of Equiano

His merchant seaman master took it upon himself to educate Equiano, and later Miss Guerins actually sent Equiano to school in Lond...

Architecture Books Critiqued

was "shattered" by the urban scale of Renaissance Rome, which was achieved under the reign of Pope Sixtus V (75). Selecting from...

Introduction to Old Testament Wisdom by Ceresko

book touches on many mundane matters. How to get through life and understand its wrath is truly lifes most contemplated topics and...

Introduction to the Old Testament by Anthony Ceresko

Old Testament as a straightforward history. Rather, both men advocate that these texts emerged as a "self-defining narrative of a ...

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...

Morality, Justice and Books I and II of The Republic by Plato

"clearness and accuracy" (336d). He elaborates in section 338c that while there are different forms of governments, each one "defi...

Los Premios by Julio Cortazar

Lucio and Nora, and so forth until all of the players in the drama have been introduced. In addition to the teachers, there is Med...

Analyzing Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

anyone would offer her. She claimed to be an inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce (Clayton, 2002). What ensues is ...

Comparative Analysis of Wladislaw Szpilman's Book The Pianist and Roman Polanski's Film Adaptation

true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...

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...

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...

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...

Jonathan Swift and Modernity

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

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 ...

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...

A Review of Latin America at the Crossroads and Fast Forward, Latin America on the Edge of the 21st Century

"academic specialists, foreign policy analysts and practitioners, and those in the commercial banks and international lending agen...

'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...

Analyzing Jewish Russians Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue by Sascha Goluboff

people there were often at odds with one another based upon the perceptions that existed regarding the different groups. It was a...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

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...

Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital

especially unhappy time in the dreadful lives of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, and if you have any sense at all you will shu...