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Zhang, Lahiri/Memoir and Short Story

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

Holistic Nursing Journal

discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...

Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Chivalry

in his disguise as the Black Knight, praises Locksley/Robin Hood, as he says that a man who "does good, having the unlimited power...

A Review of Courthouse over White House Chicago and the Presidential Election of 1960

An 11 page review of the book by Edmund Frank Kallina. The book focuses on alleged political corruption. 1 source....

Connection Between Politics and Art in the Philosophies of Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger

particular essay, we are told that, "art lets truth originate." According to Kiefte (1997), what Heidegger is wondering about is...

A Review of How Did American Slavery Begin?

A 5 page review of the book by Edward Countryman. This book includes five essays and, although it has received less than positive...

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS AS A METAPHOR

and dedication to his single goal, he was able to afford two of them; Old Dan (the "brawn" of the duo) and Little Ann (the "brains...

Reviewing Rhetoric in William Wilson's The Truly Disadvantaged

In this five page review the book's content, language use and organization as ways of establishing credibility are analyzed. Thi...

Globalization as Envisioned in The Lexus and the Olive Tree

identity and place that is important to cultures all over the world. Friedman pictures these two elements as coexisting in the pre...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The writer argues that in Fahrenheit 451, the burning of the books symbolizes the end of civilization. The writer uses the perspec...

Net.Gain by John Hagel and Arthur Armstrong

In five pages this paper provides a textual analysis of the book by Hagel and Armstrong and also compares it with James Lewis' pro...

A Review of Getting to Yes Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

A 5 page review of the the book Getting to Yes Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. This paper highlights the usefulness of t...

Societal Restrictions as Reflected in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Scarlet Letter

A 5 page consideration of the societal restrictions in play in these books. This paper questions whether those restrictions impac...

Stuik’s “A Concise History of Mathematics”

and the development of the numbers such as three being the adding of the words for one and two being put together. When talking ...

Mother's Perspective/Asperger Syndrome

years before Jimmys parents even had a definitive diagnosis of AS. Once Fling and her husband had a diagnosis, they found that exp...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Reflections on Nelson Mandela

justice of victims and their families, while allowing perpetrators who confessed to experience forgiveness and reconciliation" (So...

Kennedy/Profiles in Courage

Senators that follows. Kennedy begins with a profile of John Quincy Adams, and how Adams was castigated by members of his own pa...

The Life and Contributions of Walter Payton

devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...

Master of the Rohan Hours

("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...

Paulo Freire/Pedagogy of the Oppressed

pedagogical approach is his definition of what it means to be a "democratic" instructor, that is someone who encourages and facili...

The Christian Ideal of Love in "Dead Man Walking"

down, and shot them in the head. I look down at the name in horror. Do I really want to know such a man?" (Prejean, 1994). That i...

Unshakable Foundations By Norman L. Geisler And Peter Bocchino

and anyone the person speaks with. The authors explain that a worldview is like "an intellectual lens through which people view ...

Relationships in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

relationships. In its advocacy of deriving the goals of life from social cooperation and the elements of natural selection, the c...

Wisdom from Caring for the Caregiver

experience with the technique of visualization. In examining all of these pointers, it will become clear that they can help one ex...

Dan Brown: "Angels and Demons"

modern, the setting and the rising stars, were in the sky together ... As the rift between the spiritual and the material values w...

A Review of First In His Class"

A 5 page essay exploring the book by Pulitzer prize winning journalist David Mariniss. This book focuses on Bill Clinton's climb...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...

A Discussion of Massacre in Mexico

A 5 page overview of the book by Elena Poniatowska. This book presents both sides of the massacre from the perspective of those th...

A Review of the Print and Film Versions of The Joy Luck Club

A 6 essay comparing and contrasting the film version of Amy Tan's popular book and the book. The essay emphasizes Hollywood's ten...