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The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex De Jonge

De Jonge places particular emphasis on his spiritual transformation in early adulthood, pointing out that such transformations, su...

An Analysis of Hanh's The Miracle of Mindfulness

mindfulness before defining it. It is a story that many can relate to if they have ever had an interpersonal relationship ...

A Short History of World War I by Jame Stokebury

is direct without being trivial in his analysis of the events he covers. This direct approach however serves the topic and the st...

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

was an immediate celebrity. However, many racist whites and quite a few people in the black community were angered by his assumed ...

Thinking About Music, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music by Lewis Rowell

however, is preliminary, a basic orientation, if you will, before settling down to discussing the books main argument, which conce...

She Walks These Hills by McCrumb

those velvet petals...--they looked just the same as they had in Mamas old ditch garden up home" (McCrumb 39). Rather than being r...

Impact of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Writings on Children

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...

Civilization and the Individual in Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

Some are put on drugs so that they will be more placid. While it may sound like the work of science fiction, the reality is that t...

The Devil in the White City by Larson

is something that cannot be ignored. It was after all the Civil War that freed the slaves. Black people, or Negroes as they were r...

Degrading Business Ethics Balancing Human Welfare and Corporate Profitability

"special rewards". Berkley Wellness Letter. (1994, Jan). Saving Womens Lives (Reducing Deaths from Lung Cancer). The Univer...

Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker

bullies, throwing their weight around and creating underhanded backroom deals. This happens to Lewis one too many times and in the...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

not with him. Clearly, form the start of this compelling book, there is a face to the people of Japan. So many times, people think...

Overview of the Text Wealth and Power in America

a medium sized newspaper business from his father. Using this as a springboard, he quickly grasped the power of the pen. His polit...

Benjamin F. Schemmer's The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

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...

The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice by Author Derrick Bell

resolve racial inequality, that inequality continues to exist in terms of economics in particular. Bell asserts that social class...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'The Experience Economy'

Information is becoming a big component of the economic market as well. While at one time the consumer was dependent on informati...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

Chapter Summary of Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior

created Warriors in My deadly image" (45). What does the author mean by this? It is something written in language that seems to su...

Martin Rees' Our Cosmic Habitat

the question posed in his Prologue, "Could God Have Made the World Any Differently?" with a resounding, "Yes!" The author also ma...

Piety, the Bible, Sophocles, and Plato

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

In eight pages this text which covers the 1980s Palestinian and Israeli conflict and tensions in Lebanon is the focus of a summary...

So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

of a European spinster. Rama calls this an "aspect of the New Africa" (24), a reference to modern, global politics affecting the l...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

James Rachels and the Theory of Cultural Relativism

as backward and wrong. They are even more critical of such practices as infanticide, a practice affecting female infants among th...

A Look at Bataille's Erotism

tell the difference, but Batailles argument deserves contemplation. In trying to reach human limits in eroticism, one can go too f...

Overview of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey

The cognitive aspect of the work seems to be the most important. Making a paradigm shift, as the author reiterates, is the highlig...

Analysis of the Vedic Hymn of Creation

not concerned with the creation of man but rather with the creation and evolution of the cosmos. Eliade (1995), however, notes th...

Kevin Toolis's Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul

political activist organization known as Sinn Fein. Each chapter is subdivided in such a way as to concentrate on a specific aspe...