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Samurais, 2 Books

This essay pertains to two texts that relate samurai culture, The Last Samurai by Mark Ravina and Bushido, the Way of the Samurai,...

Chapters from Two Apocalyptic Books

This essay focuses on Daniel 7 and 1 Enoch 46 and 48. The Book of Enoch is not part of the canon and, in fact, was lost for centur...

The Nature of Happiness, Jonathan Haidt

This research paper/essay provides a comprehensive overview and critique of Jonathan Haidt's book The Happiness Hypothesis. Four p...

Societal Expectations, Twain, Krakauer

This essay considers Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and asserts that both protagonists were societ...

Opium Wars Through Chinese Eyes by Arthur Waley

strictly illegal under Chinese law. However, the opium trade was of pivotal importance to British Imperialism. The British smuggli...

A Review of The Many-Headed Hydra Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

This 5 page essay reviewing the book by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. This paper accentuates the thirst for economic profit...

Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action

This 14 page essay reviews Harr's popular book examining his narrative style and outlining the main points that are covered. An e...

Book VI of The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser

In five pages this essay analyzes Book Six of this poetic masterpiece. There are no other sources listed....

John Barth's 'Lost in the Funhouse'

This is a book review consisting of 5 pages that considers the collective work of short stories and essays and how the works stead...

Howarth's 1066 The Year of Conquest

"Everyone knows 1066 as the date of the Norman invasion and conquest of England. But how many of us can place that event in the co...

Sergio Zyman's 'The End of Marketing'

This essay summarizes the book in 5 pages, and includes a discussion of marketing's 'sacred cows,' and how the process has caused ...

Greg Levoy's Callings and James Hillman's The Soul's Code

In five pages this essay compares adn contrasts these two books and the argument that the authors take a different perspective tow...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as a Personal Narrative

This research paper/essay discusses the journey of personal discovery that is described in Salinger's famous coming-of-age novel. ...

A Comparison of Culture in Colored People by Henry L. Gates Jr. and Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor

An 8 page essay analyzing the cultural distinctions that become readily apparent when reviewing these books. 6 sources....

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

This 6 page essay examines author Miguel Leon Portilla's "The Broken Spears : The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico&quo...

Chinese Domination on the Open Seas During the Fifteenth Century

and offered the natives beads and strings of coral as items for trade, the Europeans were ridiculed. The natives had products tha...

A Revies of Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato

A 5 page essay reviewing issues surrounding the working class characters depicted in this book. 1 source....

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind

In five pages this essay presents a critical examination of the book and the actual trial upon which the text was based. There ar...

Perspectives on Multiculturalism

A 5 page review of the essay Crossing Cultures in Crossing Cultures Readings for Composition, a book edited by Myrna Knepler, et a...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

Greenleaf's Ideas 25 Years Later

Greenleaf's first essay on servant leadership in 1970 presented a very different way of looking at leadership. He argues that a pe...

Health Care Reform by Paul Starr

This essay offers a review and analysis of Paul Starr's Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Refor...

Simon and Piggy, Lord of the Flies

This essay concerns Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and the roles played by Piggy and Simon in supporting his primary thesis...

The Traveling T-Shirt and Public Policy

This 4 page essay reviews the book "The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy" by Rivoli and the effects of cotton on public ...

St. Augustine of Hippo's Confessions

a certain inclination towards laziness. In discussing his childhood, Augustines theories toward education come out. He adamantly r...

A Review of Coyote Blue

see him again he is Sam Hunter and he lives in Los Angeles, melding in with the population and the society. "Financially and socia...

Gender Assumption in Boys Don't Cry

of social community that is unaffected by racial stereotypes, which are misconstrued attitudes, opinions or judgments. From schoo...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

On The Trinity by Augustine

Shedd (1886) points out that Augustine is especially guilty of this in the last eight chapters/Books. This may be because the firs...

Leadership Style of Hezekiah

conflict with them but he avoided that. He could foresee that getting into a serious argument with his enemies would lead to unnec...