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Boylan’s “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders”

transsexual individuals is that they do not feel that their true identity is fulfilled in being the sex they were born. Many strug...

Velocity by Dean Koontz/Book Review

wedding. This mundane existence is shattered when Billy finds a note on the windshield of his car, which indicates that his acti...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Barrett/Interpreting Art/Chapters 2, 7 & 8

7 : In this chapter, the author broadens the topic of discussion, i.e., artistic interpretation, so that the reader is exposed to ...

Exclusivism vs. Inclusivism: An Examination of the Question of Who Will Reach Heaven

heaven. This theory places a considerable weight on morality as a deciding factor in determining our final fate. The logic is th...

Home-School Relations : Book Review

also provides tips and cues for identifying potential child abuse and neglect. The author who discusses Parent-Teacher Communica...

“Managers not MBA’s”

ate part of a larger team. In additional to this Mintzberg (2004) also argues that the type of people attracted to MBAs are not th...

Wiencek/On George Washington

than "anywhere else" (Henriques 414). However, the "bad news" is that amidst Wienceks narrative there are numerous errors, as well...

Book Review of Sydney Finkelstein's Why Smart Executives Fail

the book is to help others avoid committing similar errors. The book focuses on a variety of firms which are mostly American comp...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Book Review of The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights

the Asian culture itself. Other than that, some of the authors point out that on the one hand, many times, Asian governmen...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Reviewing Burawoy's Text on Manufacturing Consent

had in the early part of the twentieth century when workers rights were important and factory work was paramount. Today, much of t...

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

at a bar before moving on and a Native American woman deposits a three-year-old girl in her car and begs her to keep the child. ...

Book Review of Morningstar Mercredi's Fort Chipewyan Homecoming, A Journey to Native Canada

home, Matthew normally lives one year with his mother and the following year with his father. This introduces a number of complex...

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...

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...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

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...

A Book Review of Dan Rather's 'The American Dream'

dedication, and vision. Rather bases his story on over thirty key interviews that he held over the years, interviews that...

Cynthia Arem on Anxiety About Math

text is logical and begins with a diagnostic process that aids the reader in determining whether or not he or she truly does suffe...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

for myself. I began to blame Danny, Butch and the Kid for my present fate...But then I thought, aw, hell, it wasnt their fault--as...

'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...

Literature Overview on Medical Errors

Mistakes are sometimes made in transcribing data, or at the level of the practical or registered nurse. If patient data is not app...

Women Guarding Men by Lynn E. Zimmer

One of the most difficult tasks involved in data collection came from trying to obtain permission to interview male inmates. Howev...

A Review of Galileo's Daughter

all previous centuries" (Sobel PG). Based upon one hundred and twenty-four remaining authentic letters that Maria Celeste wrote t...

Jacques Maritain's 'The Dream of Descartes'

chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...

A Review of The Peculiar Institution

many planters, and at least somewhat profitable for many others, a reality not truly experienced in any other institution at the t...

Robert F. Kennedy's 'Thirteen Days'

This paper consists of 14 pages and provides both a book review and a glimpse into the Cuban Missile Crisis as seen through the ey...

Book Reviews on the Japanese Samurai

In ten pages this paper reviews various texts on the Japanese Samurai class including Harry Cook's Samurai: The Story of a Warrior...