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Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner

as subject to social trends as his peers, recounts how he remained somewhat detached by not becoming a Nazi. Nevertheless, he also...

A Bell for Adano by Hersey

and goes so far as to shoot a peasants mule when it wont get out of the road so he can get through. He cloaks his foul temper and...

An Ecological Vision Captured in All Creation is Groaning Edited by Carol Dempsey and Russell Butkus

non-human alike" (3). This feeling is contrasted against the sense of "lived inter-relatedness," which is the obtained by acknowle...

'Crossing Border Street' by Peter Honigsberg

during that time. Whenever Honigsberg visited Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he had covert meetings with a black group, the Deacons of...

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 ...

The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

theologian, but living, or rather dying and being damned" (Luther, vol. 5, p. 163, lines 28-29) and he further asserted that "(t)h...

My Antonia by Willa Cather and Structural Criticism

In six pages this paper discusses the first 5 books of this text in terms of its loose structure and how only the threads of civil...

Literary and Cinematic Portrayal of Slavery

In seven pages this paper considers how slavery has been portrayed in cinema, stories, and books. Eleven sources are cited in the...

'Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?' and The Book of Job

event? Summary of text Father OMalley feels it is acceptable to add humor to our text summary on the supposition all serious thin...

Contemporary Prisons and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

Damiens, was executed in this manner on March 2, 1757. The records of this execution appear to be quite detailed, as Foucault rela...

Chip Deffaa's 'Traditionalists and Revivalists in Jazz'

This paper consists of 12 pages and chronicles those significant performers whos contributions are often overlooked in other books...

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

In a paper consisting of six pages this book is examined not only in terms of its reflection on Munro's career and style but how i...

Individualism and Magic in The Tempest And Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone

This five page paper considers the elemtn of magic in Shakespeare's clasic play and in the highly popular contemporary book by J. ...

A Review of The Poorhouse Fair

A 5 page essay reviewing the book by John Updike. This paper explores the purpose and intent of the author. 1 source....

Jonathon Kozol's 'Savage Inequalities'

This 6 page book report provides a chapter overview and a discussion of the sociological theoretical perspective that the author p...

“Beyond the Box: Innovative Churches That Work”

location the authors will argue that a church does not need to be an actual church but can really be located anywhere. Conflict is...

Tannen on Discourse

Lakoff looks at Luntz Republican discourse and describes Luntz as the "premier conservative linguist who helps the Republicans fra...

Pearl S. Buck's "The Child That Never Grew"

individual whose only crime was chemical disparity. The only way to deal with such social deviants in eras gone by was to lock th...

Michael Wood: "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great"

324 B.C. (Michael Wood: In the footsteps of Alexander the Great). Alexanders expedition was "a turning point in human history ... ...

Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

God and Sin

God says, "Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" and then "sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to til...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Angry Young Men by Aaron Kipnis

homes or on the streets in Hollywood, or the Tenderloin or Haight Ashbury districts in San Francisco (Kipnis, 1999). He lived with...

"I Had Seen Castles"

terrible sense of foreboding when Joe says that his father came home early from the university: "It was his face ... On any other ...

Managerial Economics Questions

able to be increased more as the demand would not decrease proportionally but at a rate less than the increase. If there are even...

Three Scenarios Of Business Infrastructure

as a means by which to assert the formal aspect. Austin (2000) indicates how the basis of an informal group stature, as in a non-...

Characterization in The Blue Max: The Novel and Film Compared

respect to the character of this man, but the film is limited to visual aspects only. This tends to be true for most any book turn...

“Battle Cry of Freedom” by McPherson

incredible focus in many respects. In McPhersons book he presents the argument, from during the Civil War, that "Rich men could ...

Fishman: "The Wal-Mart Effect"

other retailers, began to ask why deodorants, which were already packaged, were then packaged a second time, in a paperboard box (...