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The Cultural Transformation of Los Angeles

This paper examines two works regarding cultural changes in LA. The author discusses Mike Davis' book, City of Quartz, as well as...

Longitude by Dava Sobel

of the same size, so they all converge at the ends of the earth" (2). Another pertinent difference that Sobel points out...

Garrett and A Criminal-Addict's Story

define his identity that eclipsed the influence and importance of his home or his school. Durkheim was one of the first experts ...

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa

Nothing is quite what it appears in this novel, least of all the characters or the plot. For example, the main character, Police...

The Age of Paradox and Capitalism

Charles Handy's book on paradoxes is explored. The focus of this investigation is on how capitalism is interpreted. How society is...

Thomas Hobbes on War's Inevitability

This topic is discussed within the context of the book Of the First and Second Natural Laws, and of Contracts by Thomas Hobbes in...

Tim O'Brien's If I Die in Combat

In five pages this book by Tim O'Brien regarding a young soldier's Vietnam War experiences is reviewed. There are no other source...

The Wilding of America by Charles Derber

and this becomes a motivation that people pursue over and above everything else. Derber asserts that we distance ourselves from s...

The Censorship of Catcher in the Rye

A book with a long history of censorship is JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. This novel is discussed in depth along with the atte...

Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman

centuries even after the concept of childhood began to emerge. Children are pictured as small adults?dressed like adults. To a cer...

College Students and the Marketing of a Campus Poetry Night

In one page this essay discusses how to plan and promote a poetry night event on a college campus that includes a book signing and...

Battle Cry by Leon Uris

This paper consists of five pages and presents a book review on the author's stirring account of the U.S. Marine Corps during the ...

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

war, he also lost the only woman who ever loved him. Fuentes has him pay for his greed and love of power in that all of the subseq...

We All Got History by Nick Salvatore

In five pages this paper presents a summary and analysis of the memory books of Amos Webber as portrayed by historian Nick Salvato...

Nega Mezlekia's 'Notes from the Hyena's Belly'

we later see Mezlekia escape to the Netherlands and later to Canada. The time period is primarily the 1960s and the 1970s. This wa...

Cross My Heart

A 5 page review of the book by Maureen McCarthy. The focus is the character Michelle and the essay is presented in the form of a ...

Balkan Ghosts A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan

Croatia, "Old" Serbia and Macedonia, and Belgrade, also known as "White City." Part 2 is a physical and historical journey throug...

Langdon Winner's The Whale and the Reactor

and private lives. Indeed, our private lives are becoming very much less private due to the way in which the internet feeds off o...

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...

Stephen Jay Gould Panda's Thumb

socially constructed food choices-and the availability of manufacturing plants, the creation of new food products and marketing-th...

Culture Clash in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

as intimate terms, yet knowing little about their culture, has always seemed a shame. But, there were no individuals who this read...

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...

Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

In seven pages this paper examines the concept of 'passing' in a consideration of the book and the duplicity of author James Weldo...

Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

In five pages this paper considers the controversy over women's rights that continues in an examination of this 1792 book by Mary ...

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

In ten pages this paper examines the author's religious views, his book The Last Temptation of Christ and the subsequent film adap...

Place, Space, an the 'Infobahn' in City of Bits by William J. Mitchell

A book report on City of Bits by William J. Mitchell consists of five pages and considers the pervasive social and individual infl...

Information Superhighways Multimedia Users and Futures by Stephen J. Emmott

This book report consists of five pages and considers various types of multimedia applications available in computer technology. ...

Michael Parenti's Inventing Reality

In seven pages this paper presents a critical examination of this book that considers how news media politics often results in pad...

Sikorski's Full Circle: A Homecomoing to Free Poland

the stories of his own childhood in a Communist country and the stories of his family and its heritage. Layer upon layer of Sikor...

The Politics of Gun Control by Robert J. Spitzer

In five pages the continuing debate regarding the gun control issue is examined within the context of this book by Robert J. Spitz...