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Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...

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...

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...

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife by John A. Nagl: An Analysis

The U.S. military involvements in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War are analyzed within the context of this book in 5 pages. The b...

Music as Symbolic Behavior/Alan P. Merriam

"symbols," and their relationship to art and its abstract nature. Having established a basis for discussing symbolism, specific ...

The Tao Te Ching and the Mengzi - An Ethical Examination

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the Tao Te Ching and the Mengzi. Ethical formulations from each book are contrasted w...

Upside Down Kingdom by Donald Kraybill

This book review pertains to Donald Kraybill's Upside Down Kingdom, in which the author focuses on the radical nature of the mini...

That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton

This book review pertain to That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton, a young adult novel that pertains to two adoptive brothers,...

Joy and Fatalism in "Paradise Lost"

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes in "Paradise Lost". The primary themes in question are those of destiny and jo...

Proposal and Annotated Bibliography for To Kill A Mockingbird

This research proposal begins with a three page proposal for a project that will consider the influence and impact of Harper Lee's...

Hawkings Perspective on Time

This paper provides a critical discussion of Stephen Hawkings book A Brief History of Time. The paper’s author discusses how Hawk...

Women Doctors

and early 1900s found it a particularly difficult career to pursue because of the prejudice against a woman doctor. She seems som...

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew's Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

had faded. Everyone was frightened when approached" (Weinberg 11). The result of their labors, the years of painstaking resear...

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun and Canada

his story in addition to it being a book about recommendations in respect to societal violence as a whole. The author begins with...

Valerie Polakow's Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America

children, Polakow says makes it seem as the nations elected officials and policy-makers think and act as if poverty seen is a priv...

A Review of Masks in Modern Drama

depravity of which he is capable. The satiric mask isolates a characteristic, distorts or enlarges it, and freezes it permanently....

eCommerce and Barnes and Noble

was an increase of sixty million individuals using the Net, and in the space of twelve months between 1996 and 1997, the number of...

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and 'Nothing To Fear'

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes how the issues the book raises lend themselves to the quote 'nothing to fear by fear...

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...

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...

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...

Thematic Elements In Moore's Novel, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

out her situation, Berie, retreats into her imagination, and into her memory of adolescence, which Moore terms the "anteroom" of l...

The City of God - Two Cities

of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...

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...

Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

Critic's Role

put into words the experience for people to identify with. In many ways a critic is there to let the consumer know, who will pay ...