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COMPARING CONSUMER SPENDING IN THE US AND ATLANTA DISTRICT FEDS

poor retail results (Sixth District). Tourism-related spending was also weak, though theme park attendance and cruise bookings wer...

Moral and Physical Resistance During the Holocaust Depicted in The Book and Film Versions of Jacob the Liar and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several ...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

Ahmed, Satrapi/Growing up Female in the Islamic World

through her father that Ahmed first becomes aware of the conflicting political forces that shape her world, as he is hemmed in on ...

Oroonoko

and the English were having troubles and how this bothered the narrator because she really wanted to see some of the native villag...

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

Does an Economic Crisis Hurt the Entertainment and Sports Industries?

it seemed, the United States was plunged into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. For the entertainment and spo...

A Million Little Pieces and Tao te Ching

thrown up and obviously experienced writhing agony, yet he falls asleep, after her call, "Still. Eyes closed. Smiling" (Frey 130)....

Illegal People by David Bacon

the immigrants, creates a situation wherein they are seen as a problem rather than a beneficial source in the nation. This is furt...

A Look at Tally's Corner

written word" (Liebow, 2003, p.16). Here, the man described is someone who did not have the benefit of being raised by his parents...

Pollan's Botany of Desire

of focus in this particular investigation-is interestingly the one that is equated with control; it is noted that the potatoes tha...

The Importance of Language: Lessons from Friedman's The World is Flat

that language takes a back seat to other disciplines such as reading, science and mathematics. In reading Thomas Friedmans book Th...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Character Analysis: Into the Wild

foundation for the story through an examination of the region itself, thus perhaps further adding to a con approach to the charact...

The 8 Best Practices of High Performing Salespeople (Summary and Analysis)

and Utilize a Marketing Plan." In respect to a marketing plan, the author equates this with planning in general (Trainor, 2000). ...

A Look at Plascov's The Palestinian Refugees in Jordan 1948-1957

that are the focus of attention in this book, there was little group cohesion (Plascov, 1981). This fact is explained by the autho...

The Conquests of Alexander The Great (Book Review)

the Past." The author explains that when studying ancient Greece, it is important for a student to note that the material is deriv...

Effective Academic Writing: The Short Essay (Book Review)

and Davis vii). Here, it is assumed that the student has cursory knowledge of English and for example, it would not be appropriate...

The Growth of the Nation-State in Wolff's How Many Miles to Babylon?

in a progressive fashion. There were not enough maps because in the past people did not travel. Travel would open the door to popu...

Not Everything that is Learned is Contained in Books

they can teach a person and how they can assist a person in their own development of identity and growth. Books are powerful and...

Changing a Personal Behavior

friend or family member in order to make this identification. It has been noted frequently in empirical literature that there ha...

Jared Diamond: “Collapse”

that Diamond discusses are the Anasazi and the Maya. "Anasazi" is the name given to various groups of Native Americans living in t...

Review of Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape

of evolution in particular, "The Naked Ape" is written in plain and simple language. "The Naked Ape" addresses each major topic o...

Free Speech Boundaries and Not in Front of the Children by Heins

"Owl and the Pussycat." The reason? The filter perceived "pussy" as a foul or obscene word. In other words, in its guise of "prote...

Computers or Books in Education

The book is incredibly low-maintenance, never requiring that it be rebooted or upgraded. Books can travel with the individual and...

George Linderman The World Within War

God, and the nation represented. Linderman tells the story of this unique group of men in an understandable order from ant...

Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker

bullies, throwing their weight around and creating underhanded backroom deals. This happens to Lewis one too many times and in the...

City of Quartz by Davis

had been full of light and life and rather innocent. They were optimistic. The debunkers had already seen the seedier side of life...

Interpreting Fiction of the Latter 20th Century

dies. The question as to where the boy should be raised crops up as Lilas first in-laws are intimately involved in the life of the...

Martine van Woerken - Thugs

the goddess (Thuggee). The British made a determined (and successful) effort to stamp out Thuggee beginning in the early 1800s. ...