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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Piety, the Bible, Sophocles, and Plato

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom

Civil War. Battle Cry for Freedom McPhersons work covers, as mentioned, a great deal of subjects that directly involved the Ci...

Christian and Islam Views on Creation

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

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...

The Devil in the White City by Larson

is something that cannot be ignored. It was after all the Civil War that freed the slaves. Black people, or Negroes as they were r...

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...

Fundamental Aspects of Valuation Models

Valuation methods most commonly used include book value; discounted dividend, discounted free cash flow, residual income and abnor...

1996 Amazon.com and Strategic Alternatives

they believe they will, then return the remainder to the publisher. The publisher, in turn, offers the returned - and no longer n...

Gold, Dollars, and Power by Francis J. Gavin

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray

such social struggle stem from whether nature or nurture commands greater credit and why. Patriarchy has long prescribed the male...

Teaching Equality by Adam Fairclough

to both slavery and racial segregation. He points out that it did not take crusading "New England missionaries" to teach Southern ...