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A REVIEW OF SMALL BUSINESS FRAUD PREVENTION MANUAL

trust and friendship in a small business. Because the relationships in smaller businesses tend to be friends as well as co-workers...

White Like Me (Reaction)

of racism on a daily basis. Understanding how race figures in society will be helpful for me as I continue my career path as a cor...

Riot and Remembrance by Hirsch

Depression looming on the horizon. Hirsch tells the reader that when the Depression did come to the region Greenwood was devasta...

FREAKECONOMICS: A REVIEW

everything can be connected with microeconomics 101, namely, the choices that an individual makes to better his/her utility. ...

HALF THE SKY AND EDNA’S HOSPITAL

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

WHY THE U.S. JOINED WORLD WAR I

1917. The overt, and simple, explanation for Americas entry into the European conflict was the May, 1915 sinking of the Bri...

Comparing Three War Films

This essay presents the thesis that All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1999) s...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

getting them to turn from God. Each letter essentially presents steps and information for Wormwood to use in tempting this young m...

Martinson: "Views from a Tuft of Grass"

life, which may help to explain why he wrote about it in detail in Views from a tuft of grass. This book is a collection of essays...

Weiss: "Marital Separation"

to develop, so that associating with the other makes them feel better about themselves (Weiss, 1975). That is, they have endowed t...

Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

Mukherjee: "Jasmine"

her own future. She is a rebel from the beginning, and her desire to be different could be one of the reasons her life takes on wh...

The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz

dungeon and as such is nothing more than a simple fun work (The Book of Good Love of Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita, 2007). There ar...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Independence Day/Film Review

in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...

Paul Roberts' 'The End of Oil'

industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...

Political Film Comparision of the Nonfiction The Fog of War and Fiction Fahrenheit 911

of cinema designed to convey a specific message about a particular government. The director may choose to present this message in...

Eyes in Film

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

Douglas Bond's Mr. Pipes Comes to America

hymns that were written during that era (Wheeler). Each chapter in the book discusses a different hymnist (including John Calvin ...

Yuri Tanaka's Japan's Comfort Women

most perceptive reviews of the book is by Narrelle Morris; between his work and Tanakas own words we can examine the book critical...

People in Crisis by Lee Ann Hoff

in the wings for his cue may be experiencing the stress we call "stage fright," but if he can channel that stress into his perform...

1491 by Charles Mann

cultures, cities and towns that were, at the time, larger than many European cities that were of importance. His journey discusses...

Class Struggles, and the Value Labor Theory of Karl Marx

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

Randy Roberts and James S. Olson's A Line in the Sand, the Alamo in Blood and Memory

he was God" (6). As each man is introduced by the authors, such as William Barret Travis, the leader of the Texans; Davy Crockett,...

A Review of The Longest Winter

men is a rare story, and a very powerful story in the history of WWII. It is a story of humanity, as well as the lack of humanity ...

Angela's Ashes

the 1940s when McCourt was a child and young adolescent. It is a story that speaks of how hard it was growing up with no one who t...

First World War and Franz Ferdinand's Assassination

joined the crowd lining the Archdukes route to City Hall" and were successful in killing not only Franz but his wife Sofia, who wa...

Overview of the 'Just War' Theory

to be an an armed attack that is being directed at a peaceful society (Raymond, 2005). The second type is the development of any i...