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Arch and Martin Flanagan: “The Line”

one of whom is reluctant to talk and the other who is struggling to understand. Its probably true to say that unless one has bee...

Barack Obama: “Dreams from My Father”

for much of his childhood, in Hawaii, a state where the races mix freely and easily and where his mixed heritage didnt seem to be ...

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Murder in the Deep South

Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...

The Relationship Between Michael Jordan and September 11th

than a dozen endorsements would go to these other charities" (p.166). The author minimizes the generosity of Jordan and continues...

Nace: “Gangs of America”

many instances of corporations actually writing legislation favorable to them, though its rarely blatant. Rather, they "remind" th...

Picoult: “My Sister’s Keeper”

wrong with Anna; her pain and suffering - which are very real, given the type of procedures she undergoes as a donor - are all to ...

Gangs of America

The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...

McWhorter's Losing the Race

have gone by with many of the problems in the black community magnified and tied to race relations. Yet, one has to wonder whether...

“The Line” by Arch and Martin Flanagan

five men he knows who "fought and suffered in the Asian theatre of World War II," four returned with "the imprint of Eastern philo...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

The Orchid Thief and Adaptation

a story about finding ones passion in life. This is evident in the following as Orleans makes note of the obsession concerning orc...

The 100 First Days of FDR and Barack Obama

the research has revealed is that Obama is consistently compared to FDR. They both came to office in the midst of a terrible crisi...

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by Edell and Schrieberg

truth is that as a population, we seem less able to tolerate even slight discomforts. In fact, we view such discomforts as real pa...

“War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma”

There was, therefore, a pressing need from the British perspective for address. There was also, however, a British recognition of...

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 ...

Barbara Kellerman: “Bad Leadership”

man was right" (Kellerman, 2004, p. 29). This is the dilemma which, Kellerman argues, no one wants to acknowledge: that bad, even ...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

Joe Sacco: “Palestine”

to types and devaluing them) but it also shows the inadequacy of the various responses to the Holocaust; i.e., they were also mini...

Alexie: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”

an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...

Characters Who Are Trapped

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

Marvin Harris's "Cannibals And Kings"

of more people, more food, more impact upon the land repeats itself every time cultural modify themselves in order to maintain the...

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...

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...

HOW THE FINANCIAL CRISIS HIT HOMEOWNERS

late 1990s and early 2000s in the wake of the dot-com bust, and how all of those low interest rates (not to mention greedy lenders...

Anthropology on Mars by Oliver Sacks

so rare as to be almost unknown to science-they might as well be on Mars. Sacks methods of investigation appear to consist largel...

Kenneth P. Wilkinson and the Idea of Community

is to try and come up with a working definition of community in rural America, which is not as easy as it sounds. He points out th...

Alienation in Literature

and loved ones. Raoul seeks drugs and partying to find some level of acceptance and happiness in his life, which is often the case...