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Liberty's Daughters by Mary Beth Norton Reviewed

In 5 pages this tutorial presents a sample review of this 18th century U.S. historical text. Three sources are cited in the bibli...

“Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Woman Warrior”

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...

Harford: “The Undercover Economist”

but sometimes works in unpredictable ways. Harford also uses Starbucks to explain why location is so important in real estate and...

Hunter's "Race, Gender, And The Politics Of Skin Tone" - Methodological Review

part of Hunters (2005) methodology, it serves to illustrate the point each author is making about extracting data based upon a mor...

Going Solo by Roald Dahl

flying in WWII and I must say that was a great adventure, although frightening and dangerous too. I am also, I believe,...

Kelley: “Race Rebels”

looking at things from way, way below. Kelley says that he "came to history because of politics" (Let the dreamer awake: Talking ...

The Social Animal

obvious (Aronson). But they did: approximately 75% of those tested gave the wrong answer (Aronson). This experiment, which was re...

CASE STUDY REVIEW: CLASSIC AIRLINES

must still beef up its reward program with a demonstrable return on investment. This involves better customer targeting. T...

Review of Thomas á Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ

first published anonymously in 1418, and has become the most widely read Christian text with the lone exception of the Bible. Sub...

Conflict Management - Hypothetical Case Study

also learned that Paul typically reacted negatively to anyone who questioned him. Julie investigated further to gain insight int...

Does Divorce Affect The Children? - Literature Review

indeed, mothers and fathers may wrongly believe that some children are old enough to both understand and accept the concept of div...

Seaver: “Wallington’s World”

him apart from other artisans; his extreme sensitivity and intensive, relentless introspective self-examination also seems unusual...

REVIEW OF DISTRIBUTION TUTORIAL (KNOWTHIS.COM)

or objective, information that is useful to the end user, the appropriate software, proper catagories and logical, well-organized ...

Chapter Summaries of a Text on Youth Gangs

The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...

Book Report on William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (Vol. 1)

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

The Drug Economy of Peru

the network also includes those who may never come in contact with the drugs, such as pilots, lawyers and bankers and others who m...

Mattheissen: “The Snow Leopard”

been a scruffy collection of shabby hirelings and rich macho playboys who were footing the bill" (Hoaglund). Schaller is someone q...

Review of Two Graphic Design Articles

can be important in the way that the graphic design is perceived. Variety can be used to add interest and keep a design lively as ...

Roland Bathes and S/Z

the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...

Cronkite on Mood Disorders

difficulty in viewing the behavior of people who suffer from mental disorder, such as bipolar, in terms of illness. Susan Crosby, ...

REPORT: ENCOURAGING THE HEART

but love, as in chemistry. The authors pointed out that, in an interview with former CEO and venture capitalist Irwin Federman, Fe...

Summary and Outline: Childhood Development

jungle (Berk, 2008). This chapter concentrates on the physical development of the child through this stage of growth. Berk not...

The Rise and Fall of Youngstown, Ohio

families to the towns, and their offspring would end up working for the factory too. While those in large cities who work in white...

Principles in Aurelius' The Meditations

fate, so sometimes it is hard to resign to a certain outcome. At the same time, there is the serenity prayer used in modern times ...

The City of Shells

a shell. Barnaby is a young man who feels somewhat bad because he knows he is not nice in thinking her being stuck is a nuisance...

Making a Nation of the Hebrew Slaves

raise his staff and stretch out his arms and the Sea parted, allowing all the Israelites to get to the other side at which time th...

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...

Supporting Chastity and Authentic Human Sexuality

In a twelve page paper, the writer gives some insights into the views presented in two books, Real Sex, by Winner (2005), and Auth...

Film Review/Finding Nemo

but are rather handled subtly and well, as they are integrated into the context of the narrative and the way the character change ...