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St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Vol. 2. Boston, MA: Ginn, 1906. Hanover Historical Text Project. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/barth.htm (accessed May 18, 200...

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...

“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...

A Review of The Structure of Christian Existence

This five page essay reviews the book by John B. Cobb, Jr. Two different views of Cobb are pursued. These views are formed around...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

them in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ("Bateson, Gregory 1904-1980"). At this time too his influence on mainstream anthropology beca...

Second Reconstruction and Southern Politics According to Numan Bartley and Hugh Graham

in the South following World War II. This section of the book describes the "one party politics" of the region, a time when Repub...

Summary and Review of 'A Gift of Hope'

second section called Survival Strategies, contains 5 parts and seems to be the meat of this book. The first part is entitled Pres...

Review of the Text Managing Finance for Quality

helped to who how TQM could be used in terms of accounting price in order to increase value in a firm and increase the profit or t...

1776 by McCullough

sense of completion after each portion. Further, the chapters do flow well into one another within the distinct parts. The book a...

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

Henry Petroski's 'Small Things Considered'

different ways. Another, even more important point is that good design isnt perfect design; indeed, there is no such thing as perf...

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? by Louis Gerstner

Gerstner identified four immediate concerns: Should he break IBM "into many freestanding businesses?" (Duncan). How should he "cha...

Fantasia

was brutal and racist, and it "alienated the vast majority of Algerians" (French colonization, 2002). The French attempted to "acc...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

of the tension between the two boys is the fact that Amir, who is "quiet, bookish," is jealous of the attention that his father gi...

Story of the Little Big Horn by Col. W.A. Graham

In 1874, according to Graham, Custer was sent into the Black Hills for exploratory purposes, which "naturally" aroused anger among...

Books on the Mind Annotations

shirt while the other hand unbuttons it. The last section of the book deals with speculation about future discoveries relative to ...

Cultural Dimension of International Business by Gary Ferraro

business. The topic of cultural competence is rather overwhelming as there are thousands of cultures throughout the world. Ferraro...

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 ...

Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist

sources in examining some of the validity of Desmond and Moores work. Darwin: Life of a Tormented Evolutionist Clearly studying...

Jose Marti, A Narrative Bibliography

Fidel Castro. A useful, comprehensive, and scholar text, Gray offers an ideal introduction to the Jose Marti historiography. Fe...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...

The Problem of Evil - A Review

Errol Harris revisits a question that has stumped philosophers, theologians and ordinary folks for centuries: if God is good, how ...

Introduction to Christian Theology/Gonzalez and Perez

points out that the authors approach their topic principally from the standpoint of church historians, and that their "vision of U...

Nervous Condition by Tsitsi Dangarembga

aunt, the younger sister of her mother, Mainini, is the only woman of her generation who is portrayed as having her own voice, as ...

The Twelve Caesars/Suetonius

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

Peace and Freedom by Simon Hall

(Hall, 2006; 28). This also brings into play the truth wherein many African Americans sought out communism as a solution to the pr...

From every People and Nation, A biblical theology of race/J. Daniel Hays

who subsequently play a central role in Hays study, as the Bible clearly indicates that these people were black Africans. He offer...