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Benjamin F. Schemmer's The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'The Experience Economy'

Information is becoming a big component of the economic market as well. While at one time the consumer was dependent on informati...

Beirut Outtakes by Larry Pintak

The Muslims wanted more power and the Christians were doing their best to try to prevent them from achieving this goal. However, P...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

for myself. I began to blame Danny, Butch and the Kid for my present fate...But then I thought, aw, hell, it wasnt their fault--as...

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

was an immediate celebrity. However, many racist whites and quite a few people in the black community were angered by his assumed ...

The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex De Jonge

De Jonge places particular emphasis on his spiritual transformation in early adulthood, pointing out that such transformations, su...

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

being the spiritual problems of modern man. We must keep in mind, of course, that Jungs reference to "modern" is dated to say the...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

'Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians' by Norma Basch

contends that, "Regional variations in divorce law were more pronounced on an east-west axis than a north-south one."3 For instan...

Cynthia Arem on Anxiety About Math

text is logical and begins with a diagnostic process that aids the reader in determining whether or not he or she truly does suffe...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

Melton McLaurin's Celia, A Slave A True Story

issues raised in "Celia, a Slave: A True Story", however, were not confined to the South alone, nor were they limited to the rela...

Kenneth Hensall's Dimensions of Japanese Society Gender, Margins and Mainstream

emotion we most often find in Western culture. Just three decades ago, however, literature on Japan would take a different tactic...

Congress and the Internet

and provides a springboard for discussion on this very important topic. The articles contained in the volume all relate to the In...

'Rocket Boys' by Homer Hickam

of resignation which sent young mind after young mind into the coal mines, but there were a few who hoped to change that statistic...

The Triune God of Christian Faith by Mary Ann Fatula

(17). First of all, Christian faith is predicated on the experience of Jesus as a human being -- "his life, death, resurrection, ...

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

In eight pages this text which covers the 1980s Palestinian and Israeli conflict and tensions in Lebanon is the focus of a summary...

Overview of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey

The cognitive aspect of the work seems to be the most important. Making a paradigm shift, as the author reiterates, is the highlig...

A Review of The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

news item which it is likely that the vast majority of those in the audience will recognize. For example, recent news stories of c...

Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese

the nature of ones goals (the cheese) and the role it plays in a persons life. The contrast, of course, is between...

Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell

that the "most powerful reason (for believing in religion) is the wish for safety, a sort of feeling that there is big brother wh...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Review of Freedom Road by Howard Fast

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

Racism and its Relation to Misperceptions

There are, unfortunately, many reasons for societal discord. Often as not these reasons revolve around the misunderstandings and ...

Darwin On Trial by Philip Johnson

sudden creation, rather than creation by progressive development" (Johnson 22). In this introductory chapter, Johnson presents a...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Sigmund Freud and his theory of penis envy, as well as the influence of sociology and the school of functionalism, which dictated ...

Social Policy Statement of the American Nurses Association

This section describes how nurses partner with "individuals, families, communities and populations" in order to address a variety ...

Procopius/The Secret History

was a counselor to Belisarius and accompanied him on several of his campaigns and he may have been a prefect of Constantinople (Ha...

The Last Voyage of Columbus by Dugard

2005; 44). In light of this information it appears as though Dugard is likely a very entertaining writer, but perhaps also ...

AN ANALYSIS OF LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME

Americans like history, they dislike their history classes with a passion. Too much of what is considered "fact" in histor...