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Essays 1981 - 2010

Paradise Lost, California's Experience, America's Future by Peter Schrag

that imposed minimum spending formulas on schools, three-strikes sentencing laws, land conservation measures and measures abolishi...

Douglas Monroy's Thrown Among Strangers and California Ranchos

were transubstantiated into ranchos" (Monroy, 1993; 127). These ranchos eventually came to have a very romantic depiction in stori...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Vernon God Little by Pierre

takes a decisive step from the shadow of Tuesdays devastation, with the arrest of a new player in the deadly web of cause and effe...

Working Feminism by Pratt

authors inquiry. This organization is something that provides a sense of place that even a nonfiction work can utilize to provide ...

Gender, Politics and Islam Edited by Saliba, Allen, and Howard

significance of networks in formulating that identity (Meyer 424). The specific topics covered are diverse. For example, Hegland a...

Consequences of Technology in Technopoly by Neil Postman

In the early nineteenth century, protestors against emerging technology, the Luddites, broke into factories and destroyed technolo...

Review of Coming Apart An Informal History of America in the 1960s by William L. O'Neill

extended outline of the 1960s and piquing our interest. ONeill clearly illustrates the decade as one of change, and one of desi...

The 'Just War' According to Thomas Aquinas

the problem-solving work "forward by rendering intelligible the problems various dimensions" (Miller, 2002, p. 173). The first se...

Free Will, Concentration Camps, and Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

even immoral to those of us who have never experienced the horrors of the concentration camp. A few pages later, Frankl tells abou...

'Embeddedness' in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

society as an adjunct to the market. Instead of economy being embedded in social relations, social relations are embedded in the e...

American Ethnic Relation Models in Notes of a Native Speaker by Eric Liu and Assimilation by Sherman Alexie

"aspire to whiteness" (Liu, 2004, p. 662). Liu (2004), the son of Chinese immigrants, realizes the benefit of assimilation as it ...

Writing Style of One Minute Manager

In three pages the positives and negatives of this text are evaluated in this discussion of the style of writing featured in the b...

Communications Analysis of a Conversation About American Idol

In three pages a hypothetical conversation about the popular television series is developed with an evaluation provided by the Int...

River Song by Craig Lesley

drawn more deeply into a consideration of his culture and what it means-though he distrusts the woman and her "powers." Jack is ...

The Concept of Ambition in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Essays by Michel de Montaigne

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

Mexican Immigration According to Rodolfo Acuna and Ernesto Galarza

culture and was a leader in the Chicano movement of the 1950 and 60s. Galarza saw the treatment of Mexican agricultural workers as...

Mexican American Experience and Ethnocentrism

the Western Hemisphere is generally perceived. These Native Americans journeyed to Europe and found there populations that did not...

Chubb and Loveless's Bridging The Achievement Gap

educational agencies, universities, and so forth. Alan Krueger and Diane Whitmore present their findings of Tennessees Project ST...

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

Saint Teresa of Avila By Herself

she suffered a paralyzing illness - her illnesses were depicted not as physical in nature but as her souls struggles against tempt...

Web Site Design Features Assessment

navigated to. Passing the mouse over each of these generates a new smaller menu that is accompanied by a single tone, with gives f...

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

in the Piazza della Minerva (Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 2006). Pope Alexander VII commissioned Bernini to design a support structure to...

The Distinctively Canadian Anne Of Green Gables

souls" (Wittenstein, 1999, p. 26) during World War II. Like Americans and a whole host of other foreigners who come to capture a ...

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...

Dante Alighieri's Inferno and Medieval Cities

and Hollander 161). Dante comments to Virgil that the mosques inside the city can clearly be seen. The translators also comment th...

The Two Party South by Lamis

Philosophers have spent endless hours determining exactly what the concept of rights truly means, with the general consensus refle...

Controlling Nature and Humans

who perish are less suited to the environment than those who survive (Charles Darwin and natural selection, 2006). In other words,...

David Panton and Rex Nettleford's Jamaica's Michael Manley

their export, while "competing-without the benefit of protective tariffs-against other British colonies" (Panton; Nettleford, 1993...

Review of Army Transforms Information Systems Management Paradigm by James H. Ward

reports, it becomes more efficient and effective" (Ward, 2003). The logic behind Wards (2003) endorsement of ISM for the Army is...