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War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

and shot at by Serb snipers (p. 2). Hedges offers a vision of war that means much more than political and ideological rhetoric and...

Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys

wrong. For the most part it appears as though Gurians work is focusing on how bad single mothering is for sons, and how mothers ...

Up Country by Nelson DeMille

may give information to the cause of the death and while Brenner has no idea why the military is so interested in the answer, he i...

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew's Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

had faded. Everyone was frightened when approached" (Weinberg 11). The result of their labors, the years of painstaking resear...

Valerie Polakow's Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America

children, Polakow says makes it seem as the nations elected officials and policy-makers think and act as if poverty seen is a priv...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

Langdon Winner's The Whale and the Reactor

and private lives. Indeed, our private lives are becoming very much less private due to the way in which the internet feeds off o...

The Roosevelt Presence The Life and Legacy of FDR by Patrick J. Maney

number of secondary sources listed and subdivided into ten chapters covering Roosevelts privileged youth, his marriage and growing...

Life Without Parole by Victor Hassine

guilty. However, Hassine did find a "voice." He happened upon some examples of prison authorship and realized that he "really di...

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

of her tormentor, Sir Hugo Baskerville. According to legend, a trio of men noticed that, "Standing over Hugo, and plucking at his...

Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso's 'To Be A Slave In Brazil: 1550-1880'

This is a book report consisting of 5 pages. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography....

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

"black hole" theory of John A. Wheeler, the pull of gravity actually causes space to curve, and as a result, matter collapses whic...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Its Controversial Nature

because of its controversial position, and content, that children should not be required to read it, or have it read in class. In ...

Darwinism v. Creationism

creationism. The intelligent-design hypothesis (ID) has also recently gained public attention because of a science textbook, Of Pa...

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

In five pages this book report tutorial focuses upon 4 chapters of this autobiography by Richard Feynman. There are no other sour...

Twenty First Century and the Competitive Advantage Model of Michael Porter

In five pages this report examines 1990's The Competitive Advantage of Nations written by Harvard Business School Professor Michae...

Glasser's 1997 Article 'Not Half, Not Some' Reviewed

In five pages this 1997 Phi Delta Kappan article regarding multiculturalism and its impact upon education is reviewed. One source...

Seaver: “Wallington’s World”

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

Sam Harris/End of Faith

coached in terms that refer to economics or politics, with faith itself "always, and everywhere, exonerated" (13). He castigates t...

“The Interruption of Everything” and the Realities of Middle Life

first consideration at least, obsessed with little other than work and golf. Marilyns children are grown and she has little to do...

Natural Selection and Stories by Bellow and Gold

improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated" (Darwin). This then is the basic of Darwins...

Carles: “A Life of Her Own”

her father was scheduled to go and get a bull from the commune, and because the bull was vital to the village, he went on with his...

Chapters from Two Apocalyptic Books

This essay focuses on Daniel 7 and 1 Enoch 46 and 48. The Book of Enoch is not part of the canon and, in fact, was lost for centur...

Miller, Hawthorne, and the Impacts of Public Morality

morality, through exploring how public morality encourages deceit and dishonesty, causes distress and trauma, and ultimately destr...

An Analysis of Purity and Danger

ideas. Some examples provided by the author respect the Jewish dietary traditions as well as ideas about sexuality and cleanliness...

Chapter and Topic Overview of a Book on Fitness

a lifestyle approach, rather than short duration changes. III. Cardiorespiratory Endurance Topic 1: Exercise and the Three Ener...

Evaluating Books for Children

offers a more liberating paradigm for women. Ardizzone, Edward: Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1936)-This is a story abou...

“Keeping Promises: What Is Sovereignty and Other Questions About Indian Country”

the United States, the problems facing Native Americans remained essentially be the same but instead of dealing with a European ba...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...