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“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...

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...

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 ...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Goldratt and Cox

novel as the reader can not only relate to the characters life and his own personal struggles, such as within his relationship, bu...

Above All Earthly Pow'rs By David F. Wells

is only one truth and it is this truth that all Christian churches should be promoting. Citing another author, Wells reports that ...

Russell Bourne/Red King's Rebellion

starving settlers by sharing their corn (Bourne 1). Whenever it is appropriate, Bourne uses the words of both combatants and conte...

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird

was its initial audience?" The audience appears to be anyone interested in a first hand account of a place that they will likely n...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Fischer/Washington’s Crossing

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

“The Story of Mathematics”

killed in battle. Whatever the precise thing or event they represented in that hazy chapter of mans early history, one thing is c...

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...

Casement: "Learning from our Mistakes"

therapist becomes more concerned with conducting the therapy in an "approved" manner or following a particular school of thought, ...

Robert Dallek/FDR & American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

the behind the scenes confrontations between the American leaders who shaped domestic and foreign policy during this crisis period...

Bringhurst: "Elements of Typographic Style"

2002). Effective typography is also durable, not faddish; it changes when necessary but does not strive to keep up with the latest...

“Managers not MBA’s”

ate part of a larger team. In additional to this Mintzberg (2004) also argues that the type of people attracted to MBAs are not th...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

Barrett/Interpreting Art/Chapters 2, 7 & 8

7 : In this chapter, the author broadens the topic of discussion, i.e., artistic interpretation, so that the reader is exposed to ...

Exclusivism vs. Inclusivism: An Examination of the Question of Who Will Reach Heaven

heaven. This theory places a considerable weight on morality as a deciding factor in determining our final fate. The logic is th...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

Boylan’s “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders”

transsexual individuals is that they do not feel that their true identity is fulfilled in being the sex they were born. Many strug...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

Hobsbawm/Age of Capital

subsequent citations refer to this text). Part I contains only the first chapter, "The Springtime of the Peoples," and this rela...

Book Report: Finance

evaluate expected future gain on the basis of present value. Assessing investment alternatives according to present value methods...

Leadership and Self-Deception

A 5 page book review on Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute, which is a brief but prof...

Public Administration Decisions

This paper reviews one chapter in a book by William Johnson on Public Administration. The chapter discusses decision making and co...