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The Century of the Detective by Jurgen Thorwald

This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...

Misreading Scripture by Richards, O'Brien

This essay pertains to aspects of E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O'Brien's text Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes. The n...

The Complete Book of Discipleship by Bill Hull

This book review is on Bill Hull's text The Complete Book of Discipleship, On Being and Making Followers of Christ. The report pe...

A Theology As Big As the City by Ray Bakke

This book review pertains to Rau Bakke's A Theology As Big as the City. First of all, the writer/reviewer describes Bakke's primar...

Slavery and Reform in West Africa by Trevor Getz

This book review is on Trevor Getz's Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Senegal and the ...

Cry of the Urban Poor by Viv Grigg

This book review is on Viv Grigg's Cry of the Urban Poor, which relates the author's experiences living and ministering to the urb...

Six T's of Elementary Literacy Instruction by Richard Allington

This essay pertains to the six categories of elementary instruction that were discerned from an extensive study of some of the bes...

Innovative Quit State Design

There are more than 40 million smokers in the United States. Of those who try quitting through groups, patches, or gum, very few s...

The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

This essay describes three Supreme Court cases, Bowers v. Hardwick, Lawrence v. Texas, and Bush v. Gore, which are described by To...

Samurais, 2 Books

This essay pertains to two texts that relate samurai culture, The Last Samurai by Mark Ravina and Bushido, the Way of the Samurai,...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

An Environmental Literacy Walk for the Preschooler

Young children know very little of their world. They have, after all, only been exposed to a limited...

Literacy Lesson Plan

them), but she draws them (using paper in pen). Amelia Bedelia is asked to dust the furniture (meaning to take the dust away), bu...

Literacy Development Site for Preschoolers

with a minor detail missing from one picture within a line of identical images. Spotting the missing detail aids children in devel...

The Definition of a Sacred Text

the principal sacred texts of the various religions, and what forms do they take? What are the liturgical, intellectual, political...

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive and Intercultural Relationships

In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...

Oswyn Murray's Early Greece

In six pages this text's examination of the Dark Age of Greece in terms of politics and society is reviewed. One source is listed...

Harriet Goldhor Lerner's 'he Dance of Anger'

a psychological understanding to the reader. Anger, serving as one of the most powerful emotions, an emotion which serves to influ...

The Temple by Stephen Spender

In eight pages this paper considers the text's portrayal of how gays were persecuted by the Nazis. Five sources are cited in the ...

Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner's Dealing with People You Can't Stand

In five pages a summary of this text's major points is presented along with a consideration of how influencing others can be achie...

Ecology, Women and Feminism

The term cultural ecofeminism is connected to the concept that there is a connection, spiritually, between nature and women. This ...

Elie Wiesel's Character as a Hero Analyzed

personal codes (much like Hemingways did) which serve them in good stead when faced with insurmountable dangers. Along their journ...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and the Character of the Host Harry Bailly

remainder of the text, both literally as well as figuratively speaking. According to the narrator, Bailly "cut such a figure, all...

Joy Concept

is anguish all the time, but there is also a sense of joy at the realization that one is inextricably bound with another. This sen...

Twilight of the Presidency by George Reedy

power because he placed himself above the law in authorizing the Watergate break-in. The tapes from the Nixon White House show a m...

David Remnick's 'Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia'

at hand, for better or for worse. One of the most important aspects of these chapters is that which revolves around Gorbachev. ...

Political Satire in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time

an understanding of the fact that individual liberty is an essential element of the story we present the following excerpt that fo...

Pentateuch as Interpreted by T.E. Fretheim

can be seen as counter-productive: it is necessary to look both at the validity which the compilers accorded to their sources and ...

Two Greek TextsThucydides' “Athenian Thesis” and the “Unjust Speech” in Aristophanes' The Clouds

by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...

Capitalism The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand

1986). Rands "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" (1986) was first published in 1962 and exemplified many of her philosophies of...