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Sermon on the Mount Excerpt

very dangerous. We have evidence of this very fact in our own lifetimes. We remember the tragedies of Jim Jones and the Peoples ...

Jacobson and Gottman/Domestic Violence

informative and it concludes by offering specific, worthwhile advice on how domestic violence should be addressed, offering specif...

Inside by Michael Santos

by working as prostitutes within the jail (Santos 17). However, horrible conditions and high violence are not indicative of all ja...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Art of War by Sun Tzu

hid their true persona and this may very well pertain to Sun Tzu ("About," 2010). About the text: Modern history tends to regard...

Introduction to Christian Theology/Gonzalez and Perez

points out that the authors approach their topic principally from the standpoint of church historians, and that their "vision of U...

The Etiquette of Texting

Texting has become a more and more prominent means of communication throughout the world. It is...

Natasha's Dance/Orlando Figes

the Great gave the Russian upper class a split personality, divorcing them from all things Russian, by introducing European custom...

How to Promote Literacy

The idea that people choose not to read is evidenced by the vast number of people who claim they do not have time nor the inclinat...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

What Made Sparta a Military Power?

BC). Lycurgus was responsible for encouraging Spartan civic duty to the commonwealth; developing a social structure designed to s...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

Analysis of Sandra Steingraber’s Living Downstream

Both have been linked to cancer" (p. 6). This began, for Dr. Steingraber, a lifelong crusade to educate herself and others about ...

Book Report on Mark Sanborn’s The Fred Factor

of course, it only takes one person in any organization to "make a difference" (Sanborn, 2004, p. 8). The second principle, Succe...

Book Summary of Daniel J. Levinson’s The Seasons of a Man’s Life

"the underlying pattern of design of a persons life at a given time" (p. 41). This pattern evolves through a sequence of events, ...

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...

Critically Reviewing Paul Johns's A Shopkeeper's Millenium

would come as a result of the rapid expansion westward and the overnight development of commerce in growing townships. For the mo...

Comparison Between The Trojan Women by Euripides and Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Women, the impact of these unequal gender scales on women are examined and depicted very differently, for in one, the women are ac...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal iIn Slavery by Nathan Irvin Huggins

a primary component of the transformation to African-American status, Huggins delves deep into the historical and cultural foundat...

Chapter Four Outline of Vietnam A History by Stanley Karnow

only a pile of bones covered with dry yellow skin b. Treated for dysentery, malaria and other tropical diseases D. Ho Chi Minhs in...