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American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

in the book we first examine the introduction. In this introduction Lewis indicates that there are many different types of Chri...

Don Higginbotham's George Washington and the American Military Tradition

was developed to address people face-to-face and not only through written material. This puts a somewhat personal touch to his wor...

William Leach's Land of Desire

and leisure. Leach attempts to illustrate that the materialistic world of consumerism was around many decades prior to this time. ...

Review of Martha Ballard's Diary, A Midwife's Tale

perform verses women and the social differences which existed at that time between the two sexes. Ballards writings unveil ...

Russki Adventures and Standardized Marketing

Crevasse and Andrei Kakov sought to market services, namely that of high-end helicopter skiing excursions. Crevasse and Kakov nee...

John Morton Blum's V Was for Victory Reviewed

the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...

Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

Lydia Chavez' The Color Blind California's Battle to End Affirmative Action

gives certain people preferential treatment. Interestingly, this book reveals, with significant candor, both sides of this now co...

Literature's Deeper Meaning

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...

Self Discovery and French Literature's Evolution

good deal of the literature at the time. Lyric poetry more than likely arose from the songs of the minstrels and the singers whi...

Book Review of The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader by John C. Maxwell

Throughout the book, in fact, the key goal of Maxwell isnt necessarily how to grow and develop leadership, but rather, how to grow...

Utopian Literature's Similarities and Differences

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

John Leslie Livingston and Theodore Grossman's Edited Text The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting Third Edition

While the book is certainly comprehensive in most ways, it has a couple of problems. First, as with all "compilation" type of book...

Sandra Brown's Mirror Image

the daughter who has lost a mother and does not know it: "She was growing too attached to the child and wanted desperately to help...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

Literature's Classic Adventure

far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" (Homer The Odyssey PG). The Odyssey was written in 800 B.C. and woven in...

Homer on Life and Death by Jasper Griffin

example, he describes the heart-rending scene in which Andromache sees the dead body of her husband Hector being dragged behind Ac...

Review of Flyboys by James Bradley

- one that describes some pretty gruesome behavior on the part of the enemy, as well as a cover-up of two governments (United Stat...

Medieval Literature's Portrayal of Honor and Dishonor

In seven pages this paper examines how Medieval literature thematically portrayed honor and dishonor in a comparative analysiis of...

Randy Roberts and James S. Olson's A Line in the Sand, the Alamo in Blood and Memory

he was God" (6). As each man is introduced by the authors, such as William Barret Travis, the leader of the Texans; Davy Crockett,...

Analysis of the Movie How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days

be funny, but it winds up just being painful, sad, and unpleasant to watch. Since Andies goal is to drive Ben away, she delibera...

Richard E. Porter and Larry A. Samovar's 'Intercultural Communication'

is titled "Intercultural Interaction: Taking Part in Intercultural Communication." It possesses three chapters, titled "Verbal Pro...

Review and Summary of Peter Goldman and Tony Fuller's Charlie Company (What Vietnam Did to Us)

In five pages this 1983 memoir on soldiers' Vietnam War experiences is summarized, reviewed, and critiqued....

Janet Wilson James' Women in American Religion

This text is reviewed in five pags. There are no other sources listed....

Postmodernism's Rise and Literature's Fall

but vanished from the world, a look at the rise and fall of the New Criticism is rather appropriate. A set of practices called th...

Reviewing Depression Causes

story of depression either. The entire subject of depression is one that is widely misunderstood by the public. Depression is of...

Article Summaries on Cosmology and Black Holes

In five pages two articles about cosmology and black holes are reviewed....

Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War

Caputo's Vietnam War memoir is reviewed in a paper consisting of two and a half pages....

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

The civil rights movement occupies the primary focus of this book review which consists of two and a half pages....