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Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...

The Cajuns by Bernard

In three pages this book report includes text summary, critiques its use of sources, discusses how it may be ordered and any other...

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...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

not with him. Clearly, form the start of this compelling book, there is a face to the people of Japan. So many times, people think...

American Family, Absentee Parents, and Cultural Differences

home. In this concept it is the mother who stays at home and cares for the children and the father who works outside the home in ...

Going Solo by Roald Dahl

flying in WWII and I must say that was a great adventure, although frightening and dangerous too. I am also, I believe,...

Family in A Raisin in the Sun and American Beauty

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

The Conquests of Alexander The Great (Book Review)

the Past." The author explains that when studying ancient Greece, it is important for a student to note that the material is deriv...

Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

“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...

The 8 Best Practices of High Performing Salespeople (Summary and Analysis)

and Utilize a Marketing Plan." In respect to a marketing plan, the author equates this with planning in general (Trainor, 2000). ...

William J. Bennett: “The Death of Outrage”

about sex, even under oath, dont really matter" (Bennett, 1999, p. 8). Bennett argues that if we accept these attitudes, which he...

Frank Abagnale's Catch Me if You Can

really required to fly. He pretended to be a pilot for about 2 years and then moved on to pretending he was a doctor, with no on...

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

from his name and his pursuits that he is something of a dishonest boy and a boy who will stop at nothing to gain some power and m...

Brave Ship Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott

courtesy of the personal log book entries that comprise the narrative. The heart and soul of the story is May 3, 1945, which seem...

Jesus in the Qua-ran and in the Bible

is now dead (Jesus - The Quranic View, 2003). Those who would consider Jesus to be God, the Son of God, or part of a trinity are ...

Demons, the Answer Book by Lester Sumrall

of blaming the victim for not being spiritually "pure" is something that goes back to the Middle Ages when the plague was thought ...

John C. Maxwell's 'Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know'

agendas, personalities, and motivation toward a single and common goal. Truly successful leadership is the result of one person or...

Likely Interest Rate Change Assessment

the economy and will also reflect elements such as consumer confidence. Here there were positive signs and a general increase was ...

Essay on the Current American Family

who are producing immoral children. A nationwide poll conducted by the Los Angeles Times in 1996 showed that while people felt tha...

What My Heart Wants to Tell by Verna Mae Slone

about a life now gone. A Remarkable Family and Its History If there is any hesitancy about reading what is an unashamedly a...

Donald Chidsey's The American Privateers

objectives. Though the historical context provided by Chidsey relates the idea that privateering was not a new concept, he does ...

What a Mind Hears by Harlan Lane

deaf teacher who was brought to the U.S. by Thomas Gallaudet. Clerc believed strongly in the use of sign language and also in int...

The Paradox of American Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr.

difficult to keep in intervening in internal matters that may affect American security or revenues, but Nye suggests it is essenti...

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...

Educational Management Business Model

model was the decentralized version that was child-centered proposed by progressives (Gelburg, 1997). Both models were based on ma...

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 ...