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Book Review of Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt

In five pages this book review considers the Ogala Sioux holy man's story and the lessons readers can learn from it. One source i...

The Mongols And Ming China : Customs And History by Henry Serruys

Everything appeared to be in a rapid state of growth, including food, the population and urbanization. This commercial period pro...

A Review of Courthouse over White House Chicago and the Presidential Election of 1960

An 11 page review of the book by Edmund Frank Kallina. The book focuses on alleged political corruption. 1 source....

From Dawn to Decadence

A 13 page paper overview of the book by Jacques Barzun. The impact of this book on the author of the paper is emphasized. 1 sour...

My Antonia by Willa Cather and Structural Criticism

In six pages this paper discusses the first 5 books of this text in terms of its loose structure and how only the threads of civil...

Moses Wrote the Pentateuch or Did He?

the "Documentary Hypothesis," a theory that asserts that "the Pentateuch was written by a group of four authors, from various loca...

Howard Waitzkin's The Second Sickness

In five pages this paper presents an overview of The Second Sickness by Howard Waitzkin and discusses the various issues the autho...

A Review of The Puritan Dilemma

A 5 page essay reviewing the book by Edmund Sears Morgan. This book explores the life of John Winthrop. 1 source....

A Rview of Speaking Into the Air

A 5 page review and analysis of the book by John Durham Peters' book Speaking Into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communicatio...

Opium Wars Through Chinese Eyes by Arthur Waley

strictly illegal under Chinese law. However, the opium trade was of pivotal importance to British Imperialism. The British smuggli...

Human Reproduction and the Views of Aristotle

The other part listens to reason "as one would listen to a father." Aristotle asserted that there was no absolute, objectively, ...

A Review of How Did American Slavery Begin?

A 5 page review of the book by Edward Countryman. This book includes five essays and, although it has received less than positive...

Canada as a Multinational Entity

This five page paper investigates the friction in play between French Canadians and those of English descent. The paper relies ex...

Edmond Killina's Courthouse over White House Chicago and the 1960 Presidential Election

In eleven pages the controversial results of the 1960 presidential election are examined within the context of this book and provi...

Killer Angels

to keep the Union together for that was the main focus of the war in the beginning. The South fought for their right to possess a ...

Quoting the Author - Julie Bettie on Young Women

Pipher was too narrow in its scope (Bettie). Pipher argues that Hamlet "shows the destructive forces that affect young women. As a...

John Colapinto: As Nature Made Him

The writer gives a reaction to the book about David Reimer, “As Nature Made Him.” There is one source listed in the bibliography o...

Roman Society in the First Century

20:9-16. Slave gangs were often used by large landowners. The author points out that this custom would have existed during Jesus l...

Orlando Beyond the Theme Parks - A Book Proposal

be updated on a regular basis. However, the majority of these travel books focus is exclusively, or predominantly, on the two majo...

A Critical Analysis of Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

tendency toward long digressions, mostly inward-seeking, as he tries to determine what led him to the place he inhabited as he wro...

The Heavenly Man

The story continues and shows how Yun would recite portions of the Bible to people, completely from memory. Many of the listeners ...

Logotherapy in Man's Search for Meaning

primary and not a secondary rationalization related to instinctual drives. This is a bold position. For instance, when someone has...

Suffering in Job and in the Death Camps

who did lie, steal, betray friends, perhaps even murder to save themselves then were left with another truth: the survivors who ca...

How Did You Get to be Mexican?

students and he is sometimes amazed by the amounts of money they spend on things; hes equally amazed at high tight-fisted wealthy ...

Hunger for the Past, Hunger of Memory

family lived in Sacramento, only a block from some very nice (and expensive) homes, and that outside of a few taunts, he never hea...

Out of Place

was as a child, but also later as an adult as he attended Princeton and Harvard. The theme involves both a historical examination ...

Introduction to Evangelism by Alvin Reid

chapters in the first two sections and eight in the final section of the book. The first section covers ministers and church leade...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...

Coyotes by Conover

In recent years there has been more and more focus, generally negative, on immigration, and especially illegal immigration, into t...

Persepolis

that is precisely what it is. Satrapi is Iranian, and her autobiography gives Westerners the chance to understand what its like to...