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Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, 1819-1838 by Daniel Aaron

In six pages this book is considered in an informational overview that covers the book's purpose, its primary themes, the author's...

Roots & Wings/York, Early Childhood Education

such as the idea that young children do not notice or understand bias. Chapter three discusses racism, addressing key questions an...

The California Gold Rush & the coming of the Civil War

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

Review of "Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society"

of the group of Detroits new competition. The purpose of the many trips to Japan was to "find out why the Japanese automakers wer...

The Dynamic Presence in Little Women, Jo March

This essay pertains to the way in which Jo March is portrayed in "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. The argument is presented th...

Bondage Breaker by Neil Anderson

This book review is on Neil T. Anderson's "The Bondage Breaker." After summarizing the overall text, the writer offers commentary ...

A Review of The Life of James Madison

encyclopedias are not used. But, considering the lack of information on Hunt, we present a brief citation from the Columbia Encycl...

David McCullough The Great Bridge

over 276 feet above the high water; and weighed an overwhelming 14,680 tons (Wright 616). For anyone who had the opportunity to s...

Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Richard Orsi/Sunset Limited

been presented in dichotomous terms. On one side is the "selfish, greedy, corporate interests" and on the other, stand "the people...

Using Structure to Develop the Story in How to Make an American Quilt and The Color Purple

This 9 page paper describes the way in which two authors use structure to develop the ideas in their books. The works under consid...

The Fragile Bridge

which was eager to join with the silk workers in their fight against the oppression of the factories. The Wobblies were a radic...

Holding the Line

The writer examines the Barbara Kingsolver book Holding the Line, which discusses the 1983 mining strike in Arizona. The book reve...

A History of the Holocaust by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick

which occurred in Germany after the horror had ended. Many questions are provoked by the work and some of these are posed by the...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

The Culture in the World of Comics

perpetuate a creative and productive mind; comic books, while appearing to project little more than superficial entertainment, pro...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

A Review of The Awakening

A 5 page essay exploring the book by Kate Chopin. 1 source....

The House Behind the Cedars by Chestnutt

and clear -- quite in harmony with her appearance. That it had a faint suggestiveness of the old womans accent he hardly noticed, ...

A Review of Deaf Like Me

A 5 page review of the book by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. 1 source....

Comparative Article Analysis on Society and Gender

are certainly holes in the argument because one cannot deny the existence of gender and gender preferences in society. There is mu...

A Revies of Black Picket Fences by Mary Pattillo McCoy

the opportunities that were available to the African American in the 1960s, in terms of employment, have changed drastically in th...

Simmons and Gaebelein's A Question of Character

can have a salient effect on the way in which a whole community perceives itself and its behaviour, and consider the question of n...

HALF THE SKY AND EDNA’S HOSPITAL

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Auer's A General Doctrine of the Sacraments

7 with "A General Doctrine of the Sacraments." When we think about the sacraments and what the doctrine of these might be we often...

A Summary of Enemies: A Love Story

to marry considering she is dead. Yadwiga and Herman live in Coney Island where he continues to take care of Yadwiga out of obli...

Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

on behalf of those who embrace the concept of "green," including clean air, food and water, nothing much has really changed, eve w...

A Review of Gabriel's Story

the April sky was not a thing of air and gas. Rather, it lay like a solid ceiling of slate, pressing the living down into the prai...

A Review of Eight Million Ways to Die

is approached by a woman, Kim Dakkinen. It is here that we discover he was once a police officer, a reality that may well prove to...

Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Church Reviewed

"New Evangelicalism," the religion that bases its teachings on the New Testament and Christs Word, and how to best frame the Bible...