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Essays 331 - 360

Media and the Function of Profit

possibly ignore more pertinent issues. For example, prior to 911, the media was obsessed with the disappearance of Chandra Levy, p...

Racism from an Asian American Perspective

of racism, of course, are not limited to the U.S. History has proven, in fact, that multiethnic and multiracial societies in gener...

Dispossessing the Wilderness by Mark Spence

traces of people from it. The book drips with interesting stories, case histories and fascinating tidbits about how Native America...

US Cultural Prejudice in Vincent N. Parrillo's Strangers to These Shores

we introduce the artificial constraints of the workplace and school and when we have governmental intervention that we see any gre...

Irvin D. Yalom's Love's Executioner

revealing aspect of "Loves Executioner" which makes the book a tremendously useful and constructive resource to practicing psychot...

Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

The bleakness of the apartment also reflects the prospective bleakness of the survivors lives, since both have been left to cope w...

Cibelli, Lanza, West, and Ezzell's Research on 'The First Human Cloned Embryo'

this article contend that they believe their achievements: "represent the dawn of a new age...

Jana Childers' Edited Text Birthing the Sermon

the most part, it is a book aimed at other preachers and religious individuals. It seems to aim at an audience that may, or may no...

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...

Care at the End of Life and Cultural Variations

(1997) observes: "Involving the family in hospital care, maximizing the family as a resource, and creating an environment where h...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

Cancer and Minorities

The study also shows evidence that Asian Americans run an increased risk of stomach and liver cancer, and that Hispanic American a...

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 ...

The Paraguyan War (The War of the Triple Alliance)

Triple Alliance. Slavery was abolished as a result of the war but the military took greater and greater predominance in Brazil. ...

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...

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...

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...

Surviving the Applegates by Stephanie Tolan

at this point, E.D.s Aunt Lucille intervenes and persuades Jakes social worker that he can be successfully home schooled with the ...

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...

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...

Book Review of Management Accounting

But what, exactly, is management accounting information? The authors point out that, according to the Institute of Management Acco...

Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

the job at the time. It was his combination of intelligence and knowledge of the outdoors that made him the perfect candidate to b...

Counselors' Codes of Ethics

that introduces concerns that differ somewhat from the client bases and environments found in other organizations....

America and Lewis Hine Video Review

Child Labor Law was declared unconstitutional because the Supreme Court had ruled that the federal government had no jurisdiction ...

Analyzing Andrew Jackson's Case for the Removal of Indians in an 1930 Message to Congress

away to make room for the whites" If this were the case then why was...

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...

American Minorities and Culture

in these traditional groups try to retain their language and keep their heritage alive to an extent. Their native languages of cou...

How Could Global Warming Affect Our Health?

no longer escape from our atmosphere as effectively as it once did. This couples with clear cutting that removes trees that actua...

Effects of an Older Population

is, the generation of Americans born directly after World War II who are now entering their retirement years (Takamura, 1999). Thi...