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The Problem of Evil - A Review

Errol Harris revisits a question that has stumped philosophers, theologians and ordinary folks for centuries: if God is good, how ...

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 ...

Nervous Condition by Tsitsi Dangarembga

aunt, the younger sister of her mother, Mainini, is the only woman of her generation who is portrayed as having her own voice, as ...

Introduction to Christian Theology/Gonzalez and Perez

points out that the authors approach their topic principally from the standpoint of church historians, and that their "vision of U...

The Twelve Caesars/Suetonius

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

From every People and Nation, A biblical theology of race/J. Daniel Hays

who subsequently play a central role in Hays study, as the Bible clearly indicates that these people were black Africans. He offer...

Peace and Freedom by Simon Hall

(Hall, 2006; 28). This also brings into play the truth wherein many African Americans sought out communism as a solution to the pr...

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

BOOK REVIEW: MIND HUNTER

because it shows the toll of Douglas work on his health and personal life. This is very clear from the first paragraph of the prol...

Trimbur's Call to Write/Narrative of Frederick Douglass

the chapter that addresses writing profiles of specific people, Trimbur writes, "This impulse to describe, to analyze, and to unde...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Test Taking Skills (A Literature Review)

skim the questions as they are worried that they will run out of time. However, this could lead to a misinterpretation of some of ...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

Smither/Augustine As Mentor

the bulk of his presentation. However, he devotes the second chapter to setting the "stage of Augustines mentoring of spiritual le...

Kristin Ross/May '68 and Its Afterlives

down the entire country. Nine million people, "across all sectors of public and private employment-from department store clerks to...

Thompson/Concentric Circles of Concern

Dr. Thompsons classic work, which was published posthumously and revised by Claude V. King, the reader finds a detailed model for ...

Galbraith's The Great Crash of 1929

It is true that on some level, the people are much wiser today than they were at the time and there are many new economic theories...

Steven Johnson/Everything Bad is Good For You

that the judgment of future generations as to what is valuable and what is in error in the past is frequently surprising. In other...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

“War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma”

There was, therefore, a pressing need from the British perspective for address. There was also, however, a British recognition of...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

Community Nursing and Sarton's As We Are Now

Rose, "sleeps somewhere else" (Sarton 16). Mrs. Hatfield only experience as a "trained nurse" was two years employment as a nurses...

Overview of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey

The cognitive aspect of the work seems to be the most important. Making a paradigm shift, as the author reiterates, is the highlig...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

A Book Review of Modern Middle East History

purposes of his text, Cleveland defines the "Middle East" as that region that extends from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east a...

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman

In eight pages this text which covers the 1980s Palestinian and Israeli conflict and tensions in Lebanon is the focus of a summary...

A Review of Latin America at the Crossroads and Fast Forward, Latin America on the Edge of the 21st Century

"academic specialists, foreign policy analysts and practitioners, and those in the commercial banks and international lending agen...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'The Experience Economy'

Information is becoming a big component of the economic market as well. While at one time the consumer was dependent on informati...

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

for myself. I began to blame Danny, Butch and the Kid for my present fate...But then I thought, aw, hell, it wasnt their fault--as...