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Wendell Pritchett's Brownsville, Brooklyn

contradictions. He describes Brownsville as a "vibrant community," abounding in communal and religious organization, giving it a "...

Kathleen R. Fischer and Thomas N. Hart's Christian Foundations An Introduction To Faith In Our Time

relate their text to modern life. For instance, the authors discuss the fact that even though so many Americans have all of the ma...

Richard Bessel's 'Life in the Third Reich'

mentioned, there are eight essays in this work. The first one is by Richard Bessel and is titled "Political Violence and the Nazi ...

The Boxed Slave Known as Aunt Jemima

fictitious biography for her, while a succession of real-life women portrayed Aunt Jemima at county fairs and various bake-off com...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

A Review of Reagan in His Own Hand

A 5 page review of the book complied from Ronald Reagan's own writings by Kiron K. Skinner. Reagan's propensity for writing down ...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...

An Analysis of Charlottes Web By E.B. White

This 5 page essay reviews this phenomenally popular childrens book about a learned spider and a young pig. 3 sources....

Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action

This 14 page essay reviews Harr's popular book examining his narrative style and outlining the main points that are covered. An e...

A Review of The Many-Headed Hydra Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

This 5 page essay reviewing the book by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. This paper accentuates the thirst for economic profit...

A Review of Human Knowledge Classical And Contemporary Approaches

rA 5 page review of the book by Paul K Moser. Traditional philosophic constructs of knowledge is contrasted with contemporary con...

John Barth's 'Lost in the Funhouse'

This is a book review consisting of 5 pages that considers the collective work of short stories and essays and how the works stead...

Economic Commentary in Fat and Mean The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial 'Downsizing' by David Gordon

In seven pages this research paper presents summaries of the book chapters and then summaries a trio of text reviews. Four source...

Perspectives on Multiculturalism

A 5 page review of the essay Crossing Cultures in Crossing Cultures Readings for Composition, a book edited by Myrna Knepler, et a...

A Review of I Know This Much Is True

A 3 page review of the book by Walley Lamb. This paper analyzes the plot and discusses the emotional baggage that characterizes t...

A Revies of Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato

A 5 page essay reviewing issues surrounding the working class characters depicted in this book. 1 source....

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

A Review of Fences

An 8 page review of the book by August Wilson. This paper focuses on the theme of oppression, a theme that affects not just Afric...

David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot's 'Learning Together'

has gone the way it has of late, and that some of these changes, and perhaps problems, can be related to issues of gender in regar...

A Review of The Broken Spears The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

arrival of the Spanish using Aztec omens. Chapter 2 provides us with the first impressions of the Spanish presented from Aztec ey...

Identity and Politics in An African-Nicaraguan Community

A 6 page review of the book by Edmund Gordon. The focus is on the downfall of the Sandinista regime. A brief history of Nicaragu...

The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law by Norval Morris

cars during the 1970s. But while for many of the terrible crimes committed the severity of the penalty would not have mattered, it...

Jack Weatherford's 'Native Roots'

This is a book review consisting of 5 page that supports his belief that the basic constructs of society, culture, and politics in...

Intergovernmental Poltics and Uncovering the Dome by Amy Klobuchar

This is a book review consisting of six pages that discusses how politics impacted upon the early 1980s creation of Minneapolis's ...

Living a Political Life by Madeline M. Kunin

In four pages the former Vermont Governor's book is reviewed emphasizing the political profession and its lack of women participan...

Linda Gordon's Single Mothers and the History of Welfare - Pitied But Not Entitled

professionals were at best ambivalent on the question of whether women, married or unmarried, should be full-time mothers or peopl...

Nurse Management and 'Principle Centered Leadership'

This book review of 5 pages discusses the implications of Stephen R. Covey's'Principle Centered Learning.' There is a bibliograph...

A Comparison of Culture in Colored People by Henry L. Gates Jr. and Rain of Gold by Victor Villasenor

An 8 page essay analyzing the cultural distinctions that become readily apparent when reviewing these books. 6 sources....

James R. Milan and Katherine Ketcham's 'Under the Influence'

This is a book review consisting of 7 pages that considers this text a comprehensive and highly useful text that is still as perti...

Book Review on the Life and Voyage of Christopher Columbus

Samuel Eliot Morrison's Admiral of the Ocean Sea about Christopher Columbus is the focus of this analysis and book review consisti...