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Chapter Summaries of a Text on Youth Gangs

The third point turns to scholarship on youth gangs and the fact that there is no consensus as to the definition of what precisely...

Eat, Drink, and Be Merry by Edell and Schrieberg

truth is that as a population, we seem less able to tolerate even slight discomforts. In fact, we view such discomforts as real pa...

Synoptic Gospel Problem

means together with and optic means seeing.4 Other scholars have simply translated the word synoptic as meaning with the same eye....

John Collins on Company Change: “Good to Great”

Meehan told Collins that Collinss book Built to Last was a hit around his office, but ultimately useless (Collins, 2001). When Col...

Friedman: “The World Is Flat” (Sort of). Or Maybe It’s Spiky.

help to explain some of the wobblier thinking in which he indulges. Be that as it may, his theory briefly is this: as noted, he s...

Characters Who Are Trapped

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

Marvin Harris's "Cannibals And Kings"

of more people, more food, more impact upon the land repeats itself every time cultural modify themselves in order to maintain the...

A Million Little Pieces and Tao te Ching

thrown up and obviously experienced writhing agony, yet he falls asleep, after her call, "Still. Eyes closed. Smiling" (Frey 130)....

Illegal People by David Bacon

the immigrants, creates a situation wherein they are seen as a problem rather than a beneficial source in the nation. This is furt...

A Look at Tally's Corner

written word" (Liebow, 2003, p.16). Here, the man described is someone who did not have the benefit of being raised by his parents...

Alexie: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”

an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...

Barbara Kellerman: “Bad Leadership”

man was right" (Kellerman, 2004, p. 29). This is the dilemma which, Kellerman argues, no one wants to acknowledge: that bad, even ...

“Whatever It Takes”

what Canada decided to do (Tough). He started with "a 24-block zone of central Harlem" that he named the "Harlem Childrens Zone" ...

Mouse Lessons: “Gino Badino” by Diana Engel

than saturated; the cover is a dark hunter green with a scalloped red border top and bottom; in the center is a square, also rimme...

Barbara Ehrenreich on the Working Poor and Not Getting By in America

could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...

Collins: “Good to Great”

Collinss book Built to Last was a hit around his office, but ultimately useless (Collins, 2001). When Collins asked why Meehan fel...

Regret: An Analysis Of Into Thin Air

book there are a number of indicators, both proving the presence of regret both explicitly and with inferences (Kunda, 1999). Look...

Bennett: “Why We Fight”

to it. Bennett seems to think that even daring to pose the question is somehow disloyal. The subtitle of the book is Moral Clarity...

The Culture, History and Artistry of Black America

vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...

Gender Assumption in Boys Don't Cry

of social community that is unaffected by racial stereotypes, which are misconstrued attitudes, opinions or judgments. From schoo...

Totalitarianism in the Works of George Orwell and Margaret Atwood

that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing

two worlds, the tropical island and the cold city, and which would later surface in my dreams and in my poetry" (Cofer 1990, 15). ...

Manufacturing Setting and Employee Motivation

corporation. They have been charged with racial discrimination, gender discrimination, age discrimination, racial harassment, sexu...

Male Characters in The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back t...

Patience and the Civil Rights' Reform Strategies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

publicized achievements, the Birmingham Bus Boycott in which hundreds of blacks practically shut down the bus system by their non-...

The Goal by Eli Goldratt

the process of trying to increase productivity at his factory in order to safe his own job and the jobs of his co-workers. In a hi...

Food and Drink from the Perspective of Dickens

games, poultry, prawn, great joints of meat, suckling-pigs, ...barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy...

Looking at Ecology of Fear by Davis

tract housing and suburbanization for example is a part of the dilemma. Yet, the author does provide the reader with some hard ...

The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz Bart

during the Holocaust, the Jewish population as a whole has only been fully recovered during the past decade to where it was some s...

Life Without Parole by Victor Hassine

guilty. However, Hassine did find a "voice." He happened upon some examples of prison authorship and realized that he "really di...