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Essays 271 - 300

Timothy Egan's The Good Rain

In four pages the author's exploration of the Pacific Northwest is the focus of this text summary....

Paul Johnson's Modern Times

created the modern political zealot--and his crimes--so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the...

Chapters Eight and Nine Summaries of Warren McCabe, Julian Smith, and Peter Harriott's Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering

24 is very light, 7 is very heavy. The pipe to be used will be selected by the use to which it will be put taking into considera...

Excerpt from The Silent Partners by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

for diseases. The workers are constantly fatigued from the long hours, some rooms are too hot, others too cold, some dripping with...

Dorothy Rabinowitz's No Crueler Tyrannies

changed by Gerald Amirault and the mother began to notice the boy was now wetting his pants. This led to the belief that the boy w...

The Bible And The Koran

texts because it is accepted by a religion as the Word of God or the Word of Allah, in Islam. All religions have a sacred text upo...

Analysis of William Ury's Getting Past No

"cluttered attic, full of old resentments and angers, gripes and stories" on page 59). In this regard, the steps involved mean def...

Anthony Kemp's D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy

was paramount to any further success in ending the Second World War. His work is primarily aimed at simply offering facts, at show...

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

escape into a book and start living someone elses. Perhaps this factor accounts for his disconnect from reality that led him to ag...

Thomas and James Spradley's Deaf Like Me

how this is often the fault of the parents and society that insist they should be able to live in such a hearing world. The follow...

Robert Putnan's Bowling Alone Summarized

group meetings like they used to. He brings in the idea of bowling, as seen in the title, indicating that there has been an incr...

Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...

Infectious Greed by Frank Partnoy

been -- being overstated by as much as 25 percent. This drastically changed Bankers Trust balance sheet, effectively erasing the c...

Suzanna Lonchar's A Brooklyn Rose

are also incredibly personal stories that come from the view and experiences of a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the infor...

Extraordinary Minds by Howard Gardner

malign) (Gardner 49). By the time the twins are born, B has had 1,300 positive experiences, while M has had 1,300 negative experie...

Stephen Flynn's America the Vulnerable

9/11 have declined and are honestly not very effective. He claims that once the initial fear and anger, on the part of the public,...

Book Review of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

Tom Dyja's Play for a Kingdom

ball games" (Lychack, 1998). What they are doing is extremely dangerous, in many senses. Not only is fraternization with the e...

Stanislav Grof's The Holotropic Mind

could have come into existence through the random interactions of inert matter has aptly been compared to that of a tornado blowin...

The Functions of the Executive by Barnard

internal problems within organizations. The focus is on the employee, his or her goals and feelings and how employees should be tr...

Bas van Fraassen's A Defense of the Observational/Theoretical Distinction and Grover Mazwell's Theoretical Entities

He admits that the higher powered the glass through which we are looking, the more vague our observations may be, but he also indi...

Bossidy's Execution Getting Things Done

potential is never fulfilled. But dont most companies have some kind of a people process? According to this book, yes and no. The ...

Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

William Ivy Hair's Carnival of Fury Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900

about his troubled time and place" (Hair, 1986; 3). In this we see that Hair simply seems to desire to convey to the reader a hist...

Marcus Garvey's Africa for Africans and Alain Locke's The New Negro

black people of the nation to begin to take control, to rid themselves of 19th century dreams or ideals or expectations. His work ...

Isabel Fonseca's Bury Me Standing and Ilona Lackova's A False Dawn

of being marginalized and stereotyped, and just beginning to understand that they have a collective identity (Maslin, 1995). The ...

Yanomamo by Napoleon A. Chagnon

kinship and marriage. There is a great deal of marriage of cousins within this group. This trend is interesting as it differs a g...

Algeria, the Army and Independence

named Colonel Hourai Boum?di?ne told the Algerian people that it was the armys mission to defend the Algerian culture while at the...

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...

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...