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A Review of The Peculiar Institution

many planters, and at least somewhat profitable for many others, a reality not truly experienced in any other institution at the t...

Women Guarding Men by Lynn E. Zimmer

One of the most difficult tasks involved in data collection came from trying to obtain permission to interview male inmates. Howev...

Langdon Winner's The Whale and the Reactor

and private lives. Indeed, our private lives are becoming very much less private due to the way in which the internet feeds off o...

Nega Mezlekia's 'Notes from the Hyena's Belly'

we later see Mezlekia escape to the Netherlands and later to Canada. The time period is primarily the 1960s and the 1970s. This wa...

Cross My Heart

A 5 page review of the book by Maureen McCarthy. The focus is the character Michelle and the essay is presented in the form of a ...

Balkan Ghosts A Journey Through History by Robert D. Kaplan

Croatia, "Old" Serbia and Macedonia, and Belgrade, also known as "White City." Part 2 is a physical and historical journey throug...

Literature Overview on Medical Errors

Mistakes are sometimes made in transcribing data, or at the level of the practical or registered nurse. If patient data is not app...

Stephen Jay Gould Panda's Thumb

socially constructed food choices-and the availability of manufacturing plants, the creation of new food products and marketing-th...

Culture Clash in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

as intimate terms, yet knowing little about their culture, has always seemed a shame. But, there were no individuals who this read...

The City of God - Two Cities

of his time period would see the end of the one city, the city of man, and the reign of another, the city of God. One author state...

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and 'Nothing To Fear'

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes how the issues the book raises lend themselves to the quote 'nothing to fear by fear...

A Review of Galileo's Daughter

all previous centuries" (Sobel PG). Based upon one hundred and twenty-four remaining authentic letters that Maria Celeste wrote t...

Jacques Maritain's 'The Dream of Descartes'

chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...

Analysis of Lost Boys Why Our Sons Turn Violent And How We Can Save Them by James Garbarino

its racial intolerance. "When white middle-class kids kill, there is always a public outcry of why and a search for what went wro...

Ancient Greece to the New Testament and Dreams, Oracles, and Prophecy

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

A Fictional Conversation With Author Tom Peters

This paper provides a conversation between a professor Ralph Stacey and author Tom Peters. The author pays particular attention t...

Anthropologist Barbara Gallatin Anderson's Around The World In Thirty Years

In a paper consisting of five pages a tutorial on how to critique Anderson's books about her travels and the cultures and people s...

Perspectives on Knighthood Offered by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five ppates this research paper considers how Chaucer envisioned knighthood and knights based upon the works The Book of the Du...

The Music Lessons by Playwright Wakako Yamauchi

In five pages this paper discusses the life symbols offered by music and books in this analysis of the play The Music Lessons by W...

Joy Parr's Labouring Children British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada

In five pages this book is discussed in an analysis of 2 articles featured within and how the author offers arguments reinforced b...

They Wrote on Clay by Edward Chiera

In five pages a brief book summary is provided as well as a criticism regarding the archaeologist's approaches. There are no othe...

Susan Mattern's Rome and the Enemy Imperial Strategy in The Principate

In five pages this book is examined in an overview that wonders if the contemporary world could have such a foreign policy. Three...

Paul's Letter to the Romans, Romans Thirteen, Lines 11 through 14

In six pages this research paper analyzes how this selected passage fits into the Book of Romans as a whole. Four sources are cit...

The Reconquest of Medieval Christendom

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provide an overview of what has been described as the Christian Reconquest, from the book e...

The Slavery Journey of Africans in America

In this paper consisting of five pages a book review of Charles Johnson and Patricia Smith's Africans in America America's Journe...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

This 5 page essay analyzes discourse as it manifests in these books. Reality differs according to narrator perception. 2 sources...

Eve's Temptation by Satan in John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

In five pages this paper analyzes Book IX of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' in a examination of Satan's temptation of Eve and its e...

What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

This 5 page paper summarizes and analyzes the book What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula. The writer argues that it is a clear ...

John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and Concepts of Communication

In three pages the three concepts of communication Gray describes in his book are considered. Two other sources are cited in the ...

Al Franken and Bill Clinton

The writer suggests that possible motivation for some of Bill Clinton's behavior can be found in Al Franken's book Human Motivatio...