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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...

Writing Style and Protagonist of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

Review of Anne Twinam's Public Lives, Private Lives

inter-relationships of family, sexuality, and social mobility, are discussed an illuminated as well as the history of Bourbon rule...

Times Reflected in the Writings of John Keats, Moliere, and Niccolo Machiavelli

and was able to study their political tactics, particularly those of the ecclesiastic and soldier Cesare Borgia, who was at that t...

Analyzing Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt

because he is not at all athletic. In fact, he is rather pudgy and homely himself. He claims to like parties and social gatherin...

Big Trouble A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas

pans out over the expansive Western landscape, geographical, social and political. Lukas makes it clear that during this time per...

Stephen Crane's Open Boat and Naturalism

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris

In five pages this parenting text is summarized and analyzes with the writer expressing agreement or disagreement with the author'...

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Albert Camus' The Stranger, and Heroism

In five pages these heroic protagonists are compared in terms of their differences and how they reflect the authors' quite differe...

The Use of Allegory and Symbolism in the Epic Poem Beowulf

Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...

Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence Meir Friedman

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee's The Good Marriage

In five pages a textual overview includes the authors' explanation of 4 marriage types. There are no other sources listed....

Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed

veil to designate between "respectable" and "disreputable" women. However, Ahmed emphasizes the fact that "Mesopotamian, Persian...

Rick Porrello's The History of the Cleveland Mafia

In 10 pages this memoir considers the author's family's organized crime activities during the Prohibition era. One source is cite...

Methods of Exegesis

In five pages this paper considers the definition of exegesis and includes a consideration of original author's intent and other r...

Bruce J. Schulman's Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism

advantageous; otherwise, his liberalism perhaps was not so strong, such as in voting against labor in Taft-Hartley in the 1940s, s...

Kenneth M. Stampp's The Peculiar Institution

In five pages this paper discusses the author's acknowledgment of the profit motive associated with slavery. One source is cited ...

Surprise and Structure in An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

In 8 pages this short story considers the element of surprise and presents a structural analysis of the author's employment of sty...

Slavery, Emancipation And Colonial Rule in South Africa

This book review is on Wayne Dooling's text Slavery, Emancipation And Colonial Rule in South Africa. The writer discusses the auth...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Revisiting Childhood

In five pages the ways in which Woolf's novel represents recounting the author's own childhood through characterizations, events, ...

Dialect in Anzia Yezierska's How I Found America and Pietro Di Donato's Christ In Concrete A Novel

entertaining of all ethnicities, for they are extremely vocal and animated at the same time. In a crowd or at a family gathering,...

Contrasting Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts what each author's intentions are in their respective works along with the sense o...

The Nurture Assumption by Harris

In five pages this paper examines this controversial text from both points of view in an argument that supports the notion that th...

Strong Women in Ellen Glasgow's Barrow Ground and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these two female authors' depiction of strong women protagonists in their respectiv...

George Eliot's Middlemarch

In 6 pages this paper examines how the author's perceptions of marriage are reflected in 4 couples depicted in Middlemarch. One s...

Jean Genet/Querelle

This discussion of Jean Genet's Querelle offers an overview of the text and addresses the author's theme, which pertain to society...

Mutual Aid A Factor of Evolution by Piotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin

In eight pages this report discusses the author's theories as represented in this text and how it serves to rebut 'The Struggle fo...

Mosca and Volpone's Relationship in Volpone by Ben Jonson

In 5 pages this analysis of Volpone by Ben Jonson focuses upon the interaction between Mosca and Volpone as well as the author's u...

Analyzing Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

In five pages the author is examined as is the context in which this novel was written in order to analyze the primary points the ...

Grisham's A Time to Kill and Racism

This research paper/essay examines Grisham's novel A Time to Kill and also offers a brief overview of the author's life in order t...