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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and History

This was the condition of slavery for women. They were often seen as breeding machines that were good for little more than produci...

Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian's Information Rules

not change. The authors provide lessons and examples throughout the book, making it easy for the reader to understand, even reader...

Share Prices and Book Values

patents, copyrights and human capital. The intangible assets are difficult to assess and are rarely included in any accounts, so a...

Gayle L. Zieman The Handbook of Managed Behavioral Healthcare

hundred years of managed care Zieman steps backward in chapter 2 and offers a discussion of the history of prepaid health plans i...

High School Libraries and Book Banning

their buildings. They fear that students will imitate some of the things in the book. At least, whenever a violent incident happen...

Managing for Results by Peter F. Drucker

his introduction that: "This is a what to do book. I deals with the economic tasks that any business has to discharge for economic...

Roald Dahl Annotated Bibliography

Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More. Puffin This particular chapter from the book chronicles the various personalities ...

Analyzing The Caribbean World and the United States - Mixing Rum and Coca Cola by Robert Freeman Smith

security, but also this relationship was a source of stability politically. This event then had a great deal to do with the postw...

Motivations Behind the Banning of Books

past, particularly those which occurred in totalitarian regimes that could not tolerate scrutiny any closer than that which it alr...

Women of Different Eras. Comparing Pride and Prejudice with Bridget Jones Diary

this, then, there are two very different interpretations of the movies effectiveness and its cinematography. And, yet, it achieved...

'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven' and 'Smoke Signals'

This 7 page paper compares Alexie's 1993 book with the Chris Eyre 1998 book that was inspired by the film and its representation o...

The Manchurian Candidate Conspiracy

his father did not approve (Maier, 1986). The article does not mention his relationship with individual family members beyond this...

Race Matters from a Critical Perspective

important issues about racism and oppression for black Americans. It is difficult to argue with many of his premises because hist...

Craig L. Blomberg's Historical Reliability of the Gospels

that not only are the documents logically from a particular time period, but they are evaluated in the context of history. Thus, i...

An Examinations of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid

most significant cons, according to critics, is President Bushs imperialist implication. Since the events of October 11th, Presid...

Hunter Thompson and The Hells Angels

topic of controversy ever since the group came on the scene in the early 1950s. While members of the gang claim they are simply mo...

Beer and Circus by Murray Sperber

nations universities, in order to stay viable financially, have placed undue emphasis on their sports programs, utilizing a perspe...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

The Day of Battle - Rick Atkinson Looks at the Italian Campaign

on whether or not to invade Italy; its quite another to read about the meeting between FDR and Churchill, the dickering that took ...

Geraldine Brooks and the Lessons of History

that the flight attendant had "one of those big, perfect German smiles" and referring to her a few lines later as Fraulein Smiley-...

Orlando Beyond the Theme Parks - A Book Proposal

be updated on a regular basis. However, the majority of these travel books focus is exclusively, or predominantly, on the two majo...

Emerging Christianity in the Book of Acts

have had too much wine" (Acts 2:13). Peter addresses the crowd, pointing out that the men are sober and relating this mira...

SUZE ORMAN AND BOOK REVIEW

paying upwards of 10% on interest for credit cards verses the paltry 3% or 4% that one earns on a savings account, this is a solid...

Where the Red Fern Grows

"I asked him not to say anything to my father. He promised me he wouldnt" (Rawls 20). He finally has enough money to buy the puppi...

Book Industry Approaches to Communication Technologies

communication technologies have led to our age being branded the "Information Age". What this means in todays business environment...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

Freakonomics The Truth About the Economics of Dealing Drugs

Our popular conception of drug dealers is a guy with gold teeth and gold chains driving a BMW or...

Reviewing Rhetoric in William Wilson's The Truly Disadvantaged

In this five page review the book's content, language use and organization as ways of establishing credibility are analyzed. Thi...

The Crusades by Riley-Smith

of crusaders, demonstrating that it was religious zeal and absolute devotion to the Roman Catholic Church, which was associated an...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...