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A Revies of Black Picket Fences by Mary Pattillo McCoy

the opportunities that were available to the African American in the 1960s, in terms of employment, have changed drastically in th...

William Shakespeare's Conflicted Hamlet

father speaking to him, or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, th...

2 Books on Pennsylvania's Main Line Slayings

the murder was another teacher, Bradfield, who had been in a relationship with Susan. She had recently taken out a life insurance ...

Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Church Reviewed

"New Evangelicalism," the religion that bases its teachings on the New Testament and Christs Word, and how to best frame the Bible...

Innocence Lost in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

Lolita's Innocence

innocence. The ideal, at least the American ideal, is centered on youth. Lolita is young but may not be the innocent that Humber...

Auer's A General Doctrine of the Sacraments

7 with "A General Doctrine of the Sacraments." When we think about the sacraments and what the doctrine of these might be we often...

Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr.

in his critical assessment of Where Do We Go From Here, "If you stand with the poor, if you experience their homes and their house...

A Review of The American Privateers by Donald Chidsey

or her to make allowances for the various aspects of the book that seem somewhat sensationalized or overblown. It will also serve ...

Arthur Paul Boers' 'Never Call Them Jerks'

in the end of his first chapter Boers leaves the reader with an even deeper understanding of the purpose of the book, stating, "An...

A History of the Holocaust by Rita Steinhardt Botwinick

which occurred in Germany after the horror had ended. Many questions are provoked by the work and some of these are posed by the...

Guilt or Innocence of Santiago Nasar in The Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

virginity before she marries Bayardo San Rom?n. To ascertain the guilt of innocence of Nasar the events need to be considered and ...

Waldo E. Martin Jr's Brown v. Board of Education A Brief History with Documents

related to this trial. He states, "Indeed the legal cases that have influenced the status of the African Americans historically ha...

Comparing Chloe and Daphnis to Callirhoe and Chaereas

Daphnis." Their attraction for each other occurs only when each of them is confronted by new circumstances -- Chloe by the sight o...

Avi's Don't You Know There is a War On?

The experiences recounted in this book, although fictional, have their basis in the deep emotional trauma which World War II wield...

Itah Sadu's “Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room”

will not clean his room, no matter how much he is told to do so. The room gets so out of hand that the two goldfish he owns begin ...

Ellen Lewin's Lesbian Mothers Accounts of Gender in American Culture

And, by presenting the reader with both sides, so to speak, a reader cannot immediately start stereotyping the results as they app...

Eric Schlosser Reefer Madness

to Schlosser, the underlying thread that ties these three essays together is the "underground" (8) socioecomic subculture that per...

Songs of Innocence and Experience by Robert Blake

works together one can see the romantic power of both innocence and experience as Blake addressed a changing world where human per...

Ancient Rome's Legal System

both the military and his citizens. This power was called jus vitae aut necis meaning the power of life or death. This is not a re...

Literary Portrayals of Lost Innocence

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

The Great War and the Search for a Modern Order by Ellis Hawley

kicked off something else that was interesting - the worlds first mass consumption economy. The Industrial Revolution had been und...

Innocence in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...

Douglas Bond's Mr. Pipes Comes to America

hymns that were written during that era (Wheeler). Each chapter in the book discusses a different hymnist (including John Calvin ...

Yuri Tanaka's Japan's Comfort Women

most perceptive reviews of the book is by Narrelle Morris; between his work and Tanakas own words we can examine the book critical...

A Review of Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

understanding of natural selection. Sometimes, as a result of my research, I have come to conclusions that are different from the ...

1491 by Charles Mann

cultures, cities and towns that were, at the time, larger than many European cities that were of importance. His journey discusses...

Angela's Ashes

the 1940s when McCourt was a child and young adolescent. It is a story that speaks of how hard it was growing up with no one who t...

A Review of The Colors of the Mountain

see from the beginning that this story will not be one about a family who lived well during the changes in China, but a family tha...

A Review of The Jungle

will find the hope that America said it could offer, but also the realities that make a capitalistic society oppressive and degrad...