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Mattheissen: “The Snow Leopard”

been a scruffy collection of shabby hirelings and rich macho playboys who were footing the bill" (Hoaglund). Schaller is someone q...

The Drug Economy of Peru

the network also includes those who may never come in contact with the drugs, such as pilots, lawyers and bankers and others who m...

Roland Bathes and S/Z

the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...

Principles in Aurelius' The Meditations

fate, so sometimes it is hard to resign to a certain outcome. At the same time, there is the serenity prayer used in modern times ...

Cronkite on Mood Disorders

difficulty in viewing the behavior of people who suffer from mental disorder, such as bipolar, in terms of illness. Susan Crosby, ...

The Rise and Fall of Youngstown, Ohio

families to the towns, and their offspring would end up working for the factory too. While those in large cities who work in white...

A look at Gandhi

Gandhi is discussed from a social work perspective. Various aspects of his achievements are explored. The micro, macro and mezzo l...

Blue Sky Dream by David Beers

Club served by black-skinned mess men, gold wings, an elaborate and ready made construct of self-regard" (7). But when the circum...

Cognition and Educational Psychology

In five pages this exploration of educational psychology ponders the learning differences between books and other media and the im...

Latin American Female Perspectives

the inferiority of females began to change in the late colonial and early republican years (Arrom 260). At this time, women began ...

Robert Munsch's Love You Forever

In five pages this children's book is reviewed in a discussion not only of the text but also considers Sheila McGraw's effective i...

Evolving Theoretical Perspectives on Students Edited by Leila V. Moore

In five pages this paper discusses how the book in few pages provides clear, understandable, and extremely accessible information ...

Child Welfare Services by Alfred Kadushin

In six pages Kadushin's text is analyzed in terms of its purpose as a handy and comprehensive reference book. There are no other ...

Russell Baker: “Growing Up”

trouble losing their parents, because parents are not supposed to become "frail and break" (Baker 12). The student may be able to...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Literary Analysis: “Dubliners” by James Joyce

Each morning he waits for her to leave for school, then follows her, passing her at the point where their paths diverge, where the...

C.S. Lewis/Theology and Evangelism

be a universal perception of morality, that is, on the existence of natural moral law, that is an innate sense that is common to a...

Harford: “The Undercover Economist”

but sometimes works in unpredictable ways. Harford also uses Starbucks to explain why location is so important in real estate and...

Kolbert: “Field Notes from a Catastrophe”

work appears in the New Yorker; this book started out as a series of pieces she did for the magazine (Hayes, 2006). What gives Kol...

Iris Vinton: “The Story of Robert E. Lee”

of Northern Virginia, and finally to the last years after the Civil War (Vinton, 1952). Young readers who want a brief, simply wri...

“The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”

and vision. The problem that immediately presents itself, as might be expected, is that many of these concepts are less than self...

Going Solo by Roald Dahl

flying in WWII and I must say that was a great adventure, although frightening and dangerous too. I am also, I believe,...

Kelley: “Race Rebels”

looking at things from way, way below. Kelley says that he "came to history because of politics" (Let the dreamer awake: Talking ...

The Social Animal

obvious (Aronson). But they did: approximately 75% of those tested gave the wrong answer (Aronson). This experiment, which was re...

Health Information Management

the store improving customer service quality, but it might not generate sufficient income to pay the extra costs. Coppola, Erchk...

Is America or Mexico a Better Example of a “Melting Pot”?

arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...

Ethical Implications Of The Sacraments

for leaders to be servants by washing the feet of His Apostles. He loved those who were unloved, He forgave His enemies, even with...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Character Analysis: Into the Wild

foundation for the story through an examination of the region itself, thus perhaps further adding to a con approach to the charact...

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...