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The Confessions of Nat Turner

questions the institution of slavery but it is not until this turning point that Nat truly decides to rebel. In the fourth chapter...

Obama's Dreams from my father

were tears running done the cheeks of many Americans, and even those who voted against him. They were touched by the fact that an ...

Puerto Rico as Fernando Pico Knows It

2009). This book is an expanded version of Picos earlier Historia general and is distinguished by Picos use of primary sources and...

Confederates in the Attic

their family connections to this time in history. For example, in looking at one particular mans journey Horwitz asked him why he ...

Property by Valerie Martin

her circumstance. The preface to the quote is that the narrator, Manon, is holding Joels hand while he talks about how things will...

Joseph Pine and James Gilmore's 'The Experience Economy'

Information is becoming a big component of the economic market as well. While at one time the consumer was dependent on informati...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

not with him. Clearly, form the start of this compelling book, there is a face to the people of Japan. So many times, people think...

Benjamin F. Schemmer's The Raid The Son Tay Prison Rescue Mission

positive perspective on the war. Rescuing some of those prisoners-or at least trying-might do the trick. If we could get 50 or 60 ...

Civilization and the Individual in Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

Some are put on drugs so that they will be more placid. While it may sound like the work of science fiction, the reality is that t...

The Devil in the White City by Larson

is something that cannot be ignored. It was after all the Civil War that freed the slaves. Black people, or Negroes as they were r...

Degrading Business Ethics Balancing Human Welfare and Corporate Profitability

"special rewards". Berkley Wellness Letter. (1994, Jan). Saving Womens Lives (Reducing Deaths from Lung Cancer). The Univer...

Overview of the Text Wealth and Power in America

a medium sized newspaper business from his father. Using this as a springboard, he quickly grasped the power of the pen. His polit...

Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker

bullies, throwing their weight around and creating underhanded backroom deals. This happens to Lewis one too many times and in the...

The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice by Author Derrick Bell

resolve racial inequality, that inequality continues to exist in terms of economics in particular. Bell asserts that social class...

Free Speech Boundaries and Not in Front of the Children by Heins

"Owl and the Pussycat." The reason? The filter perceived "pussy" as a foul or obscene word. In other words, in its guise of "prote...

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...

Hans Peter Richter's Friedrich

This book report tutorial on Hans Peter Richter's Friedrich consists of four pages. There are no other sources listed....

George Linderman The World Within War

God, and the nation represented. Linderman tells the story of this unique group of men in an understandable order from ant...

J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace

two outcomes are possible. All of the characters indicate and evidence these outcomes. One outcome is that of insight and w...

To Be (long) or Not to Be (Long)

the idea that as father and son they belong together and belong to the same family group, but at the same time, as individuals, th...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

her story and by not putting in the names of locations either. Other than that her story is true. This is further documented in th...

Farewell to Manzanar

She further notes how her mother worked every day and he stayed home and she was "ashamed of him for that and, in a deeper way, fo...

Review of Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape

of evolution in particular, "The Naked Ape" is written in plain and simple language. "The Naked Ape" addresses each major topic o...

This Republic of Suffering

things as the often unnoticed reality wherein many dead were never identified. It illustrate, even, how some people were believed...

The Quintessential Leader

One of the theories from the mid-1990s that is still getting a lot of press is Golemans introduction of emotional intelligence as ...

Howell Raines and the Civil Rights Movement

is today. In order to understand where were going, we have to know where weve been, and Raines shows part of that struggle in vivi...

Grisham Indicts the Criminal Justice System

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

Wanting to Belong

hes written the book in blank verse. This means that it calls attention to itself but it does so with a purpose. Each poem, becaus...

Goblet of Fire

famed goblet of fire. The most important student in this aspect of the story is Cedric. Lastly there is the evil Voldemort....

The Biblical Ruth

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...