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“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...

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 ...

Leadership and Self-Deception

A 5 page book review on Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute, which is a brief but prof...

David Blight: Race and Reunion

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Margulies/Guantanamo

al Qahtani was held in intense isolation for months on end, to the point where he began to hallucinate; strip searched and made to...

Gregory Bateson: Steps to an Ecology of Mind

them in Steps to an Ecology of Mind ("Bateson, Gregory 1904-1980"). At this time too his influence on mainstream anthropology beca...

“Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors”

through time" (Chung and Wegars, 2005, p. 1). Chinese Americans trace their funerary custom back to China, where birth and death a...

University Of Virginia = Recruitment Process

include both staff and faculty (University of Virginia, Employment, 2008). Types of employees include professional teaching facult...

David McCullough, A Great Historian

The real question is, what kind of historian is he? II. Biography In examining the life and works of any writer, biography is ...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...

Victim Compensation

Smith (2006) defines victim compensation as a "form of income redistribution designed to redistribute wealth from offenders to vic...

Layne/Peace of Illusions

the U.S. undermined the British Empire through a combination of "conditional aid and political leverage," which made eradication o...

Creation of Violent Criminals

unseasoned violent offenders" to gather data (Athens 23). From this data, Athens formulated an experiential process that he argue...

Ondaatje/Anil’s Ghost

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

Horton & Horton/In Hope of Liberty

on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...

A Review of Time on the Cross

is true despite the fact that it is somewhat well known that economics were important in the context of this issue. Of course, the...

Alice Walker: “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”

But the memory of the house is misleading, because the author also says that much of the time they lived there she was angry, hope...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

How to Preach Better

There are many suggestions one can find in articles and books about being a more effective preacher. One expert that has stood the...

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...

Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science by Colin Beavan

The Development of Modern Forensics This book review features The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Fo...

Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr

This book review presents summaries of the chapters that comprise Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr. Seven pages in length,...

A Private and Public Faith by William Stringfellow,

This book review is on William Stringfellow's A Private and Public Faith. The writer recounts Stringfellow's criticisms of contemp...

My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

This book review presents a summary of the principal features of Sotomayor's intimate memoir. Four pages in length, citations only...

Christianizing the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen

This book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

Hiroshima by John Hersey

This book review offers an overview of Hersey's 1946 description of survivors' experience at Hiroshima. Three pages in length, onl...

Capital Punishment Today

This paper provides a brief history of the death penalty and its application in today's society. Many states are moving away from...

Change Readiness

Once an organization has decided it needs to change, it will need to know the state of readiness it has to make those changes. Thi...

Gap in Scores in Texas

Schools are required to administer exams each year in certain subject areas and in certain grade levels. Texas has revised their e...