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Essays 151 - 180

Homeless Youth in Vancouver, B.C.

ages of 25-44; they live alone; most are Caucasian; "38% had been homeless for less than one month" but 32% "had been homeless for...

Soldier’s Home/Krebs and Passivity

to indicate how these experiences had changed his internal landscape, and changed a vibrant young man into someone who is both pas...

Eyewitness Testimony Admissibility

Time Estimates: eyewitnesses typically overestimate how long an event took to unfold; 4. Cross-race Bias: eyewitnesses are more ac...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Questioning Whether Sex Sells in Advertising

value of $256.1 billion an increase of 5.6% on 2002. Therefore, research that may indicate better ways of using advertising budget...

A Review of The Origins of Canadian Indian Policy

By that time the Indians were no longer valuable allies in the ongoing struggle for continental power, the importance of their con...

Beah: “A Long Way Gone”

is exciting-it is New York, after all-and hes happy to be there, living in safety with the woman who adopted him as her son. But l...

Soldiers and the Experience of PTSD

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at soldiers experiencing PTSD. A variety of scholarly sources are reviewed and compared...

Paul H. Carlson's The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877

endeavor and not one that was expected to take very long. However, this routine project turned into a disaster primarily becaus...

A Review of I Am Rene Espronceda de la Barca

A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...

Bennett: "The Book of Virtues"

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The Alchemist by Coehlo

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

in eight categories: ordinary people; home front; heroes; women in uniform and out; shame; love, marriage and commitment; famous p...

Silence as Weapon in Vietnam by Herrington

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...

A Review of How Computers Work

and experts alike will find this book useful. It is mostly geared, however, to the user not to the computer repair technician but...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway and Harold Krebs

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...

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...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...

A Review of Mindfulness

very powerful truth. So often we rely on the information we learned as children, never stopping to examine the possibilities. And,...

Monocrief, Squire and Jewell: Who Runs for the Legislature

This 5 page paper reviews the book Who Runs for the Legislature by Malcolm E. Jewell, Gary F. Monocrief and Peverill Squire. The w...

Vietnam War and Soldiers' Good Luck Charms

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

An Analysis of The Myth of Self Esteem

self-regard, not egotism" (Anonymous The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Rosenberg.html). But, it is only one aspect of the notion of ...

The 54th Massachusetts: Undying Glory

This 5 page paper discusses the book Undying Glory: The Massachusetts 54th Regiment by Clinton Cox. The writer uses examples from ...

Biography of Paul by J. Albert Harrill

This book review is on Paul the Apostle, His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context by J. Albert Harrill. This unusual biography f...

Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson

This book review is on Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson. This author argues for a return to the house-churches desc...

Blood Passion by Scott Martelle

This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...

The Century of the Detective by Jurgen Thorwald

This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...

Emily L. Osborn, Our New Husbands Are Here

themes, and arguments Emily Lynn Osborns Our New Husbands Are Here investigates the sociology of households in the Milo River Val...