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Book Sales Negotiations

take some copies prior to selling the book should also be declared at the beginning to avoid any later confusion. The main point...

A Review of Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry

decision that he will go on an adventure and seek his own courage. He is a very brave boy for even beginning this journey because ...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

War Perspectives in Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade and Carol Ann Duffy's The War Photographer

important at all. The theme is war itself, the suffering, the realities that many simply ignore. And, perhaps most importantly, in...

Second World War Navajo Code Talkers Honoring Falls Short in John Woo's 2002 Film Windtalkers

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

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...

Symbolism in the Star Wars Film Trilogy

powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...

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...

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...

Character Development in The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

It is true that he offers a detailed and thorough account of strategy, weaponry and...

Second World War and Changes to the Nursing Profession

base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...

A Review of Eight Million Ways to Die

is approached by a woman, Kim Dakkinen. It is here that we discover he was once a police officer, a reality that may well prove to...

William Leach's Land of Desire

and leisure. Leach attempts to illustrate that the materialistic world of consumerism was around many decades prior to this time. ...

Comparative Analysis of the Book of Esther and the Book of Ruth

and find a life that surely offered more wealth and more stability. In light of such realities we must argue that Ruth was more th...

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

in the book we first examine the introduction. In this introduction Lewis indicates that there are many different types of Chri...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

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...

Independence Day/Film Review

in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

A Letter to a Senator Involving Iraq War

the waging of war, but by the ability to wage war; not necessarily by the demonstration of our defense capabilities, but by the vi...

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...

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 ...

The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz

dungeon and as such is nothing more than a simple fun work (The Book of Good Love of Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita, 2007). There ar...

Mukherjee: "Jasmine"

her own future. She is a rebel from the beginning, and her desire to be different could be one of the reasons her life takes on wh...

Martinson: "Views from a Tuft of Grass"

life, which may help to explain why he wrote about it in detail in Views from a tuft of grass. This book is a collection of essays...

Weiss: "Marital Separation"

to develop, so that associating with the other makes them feel better about themselves (Weiss, 1975). That is, they have endowed t...

Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

slavery concerns and economic viability. In truth, the ultimate foundations of the government and the people, regardless of the si...