Night by Elie Wiesel Though it is called a novel, Night (Wiesel 1982) is actually a memoir about Wiesel's experiences as a young, devout Jewish boy who is forced by World War II Nazis into a concentration camp, along with his family. The main charac Continue Reading...
Virginia Woolf's Final Novel -- and George Orwell Virginia Woolf's novel, Between The Acts was her final published work, and it would be reasonable for a reader who knows how she chose to end her life (by drowning herself in the River Ouse on March Continue Reading...
Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson This particular book is designed as an analogy within a maze, and looks at how various issues such as stubbornness, over-analyzing, and fear can over-complicate many things that are generally and usually very Continue Reading...
Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past When someone mentions a historical fact, we more or less accept it as just that -- a fact, without ever questioning the authenticity of the source, analysis and interpretation process applie Continue Reading...
Okonkwo The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a story about the culture clash that occurs when white colonizers arrived on the African continent and attempted to force the indigenous population to accept the empirical culture. When the whi Continue Reading...
Perfume Patrick Suskind's 1985 novel Perfume deals with themes controversial enough to raise eyebrows. After all the protagonist is a mass murderer whose victims are all virgins. The crimes therefore reveal the confluence of gender and politics, as Continue Reading...
Sikhs are also mistakenly included since police are unable to detect the difference. (District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia Advisory Committees to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2003) a lot of people are being arrested on very technical Continue Reading...
" According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). A "national security letter" (NSL) is basically a written demand by the FBI or other federal law enforcement agencies for a group or organization to turn over records or data or documents, wit Continue Reading...
On the evening of her first menstruation, for example, she asks, 'How do you do that? I mean, how do you get somebody to love you.' And, after a visit to Marie, Poland, and China, Pecola ponders, 'What did love feel like?... How do grownups act when Continue Reading...
Graham Greene's novel The Power and the Glory (1940) is one of his works that the author himself identified as a Catholic story, and it is clearly concerned with issues of Catholicism in both theory and practice. The novel is set in Mexico in the 193 Continue Reading...
PepsiCo Auditors Subsequent Acts Trends Assets Liabilities Stock Income Statement Presentation Income Statement Items Net Income Trend Comprehensive Income Cash Flow Statement Cash Flow from Operations Cash Flow from Investing Activities Continue Reading...
women's tenuous position society Susanna Rowson's book "Charlotte Temple." Essay feature a balance summary analysis. Summarize passages incorporate short quotations. The point content essay specific direction Gender discrimination in Susanna Rowson Continue Reading...
graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore. It is basically about what inspired Watchmen's themes, story, and characters. As well as what Watchmen has influenced and how it has been influenced by other comics and heroes like Batman and Superman among othe Continue Reading...
Tail Economics Book Analysis: The long tail. How endless choice is creating unlimited demand In the past, economics' was dominated by vendors that sold a large quantity of only one or two items. The Internet has changed the shape of product offeri Continue Reading...
Hyatt Value IPO Journey Book Hyatt Corporation Value IPO Journey Book Hyatt Corporation is a global company widely known for its brand of hotels, resorts, residential, and vocation ownership properties. Established by Jay Pritzker in 1957, Hyatt's Continue Reading...
American Pastoral -- Summary The novel looks at American history after WWII through the eyes of Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator of the story. Nathan thinks this age of the baby-boomers is a golden era of this country's history up to the discordant Continue Reading...
Instead, Paul positions the way of faith over against "works of the law" (Rom 3:27-28), pitting God's sovereign grace over against human effort. In the interests of his Gentile mission, Paul aims to deflate an inflated sense of Jewish identity, par Continue Reading...
The investors got intoxicated by fraud happened to them because of greedy people. Thousands of employees left as the stock market went to the peak but most of them left their jobs due to low pay as well. (Kerry Hannon, July 6, 2005) bill was passed Continue Reading...
In looking over "...thousands of pages of records" on this period, Dickerson writes that he couldn't find "a single instance" in enforcement of the Townshend Acts that the British "expressed the remotest interest in promoting the trade of the Empire Continue Reading...
Blending pop psychology with cognitive science, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons write about perceptual biases and inattentional blindness in The Invisible Gorilla. Sparked by a now-famous experiment the authors performed, The Invisible Gorilla: Continue Reading...
Summary of the Book As 21st century is drawing to an end, the United States has emerged as the sole superpower with no rival in the international system based on its superior economic and military powers. However, a critical issue still remains with Continue Reading...
Wanton Loss of Life A careful reading of David Livingston Smith's seminal treatise on the science of dehumanization, Less Than Human, reveals there is a fundamental relationship between the phenomena of dehumanization and that of genocide. There Continue Reading...
Duong Huong's novel entitled Novel without a Name tells the story of one young man's experience during the Vietnam War. In the United States, most people only know and understand the war from the perspective of the Americans. Similarly, citizens of Continue Reading...
Franklin's Tale from the book the Canterbury Tales At the end of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale the author asks, "Which seems the finest gentleman to you?" Although all the characters demonstrate chivalrous behavior, all except one has ulte Continue Reading...
Virginia Woolf's 1927 book, To the Lighthouse. This is no way keeps it from being a marvelous work of literature - perhaps one of the most marvelous works of literature in which nearly nothing actually happens. In this book, as in Woolf's other writ Continue Reading...
Chinua Achebe’s classic novel Things Fall Apart describes a critical juncture in Igbo society: the first point of contact with missionaries. Even prior to their arrival, the protagonist of the story, Okonkwo, contends with both personal and col Continue Reading...
Policy Overview The Cures Act that was enacted on 13th Dec. 2016 is meant to expedite the process of medical product development. It is also aimed at making it possible for new innovations in the medical field to reach the intended beneficiaries (th Continue Reading...
Policy, Politics and Global Health Trends The Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was recently signed into law in America. This public policy impacts all citizens of the U.S.A. And has been controversial from its inception, not only b Continue Reading...
forum #4: Civil liberties/Civil rights One recent famous 't-shirt' case involving the civil liberties of a defendant was Guiles v. Marineau, in which a middle-schooler who wore a t-shirt openly critical of President George Bush was suspended from s Continue Reading...
Souls is a book about drug addiction and its relation to crime. It is a memoir by Michael MacDonald and it shows how both crime and drugs have brought death to his family, as they grew up in Southie, "in the all-Irish housing projects where everyone Continue Reading...
Although he was strong, with intellectual ambitions, Ethan could not bring himself to violate social conventions as a young man. Ethan's studies were left unfinished because of his familial obligations and he never resumed them. He felt resentful a Continue Reading...
Despite the fact that this caused her pain she kept seeing him because she needed his support. She is another character who wanted to overcome her social condition. One might state that Jay lost Daisy because he went on with his life and his ambiti Continue Reading...
So, clearly, a progression of thought has occurred to bring mankind to the brand of reality that Berman endorses; however, he seems unable to clearly delineate or characterize what this progression has been on a historical level. Doubtlessly, he is Continue Reading...
Nils Christie in his book Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style, a person has difficulty knowing who are the worst criminals -- the men and women prisoners or the individuals who run the penal industry. The book details how the Un Continue Reading...
Psychology of War in "Acts of War" by Richard Holmes In the book "Acts of War" by Richard Holmes, the theme of war psychology is one of the primary topics that are discussed as it applies to information dissemination and developing the soldiers' se Continue Reading...
Noah Eli Gordon's book The Source takes on the structure of a new long poem and uses several references from other works in an intrinsic battle between reference and experience. The Source is such a node -- a beaming node -- inside a site-specific co Continue Reading...
Los Angeles (compare and contrast two books/Articles) Aesthetic Judgment: "Mildred Pierce" compared to "What Makes Sammy Run" What Makes Sammy Run The tale of Sammy Glick has been told by Al Manheim in the first person narrative. Al Manheim is the Continue Reading...
The critic called Vonnegut "overrated at best" and goes on to say, "Like many inferior novelists, he films better than he reads" (33). On the other hand Peter Reed talks of the novel's depiction of many "grim" and "downright painful" scenes sliced Continue Reading...
Justice in the Republic In Book II of The Republic, Plato attempts to define and describe the role of justice in society by having his characters argue for two different approaches to the topic. While Socrates asserts that justice is good and desira Continue Reading...
St. Justin was one of the earliest Christian apologists, and his Apology of the second century helps trace the laying of the Christian dogmatic foundation. The faith, as expressed by Justin, contains several of the elements that established the Chri Continue Reading...
