Decent Article Reviews Samples For Students

Bashir, S., Janaranjana., Tesfa, G. (2012). An Empirical Analysis of Higher Education and Economic Growth in West Virginia. Selected Paper for Presentation at Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012 Seattle, WA.
Bashir et al consider skilled labor as the single most important route to attaining maximal human development. According to the article, a person that is highly educated can more easily access a decent employment because skilled labor is associated with well paying jobs, lesser working hours and more attractive returns. With such a decent job, one can effortlessly afford to live a decent life with all the characteristics ...

Critical review of Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa

Nwando Achebe gives cases of women in Africa who have been able to occupy a variety of leadership roles. She states that traditionally women mainly held power due to their relationship with the particular rulers especially as mothers, sisters or daughter to the rulers. She moves ahead and illustrates his assertion by giving examples of women who were guided by great leaders who in most cases were their close relatives. For instance Ahebi Ugbabe, among the Igbo, assumed royal powers and dressed in the king’s attire pending the installation of the next ruler (Lindsay, Lisa & Miescher, 53). This illustrates ...

Article Review: How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
Summary
Jacob Riis, a journalist who worked on social documentaries, worked to expose the sordid conditions of the poor quarters of New York City in his photojournalistic publication “How the Other Half Lives”. The title itself is a reference to the side of the city different to that known to the upper class, starting his narrative with the police raid on the stale-beer dives – joints where people from the lower class serve unlicensed and improvised beer that is potentially harmful to one’s health (Riis 118).
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Many financial experts believe that international portfolio diversification substantially reduces the risk of an individual’s investment. Burhan Yavas gave this issue a critical look in his research entitled “Benefits of International Portfolio Diversification”. Yavas showed that foreign investment is a viable means to spreading the risk of investment. Although foreign investment is advantageous for diversification, investors should investigate underlying aspects that determine the success of international portfolio diversification.

The research carried out by Yavas rightly concludes that investors should consider foreign investment as a feasible means to diversifying their assets because foreign equities offer decent returns. Therefore, it is crucial for ...

Manual labor from the discussion with my family and friends is a very decent occupation despite the fact that it is widely despised by different people. This view is very justified due to a number of reasons. Though people know that manual work involves the use of one’s hands and energy, the truth is that manual work is more than this. This is because it goes beyond the use of hands and extend into the use of one’s mind. Compared with the intellectual work, which many people over the world eye and long for with the thoughts that it ...