Board Book Reviews Samples For Students

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi

China has a lot of history that many illustrious and prolific historians like Jonathan Spence have tried to explain in their books. Jonathan Spence is the author behind the fiction named the Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K’ang-Hsi. This is a very exciting fiction was written in the year of 1974. Jonathan has used the letters and historical records that K’ang Hsi had written in describing the later years of K’ang-Hsi, who is considered the great leader of that time. The book has been divided into chapters. ‘In Motion’ is the first chapter; this chapter depicts ...

Introduction

This paper aims to relate the concepts of and the paradoxes behind equity, efficiency, security, and liberty to a news article titled San Francisco students suspended over racist ‘wigger party’ by Kale Williams (2016). It reports the incident where over twelve high school students were suspended from San Francisco’s St. Ignatius College Preparatory for taking part in a “wigger party,” a racist themed party where White individuals emulate the culture of African Americans through a depiction of the stereotypes in mannerisms and clothing (Williams, 2016).

Equity

The news article depicted the paradox behind equity in that although the school ...

The Other Struggle for Equal Schools

The book The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era by Ruben Donato provides a additional source to a rather scanty amount of literature available dedicated for the understanding of the educational experiences of racial and ethnic minorities such as the Mexican Americans. The title itself is a strong point that is meant to emphasize the idea that prejudice and desegregation are not only limited to that of the African Americans but also extends to the Mexican Americans. Donato used the historical experiences of the African Americans as his point of comparison in establishing how the Chicanos in ...

Book Review of “The Politics of Air Pollution” By George Gonzalez

The Politics of Air Pollution by George Gonzalez
Introduction
Background
George Gonzalez is a renowned assistant professor based in the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami. He has been an avid advocate of the inner political workings of the environmental policy in the United States. The book entitled the politics of air pollution delves into the establishment of policies that govern emission standards with a specialization on California as a key study. The book generally describes California as one the leading states in the promotion of automobile emission standards.
As such, the book focuses on highlighting ...

Chapter five of the textbook addresses the origin of regulatory and administrative agencies (both state and federal), specific to the aviation industry in the United States, and the roles of those agencies. It also addresses how the agencies deal with a complaint or problem, and the litigation process when such predicaments arise.
Three main agencies involved in the aviation industry are the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
The DOT was created and made law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966. Its purpose was to ensure safe and secure ...

This paper describes the social movements that Blacks participated in during the period from 1900 to date. It tackles the ways in which the movements can be described as one long civil rights movement, and also how were they distinct movements. The paper further assesses their goals and the manner in which they have effected change in the United States. The paper also points out prominent civil rights activists that played an important role in spearheading the civil rights movements.
Most of the black social movements from 1900 to date have basically been fighting against racism. The 20th Century ...

1. What were conditions like for black people in the U.S. in the early 1960’s? From the textbook: What legal and societal mechanisms created and kept black people in these conditions?
Conditions for black people in the United States during the early 1960’s where bleak, they faced social, economic and educational discrimination. These forms of discrimination, created by an informal but controlling white male elite political governing consortium reached back into the anti-bellum tradition. These mechanisms kept black people in these conditions by allowing entrenched areas or the country to remain severely segregated. Even when Brown ...

Presidencies Derailed Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Grady Bogue

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Presidencies Derailed Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, E. Grady Bogue

Introduction

“Presidencies Derailed” is a book about why college presidencies collapse. While it is not the only book on the subject, it comes at a time when college presidents are failing. During 2009 and 2010, presidents of fifty universities, schools, colleges, and educational intuitions either resigned or fired. Presidencies Derailed examines sixteen such derailments and presents six ...

When it comes to academic testing and standards, the issue primarily concerns America’s ability to complete and interact with the economic and academic minds of others across the globe. Acts like the No Child Left Behind Act and other legislation seek to use standardized testing to create a baseline for knowledge and capability that everyone must be able to achieve. However, there are some questions related to that: first of all, are we certain that the standards we ask for are the best objective way to evaluate everyone? Also, does everyone excel at being evaluated the same way?
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Introduction

This is a book which was written by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in 2011 and published by the University of Chicago. It raised a great debate across the country drawing criticism as well as appreciations in equal measures. The book take a critical look at the higher learning in colleges and university in the united states of America in great depth and it concludes that the degree the current students are getting in colleges and the university is not worth much compared to the time and money invested in teaching the students. The book argues that the current graduates lack critical ...

“This is a book about the positive evidence that evolution is a fact. It is not intended as an anti-religious book. I’ve done that, it’s another T-shirt, this is not the place to wear it again,” says Dr. Richard Dawkins in the introduction to his book The Greatest Show on Earth (17). This book is an organized presentation of copious numbers of the examples that support the evolutionary change over time via the process of natural selection. It raises many issues to a reader’s mind, and it helps provide a fuller understanding of the theory of evolution for the reader. ...

This paper will analyze the several themes, emergency and record-breaking decisions in medical practice in the various story articles as edited by Lee Gutkind, including the critical analysis of the stories in relation to the current medical practices and psychology. All the twenty-two up close medical stories explore death, palliative care and dying.

In palliative care, the key objective is relieving suffering of these patients and the most suitable way is by means of effective pain relieving methods (Kastenbaum, 155). It is for this reason that I support the idea of s peaceful death, no awkward painful and occur ...

One word can describe Lee Gutkind book at the end of life, simply excellent. Whoever reads the book would undoubtedly find it inspiring, and indispensable. This ranks the book as one of the leading figures in the nonfiction movement.

This paper will analyze the several themes and emergency and record-breaking decisions in medical practice in the various story articles as edited by Lee Gutkind, including the critical analysis of the stories In relation to the current medical practices and psychology. All the twenty-two up close medical stories explore death, palliative care and dying and subsequently expose the inner operations ...

Introduction

Chicago Housing Authority abbreviated as CHA, was established in 1937 by the state of Illinois and had the jurisdiction for the administrative oversight of the public housing within the Chicago city. The mission of the agency is guided by a Board of commissioners who are appointed by the mayor of the city. This agency has a budget which is independent to that of the City of Chicago. This agency has built a number of public housing projects over the last few years. The agency was hit by a setback in 1966 when a suit was brought against the agency. This forced the US department ...