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American cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s Maus is considered a comic masterpiece and the two-volume telling the horrors of the Holocaust is a winner of Pulitzer Prize. Art’s father, Vladek was a Polish Jew, who survived the Holocaust. The essay looks at MAUS graphic novel, its artwork and how the author uses those images to tell a compelling story. Maus is considered to be as an intellectually substantive graphic novel.
Spiegelman has depicted Germans as cats and Jews as mice and Germans and Poles as pigs cats in the graphic novel. The purpose is to show Germans as the ...

BOOK BY GABRIELA F. ARREDONDO. MEXICAN CHICAGO: RACE, IDENTITY, AND NATION, 1916-39

The phenomenon of the Mexican society in Chicago has been an object of interest for many years. This issue has been examined in details and in general in order to draw the conclusion if the importance and influence of the Mexicans on the social and cultural life. However, the scholars have not published their findings for the audience’s access. Therefore, the book ‘Mexican Chicago’ written by Gabriela F. Arredondo is the first attempt to demonstrate the Mexicans experience within the American society and their cooperation. The ...

The epistolary novel by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu, the “Persian Letters” gives a reflection of the eighteenth century society. It is therefore a critical primary source in regard to eighteenth century history considering the major changes of historical significance that were taking place at the time. One such change was the dawn of the age of enlightenment also referred to as the age of reason. The historical perspective of the novel may be lost because of Montesquieu’s extensive use of satire. However, it is intended to draw the attention of the reader towards the primary themes ...

Book Review

In lucid language, Tim Harford brings forth to the reader the multifarious linkages that bind the global economic system. Over the course of ten chapters, Harford brings home an account of economic activity and highlights linkages between economics, human development, psychology and similar esoteric discoveries.
Harford commences his journey as an ‘undercover economist’ by observing how Starbucks Coffee shops are strategically placed at the exits of metro stations. Harford observes that while the retail price of a cup of coffee is far in excess of the actual cost of producing one, most of the premium goes the way of ...

Shambleau by C.L. Moore: A Summary
Northwest Smith is a famous and respected guy on a dozen wild planets. He was walking the street of Earth’s latest colony in Mars when he met Shambleau, who was then being chased by a mob of Earthmen, Martians, Venusians, and other nameless denizens of unnamed planets. Despite himself, Smith helped the berry-brown girl wearing a tattered garment in red. After staking his claim on the girl, the chasers backed down and looked at Smith with complete disgust, while some even spat on the ground. With an important business to attend to in Mars, Smith ...

Carr, Nicholas G. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010. Print.

Introduction

Just imagine you went to the web only for three minutes to check your mail. Then someone sent you a hyperlink to that article. You started to read it carefully. At the same time, your friend sent you some funny photo, and of course you are going to the social network to share it with someone else. Just read the first paragraph of article you are looking for your friends online and what is new here, in the news you notice a ...

Management

Introduction
In his book, “Supportive Leadership: The New Role of Leaders in the 21st Century”, Gunther H. Schust declares that the paradigms of management and leadership are changing in an increasingly globalized world. Schust points out that leaders could get the job done with blunt tactics of hiring and firing. However, the need of the hour is for leaders to professionally select employees, support them in their endeavors, challenge them in the work environment, make them further qualified and enable them to function seamlessly in a networked world. Schust (8) uses the new requirements of leaders to call for ...

Lars Eighner talks about his life as a street boy and evokes emotions in people who value life and those who do not like the life of a street child. He refers to his experiences as a dumpster scavenger who looks for food in the dumpsters throughout the day to find his fortune. Throughout the autobiographical narration, the author draws readers’ emotions through many ways, which describe the trouble he underwent in his life as a dumpster. Throughout the writing, the author moves with readers’ emotions in a cyclical manner (Eighner 254). At some point, he appeals to people’s emotions while, at another ...

- In what way did Dr. Martin King Luther King use non-violent protests in the Civil Rights Movement?
At the staff retreat of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King talked about the dangers of violence. King said, “Violence has been the inseparable twin of materialism, the hallmark of its grandeur”, and he stood his ground against it on the basis that hate engenders violence. Hence, to curb hate and violence, King saw the importance of participating in peaceful protests no matter how unjust the situations they were in and how difficult it was for Black people to ...

Psychology

The Riverman gives a detailed description of the amount of psychological work that went into the apprehension of a man responsible for a series of serial murders. This man came to be dubbed as the green river killer. The Riverman gives a vivid description of Robert Keppel’s twenty-year pursuit and ultimate apprehension of this criminal. This particular killer was suspected of at least forty-nine homicides and to call him a public nuisance would be perhaps the biggest understatement of the years. Clever and cunning was this killer that law enforcement authorities found it increasingly harder, near impossible, to bring him to justice and ...

Introduction

Brookfield believes in treating people as adults and employing the “’3 R’s, respect, research, (and) responsiveness.” He uses a four step process to summarize, analyze and reflect to re-energize teaching. This is designed to encourage students to reflect their teacher’s energy and connect with the lessons’ content. He feels the purpose of a critical reflection is to enlighten teaching and the point of view of the student, colleagues, literature in addition to our own viewpoint should all be employed. He terms these viewpoints as “lenses” and uses this term throughout his writing. .
Brookfield recognizes the different modalities, and ...

The book Connected, written by Christakis, N. A., and Fowler, J. H., (2009) explains the surprising power which is in our social networks and demonstrates how these social networks shape our lives and our friends’ lives affecting everything we feel, think and do. The authors observe the significance of human connections and the effect they of people’s networks on the way activities take place in their own lives. The research covers areas like how the networks can assist people to solve problems. In the book, there are some strengths as well as shortcomings of how psychology contributes to ...