Job Book Reviews Samples For Students

Please Do Not Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs to Be Done (Bob Nelson)

The book by Bob Nelson thrives to give morale to employees and educate them on the best ways they could be successive in the places of work. This book is like a handbook designed for employees who seem to be frustrated at their places of work. This book educates the employees of four critical issues: reasons as to why employees should always seek initiative; why the employees should seek to do more at work that is required of them; giving a tip to the employees on the benefits of volunteering at work; most importantly how to develop, plan and implement good ...

There has been a long standing debate about the pay of the CEO’s of companies. Proponents of this debate argue that CEO’s of successful companies are effectively performing the duties for which they were hired that is; maximization of shareholder wealth. Therefore, if CEO’s are paid in terms of stocks or salary then this is justifiable. Proponents further argue that the media reports instances where shareholders are given high salaries, benefits, and stocks but they fail to report events where CEO’s have been fired and their pay has been reduced as a result of poor company performance. ...

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The book, “Nickel and Dime” by Gary Soto is once again proof that the author knows how to weave seemingly pointless stories together in order to prove something greater. The novel is a highlight reel of America’s consumerist tendencies, pack mentality, and how we force those we believe do not belong to the sidelines even when they so desperately want to be a part of what we are building. Many of the characters included in the novel appear to be criminals on the surface, desperate for what may not be theirs for the taking. Society paints them in this way, ...

E-learning is the use of information to access information. The transition of e-learning for employees is a costly undertaking for an organization and the need to formulate clear guidelines to cut on the cost and maximize profits. To meet these goals, learners are introduced onto a virtual training where they are taught on how to identify problems and the procedure of tackling them. This improves the efficiency of addressing the problem and in the long run cuts on cost. In these times of economic depression it helps in saving as it is cheaper compared to face to face learning. Uses of ...

“What Color Is Your Parachute?” written by Richard N. Bolles is regarded as the most renowned job-hunting book in the world. This book contains the most modern and latest information concerning the job-market and tells its readers how to find evocative work amid existing difficult economic times (Bolles, 2012).
The discussed book is put in writing as a manual and consists of two sections. The first part discusses the right ways and guiding principles to find the right job, arrangement of an interview, salary negotiation, interview follow-up, and acquirement of the job. It also gives reasonable suggestions to the ...

Introduction

Japan encountered both good and bad experiences after the war between the year 1945 and 1952. This was the period when occupation officially ended and later, followed by chaos and destruction in Japan. The emperor Hirohito gave his surrender speech, and most people felt betrayed and displaced. During the early days of occupation, Japans had to deal with hunger due to food shortage. There was excavating black market and Japans traditions were forgotten. Decisions made by USA resulted to change in societal conscious instead of focusing to change everyday life of the Japans. USA government did not punish the ...

Book Review: Shay's Rebellion by Leonard Richards

It is evident that many experts have been insisting that most of the history books have long maintained that Shay's Rebellion (1786-1787) the Massachusetts insurgence that caused George Washington to come out of retirement and eventually sped the ratification and the revision of the U.S Constitution was a revolt of poor, obligated farmers. However, University of Massachusetts Amherst history lecturer Leonard L. Richards has a different take on it. In his Shay's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, Richards examines the individualities of the rebels and contends that they were normally not underprivileged by the least, and that scholars have misinterpreted ...

This book was written in the year 1999 by John W. Dower and published by W. W. Norton and Company. The book covers Allies Occupation of the country of Japan between the month of August 1945 and April 1952. It dwells in detail on topics such as the Tokyo’s crimes of war trials, Hirohito’s Humanity Declaration which is considered very controversial and Douglas MacArthur’s administration. New York Times describes this book as “beautifully and magisterially” written. The awards under the court of this writer are many. They include Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1999), Mark Lynton ...

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Failure at Workplace: Designing and Applying Public Relations
I work a business which requires a very well developed public relations. Our company provides consultancy service to small and medium sized entrepreneurs (SMEs). The most important problem that many SMEs have is the quality of their stuff. Mostly, high school graduates are assigned as managers in the SMEs and it makes it harder for our company to explain things to them because they do not have any technical skills at the beginning. We may need to help them in many fields from legal issues to some technical issues in finance. The ...

In Chapter 2, Evaluation of Job Demands, the author discusses the various forces and factors that go into determining just how physically demanding a job can be. This is done in order to evaluate the proper ergonomic precautions that must be made in a given job environment. The author defines the long-term effects of physical demands on a worker as work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs), and how jobs are analyzed in order to prevent them as effectively as possible. When performing job analysis, data (both quantitative and qualitative) is gathered about the job itself, then processed through a number of decision rules that lead ...

BOOK REVIEW OF THE MOUNTAIN OF THE MINER AND THE LORD

Book Review of the Mountain, the Miner and the Lord
The book “The Mountain, The Miner and the Lord” was written by Harry Caudill. Harry was born in the United States of America in 1922. At his tender ages, he resided in Whitesburg, Kentucky. This is the same place where he died in 1990. Harry had a variety of discipline proficiencies ranging from being a historian to being an environmentalist. Apart from this, he was a lawyer as well as a legislator. “His wide knowledge in history enabled him to secure a teaching job at the University of Kentucky.”1At some point in ...

The book ‘Effective Immediately: How to Fit in, Stand out, and Move up at your First Real Job’ is for young graduates who are entering the real jobs and provides useful tips and advices which can help them carve their niche in their jobs. It is important for the students to learn the technique to ‘stand out’ from their colleagues to get recognized. This book is full of such advices, though many of the suggestions are based on common sense; still they prove to be useful as remembering the best advice is always good. The advices shared in the ...

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Review: The Prices of Motherhood
Today the shelves of bookstores appear to be littered with propaganda either glorifying or demoralizing the job of being a mother. It has become less of a true stance in the world, and more of a political debate, standing alongside people who disagree on smoking in public, or abortion. We no longer argue the real issues when it comes to motherhood, but simply pass off whether or not motherhood is “hard” or “worth it” in terms of our own lives. We generalize the rest of the population’s stance based on our own views in terms ...

PART ONE

THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS
EXODUS
This is a law book, the second book in the Hebrew bible and is also one of the Torah books that are believed to have been authored by Moses himself. The book simply means the act of going out.
The main theme addressed in the book is all about the suffering of the Israelites and their departure from the land of Egypt to their promised land. The theme of salvation and theophany are manifested in this book whereby the meaning of God’s salvation history through actions that give identity to the ...

1. How does the public see the nursing profession and nurses?

In the public's eye, it seems as though nurses are invisible, seeing the job as a supplementary and unskilled profession that does more wrong than right. The authors detail a 'problem narrative' that takes place in the media, one wherein the problems of nurse shortage, staff rations and problems with patients are the norm rather than the exception when it comes to learning about nurses. "This 'problem' narrative is not balanced in the media by a 'practice' narrative that would help the public understand what it ...

Abstract

This document includes the concepts and themes of leadership as presented in the book namely Transformational Leadership by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio. In addition, the principles of managements as discussed by Andrew J. Dubrin have also been incorporated in the paper. In this document, there is an argument presented by these gentlemen on leadership by using separate cases of different leaders around the world.
For instance, the case study presented by Bernard M. Bass and Ronald E. Riggio are Herb Kelleher as CEO and founder of Southwest Airlines’ success story while on the other hand, ...

Koreans during their rich history, unfortunately, many times had to uphold their independence from the enemy invasions and friendly embrace of powerful neighbors. Korean War, which was the first open conflict between USSR and America, was a bloody conflict that for a long time concealed terrible crimes against humanity. We will raise the pages of the Korean War, see it preconditions and consequences. The paper’s main argument is to examine the historical elements of the book The Guest, written by Hwang Sok-yong, and to analyze the conditions of the Sinchon Massacre. We will discuss Hwang’s description of the deep ...

For my first reading journal, I chose to discuss the first four chapters in Michael Kimmel’s “Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men”
In the first two chapters, “Guyland” is introduced as “the stage of a young man’s life between adolescence and adulthood.” (pg. 4) Kimmel then begins to set the tone: members of Guyland are essentially man children who didn’t receive enough guidance in their lives, and they now exist in a limbo-like state of life, where hook-ups and bouncing from job to job are common, and socialization between men involves frat parties, excessive ...

During the 1930s, the Great Depression affected many states leading to major changes in most sectors of their economy. One of the countries that became a victim of the Great Depression was Canada. Owing to this, the issue has attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of this review is to examine the work of one such researcher, Katrina Srigley, in her book, Breadwinning Daughters: Young Women working in a Depression- era City, 1929-1939 (2010). The Great Depression era affected the live patterns of young women in Canada. They experienced a great shift while trying to adapt to the economic changes ...

Starting from 1920 RCA had been an electronic giant produced radios, and later, televisions, located in Philadelphia, a city of Camden. Aiming at profit maximization the company moved the parts of operating process several times inside of the US, and then abroad seeking for cheap workforce.

The major reason for moving a significant part of RCA operations is that the company intended to save labor costs by hiring people in rural areas, poor, young, uneducated, single, female and immigrants. Another fact that gives the evidence of this tendency is that RCA moved its plants several times during seventy years of its ...

I am a 23-year-old international student. I got a scholarship to study emergency medical services and I am in my senior year in college. Although I am a qualified EMT, I have not yet worked as an EMT yet. Pat Ivey’s book, EMT, beyond the lights and sirens is a very compelling read to me. I am able to relate to a number of issues raised by the author in the book. Pat Ivey worked as a cardiac technician in rural Virginia. One day, her sons got lost in the woods. It was while this search was going on that Ivey have to know ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

Introduction

The book explores the chronical destitute and unequality within the American population. Seth Rockman is a revolutionary and Early U.S history specialist focusing on capitalism and slavery in America’s social and economic development. He has researched on histories of labor, race and social welfare. Particularly, he has focused on aspects that have been vital making America the wealthiest, egalitarian and free society in the western world. The scenario revolves around a fast developing and scrappy border of Baltimore city to 1840s. The book focuses on people who labored during early capitalist revolution and negligence in economic and industrial expansion success. ...

“Abolishing Performance Appraisals" Book Review

"Abolishing Performance Appraisals" by Tom Coens and Mary Jenkins is both a challenging and thought-provoking book focusing on one of the premises of Human Resources Management. The effectiveness of performance appraisals is brought into question with the authors terming it as a “tool of patriarchy” at the workplace. The book shows why performance appraisal, as a practice in management, should be done away with and provide the steps on what can be done instead. It also cites several detailed case studies of firms or corporations that have effectively abolished the employee performance appraisal in their operations. The book is tailored for all ...

Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 features a dystopian future wherein “firemen” are given the task of burning subversive books that challenge the governmental establishment. In this world, reading is outlawed, as the current mode of thinking is anti-intellectual, and bereft of learning or knowledge. The protagonist, Guy Montag, one of the firemen, has his ideas about his job and the world in which he lives in challenged by an intellectual love interest. In the novel Logan’s Run, another dystopian future sees the protagonist, a law enforcement officer called a Sandman, tracking down those who do not voluntarily kill themselves at age ...

E.B Sledge in his book China Marine retells the experiences of an American soldier, a veteran of the Pacific Theater of World War II as part of the First Marine Division’s occupation duty of China after the war was over. In China Marine, Sledge in the form of a memoir retells some of the most memorable experiences he had in northern China. The book is much more than just a simple story of an American serviceman living in China but it is also a description of life for the Chinese people living in the aftermath of World War ...

Background of the author

A professor at the University of Sonoma- California, in the United States of America, Dr. Carl Jensen is also an author of prominent publications in the field of sociology that have scaled to global heights. A few books under his name include “Censored: The News That Didn’t Make the News and Why (from1976 to 1996)” and “20 Years of Censored News (1997)”. In addition, Dr. Carl Jensen has also featured in Project Censored- a media research project in 1976 that attained international recognition.

Thesis of the book

The book delves into how the American society was adjusted to become more flexible to ...

At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA is a memoir written by George Tenet and Bill Harlow. The chronicle focuses on the CIA happenings before and after the September 11 2001 Islamic terrorist attacks. In this memoir, George Tenet gives a real life account of his works as the director of the CIA and a chronological order of how things happened during his term as the chief of the Criminal Intelligence Agency. Tenet was the Director of the Criminal Intelligence Agency of the year 1997 to 2004. He writes a book where he recounts the ...

(Insturctor’s name)
Bernstein, Carl, and Bob Woodward. All The President's Men. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. Print.

Book review

Introduction
“All the president’s men” is a detective book written by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who are at the same time its main characters. The story covers the period from 1972 to 1974, and depicts the way The Watergate Scandal was developed, investigated, and resolved. Bernstein and Woodward were working for The Washington Post as reporters, and were directly involved in the Watergate issue investigation. Thus, apart from the fact that the book is a detective, it is ...

The Review of ‘The Glory and the Dream’ by William Manchester

Describe the central theme and objective of this reading. Cite examples from the reading.
Recently I’ve read the book on history called ‘The Glory and the Dream’ by William Manchester. ‘One more boring history book,’ you may say. But you shouldn’t draw any firm conclusions at once. Let me prove you that even history books can be interesting and absorbing. Are you ready? So, let’s go.
There are two volumes of this book which the author called a narrative history of America. It comprises the information about the years from 1932 to 1972. And, unlike other ...

Book Review

The book Why teach? : In defense of a real education by Mark Edmundson presents a collection of essays that focus on the state of education in the United States. While focusing on the manner in which the education system in America has deteriorated since the 1990s, Edmundson provides insights and advise to the students, parents, and his fellow teachers regarding how to return the American education system to its glory days. While comparing the current education system with the pre-1990s, the changes regarding the role of teachers, and the choices that students make, the author presents his ideas ...

1. Name and describe the four main characters in the book.

The main characters are two mice, “Sniff” and “Scurry” and two little people, miniature humans named “Hem” and “Haw”.

2. The cheese is a metaphor for what? Provide some examples.
Cheese is a metaphor for what you want in life albeit a job, money, a loving relationship, etc. For example, Cheese represents the changes in life and in the end Haw finds the largest cheese wall left by his friend Hem. The foursome is lucky in the beginning to find the cheese wall in Cheese Station C. Day after day all four return to eat the cheese. The mice go looking for change because they knew that ...

In his description of himself, Baer acknowledges that he wasn’t born a patriot whose intention was to work for the CIA. He describes himself as a struggling student who had personal agendas (Baer, 2002). The book gives several accounts of what Baer describes as frustrations and mistakes he made while posted in Lebanon and India. The book also discusses the failings of the CIA. Baer gives the reasons for a failing CIA as: replacement of human intelligence with computer and satellite technology; a risk aversion approach by the agency that promoted bureaucratic practices and undermined intelligence gathering; and the prioritization of interests ...

‘The Psychological Legacy of Slavery’ is the title of Chapter 1. The chapter discusses a type of slavery that is invisible but very powerful. The author Dr. Na’im Akbar explains that slavery lasted three centuries and still affects contemporary African Americans. I agree that for the psychology of people something as traumatic as slavery must leave psychological scars on the group of people who were slaves, even several generations after the legal end of slavery. After the Civil War nothing was done to help the former slaves adjust to their new lives as free men and women. Nothing ...

1. Introduction

In her book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, Arlie Hochschild sheds light on the various strategies used by men and women in two-career marriages to manage the pressure of work and the needs of their family all at the same time. Hochschild, who is a professor at the University of California in Berkeley, documents how household work is divided by husbands and wives who both have full-time careers after they are done with their official jobs. Her book basically revolves around the story of eleven couples out of the fifty she had her research associates ...

This paper has analyzed the problem of what impact does leadership have on quality. The scope of this work involves the specific work in the book called Leadership for quality by an author Juran J.M. It has reviewed various concepts by the author.

The approach to this problem has involved analyzing three functions of businesses, planning control and improvement in quality. Also, an analysis has been made in the work force part in order to get an idea of the factors that will lead to their improvement in quality.

The results in this analysis are that quality can be ...

According to Orr, technicians love their job because of the nature of their profession. In many cases, technicians work under little or no supervision where they can implement their ideas in repairing the machines rather than rely on a manual. They work independently and apply their personal management ideas. Furthermore, they schedule their work and manage their time and records for accounting purposes. Their work is unpredictable in nature. For this reason, people cannot schedule a technician. Their job experience advances each time they handle a new job because each case differs from the previous jobs. Technicians perceive unhappy customers as opportunities ...

- Welfare recipients and culture of poverty
- In the chapters 2 and 7 of the book Flat Broke with Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of U.S welfare from the inside of the welfare office, and also from the inside of mothers involved in welfare. She aptly describes the challenges that recipients of welfare face in the management of their families, work. Moreover, she tells the regulations and rules that pertain to welfare reform. Her research is hands on because it involves one on one interaction with the welfare recipients. The hands-on approach she takes makes ...

Confessions of an economic hit man is Perkins’ account of his employment with the consulting firm Maine and how as an economic hit man he was instrumental in convincing less developed countries to take loans that they cannot pay from international financial institutions. His book has thirty five chapters and the summary consists of ten parts with three or more chapters in each part.

Chapter 1-3 –Summary

The first three chapters deal with Perkin’s birth, upbringing and his induction into Main. Perkins joins the Peace Corps because he does not want to join the army and is happy living among the ...

Introduction

Daniel Pink is a bestselling author and his latest book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us is an excellent example of how employees are motivated and encouraged to perform well in the current era. The book comprehensively discusses the drive to intrinsic motivation. Daniel Pink states in his book that the concept of reward system like money, bonus or promotions are a mistake that a business does. The rewards lead to less desirable behavior by employees once the reward system is removed, and the employees start to expect more than the previous reward in every performance. In turn, this need ...

Spanning the years from 1940 to 1965, the story in the last lion commences shortly after Winston Spencer Churchill became the prime minister. This is the time when his tiny island nation stood in solitude against the overwhelming power of the Nazi Germany. As conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid, Churchill was a man of lighting fast intellect, indomitable courage, and an irresistible will to action. The thesis of the author is built around the brilliant recount of how Churchill organized his nation’s military response and defense, and personified the so called never surrender ethos. He compelled ...

Biography of Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche is a German automotive engineer born in 1875 in Maffersdorf Austria. He had an honorary degree in engineering. He was an engineer operating in two countries, Austria and Germany. His early love towards cars and electricity landed him his first job in Vienna in 1893 when he was only 18. He enrolled for part-time studies around the same time at the Imperia Technical University in Reichenberg (current Vienna University of Technology).
He is popularly known a remembered for his design of Beetle vehicle, first hybrid vehicle while which could use both gasoline and electricity. He also went ahead ...

Jay McLeod’s book demonstrates that racism is an issue which dominates proceedings in more ways than one. The issue of social mobility is discussed extensively in the book as it shows that class consciousness is still very much rife and intrinsic amongst us. McLeod comes up with all the sociological concepts which are part and parcel of our thinking and these include class structure, poverty, the dehumanization of work, etc.
“I ain’t going to college, who wants to go to college? I’d end up getting a shitty job anyway” (p. 3)
This is what an ...

Healthcare in the United States has been a center of controversy for a long time. Access to quality healthcare has been limited to the rich at the detriment of the poor. The current infrastructure in the United States requires the citizenry to own health insurance, which will aid in reducing the cost of healthcare. However, it is worth noting that despite the United States being one of the strongest nations in the world, a reasonable proportion of its population remains poor. A large number of people in the United States do not earn wages that can allow them to access quality healthcare. ...

Introduction

Rapid changes in market trends and consumer behaviors are considered as the top enemies of profit-driven organizations. In some cases, even not-for-profit organizations see these two factors as the biggest sources of management problems and concerns. Various business planners and analysts believe that continuous learning in the workplace should be promoted in order to prevent unnecessary losses in resources and even a widespread collapse in operations.
Making sure that every organizational team member is equipped with the most appropriate knowledge and skills set, and making sure that they are appropriate for the current market trends and behavior is therefore ...

Categories of employees’ complaints

(What are the specific things the employees are unhappy about? If you were to group their specific complaints together, how might you summarize the kinds of complaints the employees have? You are welcome to create the categories, describe the categories and then list the examples from the video.)

The most specific things the employees are unhappy about are low wages, poor working conditions, lack of interaction and communication with management, lack of investment in employees, lack of pleasant and enjoyable work environment, lack of feedback from managers concerning ideas and suggestions, etc. These complaints may be summarized in several ...

Book review The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Prince is a unique book which is not easy to categorize, even though it is a non-fiction book. One can try to define it as a historic book, especially for the contemporary reader, but at its time of publication it was more a kind of manual, a manual for leaders whom Machiavelli calls ‘Princes’ (Machiavelli, 2003, p.50), on how to behave when it comes to power. Because of this, the book is still negatively labeled and seen as a “dictator’s handbook” (Dove, 2011) and the author seen as a “synonym for intrigues of unsavory nature” (Goodwin, 2003 p.7).
However, the book is intended ...

Heist Society takes us into the high-stakes world of cons and heists, which is a subject that has been done to death in movies and literature, but this young adult novel puts a refreshing twist on the world of the caper. The protagonist is Katarina Bishop, a 15-year-old girl who was raised by her father to know everything there is to know about the big job, the scam, the con. However, she just wants to live a normal life, which is why she makes a move to run to boarding school. Unfortunately for Kat, fate steps in the way and drags her into the ...

The novel ‘ABC Murder’ reflects around a serial killer, ABC, who kills individuals alphabetically. The killer, with an unknown identity, sends provoking letters to Poirot, who is identified to be a detective. However, ABC covers his act with Cust, whom he takes advantage of because of mental disability. He offers Cust a job on behalf of a stocking company and arranges for his presence at each murder scene. ABC, who privately kills individuals in different cities, is however identified to be Franklin Clarke (Christie, 2010). On the other hand, The Big Sleep features Marlowe, a detective, who is hired ...

Introduction

Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education, written by accomplished and known scholars, highlights the fact that students can acquire effective and useful learning only when educational institutions across the United States focus on transferring knowledge to students, rather than administer instruction with the sole objective of complying with state and donor funding regulations (Kuh et al., 2014). To this end, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of teachers in ensuring that their students are actively engaged in the pursuit of real knowledge that will help them in their career and future studies, as opposed to ...

Relating Literature to Experience: Literary Masterpieces that Speak.

Literature has existed in our lives since the invention of formal standardized writing. Writers have used literature to express their thoughts and opinions on various subjects relating to human life. Fundamentally, literature has always been about relating to the human life and experiences. Literature employs elements of writing such a plot, point of view and dialogue to express the ideas of the author. In most cases, authors approach a subject by writing about experiences and using humor to pass the point across rather than approaching the subject head on. Literature has been used over time to record experiences and ...

Fish

The four principles of Fish are a) Be There (being emotionally present), b) Play (be sure to have fun and be creative); c) Make Their Day (focus on customer service and altruism), and d) Choose Your Attitude (take responsibility for how you react to things in life) (Lundin, Paul & Christensen). I think Choose Your Attitude is the most important, as our way of going about our work informs everything else about the Fish! Philosophy – without the right attitude, it is impossible to Be There, Play and Make Someone’s Day.
Describe your favorite job (or class). What was fun ...

The New Deal was a relief for many Americans because it brought many changes both socially, politically, and economically. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal had tremendous positive and adverse effects on the lives of women. On the downside, the New Deal permitted unequal wages and job opportunities for women as men were given the available employment opportunities. Moreover, most relief programs during this time only targeted the men leaving the women out. On the positive side, after some time, many women were able to get jobs and appointed to take on employment in the government. In addition, they were ...

Identity is a significant part in a person’s self-understanding and enhances social construction of people. In most cultures identity is passed on by the father or the males in a family, this explains the reasons for Kingstone selection of the bibliographies of her male relative and not female ones in constructing the theme of identity. In the essay, various characters find themselves in identity crisis trying to incorporate the American culture with the Chinese culture. This essay aims to analyze one of the characters (Ah Goong- the grandfather) in ‘China Men’ by Kingstone with an intention of bringing ...

The story of Bigger Thomas, by Richard Wright, was an evidence of a social and economic disconnects which was prevailing between the Negro and the white Americans. The setting of the book was in the South, and the closeness between the black and the white brought about hostility and hatred among the two races. Bigger who was living in the Southern part of Chicago is portrayed as a black who had both hatred and fear towards he white. In his every action throughout the book, Bigger portrays an obsessive fear that existed between the black and the white in ...

Journalism should never be underestimated. It is a flow of opinions through which one can gain his or her most important knowledge. Moreover, it gives not only positive knowledge, but also an opportunity to think critically, to analyze and to compare the material discussed in one or another article. So, when I am asked if a person was a potential model in the sphere of journalism, or not a model at all, I am not sure if we can come to a comprehensive and an explicit answer. Anyway, I am sure that Murray Kempton cannot be omitted while discussing ...

Book Review. Sor Juana by Octavio Paz.

Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden,
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988.
547 pp. ISBN o-674-82105-X (alk. paper)
Sor Juana or The Traps of Faith is the comprehensive research on the life and work of Sor Juana, a prominent Mexican poet of the seventeenth century, as well as it is a historical, sociological and cultural account of New Spain and the evolution of the mentality of Mexican people in the times the viceroyalty. This book is an attempt to depict the realities of the seventeenth century and ...

The book Whale down which is also known for its whale philosophy is written by Dr. Ken Blanchard. He tells a story of a poor man who has difficulties in managing his complex relationships with humans. After watching a whale show and afterwards applying the whale trainer’s training skills to his family and work, he greatly improves the relationships in his family and performs a more productive work.
The book introduces the power of the positive relationships which is of high importance for creating high performance in any type of relationships. The author indicates that the positive behavior ...

In chapter two, Ehrenreich moves to Maine on August 24 because of its “whiteness.” She is of the opinion that in Maine, she will not be forced to live and work under squalid conditions because she is Caucasian. After some time, she finds two flexible jobs that she can handle at the same time. She works as a dietary assistant in a nursing home over the weekends and as a house cleaner during the weekdays (Ehrenreich, 2011). Nevertheless, she is surprised that even though there are numerous job opportunities in Maine, the remunerations are similar to those offered in ...

1. Why does Quail want to go to Mars?
The unknown world of another planet attracted him very much. Douglass was obsessed with the idea of trudging among its valleys again because he had already visited the planet as a secret Interplan agent.
2. Why does Quali’s wife always try to discourage his interest in Mars?
Douglas himself stated that it was a wife’s job to bring him down to Earth. In fact, Kirsten knew about his previous trip to Mars.
3. How does REKAL, INC. provide trips to Mars?
They incorporate extra-factual memory implant and provide ...