Meeting Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book review: Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 5th Edition by Chandler H. Barbour, Nita H. Barbour and Patricia A. Scully

Introduction

Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 5th Edition offers more choices for teachers and students than the previous editions. The authors are all educators and their combined experience easily reaches 100 years. Professor Chandler Barbour has retired from an elementary school teaching career but he is still actively involved as a volunteer to his community’s projects with public schools, church boards, directing a fishing advocacy group and as a member on a hospital board. He ...

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Citation and acknowledgement
Ellen Eslinger (1999). Citizens of Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. ISBN 978-1-57233-033-7
Eslinger received assistance from the DePaul University, where she works as a Historian. The content of the book was from her doctoral dissertation that she wrote while in the university. From the analysis of the sources that are quoted, with a sampling of 30 pages, from page 100-130, she uses approximately 60% of secondary sources, mainly from articles as well as published books from notable authors, where she challenges previous theories with her well perceived ...

Introduction

The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British is a book that takes us through the life of a journalist who travelled to Britain for love. She was not prepared for the new cultural setting and thought there would no much difference. Being her first time in Britain, and probably, with the information that Britain was a developed country, she thought there would be mo much difference with what she has been accustomed to in United States. She had many expectations of which she ended up being frustrated (Lyall 29). From the accent, which was quite different, to the food, to ...

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 ...

Source

The book “The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield” by H.W Brand tells about the real life murder of Jim Fisk by Josie Mansfield’s lover, Edwin Stokes. In 1867 Josie was an unemployed actress who made her way in the world by using her looks and charm. This set her apart from most other women who were wives and mothers by Josie’s age. She had a penchant for playing the victim and getting men to “save” her. She had previously lied about her parents using her in a blackmail scheme. This led to ...

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 ...

Book Report on “The Maltese Falcon”

Book Report on “The Maltese Falcon” is a crime novel book that was written first in 1930 by the author Dashiell Hammet. The book belongs to the genre of crime fiction or mystery novel. At the time this was called “hard boiled” crime fiction and it was a very popular type of book. The story centers around the character Sam Spade, who is the protagonist of the book. Sam Spade along with another detective, Miles Archer, is hired by to follow a man named Floyd Thursdby. At first it is just a case of Thursby running off with the man who ...

In author Luke Williams’s book, “Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in your Business,” the fifth chapter goes into detail about making a disruptive pitch. There were numerous pieces of advice that were extremely helpful to creating a perfect pitch; however there were two particular points that resonated with me. One of the most useful concepts was the importance of building tension for the audience, and the second one was the method of breaking the pitch down from nine minutes into three, three minute segments that keeps the audience mesmerized.
When developing a ‘disruptive pitch’ the speaker should be able ...

Clarissa's relationship with Sally Seton is one of the most interesting and controversial aspects of the novel, as it depicts a latent homosexual desire for Sally on the part of Clarissa. Clarissa and Sally had kissed at Bourton 34 years previous to that, and still remembers that as the happiest she has ever been - it was the "most exquisite moment of her whole life...Sally stopped; picked a flower, kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down! The other's disappeared; there she was alone with Sally" (Wolff, 1925).

Clarissa's love for Sally ...

“Great Expectations” is a luminous piece of literary work by British author Charles Dickens. This novel was written in 1860’s and is completely recited in the first person. This is one of highly acclaimed novels of Dickens. The author raises some relevant issues in his novel and presents the same before readers in a vivid manner. This paper aims to propose a discussion on the novel, “Great Expectations” and further discusses Dickens writing style, various symbols and themes of the novel.

Plot Summary

The story is knitted around a young boy named Pip, who is orphan and lives with his elder sister. One day ...

There are many books related to the criminal justice system in the United States whose main focus is to highlight the extraordinary cases. Most of them discuss high-profile crimes and breathtaking and thrilling trials. However, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by Amy Bach is an exceptionally different book. Bach is an award-winning reporter cum lawyer who has given a completely original enlightenment concerning the failing justice system in the United States of America.
There is no doubt in the fact that Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court is a ground-breaking piece of work by Bach as it is full ...

English

The conversations between Lou and Rolph, and Rolph’s interactions with his sister and Mindywere a mix of incidents from the lives of the characters played in the story-A Visit from the Goon Squad: This part of the story gives an idea of the meeting of all the 3 friends and their sharing of experiences from their childhood. With the sharing of the incidents it seems that all the characters Rhea and Jocelyn knew about the incident. It does give a hint of some type of a mishappening however it does not clearly give us an idea about the tragedy in total. ...

Introduction

Engineering systems is an engineering concept that is of great importance to the engineers and non-engineers. This is a way on which systems are developed for some purpose is one of the reasons for the development of this component of engineering discipline. This paper will focus on a summary of the book “Engineering systems: Meeting human needs in a complex technological world” by Weck, Roos, and Magee (2011).

Chapter 1

The first chapter talks about the history of engineering and the various inventions that have been done in the world concerning engineering. The chapter focuses in the way human inventions have complicated the world. ...

The elegant book written by De Weck and his co-authors suggest that, in today’s complex world, people must conform to the technology and engineering artifacts through adoption of macro engineering systems. Through their extensive study, they identify that this intersecting macro-engineering systems compost of the management, engineering, and social sciences. They consider the technology framework to comprise of future needs, societal consequences and evolution of the systems. The book denotes that the engineering system posses the capacity to promote that development of new approaches to design, manage and analyze these systems. This comprehensive book uses several historical records, ...

The book illustrates the dynamic ideas that shape black politicians, intellectuals, and social movement activists’ behavior as they participate in U.S foreign issues towards Africa. The author is an African descendant interested with knowledge on racism. This is because of the rich and reassuring conversations he had on race relations from his immediate family and the shadow of civil rights associations. At the same time, his parents had exposed him to the realities of Africa through art, museums, and books hence able to counter psychological assault by the whites.
Black Americans are deeply ambivalent on their status as ...

Since the start of time, there has been a difference between men and women in the society, especially what each could do. This was not different in the Sioux and Victorian American cultures. The Sioux culture emphasized on the sanctity of marriage. Additionally, they forbade extramarital and premarital intercourse. In this culture, the role of women was to serve their husbands and act as their ornaments. They were not allowed to pursue careers. During this era, women were objectified and those in the lower socio-economic scale were regarded as fair game for men who had money and power to buy ...

Willis, the Dali Reading

The overall thesis of the article is the identification of the source of Dali’s inspiration. In this case, Willis is trying to prove that St. John of the cross inspires most of Dali best art works. He sets his path in identifying some of the art works that have come later after the meeting with the Spanish Father.
Dali described himself as a Spanish mystic of his time (1950) and believed himself a saint of Spanish whose divine purpose is to rescue painting from imprisonment in the blasphemous aesthetics of the modern world. He considered his work divine inspiration, ...

Genocide involves the mass killing of certain ethics, race or group of individuals. The motive of mass killing may be due to political difference, religious difference, culture difference and mistrust among different group. Increase in frequencies of the genocide has made historian explore on the main causes of the genocide. Their researches are aimed to prevent cases of genocide. Jan Gross, the writer of the book Neighbors has done extensive analysis of what led to the Jewish genocide. The book exposes the perpetrator of the Jewish genocide. A contrast to the historical believes that the genocide was facilitated by ...

Memoirs of a Geisha, a novel by Arthur Holden, is the story of Chiyo, later known as Sayuri, the main protagonist. At an early age, her parents sold her and her sister Satsu to an okiya, which is a boarding house for geishas, in the district of Gion. However, Chiyo and Satsu were forcibly separated because instead of being accepted into the okiya, Satsu was sent to Kyoto's pleasure district to work as a prostitute. In the okiya, Chiyo meets Pumpkin, a young girl with whom she develops a deep friendship until circumstances changed everything between them; Mother, who runs the okiya and whose only ...

Book Report: Left BehindCadet Christian Thomas

Book Report: Left Behind

A bored airline pilot Rayford Steele is not happy with his marriage. Having an affair with the beautiful flight attendant, named Hattie Durham is a dream come true. However, fate changes right when the plane takes off for London, almost all of the travelers on the plane strangely vanish into thin air. On earth, mothers run around terrified trying to find their vanished children. Babies are zapped up and pregnant women stomachs suddenly disappear. Yells and screams are heard everywhere as terror takes over the earth. The Rapture has occurred, suddenly driverless cars are colliding everywhere, ...

Iron sharpens iron is a book by Orlando Saer that highlights on the principles required for a church leader or organization. It is mainly a leadership book that is aimed at guiding and mentoring leaders who aspire to make impacts in their groups whether small or big. The book is based on biblical principals and its title derived from a scripture in the bible. This mainly insists on the fact that people need to empower each other. A church leaders needs to have the ability to learn from the others, from their experiences, whether good or bad and to accept correction. The book ...

The religious impulse is one of the most deeply seated within all of us. Because it involves the totality of our response to the events of our lives, it begins with our emotional responses to events when we are too young to have the ability to process those events on a more rational level. Often, it is the effects of these events that shape the way that we deal with others our whole lives. When one is in an ethnic group that is the object of discrimination, religion can become an important part of one’s life, as the suffering ...

“The Goal”, published in 1984 is a novel written by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox in a collaborative effort. The book is based on the Theory of Constraints (TOC) of Dr. Goldratt. Narrated in the first person, the reader is introduced to hard working and idealist production head Alex Rogo, who heads the local plant of the Unico Family’s UniWare division. (The book is set in 1984,before the dot com bubble when Japanese imports are starting to hurt US manufacturers.) We start from a morning on which Alex , who has joined the company only six months back, is ...

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 ...

Jeffrey D. Sachs is among the few economists from the developed world who empathize and sympathize with the world’s poor. He views the world as a global super-community in which the disparate human societies have a common destiny. A world in which true progress will only be possible if we rise as a unit, if the world’s poor are helped out of the circumstances of their birth. His book, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, especially forcefully argues this view. It follows that a recurring theme in the book is the need for a paradigm shift in our global ...