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Book review (The Quiet American Dream)

Ethnic Stereotypes: Americans vs. Europeans.
Greene in his Quiet American Dream is vivid about the disparity between the Americans and the British in terms of their conduct. In this case, Pyle is one character that is used by Greene to establish the unruly conduct of the Americans. They are expressed to be untimely. That is; they are not time observant. On the other hand, they are different from the British people who are stern and concerned about what they do. For instance, Fowler, who represents the British, states that he, is not willing to wait upon a policeman to ...

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A well-known Greek philosopher, Aristotle’s popularity lasted from prehistoric time, middle ages and all the way up to the modern ages. He lived through the principle that every problem has an equivalent objective and unbiased solution. He even became more popular when his literatures covered countless knowledge, ranging from different subjects including biology, physics, music, theater, zoology, metaphysics, science, aesthetics and theater. He is the primary reason why we can categorize and recognize the nature of time, motion, matter and space. This exceptional development in Physics allowed us to ...

Alexis de Tocqueville is regarded amongst the first thinkers of the 19th century that challenged the existing historical account about the founding of America. The prevailing account claimed that Americans’ regime and politics were, as a result of a revolutionary war but ended with the ratification of the Constitution. During that account, Tocqueville had paid a visit to the United States in 1831. At the same time, the citizens celebrated the” founding fathers” since they believed they contributed towards the development of the Americans’ culture and way of life. To illustrate this point, Timothy Pitkin said, “a more intimate knowledge and recollection of ...

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Thick Face black Heart, as a philosophy, was first introduced by Li Zongwu, a Chinese politician cum philosopher, in the early part of the twentieth century, and this philosophy is the basic ideology behind the book written by Chin-Ning Chu. Thick face denotes the ability of a person to hide his intentions from others, and black heart denotes the ability of a person to force his resolve on others. Chu has captured the essence of this theory in her book “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”. First published in the year 1992, this book ...

As an Idealist, Plato’s view of epistemology was hierarchical, and he drew a dividing line between various kinds of knowledge, with philosophical wisdom and Enlightenment (noesis) about the God, the immortal soul and the Perfect Forms being the highest kind, which only a few could obtain. In the actual dialogue, Plato-Socrates informs Glaucon that “there are two ruling powers, and that one of them is set over the intellectual world, the other over the visible”, with one line that divides them into “unequal parts” and two more lines marking the subdivisions (Republic 6.509d). He spends little time discussing shadows, reflections ...

Epistemology is the study of the justifiability of claims in an effort to know more (O'Hanlon & Wilk, 1987). The relationship between epistemology and clinical work is anchored on the language and actions between clients and therapists. The words people use to describe their own actions as well as those of others, their perceptions and experiences are the primary means that therapists use to restore the physical, emotional and the mental health of their clients (O'Hanlon & Wilk, 1987). Therapists use these means to discern and challenge assumptions made when clients seek answers to problems, personalities, symptoms, causes, symptom substitution and ...

Richard Bach’s Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, published in 1977, is the memorable follow-up to his extraordinary bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Unlike Bach’s earlier offering, Illusions did not receive mass audience admiration, but rather became a cult classic. There is a proverb, a quote, a saying, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” That is what happens in Illusions when Richard Bach, a renowned author from the West, encounters Donald Shimoda, a self-proclaimed ‘messiah’ from the East, who ends up becoming Bach’s spiritual teacher, and teaches him that everything in the world that we interpret as reality are actually ...

There is so much more to like about Season of Life than not. To begin with, challenging stereotypes of masculinity, doing so with sensitivity and actually managing to put up a convincing argument is quite an achievement. Marx has written a book about a potentially controversial subject. However, by using the backdrop of college football, he touches a nerve that almost every American is bound to respond to, and positively at that. This, I believe, is the mark of a genius. For a person who has been a part of the sports fraternity, writing a book that questions the leadership approach of coaches, the lifestyles of players ...

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Henry Thoreau introduces what has now become a classical philosophical ideology whereby he urges people, though subtly and indirectly, to embrace the natural scheme of things. This scheme, according to Thoreau (93), is inherently simple and does not require a great deal of exertion on a person’s part. Perhaps his stay in the wilderness as an experiment was aimed at verifying his own ideas of how people should approach life. In my opinion, this actually bolsters his explicit ideals of economy and simplicity in that he was willing to walk the walk and experience it for himself. This adds credence to ...

Book Review: “Consolation of Philosophy”

The book “Consolation of Philosophy” is an interesting piece of writing that deserves close attention from anyone who wants to change life for the better. It allowed me to consider some processes and emotions that I have every day from another perspective. And I understood that it is really great to look at the things we got used to in such a way, as it can become our inspiration, and show us that our life is beautiful and diverse. I want to describe how I understand one of the main themes presented in the book, which is consolation for unpopularity.
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“Women of Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America” is an effort of acknowledging the contributions made by women in American Revolution. Linda K. Kerber Has tried to see the whole affair through a woman’s eye. After reading this book a reader comes to know several hidden aspects of the revolution and also how woman played a major role in during the event. The book discovers a number of facts which was ignored knowingly or unknowingly by a number of books, previously written on the issue by historians. The book has been written after an intensive research as several examples given by the ...

Tao Te Ching is one of the most famous books of Chinese history. The presupposition about this book is that it was written by Lao Tzu also known as “Old Master” in China approx twenty five hundred years ago. There are different opinions about the existence of the writer and time of the book. Some scholars deny the existence of Lao Tzu while a few say that when Buddha was talking about Dharma in India at the same time Lao Tzu was talking about Taoism in China. There are disputes among scholars regarding when the book was created. The literal ...

Chapter 1: Down is Up

Here the author discusses prayer and how this can be used to start up and motivate a group of people and get them into the religous feel. It is an interesting start to the book and provides the ideal background for such a spiritual occasion as prayer. As an introduction it is fine and sets the stage for what is to follow quite nicely. I find it interesting as it is compelling and direct.

Chapter 2: Mountain Politics

Here we have a summary on Old Testament history which is pretty deep and spiritual. Although some of the arguments Kraybill use may be slightly outdated, the pieces ...

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 ...

The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

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Book Review on How Should We Then Live:
The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
“How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture” deals with the major Christian culture written by Francis A. Schaeffer, and published in 1976. Basing on the book, a series of ten films were produced. In the book, Schaeffer objected to the influences of Renaissance, the Charles Darwin and the Enlightenment. His thoughts inspired many leaders of ...

This particular book is seen as a bold step towards discovering science and its related issues from the point of view of the indigenous American and other native people from the various walks of life in the this northern Hemisphere(Cajete 14)
. Native science traces its origin from well established and deep philosophical views. This particular philosophy usually touches on the correct relationship with the natural setup of the world which is usually passed through unswerving and direct contact with the landscape and also by way of social and ritual situations that enable members of a society to learn vital ...

Deborah Meier’s book ‘The Power of Their Idea’ explores a number of issues affecting the public education system. These factors include the leadership in the education system, the philosophy of education, constraints facing teachers in delivering education among other factors. The book seems to be speaking from the author’s viewpoint. The education today is a result of various developments hatched for the purpose of changing the values or the philosophy of education. According Meier (2002), the teachers should have the greater autonomy of handling or running the affairs of public schools. Arguably, such autonomy enables teachers to view the ...

Book Review: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Introduction
The published dissertation for Millett’s PhD in Literature from Columbia University was a book called the Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. In 1970, Millet finished her dissertation however she started it way back in 1969 but successfully defended the dissertation and published it almost ten years later. The book was known to be a master piece and also looked at as being very much successful and notoriousduring the time it was written. Research shows that Sexual Politics and economics was a piece that assisted influence and inspiring the move of feminism. Millett’s controversial thesis in Sexual Politics and ...

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Literary Background 6
Core Points of Review 7
Factual Presentation from the Book 9
Example of Religious Paradox in the Book 9
Special Message of the Book 11
Conclusion 11
Personal Suggestion 11

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What the Buddha Never Taught by Tim Ward
Introduction
Religion forms the core of human existence and our lives, principles, values, ethics are highly influenced by the religions we follow; however, man has been questioning the essence of religion ever since he came into being. No matter whether you follow Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or Jainism, one never ...

1. In The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius considers the differences between philosophy and fortune. Specifically, fortune is something that an individual has for a while as opposed to always having it. In other words, where the mind can always philosophize on a particular subject, the concept of fortune is fleeting. It is temporal and can be snatched away at any moment. This does not make fortune negative, however. Essentially, fortune should be savored for the time in which one has it.
2. From Boethius' perspective, God sees everything and is foreknowing. As a consequence, or effect of this foreknowledge, ...

Plato is one of the most remarkable writers and philosophers who ever lived. The reason that his writings have lived on for so many years is that they debate fundamental themes of human existence that transpire over the ages. An example of this can be seen in the Trial of Socrates in Plato’s Apology. One of the principle themes that is debated in Plato’s Apology is the notion of death as a deterrent, (“Apology: Theme Analysis,” 2016). Socrates, in his monologue, debates whether he should escape his execution for merely fearing death and abandon his principles and ...

The objective of this paper is to critically analyze John Thomson and Adolphe Smith’s photograph entitled Old Furniture, taken in 1877. The photograph can be found in the following link . The author of this paper shall critically analyze the said piece using the key points from Susan Sontag’s book entitled On Photography. Specifically, key areas of focus of the analysis would be on the concepts of Plato’s Cave, social milieu, and Melancholy Objects.

Plato’s Cave

The image above can be directly related to the concept of Plato’s Cave, which, according to Sontag, is a concept that explains ...

Based on the nature of countryside people, the story is set to clearly distinguish them from the urban people who are modernized and composed. Connor inputs various characters, Hulga serving as the main character to emphasize on the four sections that the author divides the story into and to show the role of the four central characters. He focuses his main theme on intellectual of country people who end up suffering the same fate no matter the degree of intellect. Basically, the story implies that people are not what they really think they are nor are they what they ...

Jonathan Glover is an English philosopher and ethicist. He went to college at Tonbridge School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. For thirty years, he was a professor of philosophy at New College, Oxford, and currently teaches ethics at London’s Kings College. Glover is also a research fellow at the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution in the United States.
Born in 1941, Glover writes books and teacher. His “working life consists of thinking, reading, writing and talking about philosophy. Talking includes teaching, which involves listening as well. I write mainly books, with only a few articles” (Glover). In 1989 ...

Consider Jesus

Chapter 8 Abstract
I. Thesis
In Chapter 8, Johnson starts by presenting the traditional debate on suffering and God’s relation to it. In particular through Christ and the Cross. He presents the two main sides, one where God is seen as present in history and close to those who suffer. This position is based on Scripture. The other position, based on Greek Philosophy, sees God as pure and perfect being and as such He cannot suffer. These two perspectives do not meet.
II. Methodology
The classical positions of the broad debate are based on ...

As the authors point out in the opening chapter of Moral Issues in business, "Stories of business corruption and of greed and wrongdoing in high places have always fascinated the popular press, and media interest in business ethics has never been higher" (Shaw et alt, 4). Part of this fascination must stem from humans interest in "bad new" of disasters terrorism and threats to peaceful living. Some of the interest might be a self defense mechanism that seeks to guard against unwanted circumstances that could happen in people's lives through protection themselves of the knowledge of what has happened to ...

Introduction

The Chinese government adopted free market economy in early 1990 and since then the country has experienced enormous economic growth. The rate of urbanization has also been increasing and this has brought new forms of crimes which the government must devise new ways of handling. The increased crime rate across the country is attributable to increasing economic inequality, disruption of traditional social control mechanism, massive rural urban migration, and introduction of western values, change in demographic features and decreased social interaction. In Caribbean countries the authorities have been unable to tame the increased criminality fueled by increased drug and ...

When The Second Sex had been published in 1949, the author of the book Simone de Beauvoir was thirty-seven years old. The Second Sex took the literary market by storm and in just one week, 22,000 copies of the book were sold. Many readers were shocked by the way de Beauvoir frankly discusses the female body and female sexuality. The book was placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican (Gray). Why did the society of the time scandalize the content of the book? Why did the de Beauvoir’s book end up breaking all taboos? ...

Preface and Arithmetic and Geometry philosophy of mathematics

Mathematics gives access to the part of philosophy including introduction, arithmetic, and geometry. In other words, mathematics concerns the way people perceive this physical world and hence essential to the physical world. The arithmetic is a philosophical part of mathematics that deal with the property and manipulation of numbers. For instance, in arithmetic, the sequence has the constant difference between the two consecutive terms, while in the geometry the sequence has a ratio between the terms.

Practice of Mathematics

This includes different complexes of mathematical problems or core problems that a mathematician should understand to acquire a broad competence in mathematics. For ...

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Indian philosophy is unique for its valuable interpretation of life, soul and rebirth. Doctrines of Bhagavad Gita to a great extent reflect the spiritual insight of Indian philosophy. Gita is also known as Gitopanisad, which is one of the several books of Mahabharata, the great Indian epic. The setting of the Bhagavad Gita is that when Kurukshetra begins (the great battle between Pandavas and Kauravas), the great Pandava warrior Arjuna gets confused with the ethic of fighting against his cousins and relatives. Lord Krishna, his friend and charioteer, clarifies this point to him. Notable one among ...

Key Terms and Distinctions

Science is knowledge according to the causes. This implies that just knowledge about the facts cannot be considered as science. It is important to understand them, to know why something is true and to interpret this knowledge. Science requires development of the mind, it is caused by strengthening the intellect and working on it.
Practical science is compared to the theoretical science. The latter one is based on searching for the truth for the sake of itself. Theoretical science is aimed to explain the fact or event not its causes. On the contrary, practical science is designed to ...

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the book is dedicated to the values and identity of the Japanese samurai culture. The author talks about the bodily and spiritual Japanese culture, especially for nature and death, as it reveals the basic principles of Zen aesthetics.
Modern cultural-historical process that operating in the framework of a democratic society is focused on the formation of a strong personality, a man - "warrior" in a variety of concepts. It demonstrates the interest to the eastern military tradition and military ethics. Even now, from the perspective of a foreigner, the current generation of Japanese, regardless of age, bears the ...

Philosophy has been one of the most important disciplines in Western civilization. Many schools of thought have pondered over the great questions of human life. During the 19th and 20th century, the existential current questioned the nature and purpose of man, freedom and happiness. Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish writer closely associated to this movement. His short story “Saint Emmanuel the Good, Martyr”, portrayed many aspects of this theory, such as: . Therefore, the present text will analyze the relations between existentialism and .
Defining existentialism is problematic, as it is used to conglomerate many different systems of thought that ...

The book Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman is an autobiography and an inspirational business book by Yvon Chouinard. The book is about a prominent edge company called Patagonia that demonstrates a prosperous business approach. Patagonia is a company that manufactures clothing as well as outdoors equipment and is well-known for its policies that create environmental awareness. As a co-founder of the business Chouinard provides a moving autobiography regarding the inception of the Patagonia and the management policy that is typifies an authentic success in business and in life.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part ...

Michael Moore believes that while it maybe morally wrong to ingest drugs, that a general principle of liberty should allow free citizens the political liberty to ingest them for recreational purposes. He believes this because he believes the freedom to harm oneself (using recreational drugs) is of a higher order than politically restricting that liberty to do so. He shows historically how t a general principle of liberty is elusive since “Anything that could be called a general right to liberty has proved elusive to the considerable number of philosophers who have pursue it” (Moore, 82). Moore distinguishes between legal rights that should ...

Book Review

The book by Nicholas Orme is an important study in the history of education of the medieval England, and it exceeds expectations of many scholars and laymen who are familiar in this subject. As this typical rendition will have it, medieval schools were far and few in the medieval times, and how the schools did exist to dominate in the field of religious subjects. The author presents a convincing case in something like the opposite of that view, as education was relatively widespread in the times of medieval England, and was typically provided in the non-monastic settings, when in most ...

Philosophy Questions

The main quotations which are evident and interesting in this text includes “though what we perform now were going to counts in many years, how could that maintain our current situations from being absurd?” This quotation simply tries to explain the view that absurdity fundamentally lies on the notion that anything we do will especially our actions matter in the near future. The next instrumental quote proposed by Nigel is that life is absurd since we ignore doubts which cannot be fulfilled, making them to continue living with almost uncontrollable carefulness despite all these doubts .the quotation thoroughly explains ...

Book Review

Franklin’s Autobiography was written at four different times and was left unfinished at his death. In fact, he said before his death that he did not want it to be published, but in fact he had sent copies of it to many friends and, within a month of his death, some parts of it were published in America and in 1791 Part One was published in a French translation. When we consider why Franklin wrote his autobiography, it seems that there was no coherent overall plan, and that in the four sections he had a slightly different purpose in each. The ...

Plutarch’s historical work On Sparta is a vivid and compelling description of Spartan life, and their contributions to modern philosophy, warfare, and other elements of life, to which they have made significant knowledge contributions. Spartan customs, and the rise and fall of their kingdom, are both of interest to current readers, because their culture influenced the rest of Europe profoundly, even after it’s’ eventual decline in the third century B.C. It is a compelling read, depicting some extremely significant historical moments, and characters, and offering tidbits of wisdom still applicable today
Plutarch was a Greek Historian, and ...

Book Review: Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity

Book Review: Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity

Summary

Entwistle’s (2015) text Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity: An Introduction to Worldview Issues, Philosophical Foundations, and Models of Integration is a text that explores the intersectionality between psychology and theology, and asks one important question: to what extent, if at all, should these two disciplines be connected? It might seem an esoteric question at first, but it has very deep, important roots. These questions, according to Entwhistle (2015), speak to the very root of both disciplines—and both have something to offer the other, suggests the author. Despite the ...

Introduction

Marlene LeGates is the author of a book called “Making Waves: A History of Feminism in Western Society.” The book was written in the year 1996 and was published by the Copp Clark Press. LeGates has written two other books as well. In 1970, she wrote “The Knights and the State in Sixteenth-Century Germany.” In the year 2012, she wrote the book, “In Their Time: A History of Feminism in Western Society.” LeGates has spent her life pursuing her teaching career. However, a majority of her career was spent teaching history and women’s studies at Capilano College, which ...

St Thomas was a philosopher in the concept of natural law and the role of God’s justice in the legal system. Ethical arguments between lawyers and judges confront on a daily basis is suggested as an occupational profile for the professional conduct of judges and lawyers in their everyday interactions. St Thomas offers procedural comments on the criminal and civil relations as well as sentencing guidelines. In this era in which a Christian lawyer is many times faced with situations that are unethical and the modus operandi is one of questionable choices, the Christian lawyer and judge have ...

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 ...

Introduction

“Sailing the Wine Dark-Sea: why the Greeks Matter” is the fourth volume of exploration by the great author Thomas Cahill. The author uses his unfathomable skill in literature and historical experience to take his readers to another world of both entertainment and extreme coverage of historical knowledge. In this book, he tags a wide range of historical unassailable features of the Greek by clearly holding an in-depth narration of the journey covered through the landmarks of art and intense bloodshed that lay the Greek culture in a historical legacy in an estimated period of nearly three millennia ago.

It is ...

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 ...

Summary

In the article by Sitkoff, he notes that the basic alteration during this era of civil rights was merely a change in public attitudes in relation to race, which resulted from three convoluted causes: individuals and institutions willing to change, impersonal forces behind them and the chain of versatile events. The author indicates that there were several individuals during this era accountable for stirring attitudes concerning African-American race. Despite blacks having experienced success in the American society, the author has the view that they suffered the most during the time of Depression and claims that starvation haunted them instantly after ...

Tolstoy’s What is Art? examines the nature and purposes of art by focusing on it as a medium to communicate ideas, values and morality. He argues that most definitions and analysis of art are wrong because they focus exclusively on beauty, and instead focuses on the context in which it is used to share ideas, emotions and experiences. He does not completely neglect the beauty of art, but believes it is too vague and indefinable an idea to be a useful framework for analyzing the complicated question of “what is art?” According to Tolstoy, the essence of art, or what “ ...

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 ...

Aristotle’s notion of happiness is quite different from our understanding of happiness. He called happiness an “activity” while the contemporary interpretation of happiness is a placid state of human mind. Thus, happiness now is seen as an emotional state rather than the result of certain action. Greek word eudaimonia can be rendered as “success”. People who are successful according to this notion are not in a particular state, but they live successfully. Aristotle considered happiness as an ongoing state caused by actions, rather than temporary euphoria. He stated that virtuous people can be happy when they exercise their virtues. A ...

Organizational Leadership and Management

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The book “Who moved my cheese?” by Spencer Johnson, despite its international fame and common recognition, appears to be quite humble and simple. An average reader can cover all 96 pages of this book within an hour. Nevertheless this is one of the most prominent works about transformational leadership and delivers the intended message in the most popular and understandable form. The extended title “An amazing way to deal with change in your work and in your life” summarizes the main topic - the change, the context – professional and personal activities as ...

The book “The Grapes of Wrath” written by John Steinbeck and originally published in the year 1939 is one of the unique literary works in the genre of history. The book dates back to the period of Great Depression in America, which started in the year 1929 due to the crash of the stock market and lasted until the beginning of the Second World War . The period saw drought and high winds affecting several parts of the country, especially the Midwest region of America, including the Oklahoma state. Several residents of the state of Oklahoma moved to other places ...

The novel Waterlily was written by Ella Cara Deloria in 1940s but the writer insisted that the book must be published after her death. Thus, Waterlily saw the light 1988 when it was first published, eighteen years after the author’s death. The first publication of the book was almost twice shorter than the original novel. This editorial advice given by Ruth Benedict allowed to underline the plot focusing on its most remarkable parts and make the novel more readable. The book concentrates on the life of the Dakota state with exploration of its ethnography and local traditions. The ...

The critical review of “Capitalism: A Love Story”

Introduction
The need to create wealth is consuming humanity with the passage of time. The Wall Street is sharing a psyche of too much risk taking. The work calls the behavior of investors as casino mentality that causes adrenaline levels to increase in humans, and they receive direct dosage of the chemical straight to the heart. The investors experience addiction of the natural stimulant. The capitalism is based on the need to create social divides in the society. The social divides are created out of the economic inequality in the community. Human development does not occur because all of ...

Introduction

Photography, undoubtedly more than any other medium, is symbolic of the nature of the modern western societies and is widely practiced. Photography is often employed in various fields including manufacturing, business, mass communication, art, science, as well as recreational purposes. Ansel Adams argued “people do not take a photograph; they make it.” Adams contends that it is important to put much effort while taking an image (Bryant 1996 p 29). Photographs are primarily concerned with appearances and through photos, the past blends well into the present (Bryant 1996 p 24). It is through images captured by the camera that we can gain a ...

The character of Socrates in Aristophanes’s Cloud resembles the character he put across in Plato’s Apology. In both cases, Socrates is a master sophist, the ideal philosopher. He is well versed in sophistry, science, rhetoric, and atheism. He appears removed from reality, is ready to defend his stand however outrageous it sounds and refuses to give in to coercions by his critics, students and authorities. Socrates maintains the character of a model philosopher and intellect who combines simplicity with an air of importance to converse convincingly with his challengers regardless of the nature of the topic at hand.
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In her book, "My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power", Lu Hsiu-lien details a long history of Taiwan, one that is primarily dominated by Chinese Empire. She states that much of Taiwan's history was developed in the shadow of its large neighbor to the northwest, China. In her book, she paints a picture of present-day Taiwan as well and maps a course for the future of the small island nation.
Taiwan's traditions are rooted in Confucianism, a type of philosophy that can trace its origins to China about three millennia ago, a philosophy promulgated by Confucius which underlies ...

Dogs are man’s best friend and usually the relationship between man and his four-legged friend is one to be studied and admired. Mostly we often concentrate on what we can teach dogs but no one ever contemplates on what we can learn from dogs. Dogs are some of the happiest animals in the world and there is a secret to their happiness that we can learn from to attain a happier life like dogs. Our four-legged friends are usually unaffected by external events like we humans are.
These animals which live in packs sometimes, highly value all the members ...

4 MAT Book Review: Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement

Summary

Leming and Dickinson's book, Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement (2011) is one of the books that have best addressed the topic of death. Unlike many books that have endeavored to address the topic, this book gives the topic an interdisciplinary approach. Notably, the book employs the biological, the psychological, and the social, religious, artistic and philosophical approaches to explain this phenomenon that has remained mysterious for quite a long time – perhaps centuries. According to the book, death is not only medical but also social. Death has grown to be a common topic ...

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris France in 1905 and was brought up in his mother’s family. He was educated by his mother who maintained a library of books necessary for his studies. He studied philosophy and taught at Le Havre. He took keen interest in anything that took place around him and this is what inspired him to write the book. He keeps a dairy and records details of what takes place daily even though such details may not mean anything to him. For example, he observes his bottle of ink cardboard and states that it is rectangular I ...

A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity

- Introduction
The book A Capitalism for the People is written by Luigi Zingales who is an American economist and currently based in University of Chicago as a professor of finance and entrepreneurship. Born in Italy, 1963, Zingales moved to United States in 1988 with an assertive passion that the economy of a country should not only benefit the big businesses rather it should be focused on the good of an overall market.
‘Capitalism for the People’ is a philosophical, moral, ethical and a monetary account of the current state of US economy. It articulates the author’s conviction that a country’ ...