Society Book Reviews Samples For Students

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 stemmed ...

SMITH, CHRISTIAN. BIBLE MADE IMPOSSIBLE.2012.
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The text finds its origins from the ideas of Christianity with connection to the Bible. While Smith tries to explain the thoughts that circle around evangelism, he also adds his ideas about the adoption of the scriptures by Christians. “The Bible made Impossible” is developed with the use of societal behaviors, history, and theology that the author understands. Smith provides his ideas and findings in a systematic method that takes his readers through a gradual process of arguments, findings, and beliefs. It is important to note that, Smith ...

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 ...

Islamic community treats women in an inferior way and a bad way. However, Muslims argue that they treat women in the best way possible. According to Fatima Mernissi, the author of Beyond the Veil, both notions and assumption are right up to a certain degree. The book covers religious, as well as political problems, faced by women in the Muslim community. Fatima gives the perspective of an insider and gives actual and theoretical accounts of what the women face in the Islamic community throughout the book.
Sexual inequality is the greatest focus of the author where he looks at ...

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Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History by Dagmar Herzog is a captivating and open original description of the turbulent history of sexuality in the European continent. The time period discussed starts from the decline of Victorianism to the Communism disintegration and the rise of Islam in Europe. Even though the 20th century is frequently regarded as “the century of sex” as well the time of rising liberalization, Dagmar Herzog has taken a different approach in describing this period. She has put emphasis on the complications and disagreements in needs and behaviors regarding the sexual attitudes. She ...

“Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjection of Women in Seventeenth-Century New France” exhaustively exposes how the advent of the Europeans disrupted the feminine roles, responsibilities and way of life in the native America. The author, Karen Anderson, who has served the government and the people of Scotland at different capacities, as the commissioner of Royal Fine arts, chair of Architecture and Design and founding partner of Anderson Bell Christie is the convener of the Saltire Housing Design Award Panel. Her eloquence in communication and professionalism in architecture has enabled her handle several community based projects that specifically involve ...

Business Culture Inside and Out

Book Review: Reflective Reaction on the Compare and Contrast of Readings
Introduction
Business is business, the new world tends to define business as something that is rather considered more as an institution that tends to bring better culture and better opportunities to members of the society. However, when it comes to the actual value of business, the industry of commerce defines business as a machine that brings in the different resources altogether to create a system that tends to manipulate operations for the sake of earning more money and gaining more profit from whatever could be gained from what ...

Book Review: How Race Survived U.S. History
Roediger (2012) in his book “How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon” presents a good analysis of U.S. history to the readers. The book is considered as one of the best works, performed in the field of American history. Roediger is history professor at University of Illinois, and has a great understanding of the subject which is clearly reflected in the book. The book presents a detailed analysis of race related issues that were prevailing during the past. This paper presents an analysis of the book ...

How Race Survived U.S. History
How Race Survived U.S. History
David R. Roediger, history professor at the University of Illinois, delves deep in his book, “How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon” in order to investigate how the race was created around 1600 and was kept breathing to the present day America. Roediger recalls how the idea of race used to exist during the significant moments of American history. Racism travelled from American Revolution through the American civil war and to the modern status of United States of America.
Roediger defines the race ...

How Race Survived U.S. History
The book, “How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon” is a highly acclaimed book, authored by David R. Roediger, who teaches history at the University of Illinois. The author, in his book, examines the issue of race in a broader manner and presents a very good analysis before the readers. This paper intends to discuss the above named book and further presents a succinct analysis of the book.
Roediger explores the issue of race and examines how race was created deliberately in order to ensure the dominance of ...

The poem is about the king of Uruk, who was partially a man and partially an animal. He built a magnificent temple. The king of Uruk was very beautiful in relation to physical terms. The king was also very wise and strong. Despite the fact that Gilgamesh appeared like a small god, he was very evil in that he raped women carelessly and anyhow. He used forced labor and facilitated the oppression of the people in the society he was a king (Daimon 18). This text is still available and readable up to today. The oral versions of the ...

Women are mostly neglected in the society. The position of women remains unrecognized in most areas of the world. In early days, women were seen as wives whose obligations were to look after kids, cook and do cleaning and laundry The Landscape for a Good Woman tells the story of Carolyn’s childhood and her mother's refusal to mother. This implies how Edna, Carolyn’s mother ran away from the responsibilities of taking care of her two children as she even frankly tells them that were it, not for them; she would be somewhere else.
Carolyn greatly challenges theory ...

The relationship between art and reality is complex. Sir William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a novel that explores many complex themes about human nature and society. The novel’s allegorical style allows for many interpretations with respect to the construction of a new civilization. Its plot allows for a treatise on what would hypothetically occur if teenagers were left to their own devices, without parents or pre-ordained law enforcement to serve as precedent. Through the analysis of the symbols that the story presents, different conclusions can be reached, including opposing ones. Conservatism is presented as being ...

Edward Bellamy was an economist who disliked the socio-economic conditions because many laborers got a subsistence pay. Bellamy wrote a book called Looking Backward, which focuses on Julian West who is an upperclassman, lived in Boston. It is important to note that Bellamy lived during the industrial revolution in the US. His book talks of West being induced to sleep because of his chronic Insomnia. The author records accounts of laborers striking because the capitalists and the landlords enjoyed all the profits and interests respectively. Bellamy writes, “The producers of the nineteenth century were not, like ours, working together ...

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This book gives an elaboration of the black and white film. It gives the story of a confused soldier with the experience of bizarre thoughts about the war and the army. The book gives the detailed account of the army activities and the war and how it affected the society. The use of horses in the war is also explained in details .The aspects of the American civil war are fully analyzed in this book. The role of the soldier is explained in a manner that he served the general. This also entails the chaos where the soldiers were ...

Hernstein & Murray’s The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, offers a controversial statistical argument about social stratification and race being concretely linked to intelligence. However, the book more effectively investigates the consequences of American social stratification. The rich and educated members of society are increasingly isolating themselves in zip code enclaves instead of contributing to the American ideal of diversity. As a result, society has become increasingly divided by education, class and race. Overall, the book attempts to deconstruct complex socioeconomic issues of race, class and intelligence using statistical analysis. Intelligence is an important part ...

In Peter Berger’s book, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, religion is viewed as something that is more of a social development rather than spiritual. Human beings have very little control over their environment, the world around them. They create patterns of doing things, which they make to be the right way of handling situations. Humans create meaning to their life, why things need to be done in a certain way. They also explain the existence of phenomena using the order they have created for themselves. The society creates stability to enable them to ...

The Civil Rights Movement

The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975:
A Brief History with Documents by Van Gosse
Hannah Wilson
In the 1960s, America underwent a monumental change, and everything changed in terms of its culture, status of specific population categories, domestic and foreign policies, and many other aspects under the large-scale, massive, and irreversible influence of the New Left movements. The 1960s were obviously a highly revolutionary period in the US history, mainly due to the rise of many fundamental social movements such as feminists, civil rights protectors, anti-Vietnam war pacifists, and voting rights. For example, Gosse (2005) noted that “in ...

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). ...

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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 ...

Abstract

Police department is considered to be evolved throughout the world on the basis of criminals and their modern ideas of the criminal activities. We will try to look at the various aspects of the society and its connection with the police or role of the law enforcement agencies. We will try to lay the foundation of the study on the information gathered from several sources that are subjected to the researched reports and intellectual work done on the book written by Roberg. The police department is considered to be an important governmental institution and it must be organized merely ...

Dalton defines a good citizen according to the first half of the 20th century as an individual who has the qualities of loyalty, compliance, and obligation to authority and also has a “subject” mentality. Dalton describes this norm as “duty-based citizenship” (Dalton, 80) However, since the 1960s to date, the definition of a good citizen has changed to one who has higher tolerance, approaches government affairs more directly, and is concerned about the well being of other individuals in the U.S. as well as globally. This new definition of good a good citizen constitutes the new norm described as “ ...

"All animals are equal, but some animals

Are more equal than others"
Alexis de Tocqueville has been quoted as saying that the skills used to create marvelous literature do not necessarily produce coherent and well-founded political thought and in most cases one might say that he was right. But that was not the case for English novelist Eric Arthur Blair more commonly known as George Orwell, whose work is characterized by political insight, linguistic clarity and irrefutable literary value, a work that can still inspire almost sixty four years after his death. A keen analyst of his turbulent times, Orwell was, according to Newsweek magazine, 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 ...

This book is a history of the society of the Italian Renaissance in a period (about 1400–1550) in which peers guaranteed that workmanship and writing was 'reborn'. Incomprehensible as it may appear, the Renaissance development was a deliberate endeavor to go ahead by retreating – as it were, to break with medieval convention by taking after a more seasoned model, that of the old Greeks and Romans. Hundreds if not a huge number of studies have been given to this point. The most well-known of them remains The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) by the extraordinary Swiss ...

Introduction

In every country, literature is a sort of mirror that reflects all changes in society. The Shanghai Express by Zhang Henshui is a good example of Chinese literature and helps us to understand the nature of Chinese modernization. This social and psychological portrait of modern China pays special attention to the issues of gender, class, and modernization.

Modern and traditional China

Each country that has a period of modernization, experiences the same problem of the conflict between traditions and modern patterns. China's response to European model of modernization produced turmoil and chaos. China demonstrated the specificity of its national spirit and responded with ...

Introduction

The money supply in Canada was reducing. The ratio of single mothers was rising, and the market of prostitution was getting hot as well. The percentage growth of suicides in the country was overwhelming to say the least. All of the determinants previously discussed pointed out to one and only one trend that was social and economic inequality. The natural system works in such a way that it makes sure that everyone can get their due share of income and livelihood, but in Canada, human factor was so corrupt that they were unduly influencing the money supply in the ...

- Account for why and when the author decided to do the work and what he encountered while doing the research. What are your thoughts about the historian's work?
Stephen Oates is specifically noted for his craftsmanship as he tries to redefine the way history and its events are penned down into writing. Practically, in the book The Fires of Jubilee, Oates tries to take note of the fact that the hero of the event that occurred, in the being of Nat Turner, would particularly get the spotlight he deserves. The author of the book knew what needed to ...

In this paperwork, I am going to write a critical book review paying a particular attention to issues of race, class, religion and gender. The paperwork requires of me to be a historian, hence evaluate the book from the perspective of its contribution to cultural and social history.
Daniel Sugerman, Jerry Hopkins, No One Here Gets Out Alive [Jim Morrison] (2006).
No One Here Gets out Alive; the work of two great men- Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman- caught me by surprise when I first saw it on the library bookshelf. The title by itself just blew up my ...

Thesis: Chronology and the perspectives of slavery in the past society of United States of America

Analysis of the book, “American Slavery by Peter kolchin,” gives a critique, and incisive detail on the journey that the American people as far as the clamour for slavery are concerned. The term slavery in the basic ad most common sense refers to the circumstance where a person is subjected to torture, unfair treatment, persecution and/or maltreatment to a person. A person who is subjected to slavery is usually captured or obtained forcefully through military incursions or bought at designated markets. In the United States of America, there was a period when the issue of slavery in totality was ...

- More presents such a prolonged introduction to enable readers understands the contents of the book. The introduction gives a glimpse into what the author plans to present to the reader. The author used a prolonged introduction because it does not only serve as an introduction, but a commentary to the second part of the book. The importance of having Raphael debate with More about the value of his council in European courts is to help More explore how best to counsel a prince, a popular topic during that period. The debate allows both parties to highlight the ills ...

Consider Jesus by Elizabeth A. Johnson

Jesus Christ and Justice
Chapter 5 Abstract
- Thesis
This chapter aims to ponder the pressing needs of the modern age coupled with the character of post Vatican II theology, which led Christology into immediate contact with issues of discipleship. While considering the different perceptions of Jesus Christ in the world today, Elizabeth A. Johnson considers the crucified Jesus as significant for the liberation of the whole world from injustices and not isolated individuals.
The differences in the articulation of the significance of Jesus led to pluralism and therefore, experiences born from the experience of believers resulted into different ...

Introduction

In the past, the place of women in the society was only recognized as that next to the man. Her roles and responsibilities clearly defined as that of being a home-maker, the support for her husband, a mother to her children, nothing more, nothing less. Girls that eventually became women grew up with these facts as they were taught and instilled in them from a tender age hence did not expect any more from life. However, there are those that challenged these societal expectations. Questioned these roles and responsibilities that they were expected to live by. These individuals went ...

The purpose of the author in this writing is to inform about the importance and protection of the freedom of speech. The author argues that the freedom of speech is a fundamental aspect among the people in the society in order to express their views about life. The author of this essay treated the subject matter very seriously in order to assess the impact of freedom of speech on the members of the society and the aspects relating to the abuse of the freedom of speech. The use of comprehensible language author made the subject matter of freedom of ...

- Cole and Birdie speak Elemeno, a language named after their favorite letters in the alphabet, "with no verb tenses, no pronouns, just words floating outside time and space, without owner or direction" (p. 6). What purpose does this language serve? How does Elemeno reflect the sisters' positions in their family and in the world? Why does Elemeno continue to be so important to Birdie throughout the novel?
The language that the sisters share determines their connection with each other. Considering that they share a special bond as sisters, both Cole and Birdie could understand each other that seem ...

The book is a firsthand account and detail of the events that took place in the life of author herself. It stretches back to the days when she was faced with the issue of containment in Toronto Interval house. She along with her mother had to live there. The story gives an account of the events that unfolded in the mid 1970s, exactly in 1974. The overall dismal outlook of the social institutions and the lack of awareness and attention being given to the women’s problems that are faced by them, along with the various other associated disturbances ...

The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner is a book that advances the frontier proposition in the American history. This book was first published in the year 1921. The book follows the essay by Turner titled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" in 1893 and subsequently presented to the American History Association in Chicago, Illinois the same year. The essay was reprinted many times and was subsequently assimilated in The Frontier in American History as the first chapter (Turner 7). The book basically presents the frontier thesis that postulates how the ideology of the frontier ...

'On killing' by LT. Colonel. Dave Grossman

Introduction

The mission of the author in writing this book was mainly to show the cost of learning the war. The author aims at showing the psychological impact of the war and genocides due to the deaths of many people. The author aims at showing the mental torture associated with the activities of war and genocide. The purpose of the book is also to show the mental effects caused by killing and deaths of the people. The author also targets the effects of the war on the psychological aspects of the victims. The ...

Introduction

The economic environment of the United States of America lies with the civilization that swept the country in the past years. There are many revolutions that are seen in the world. This book review will summarize/review the book by Sachs Jeffrey (Sachs, 2012). The book is divided into two parts.

Part 1

Chapter 1
In this chapter, the author talks about the cause of the problems that face America today. There is a narrative about the cause of the problems that have been caused over time in America. The author tries to link the problems to the different regimes. The author ...

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, ...

This book highlights the changes in the business industry over the years and the author believes that one has to speculate achievable goals as a way of being in the realms of being a Key Person of Influence. The book gives individuals advice to become an important and successful person in the business world. Given the dynamic in the business world, the author recommends individuals to form personal bands and micro niches as a way of creating job certainty. The author believes that a personal brand can be created by one examining some of the passions and ideas that ...

I am writing this paper on the book “Identity and Violene” by Amartya Sen who is a Nobel laureate in economics. In this book he extensively discusses about his concern with the ‘miniaturization’ of human beings. He goes on to touch on the topic on identity in connection with civilization, religion and culture while also in historical context, individual freedoms and globalization. In this book he presents his argument in such a manner that is persuasive and is able to convince the reader of the book easily. This book should be a must read to anyone with any liking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction

In the history of genocide crimes, the question of responsibility always crops up. International organizations of justice have always argued that responsibility for genocide and war crimes is a collective and individual responsibility. Everyone is responsible in their own right but also it is the duty of the society as a whole to work against forces that would otherwise promote occurrence of war atrocities. This paper is a comparative piece drawing evidences and incidents between the works of Slavenka Drakulic in the book “They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague” and Heda Margolius ...

Introduction

George Bernard Shaw in Act one illustrates male characters to be conservative whereas the female characters are fashioned to be liberal. Mr. Praed is depicted by the author as an aggregate depiction of a conventional man in the Victorian society. This is apparent from the conservation that transpires between him and the young Miss. Vivie. Mr. Praed affirms, “You make my blood run cold. Are you to have no romance, no beauty in your life?” (Shaw 10). The assertion unmistakably highlights the perception of men on women. Men anticipated women to be objects of romance and beauty. Women were ...

The story written by Hwang is very interesting and moving. It is told in a non-structural and non-linear way, which is something that most people are not used to reading. Besides this structural characteristic of the novel, it tells a story of the history of Korea, before Communism spread in North Korea. I do not agree with the thesis statement which claims that the characters Pak Hun and Ojaknyo reject the old and feel that the new is unjust. However, I do believe that they think that there is much improvement to be done in modern times. The characters ...

Ethics and social conventions, on the one hand, have a long history of relationship. In the United States alone, diverse groups of people were subjected to a severe discrimination due to their nationalities, race, or even disabilities. Starting from the times of slavery up to the present time, ethical principles were often violated by a number of unreasonable people in society. There exist taboos that people accept as justified from birth because these are deeply socially rooted. Unfortunately, most of us are weak and, thus, cannot fight against any social traditions or taboos.
Cultural relativity, on the other hand, ...

Book review of ‘Childhood and Society’ by Erik Erikson – Book review, Literary and Psychological Analysis, Reflections on reading the book

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Abstract

This paper will present you with the book review of ‘Childhood and Society’ by Erik Erikson. The review will focus on the analysis of its context in literary and psychological terms, its contribution to the field of psychology as well as on the reflections deriving from its reading. A short presentation of the book’s structure will be given providing you with a highlight of the basic elements of each chapter. Emphasis will be given on the psychological theory developed in this book on behalf of Erik Erikson, a widely acknowledged psychologist and psychoanalyst who ...

1. “ Wa”: what is “wa”? Briefly define the term and how it is (has been) used/practiced in Japan?
Wa is group harmony in Japanese culture. This harmony implies both conformity within a social group and a peaceful group unity. This group mindset implies preference for continuing harmony in a community setting over any personal focus. This concept of Wa derives from Japanese sense of family values. Within the family, any member exhibiting behavior breaking the idea of the harmonious nature of Wa in the pursuit of furthering his or her own interests becomes the subject of strict ...

Book report: The Best Of Me.

The Best Of Me is one of Nicholas Sparks’ most read novel. He is an American novelist born in December 1965. It was first published on 11th October 2011. He was inspired to write the novel after observing the kind of challenges that youths in the society go through in the pursuit of love. His intension was to show the world the conflicts created by love and if true love really has the power to outshine everything.
It is an imaginary story that takes place in Oriental northern Carolina. From the description, the reader can tell that the story ...

According to James and Barry, (2004) leadership is an attribute that is only associated with those people who hold top positions in the community and the rest of the people are doomed to the incompetence of leadership. The authors used Jesus Christ’s life experience as a suitable example of the indispensable teaches or lesson for a good leader. In other terms, leadership is the ability or procedure to which an individual becomes a “lifelong learner”. The article discourages the dominance of the individual with the top position and advocates for a leadership team along people’s abilities. For ...

Critical Review Respect, by Philippe Bourgois

Synopsis
Anthropologist Professor, Philippe Bourgois's journey in this book is to recognize how ethnic segregation and poverty seems be extremely predictable in one of the most luxurious cities in the world, which is New York City. With the goal of doing his three and a half year ethnographic investigation, Bourgois makes the decision to move himself and his wife to East Harlem which is considered to be one of the allegedly 'roughest ghetto' regions in America. On the other hand, what Bourgois finds out in El Barrio is a supportive loving community of people whose normal lives seem to ...

Ethics in the Society

Ethics regards to informal rules that govern an individual in deciding the proper course of action. Fundamentally, it guides the choice of right or wrong, the way individuals categorize and pursue their values in human endeavors. Ethics prompts individuals into questioning whether they forfeit themselves to a greater cause or trail their own happiness. In this respect, ethics becomes fundamental in human life to avoid aimless and irrational action that may reduce one’s ability to succeed in life (Sterba 98). Individuals need to examine their states and recognize their peculiar needs that result from their daily choices to ...

Introduction

In his article “Learning in the Key Life”, Jon Spayde explores the various views and definitions that individuals hold on education. He believes that education is comprised of various life experiences and that there is a need for people to establish a balance between academic education and self education. This is because according to Spayde, academic education does not really prepare one for the real world like self education does. Although there is significant value in academic education, Spayde feels that class and education are all about power.
Spayde believes that the most efficient way to learn is through ...

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 ...

In the book”Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors” by Stephen E. Ambrose, the lives of these two great historical rivals are revealed. The author intends to reveal a clash of two cultures during the Civil War of Little Bighorn, on June 25, 1876. His two main characters being Crazy Horse, a Native American warrior, and General Custer, a white American cavalry officer. Through Ambrose’s revelations one can gain a better understanding of their character by comparing and contrasting these two warriors, revealing both their triumphs and failures.
Culture played a big part ...

- How were Custer’s (Autie) and Crazy Horse’s (Curly) childhood lessons and educations different? How did these differences reflect their culture?  Be specific.
Both Curly and Autie had been taught different childhood lessons and both had received different educations. Talking about Curly, he grew up in the society with only one culture dominating. Nature and Sioux were his main teachers. In contrast to that, Autie grew up being surrounded by multicultural society. Secondly, Curly’s father never had any traditional occupation of hunter or a warrior. He was a healer, therefore Curly was always surrounded by his father’ ...

Nursing

Initial Reaction
The story by the narrator, Mitch Albom relieves an experience of touch and intimacy between a teacher and student. The teaching of Mitch by Morrie continues even after the latter’s final days in College 1979. It appears awkward that Mitch actually failed to fulfill his promise to visit the favorite teacher. The subsequent episodes reveal a deteriorating nature of Morrie as old age catches up with him.
Upon reading the story, the feeling that strikes me dwells on the nature of teacher student relationship. The linkage between Morrie and Mitch is commendable and unique. As I ...

Introduction

For many years, more advanced people in the world have always treated the inferior members of the society with spite. The advanced people in the world will often feel that they are of more value to the world than their inferior counterparts. This was very particular in the early years of the American nation. The European colonialists often treated the natives, particularly the native Indians with a lot of unfairness. This indeed shows the backwardness of the society. However, Father Paul le Jeune “Encounter with the Indians” presents a new picture of how cultural and society development enables people ...