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Book Review: A Slaveholder's Union

A Slaveholders' Union, written by legal scholar George William Van Cleve, presents an historical account of the forming of the Constitution and the early days of the United States of America through the context of slave policy and its subsequent politics. Van Cleve's book is an incredibly detailed and well-researched document that sheds new light on the motivations and true intentions of the founding fathers during the creation of the Constitution.

Van Cleve attempts to examine the politics of slavery throughout the Constitution and elsewhere in various forms. However, his broad thesis is that slavery was, despite many accounts ...

Book Report on Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range

Introduction A lot of things have happened over Northern New Mexico and its Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Mexicans at that time basically called it home even though there were a lot of changes about the mountains that they witnessed. This paper tackles the main themes presented by the book “Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and hard times of a New Mexico Mountain Range”. The book was divided into two. The first book discusses the changing character of New Mexico together, focusing on the three major cultures which were a significant part of its history: The Hispanic, Anglo and the ...

Book Introduction

There had been a lot of books that tackled the way how a company could excel in a certain field. There are books that exposed the mistakes that companies usually make while there are also other books that demand action done by these companies. In Jim Collins’ book titled “Good to Great”, there is no such thing as mistakes and mediocrity. For him, it’s the long term characteristics of a company that matter. There may be several companies who were genetically destined to become a large-scale enterprise in the future, but clearly, that is not the case for ...

Purple Hibiscus is a luminous piece of literary work by young Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This is the first novel of the author but has earned high acclamations by the readers across the globe. The author has observed these things in the Nigerian society and the same is reflected in the examples produced by her in the novel from beginning to the end. This paper discusses the novel Purple Hibiscus, other related aspects and also discusses the ending of the novel. The author presents a true picture of the Nigerian society. The novel suggests that every child, born ...

In this piece, I will be comparing and contrasting the ideologies of Mark Aray in the Highlands of Humbolok and James Rowl in the California Dream. On the other hand, James Rowl gives a lot of reports in his California Dream found in the California, a people, a place, a dream. Just like Mark, he also gives out an in-depth analysis of the prevailing scenario in California. He also reports of the happenings in this state. However, he looks at it from the historical perspective. He criticizes the happenings right from the past. This makes the readers be able ...

This article gives an analysis of Irvin D. Yalom’s Lying on the Couch, a 369 psychoanalytic book published by the Harper Perennial publishers on 18/07/1997. This book gives a critical evaluation of the challenging role of the therapists. It records that even if one may be a distinguished expert in a given field; challenges are inevitable and should be faced with a lot of confidence and transparency.

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Ernest, 40 is an ambitious guy who discovers his passion for talking therapy after a long duration of practice of psychopharmacology. Besides, he is honest, open minded and looks forward to ...

Many of us puts a different meaning in the concept of democracy. For some, it is a set of political institutions, for others it means a particular political regime. In fact, the nature of society, which claims to be democratic, is determined by how clear the idea of ​​democracy is and the nature of institutions that are designed to ensure the implementation of this idea to life. The very essence of democratic government is the absolute will of the majority – in such a way it was defined in 19th century by Alexis de Tocqueville. However, according to one of ...

Phillip Pirip, known as Pip is the central character around which this great book revolves. In the beginning he is introduced as a young orphan forced to live with his cruel sister, Mrs Joe. In analyzing Pip's character, I have elected to portray his true colors as blue and gold and perhaps his true blue color was more evident in the first few chapters, followed by the gold color emerging as he broke away from the harshness of his childhood. Pip's true blue colors are expressed in the manner of his response to simple honesty and trust, in that ...

Book Review - How to Be a People Helper

General Subject Matter: Biblical Self-Help Price: $11.75 ISBN: 9780842313858

In How to Be a People Helper, Collins (1995) seeks to use Biblical principles and acts of kindness and consideration in order to increase our sensitivity to others' needs. In writing this book, Collins hopes to inspire paraprofessionals (those who are not experts or professionally trained, but have taken workshops or have some experience in Biblical counseling) to have the tools to effectively help others. The book is also written from the perspective of these paraprofessionals, in order to provide information as to how to relate to others and find ...

Actin in Plant Cells

Actin, one of the most abundant proteins, occurs in all eukaryotic cells constituting almost five percent of cellular protein. Actin is the predominant component of the cytoskeleton. It is worth noting that the all-important cytoskeleton of a plant has three principal components; actin filament, microtubules and intermediate filaments (Jeon, 2003). As a component of the cytoskeleton of plant and animal cells, actin is of crucial importance in a plethora of cell processes that act in concert to govern cell growth and morphology. The cell processes influenced by the actin cytoskeleton include; cell division, organelle movement, vesicle trafficking, organelle motility, ...

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In the years following the Revolution, anti-slavery sentiment created an opportunity to rid the nation of what even many slaveholders considered a negative and destructive influence. The generally accepted view of this period is that the Constitutional Convention was overwhelmed by wealthy southern planters, anxious to preserve their wealth and way of life. In Race and Revolution, Professor Gary B. Nash examines the role played by northern authorities in eroding the move toward abolition. Nash also criticizes historians both past and present for ignoring this more complex perspective, choosing instead to divide the issue along neatly assigned ...

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In this seminal book which is around 400 pages long, the author manages to cram a detailed history of the Middle eastern problem from the early years of the 1800’s to the present day. He succinctly manages to combine what occurred in the Colonial period where the Arab peoples were consistently exploited for their rich natural resources while he also manages to keep an open mind on other issues such as the traditions of Islam as well as several intrinsic problems which permeate the area and which have continued to this day. Essentially Mansfield offers a study of ...

Importance of Communication

Managing an efficient and effective healthcare system for a community could be a complicated task especially if an organization and its members do not even know how to conduct a wise planning and at the same time do not know how to execute such plans. What the current healthcare system needs is an organized and systematized planning method and the only way to attain such state is to integrate the aspects of communication in the planning process and throughout the whole processes of implementing those plans (Young, 2005). Unfortunately, the point of integrating communication into the planning process alone ...

That Africa Bible Commentary by editor Tokunboh Adeyamo provides study and discussion of the Bible in the context of African studies and trials. A variety of articles are collected within the text that provides unique perspectives to African issues in a Biblical way. Essentially, the difficult challenges facing many Africans today have specific and understandable solutions and commentary in the Holy Bible, and the Africa Bible Commentary brings those issues to light. The book goes through the Bible, offering interpretations of the book section by section, and demonstrating how the issues being discussed are relevant to modern Africa. Seventy ...

French Mentality

Although history might seem a concrete science about events and their chronological order of occurrence, it is far from giving concrete answers and explanation of the reasons for those events to happen and their socio-cultural dimension of occurrence. Usually, historians explain events in terms of political reasons or military necessity or state interest, forgetting that those events were carried out by simple people that belonged to their specific socio-economic and cultural communities. Those people embodied their epoch and opportunity to choose their destiny. The main reason why Eugen Weber wrote this book was that he wanted to outline another ...

The book thief is a highly acclaimed and bestseller novel by the Australian author Markus zusak. The story of the book starts with a unique narrator which is death in the novel, and it tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a young German girl who lives in the Molching with Hans. Liesel was given up by her mother to live with this family just before the beginning of the Second World War. The book thief is a detective story with Nazi German background and it presents an account of humanity, inhumanity, hope and poverty. Since the author had learnt ...

John Brown was one of the most influential figures in American Civil War history; a famed abolitionist, he led the Pottawatomie Massacre and raided Harper's Ferry, without success. Being an important white figure in the abolition movement, he has proven an important person to study when contemplating the Civil War and the fight to free the slaves. In his trial and execution, Brown turned out to be an incredibly important martyr to the cause of abolition. Merril Peterson's biography John Brown: The Legend Revisited "is an extended meditation on the life of John Brown and his place in American ...

Taking a brief political look on matters around the world, Russia is one of the countries that have been affected by various political sways that have even affected its governance, especially in the 20th century. One of the major reasons being the fact that it is the largest country across the world, achieving a stabilized political stand over the years hasn’t been easy for it, as it has been through attempted coup de tats, authoritarian and dictator leaderships and even bureaucracy in its rule of administration. Over years, different approached have been used in pursuit for political liberalism. ...

Introduction

Japan is a country in South East of Asia with very vast a culture and origins. Entities such as sumo wrestlers weighing 350 pounds, fire-walking ascetics on the streets and young to very old Geishas are unique only in Japan. No matter how hard you look for such things in the western part of the globe, you will surely end up failing because no other place in the world has these kinds of things aside from Japan. Japanland by author Karin Muller is a describing that aims to let the readers obtain a clearer and brighter picture about Japan ...

Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point discusses societal change in the form of a 'tipping point,' wherein social factors and memes coalesce into a large, substantial change that alters the way society or economics works. Gladwell emphasizes three rules of epidemics, catalysts for change which provide significant shifts in economic and social culture. First there is the "Law of the Few," where most of the work is performed by fewer people; this is known as the '80/20' Principle. This name is derived from the idea that 20 percent of the people in a situation will do 80% of ...

PayPal

This paper will review the book “The PayPal Wars” written by Eric Jackson from his point of view. In his book, the author recounts a story that he experienced in the early days of the company as a senior employee in the marketing department. In his book, Eric shares some of the inside secrets that were going on in PayPal. In his book, Eric recounts how PayPal acted as a main competitor with Billpoint and how after some time, eBay bought PayPal to replace Billpoint, a system it was using for money transfer. EBay accrued control of PayPal for ...

. There is an amicable relationship between golf and management as illustrated in this preceding except or piece of writing. This is due to the fact that, the two work on barely the same principles and orientation. For example, management is the process of enabling the realization of objectives effectively by mobilizing people or human resources toward the desired ends. This is enabled through the incooperation of the available and needed resources such as finances, technological know how ann natural endownment. Alternatively, management can be defined as redefinition of human acts inorder to facilitate the realization of the desired results. ...

In the play, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ by Vanessa, is an illustrative portrayal of male superiority visa a viz their female counterparts. In the event, when Stanly breaks the plate, they were in Blanche’s birthday party. The trio: Stanly, Stella and Blanche. As they conversed and went on partying together, Blanche attempts to make up a joke about a swearing parrot and a priest, yet nobody gets amused then, Stella made an interjection; she says that her husband is too busy and tells her husband Stanly to clean himself up then help her clear the table. This aggrieved ...

The Host by Stephenie Meyer is the novel which will not leave one indifferent. To my mind, this novel touches one of the most timely and critical questions of the contemporary world – humanity. Even though the book tells a story about aliens who invade the world and subdue minds of human beings, we can track quite a similarity between that imaginary world and contemporary one. Thus, the main idea of the novel is actually triumph of humanity and love. The whole novel is a struggle between an alien soul and a human soul. From the very beginning we are ...

Introduction

The book “The French and their Revolution by Richard Cobb” describes the French Revolution that took place in the last decade of the 18th century, between 1789 and 1799. This period was marred with political and social turmoil in European history. The revolt resulted in the crumple of the ‘absolute’ kingdom that had governed France for several decades. This book gives a brief summary of the revolution and how the government reacted towards the same. The author states that monarchy had ruled France for years which resulted into different social classes emerging. There was a very big gap between ...

Fletcher, Bill, and Fernando Gapasin. Solidarity divided: the crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.

In Bill Fletcher's book Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice, the authors delve into the intricacies of the US labor trade union movement. Today, the struggle for labor and union rights is ongoing and extremely complex; the authors examine the various issues that are causing the complexity and advocate for a greater sense of social justice. The purpose for writing this book is to win the ...

Deaf in America: Voices from Culture

Amazingly, almost all books devoted to description of deaf people’s world were written by hearing people. Deaf in America represents an alternative view of deaf people which significantly differs from books written by hearing people. The book reflects deaf people point of view since the authors of the book, Carol A. Padden and Tom L. Humphries, are deaf. The goal of the book was to write about deaf people in a new way, introduce their culture, and draw attention to their life. Carol A. Padden is a professor of Department of Communication teaching in the University of California. ...

Introduction

People have always been fascinated to read more colorful novels and other literary works than just pure texts. It is believed that the more you stimulate your senses, the higher the chances that you will have fun. We call these books graphic novels because of their not only story-telling quality but also because of their catchy and detailed drawing that would surely help the readers have a good grasp about what really happened or what really is happening at a particular scene. Among the most successful graphic novels published in 2010 was Doug TenNapel’s Ghostopolis.

Ghostopolis Overview

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It can be simply said of as the ability to exercise authority, control, influence, and rule over living and non-living things altogether. This is the act of influencing things to happen or go in a particular way. The power at hand may be for the benefit of one or many people around the person with authority. We are informed of how God used his power to manipulate the existence of the living and non-living things both on earth and in heaven. These things he created were for the benefit of himself and the community of mankind he had created ...

Published in 1906, The Jungle was supposed to be investigative journalist Upton Sinclair’s expose about the terrible treatment that new immigrants received when they came to the United States. The Rudkus family, having recently come to America from Lithuania, has a dream of settling in Chicago, while Jugdus, the head of the family, supports the rest of them. The whole family has been working to save up to buy a house in their new country. Unfortunately, they get swindled left and right – by Americans and immigrants slightly wiser than they are – and they end up penniless. The family ...

Book Review: Allen, Catherine J. 2002 The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington, D.C

Book Review: Allen, Catherine J. 2002 The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Washington, D.C. Introduction The book “The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community” is an idiosyncratic ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes. The book brings the story of this group of people into present and hubs mainly on the very real problems of cultural continuity in a dynamic world. The author manages to discover demonstrates that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was 1985. This ethnography is very dissimilar ...

On reading Shirley Jackson’s most renowned story “The Lottery,” the reader is left feeling somehow betrayed, because she does not offer her readers a world of black and white, where everything is straightforward. Quite the contrary, her world is a world of opposites merging into one confusing unity of meanings, where the good merges with the bad, resulting in an ironic portrayal of reality and what good actions can lead to. The world of “The Lottery” is a world of individuals who work together as a unity, erroneously believing that they are doing good for themselves and their ...

Major themes to be tackled:

What is author's fundamental purpose? how does the work contribute to our knowledge of history? What sources did the author rely on? Contain judgements? Emergence of tragedy in the public eye.

Finding Amelia

Finding Amelia is perhaps one of the most controversial stories ever written on the real life case where a woman and her navigator disappeared. This story has a large number of warts and all in it but it is also extremely interesting in the sense that it portrays the author’s purpose in getting to the bottom of things accordingly. The author also relies on several important sources ...

The book is an exhaustive illustration of the above thesis subject since it exploits Khan’s military skills. The text equally elucidates the lustrous western perception of the Mongolis as savages because they brought civilization to its knees. The Mongals dealt ruthlessly with the ruling classes whilst they were overly friendly and liberal with the common masses that comprised of the peasants, tradesmen and extra. They levied little taxes to them; they treated with much tolerance and accommodation of divergent aspects of the locals’ culture and religion. Khan is also showcased as a ruthless barbaric blood thirsty individual that ...

Introduction:

In this excellent book, Kochlin traces the origins of slavery from its origins in the Colonial period to the latter parts of the institution. He focuses primarily on slavery as an American institution and largely focuses on the historiography of the topic especially where the mannerisms of African slaves are concerned. Kolchin who is a professor at the University of Delaware assesses the resilience of African slaves who are sometimes underrated as resilient beings with the focus being chiefly on their suffering and not on their strengths as individuals. Kochlin also delves deeper into the mechanics of the Reconstruction ...

Book Review: Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Book Review: Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson Cowie is a Labor historian and a professor of Industrial Labor Relations at the Cornell University (Jefferson Cowie). Cowie’s book Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class is a classic explanation of the manner in which the 1970s’ legislative and fiscal mayhems in the United Stated affected the life of the common American (Cowie 2010). He recalls the circumstances of the era to remind the reader of the cultural changes that took place due to the 1970s’ labor ...

Book Review of ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E Hinton

Introduction “Outsiders” is a novel by S.E Hinton based in 1965. The first Publication was done in 1967 when the author was 18 years old. The book revolves around two opposing groups called the Socs and the Greasers. The two groups in the book are divided along socioeconomic lines. The author was upset by a situation when a friend of hers was confronted by a group of Socs for being a Greaser. She therefore decided to write the book basing her arguments and facts to the prevailing circumstances and the issues revolved around the rivalry of the two groups. ...

MacLean, Nancy. Freedom Is Not Enough. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2008.

In Nancy MacLean's Freedom Is Not Enough, the difficult transition between a white-dominant culture into one of greater acceptance is described, particularly as it extends to the workforce of the United States. According to MacLean, after World War II, American society could be classified as a "culture of exclusion"1; whites still had the political and social power to prevent African-Americans and Mexican-Americans from participating in the American workforce on an equal level. However, many different forces came into play that managed to increase and promote diversity in the workplace, including the efforts of many civil rights activists and ...

Abstract and questions

Consider the story in terms of the Hindu concept of dharma. Narayan does not use the Sanskrit word dharma, but the idea that each character has a duty or destiny which must be fulfilled pervades the book. What is Rama's dharma? What is Sita's dharma? Consider in particular how the marriage of Rama and Sita is restored at the end of the story by divine intervention. What is Hanuman's dharma? Since he is non-human, how does this alter his dharma? What is Ravana's dharma? Since he is a demon, he might fulfill his demon dharma, and yet commit evil ...

Arthur H. Miller's Leadership, though published in 1920, bears the earmarks of any truly leader-oriented manual,and it is as relevant now as it was nearly one hundred years ago. In Miller's preface, he states that "in any group of men there are leaders and followers" (ix). Miller purports that he can efficiently and effectively convey great leadership methods without much babble into the psychological reasons. He gets down to business. Good leadership is following through with what has been well-planned. Taking on the broad scope of leadership seems undaunting to Miller as he immediately begins to define leadership ...

Warner bros. entertainment is an American company that works in the field of creation, distribution, production of films and television entertainment. The company is a global leader in its segment and caters a number of entertainment options that allures the audiences. The company has a strong interfere in almost every aspect of the entertainment industry. Headquarter of the Warner bros. entertainment is in Burbank, California and New York, America. The company has a long history of working in this industry and was founded in the year 1923 by four brothers, since its establishment the company is working in the ...

Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

“The Things They Carried” is a short fictitious narrative written by Tim O’Brien who explores the account of Jimmy Cross, an American officer and his soldiers serving in Vietnam. This powerful story is set in the Vietnam War, a battle which sounds prehistoric or ancient for most of today’s readers but which at the same time remains possibly vivid in the minds of the old generation. The narrative has been set in the postwar Vietnam and the author has illustrated this through the narrator, who revisits the country and the old battlegrounds where he fought at one ...

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This book is as a result of informative essays on the daily life during the French revolution. The essays are presented from a Master historian who had the gift of understanding some great historic events in terms of ordinary human relations. The author admired chronicles of daily life in Revolutionary France. He gathers the accounts into one volume with an enlightening introduction by his former pupil David Gilmour. In the book, the reader is able to not only meet history makers like Danton and Robespierre but is able to understand the occurrence of several events during the time of ...

BOOK REVIEW OF THE NEW ARAB REVOLT: WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT IT MEANS, AND WHAT COMES NEXT

The New Arab Revolt: What Happened, What It Means, and What Comes Next perfectly illuminates the settings and the happenings associated with the revolutions that have been taking place in the Middle East. This book is a collection of about sixty articles that have been compiled into a single volume.

It has endeavored to provide even illustrations of interview proceedings, various testimonies of congressional parties, op-eds (articles expressing a personal viewpoint written for the op-ed section of a newspaper) from various experts and other think-tanks in the field including Lewis Bernard, Anderson Lisa, Taleb Nicholas, Benn Aluf among ...

This story is sad but told in a humorous way that you cannot help but smile all the way. The author begins first by relating his story with that of King Solomon who after being fooled by Ashmodai, the King of the demons, removed his ring of which he had been warned never to remove by his father King David. As a result of this, the once rich and powerful king is thrown out of his kingdom and into abject poverty never to return to his glory again. This in a way symbolizes what happens to Joel. He never ...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is a piercing look at the experience of new immigrants in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Of particular interest is the detail with which Sinclair analyzes the ins and outs of the meatpacking industry in Chicago – not just the hygiene (or lack thereof) but the overall corruption in the system. The book’s events also highlight the horrors of working at a wage that becomes a form of slavery, as workers can barely afford to survive on them, but since all of the other employers in the same industry ...

Introduction

Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger 's book , The Year 1000 : What Life was like at the Turn of the First Millennium , is a short and slightly trivial narrative attitude towards the life of the typical individual in the first millennium. It generally explores the manner in which individuals existed in the year 1000. In truth, Life in this period was very dissimilar from life nowadays. Both the authors employed the famous Julius Work Calendar in describing the Englishmen lives. The Calendar demonstrates the diverse measures of which that labour could perceive. The authors elucidate that the calendar was ...

LIFE AND WORK OF ABIGAIL ADAMS BASED ON TWO BIOGRAPHY BOOKS: "ABIGAIL ADAMS - WITNESS TO REVOLUTION" AND "MY DEAREST FRIEND".

Abigail Adams was one of the most intriguing historical figures in American history - the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, she was witness to the founding of the country itself, as well as the beginnings of its government. Despite being a woman in a new country in the 18th century, she held a remarkable amount of political power, as well as an incredible influence on her husband, John ...

The book “The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron” is written by peter Elkind and Bethany McLean and portrays the corporate nexus, haughtiness, gluttony, workings and manipulations. This implausible yet entertaining piece of literary work has earned acclaim from all over and gives an elaborated account of corporate governance and failure of Enron, a massive energy management firm. The story of this book revolves around the company, Enron, its officials and their fraudulent tricks. In this paper, we would discuss the authors, their work and several aspects of the book written by ...

Introduction:

The Thracians were a people who came from the ancient kingdom of Thrace which is located somewhere within modern day Greece and were a warlike nation much influenced by their cultural surroundings. Hoddinott’s book is a classic text which was published in 1981 and which brings together several years of detailed study about this people with some observations that are uncannily interesting and rather intriguing. Hoddinott’s background as an academic professor adds the necessary authority to the text and his vast research on the Thracians which went on for several decades is clearly reflected in the ...

What the book is about

There is no other book that you could see out there that is up to date and very much readable like the “A wilderness so immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the destiny of America.” Studying history has always been a hobby for a lot of people and this is basically why there are a lot of books about history that are being released every year too. It appears that this book has inspired a lot of lovers of history that it generated a great deal of influence simply because it was able to state ...

Introduction:

In this excellent book, David Aikman focuses on the importance of China as a rising power in world religion and raises some intriguing points especially with regard to China also being an ally against radical Islam. Interestingly enough it appears that global politics is also changing in the way religion seems to be the driving force behind everything these days and this is reflected in the book by Aikman.

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The book starts out by pointing out that at least one third of China’s huge 1.4 billion population will be Christian. This brings several factors into account. For many ...

Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins

Navarro, Joe, and Karlins, Marvin. What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed Reading People. New York: HarperCollins, 2008, 250 pages.

Joe Navarro was a counterintelligence special agent with the FBI for 25 years. Now, he consults with the FBI, the U.S. State Department and other intelligence institutions. He also appears regularly as an expert on such programs as the CBS Early Show. He also wrote Phil Hellmuth Presents Read ‘Em and Reap, and he is a popular lecturer for Fortune 500 companies as well. His co-writer, Marvin Karlins, has a Ph.D. in psychology from ...

The setting of the novel, for the most part, remains the caves wherein the group of human survivors attempt to keep on living, all the while attempting to figure out what to do about Wanda. The caves provide a nice, claustrophobic setting that help bring out the themes of redemption and paranoia that run throughout the book. All of the characters are trapped in their own caves - Melanie is trapped inside her own body, as is Wanda; the human characters are trapped into a hard life that none of them asked for, and so on. The claustrophobia helps ...

Dante Alighieri in his illustrious book “The Inferno” has classified sins at nine different levels in the form of circles. Dante has mentioned nine circles of hell as; first circle as Limbo, second circle as Lust, third circle as Gluttony, fourth circle as Avarice, fifth circle as Anger, sixth circle as Heresy, seventh circle as Violence, eighth circle as Fraud and ninth circle as Treachery. Dante has also mentioned about the provisions of punishments for these crimes according to their gravity. Dante describe the journey of people in hell and elaborated that how people who have done sins in ...

Summarize the major points of Brooks’ research. What are the themes that comes out and why is it important?

Assess the author’s level of objectivity. In discussing objectivity, discuss the strengths AND weaknesses of Brooks’ ethnographic work?

Which person in the book can you relate to the best and why?

Introduction:

Scott Brooks who is a former coach is well known as one of the foremost contemporary minds on the subject of sociology. In his excellent book bearing the same name he attempts to dissect the various sociological theories which have been prevalent to this day and which continue to rule the roost in sociological circles. However his narrative is extremely readable and interesting, it is also ...

1) In this section, there were not many mew settings or characters - the plot almost entirely took place within the caves once more, in already existing locations. In terms of new characters, we are given a few more insights into the rest of the human survivors living in the caves, such as Lily, Wes, Lucina, etc. In a flashback, Melanie remembers a time before she was captured, but after the attacks by the souls, where her parents, Jared and Melanie would all hide out in people's homes.

The most significant new character to be highlighted in this section ...

Book Review: Republicanism and Democracy

The American Revolution was a complex political process that was inevitable. This is because the wave of the revolution was shaped by logical forces and circumstances that faced the American colonists leaving them with no other choice than revolting against the tyranny of the absolute monarchy that extended its hand to the Americas. However, the pressure to revolt on the colonist was not only experienced in Northern America but also was evident in other parts of the world. This accounts for other historical revolts like the French revolution. Gordon Wood the author of this book focuses of the progressive ...

Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point emphasizes three rules of epidemics, catalysts for change which provide significant shifts in economic and social culture. First there is the "Law of the Few," where most of the work is performed by fewer people: connectors, who provide a linking experience between people of the world, and connect people socially; salesmen, who persuade people to believe what they say, and so on. The stickiness factor is described as the permeability of a message - just how easily it can get stuck in people's heads. Finally there is the power of context, where the ...

Book Review: The Leadership Challenge by Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

First written in 1987 by two authors considered to be experts in the field of leadership, The Leadership Challenge has gone to become one the most trusted voices on the subject of leadership as well as an all time best seller leadership book. One of the reasons for this is that the authors, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes, in the true spirit of leadership, have churned out regular revisions to their original work, continuously adding to and improving upon content based on the ongoing changes in the corporate environment. The classic’s fourth edition has been released ...