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The book “Greed and Fear” is a very powerful account of the impacts of psychology on economics. This book takes an insight overview of the investor irrationalities and its effects on the market prices and returns. The author gives an account of how the effects contradict the efficient market hypothesis. According to the author, the phrase “hope and fear” gives a better description of the reactions and the behavior of different market players. From the book it can be established that all financial practitioners eventually let bias, overconfidence and emotion influence their judgment and actions. The author uses ...

Book Review of Prayer: The Timeless Secret of High-impact Leader by Dave Earley

The book “Prayer: The Timeless Secret of High Impact Leader” is for the individuals who takes the role of the leader in their lives. This book discusses the power of prayers and delves into the various insights of the prayers that help the leaders to lead.

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The book is introduced by its author with the crux captured in one statement that “prayer influences men by influencing God to influence them”1. The power of prayers is discussed as prayer disciplines of the leaders who have ...

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In the year 2008, the United States was plunged into a financial crisis that was the worst ever experienced since the Great depression. Most banks collapsed during this period and the state was involved in organizing for a transfer of wealth. Many scholars among them economists and financial experts were shocked by the speed at which the events took place. John Bellamy in his book “The Great Financial Crisis” gives a bold analysis of the financial meltdown, its causes, how it developed and the implications that it had to the general economic status of America and ...

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This book takes a look at the overall picture of labor in America and how different workers reacted towards the conditions that they were working in. The book also looks at the origin of our current labor system and what developed it. It also covers the history of labor in America and how we have managed to reach the current labor system. In the book we also get to know what changed labor in the United States of America. It looks at both the positive developments and negative developments/changes. It also shows the people who ...

How do the settings in "The Found Boat" parallel the stages of growth, the temptations, and crossed boundaries of the children?

In the short story, "The Found Boat" the author Alice Munro uses various writing skills to portray the various struggle five children encounter. The story is set in an imagery town called Jubilee, which is, nearby Wingham, Western Ontario which is Munro’s home town. The storyline of the short story is mainly focused on the diverse experiences that young individuals endure. Through the use of the key characters, Clayton, Frank, Carol, Bud and Eva Munro vividly illustrate ...

Patrick Murphy’s leadership style focused greatly on accountability; he wanted to make sure people were held responsible for their actions and those under them. (p. 33). When Murphy took over the police force, he “considered himself a reform agent,” deciding he needed to clean house to get rid of the ghosts that were rampant in Leary’s tenure as commissioner. Believing that there was too much splintering and division within the department, he sought to bring everyone back together and eliminate this sort of waste.

Murphy also took special effort to curb corruption any way he could; he ...

Book Review on Walter Russell Mead's, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

The book Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead gives an analysis of the United States’ foreign policy and the effects that it has had to different parts of the world. The author lays more emphasis on the origin and the history of the US foreign policy, the developments it has had and the effects that the foreign policy to both the United States and other countries across ...

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 is an economics book that was written by Paul Krugman. The book is an analysis of the 2008 financial crisis that followed an economic downturn amid huge economic activity in the financial sector of many economies including that of the United States of America. The book further follows and traces integration of the unfavorable economic conditions into the financial crisis experienced in the year 2008. In addition, Paul Krugman considers the parameters that characterize a relationship in ...

Introduction

“International financial stability” was written by Roger w. Ferguson, Philipp Hartmann, Fabio Panetta and Richard Portes and published in the year 2007.The book provides an all inclusive perspective of financial stability in the consideration of great structural changes in the global financial system in ...

Book review: Asperger syndrome and adolescence

Bolick in her book, Asperger syndrome and adolescence, discusses the various challenges that the teenagers especially students experience during adolescence. Her main focus is on to the teenagers who suffer from Asperger syndrome and as well as sustain through the changes of puberty in the institutional environment. In most teenagers, Aspies begin to take more control of their personality traits in the period of adolescence (Bolick, 2004). The teenagers affected by this syndrome will desire social interactions and yet feel secluded than ever. ...

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This report scrutinizes international terrorist threats, events, responses and policies, as well as analyzing the worldwide use of apparatus available to fight terrorism, from international cooperation, international relations, covert action, constructive dedication, economic sanctions, military force, to objective security improvement. A contemporary style in terrorism emerges to be toward self- financed insecurely organized, international association of terrorists. Ever more, fundamental Islamist groups who use religion, or as a excuse, pose a grave threat to United States of America interests and to its friendly establishments. But of great unease as well is the growing political involvement of ...

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Many people have lamented that the western history has of late been a field of diminishing expectations. The two books attempts to take an insight investigation into this concept and try to find out if this point is true or false. The issues being discussed in the following books revolve around the commonly accepted notion that the year 1890 marked the closing of the American frontier and the end of an era made unique by Indian wars, border skirmishes, outlaws, mining booms, land barons and pioneers. (Anne M. Butler & Michael J. Lansing, 2007)The books have ...

The story “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” is housed together with the story “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” in one book volume. In this case, I shall consider the first story only.

The story “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” was originally published in mid 1860s. It is the story of a young Alice after her dream when she fell asleep. After waking up, Alice relates the story to her sister. The story is about the series of events which take place in Alice’s dream when she fell asleep in the course of her lessons. In the dream, ...

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, a trio of witches predicts that Macbeth will be made king of Scotland. Despite his own doubts as to this prophecy, his wife, Lady Macbeth, schemes with him to kill the current king, Duncan, so that he can take the throne. He simply follows the orders of his wife blindly, even though she is clearly interested only in her own ascent to power. In this essay, we will explore the idea that Macbeth could have taken different actions, and that the result of his own activity leads to a play that is quite difficult to ...

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

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Banana: The fate of the fruit that changed the world is a spellbinding detective story that lays bare the mystery, endangered fate, and myth of the world’s most lowly fruit. “Banana Republic was a term which decades ago referred to the developing nations that sorely depended on a single cash crop, mostly bananas and which were governed by corrupt government’s.1 Currently the term has somehow become exceptionally suitable to the United States although the country depends neither on other single cash crops, or bananas. But despite the degree of importance the United States ...

Jonathan Safran Foer has entertained enormous significant approval and international awareness for his writing approach in novels for example Everything Is Illuminated: a Novel. The most recent book, however, is a factual and on edge. Eating Animals is a comprehensive Foer’s individual description of disagreements with the principles of eating animals subsequent to the delivery of his son. The book is sectioned into eight chapters, each one containing a title that is not completely obvious but more reminiscent and figurative. For “All or Nothing or Something Else” for the second chapter plunging into the predicament of ...

Book Review: The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis

Introduction

The eventual collapse of the agreement between the USSR, Britain and the United States in 1945 after the end of the World War II set the platform for the cold war. An anti-communist policy, commonly called the Truman doctrine, declared in 1947 by President Truman of the USA spoke clearly of the atmosphere that would prevail (Gaddis 30). The resulting tension between the communist and capitalist ideologies is what came to be known as the Cold War. Since it never resulted into armed confrontation or ...

My character of choice is the American man. The narrator identifies this man as American man, the father of Jigs baby. In this paper, I will try to analyze the character of the American man. How he suddenly takes a stand on an issue that he feels is affecting their peace. In this he tries so much to convince the lover to accept the abortion issue. In this story the narrator is convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that relationship is a two people affair and the most important thing is that the people live a life that is pleases ...

With the division between the south and the north on the issue of slavery, the fugitive slave act was passed in 1850. According to the act, if slaves ran away and caught, they were to be returned to their masters. This act was one of the most controversial because people who supported the freedom of the slaves did not embrace this law. Northerners did not obey this act despite the harsh terms according to the fugitive act. According to the act, a northerner who refused to help in the capture of slaves was jailed in addition to the one ...

The story of Eveline by James Joyce is built on the uncertainties facing the human kind due to the changes in the life style. James Joyce enumerates the uncertainty of life brought about by the uncontrollable changes in human life. The author in this story captures the disillusionment of Eveline the main character in this story. Here, James Joyce shows Eveline as a disillusioned character faced with the realities of the changing world. Eveline is depicted as being overwhelmed by changes that over the years have happened in her family and neighborhood. The story begins with her nolstagicly recalling ...

One of the basic themes that is examined in Confederates in the Attic is the obsession and fascination that people have with the Civil War, on both sides. From the most hardcore Civil War re-enactors to the people who still speak fondly of the Confederacy, that unique campaign holds a permanent and interesting place in the hearts of many Americans. It intrigues us and carries a special spirit in the American consciousness for many reasons.

Why is this? Perhaps it’s because it’s the one conflict that pitted brother against brother, where both sides were American. Just this ...

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Thomas Conlan, in his book, the State of War, shows how the political and military changes through war in a country or region, greatly affects a society. The widely held concept in the world is that only technological innovations, class struggle or demographic fluctuations are the only events that can cause society transformations. Thomas Conlan explores the battles fought in Japan in the fourteenth century to show how the war greatly influenced the Japanese society. He highlights the life of the warriors at that time in the history of Japan. Book Exploration of the State of ...

Approximately 100 years after Union troops settled the issue of slavery, a second Civil War played out in America’s courts and on the streets of the America South. In Mississippi, as in Alabama, Georgia and other states where the Civil Rights movement played out, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education and the ensuing battle over school integration inflamed white folks, who adopted every available tactic to maintain the doctrine of “separate but equal.” Black folks responded with incredible courage, implementing strategies that would eventually turn the tide in the battle ...

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s book Colored People is an extra ordinary book that captures moments in history for the African American community and all the communities which existed during the transition period in America in the second half of the twentieth century. The author portrays this unique period in the American cultural life history by focusing on one small town in West Virginia as a microcosm for what was happening in the fifties and sixties across the American racial landscape. Piedmont was Gates home as ...

In Douglas Rushkoff’s article “Bart Simpson: Prince of Irreverence,” he refers to the FOX sitcom The Simpsons as “the closest thing in America to a national media literacy program.” (Graff et al, p. 241) Within this program, the Simpson family deconstructs memes and cultural landmarks of television at a breakneck pace, holding a lantern up to the way that media works and displaying it for all to see. Due to its irreverence and ability to recognize and lampoon the structure and politics of the media industry, The Simpsons educates its viewers to view media with a more critical ...

Introduction

The Second World War was one of the biggest wars to be witnessed in the world history. Countries ventured into the Second World War in order to settle their scores that were left unsettled during the First World War. German was the main problem causer and other European countries teamed up so as to oust Hitler who kept on conquering Europe. Hitler ignored advice from the military personnel but insisted that they push on further. Japan on the other hand wanted to become the world’s super power and so continued with ...

George Hicks's book “comfort Women” is about "the legalized military rape of subject women on a scale ... previously unknown in history." The first question that gets answered by this book is about the reason for a long silence that haunted this issue; actually in Asian countries the chastity of women is precious and “comfort women”kept silent in order to keep their hopes of getting married alive. There are other reasons as well which are basically related to the Government’s defensive approach on this issue and since a long time the officials have continued “claiming that the comfort ...

Marcia Lorry, a young civil liberties attorney in the year 1973, challenged the operations of the foster care systems in New York by filing a very controversial law suit against the system. The case later became known as the Wilder case. The young attorney based the law suit on the argument that the foster care was not protecting the children under its care as it was supposed to because the system used a categorization procedure based on convenience and not on the needs of the children. The plaintiff of this controversial case was a thirteen year girl ...

Judaism

Founded by Moses, Judaism was formed in the Middle East and was one of the three original Abrahamic religions (the other two being Christianity and Islam). Although formally founded by Moses, most Jews follow their heritage back to the days of Abraham and because of this, they believe in their covenant with God, who often communicated through Abraham. A covenant is where God speaks to someone on Earth and asks them to perform tasks in his name; this is why the Jews are dubbed ‘the chosen people.’ The Jewish people refer to ‘the ...

Ray Kinsella narrates the story Shoeless Joe (Kinsella, 1999). It’s set in a quiet farm in Iowa, where Kinsella’s support team were his wife as well as his daughter, Karin. Somehow, part of this support group is his father (even though he they were estranged most the novel), Johnny Kinsella, who introduced to him the love he has and was so compelled to write about – baseball. His love for this sport carried him out into such a play on fantasy, and led him to do the things which he ...

This book is an amalgamation of three stories; in the beginning of the story, it familiarizes us to the people majorly from Swiss German, Norwegian and Ukrainian who were immigrants who settled the prairie for reasons: They were in search of religious freedom and prosperity for their children, farmers escaping poverty and many others. Subsequentstory was that of the weather forecasters who were concerned with the study of the weather patterns as they claimed that they will no longer be thrilled by the abrupt weather changes and it ...

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Judaism is one of the five main world religions. The other four include Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. Evidence available from archaeological and historical work shows that human beings in virtually all societies have since their humble beginnings held beliefs in supernatural beings they revered and worshiped. Religion is a set of beliefs that involves attributing the origin and cause of the universe as well as all things found in it and nature to a supernatural being (s) commonly known as God(s) who is held to be all knowing and all powerful. Religion can also be understood ...

Oliver L. North is a war decorated marine officer, a best-selling writer, the architect of a small business, an inventor with three U.S. copyrights, a grouped columnist, and the host of War Stories on the Fox News Channel in the U.S. He was born in San Antonio; he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland, and before serving as a U.S. Marine for twenty-two years. Later ...

Dharma is under the teachings of Buddhism as a religion which was practiced by the Hindu people in Ancient India. To understand dharma we must first understand the religion itself. From the previous chapters of the book we realized that Buddha was the founder of the religion. Buddhism is a form of religion whose inception was in India. Buddhism as a religion gained followers who were supposed to follow certain regulation, and that’s where Dharma originated as a teaching under Buddhism religion. According to the teaching of Buddhism, Dharma is comprehended as the way of the living of ...

Initiating and agreeing on a strategic planning process

For strategic management to be effective, the key decision makers have to be involved. It would be company to involve people from three organizational levels. This is the top management, middle management and the technical department of the frontline staff. The top management is involved in communications within the organization and outsiders. They are also quick to perceive where there are mismatches between the organization and the environment. They are able to see the threats and opportunities in the external environment. More importantly ...

Siva (god of yogis, the destroyer)

Lingams (cylindrical forms that are highly regarded in India)

Shapeless nature of it is considered close connection to Siva

Vishnu is considered a kinder, gentler deity than Siva

The three basic tenets of Hindu related philosophy:

Base their philosophies on the Vedas as well as meditation experiences that reveal the truth

Ethics are the basis for a productive, orderly society – karma is important and should be adhered to

Ignoring your own Self is the cause of most suffering ...

Crossing the border has metaphorically demonstrated the determination one can develop for a better future. Ann Jaramillo uses her ground-breaking novel, La Linea to talk about the life of a boy named Miguel who lived in San Jacinto, Mexico with his grandmother and thirteen year old sister Elena. At a young age, Miguel’s parents left Mexico to cross the US border for a brighter future for their children. Ever since his parents left Mexico it has been Miguel’s dream to cross the border and unify with them. Addendum to this dream, he also sees himself as ...

William Vernon Harris wrote the book titled ‘War & Imperialism in Republican Rome’. Oxford University Press published the book in the 1985. The author of this book attempts to review the grounds for wars and imperialism in Rome in 327 to 70 BC. It was the time when the Romans outstretched their empire to the Mediterranean. The book attempted to reviews the feelings of the Romans in their mission to get power and their actions. The urge for Romans to have power over all their neighbours ...

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

In Sarah Dessen’s 2009 novel Along for the Ride, we follow Auden, a young girl just graduating high school, who, rather than making friends and going out, spent an inordinate amount of time studying and maintaining her good grades. While this has allowed her to be accepted to a very reputable university, it did cut her off from the normal childhood experiences that most kids go through. What’s more, a very bitter divorce has left her two parents in separate places, with people that Auden can’t stand, ...

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The things they carried was published in 1990 and is regarded as an outstanding fictional work that is based on a platoon of American soldiers who participated in the Vietnam war and how they are fought boredom and trauma of combat throughout the Vietnam War. While it seems it is based on the experiences of O’Briens, the cover page recognizes the book as a work of fiction. In one of the short stories, Good Form, the narrator draws a clear cut distinction between the happening truth and the story truth. The author, O’Brien, has a feeling ...

Jay Patel’s ‘Emotions Unleashed’ Book Review

Emotions Unleashed is a book by Patel Jay. It contains a total of twenty-five poems describing the feeling when one falls in love. Patel also presents the internal girth obtained from self satisfaction. The poems take one from the love journey to the reality in infidelity and mistrust1. The author explains the exact meaning of death and life and how human beings relate to each other. Reading the poems in this book, the author expresses his own feelings and emotions through use of words that can easily be understood by ...

The story of the revenge of Sadie Jackson by Ray Ham is about a woman who is orphaned at a very tender age but she struggles through life all on her own. She later marries and gets two children. The story ends with the fight for her children from an Indian marauder commonly known as the screaming eagle. The novel, ISBN 978-1-4512-6045-8 was published by Publish America in 2010 and printed in the U.S in the same year. It would be very interesting for anyone who fancies fiction and romance. Ham uses round characters in the development of ...

Book Review: Carl Marshall’s ‘The Light of Innocence’

The Light of Innocence is a spiritual book by Marshall Carl. The author wrote this book with the aim of improving his understanding of God’s testament. This book presents life as a gift and therefore everyone is expected to live a life that is in accordance with Christ’s expectation. Unless we understand Christ’s purpose in our lives, it is very hard to understand God’s gospel1. The main message is that God’s word will never change but our understanding definitely will. Because of God’ ...

On the brink: Inside the race to stop the collapse of the global financial system is an account of the events that took place prior to and during the global financial crisis and the federal governments’ efforts to save some of the major banks in the united states. It zips through Paulson’s career (with a political stint as an aide in the Nixon White House) and then concentrates on his extraordinary 30 months in treasury. When Hank Paulson (the then chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Goldman Sachs) joined the Bush administration as the treasury secretary of state ...

The title of the novel ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson’ indicates a direct peculiarity between the characters and therefore provide a sensual instigate on the strangeness of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde characterization. Stevenson explores the various characterizations of his two major characters; Dr Jekyl and Mr. Hyde in his literary work. He centers his discretion on the outset of humanity on a two-fold contrivance basing it on Dr Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. The duality in the nature of human beings is an intriguing ...

As We Are Now by May Sarton

The novel as we are now by May Sarton is about Caroline Spencer a 76 year old woman who is a retired school teacher. The novel revolves around the realities of aging and death. Caro, as she is referred to in the novel, suffers a heart attack and is therefore deposited in a nursing home known as Twin Elms located in rural England. Caro is need of short term care, however, this translates to long term care and she is forced to stay in the nursing home for a considerably longer period of time than was supposed to be. ...

History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical … Published by Noah Webster is a book that begins by giving the creation account as well as men’s dispersion on their attempt in building Babel; gives a description of the ancestors , Japheth’s descendants as they were seen before the era of christianity. Saxon ancestors were briefly discussed since they conquered Britain hence improved their art life which eventually led to their reformation. The peopling of America and the aboriginals character was also put into account in this book. Puritan’s origin and cause of migrating to America was also given a brief description in this book by Webster. History patterns of settlement and the U.S Constitution has been written with brevity. ...

Now and Then is an exciting and captivating book by John Locke, a famous author who has written a number of novels and fiction books. The author, whose works and collections have famously been identified as the Donovan Creed, has gained fame across the globe as a result of the attractiveness of his compact content. In this case, I shall give a brief review of the book whose title has been given above with regard to a few aspects of writing and expression of facts. ...

Prayers for Everyone is a prayer book by Joanne Rypma. According to Joanne, this book gives one an opportunity to reflect his relationship with the Lord. The book also helps one know the meaning of life and why God’s presence in one’s life is necessary[1]. There are many prayers that can help one overcome the obstacles facing one’s life[2]. Another important thing with this book is that it has scripture passages lifted from the New and Old Testaments included in the prayers. ...

Gish Jen, the author of “Who is Irish” gives a recount narration of an elderly American citizen woman aged sixty-eight-years-old and of Chinese ethnicity. This immigrant struggles to cope with other cultures that are different from her own. Although the main character has spent her lifetime in the United States, she is still suspicious of other cultures and races. For instance, she is doubtful of her own son-in-law who is of Irish origin. There sinks into deeper suspicion to learn that her grandchild has opted with all conviction to uphold American values.

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In his reign as the fortieth United states President, Ronald Reagan Kept dairies for each day. The dairies contained his thoughts and routine day to day activities of his presidency. This collection is called Reagan’s Dairies. He was a Republican and was the President of the U.S from Jan 1981 to January 1989.

The Book Reagan on Reagan contains major issues concerning the tenure of Reagan. The book superficially doesn’t talk much on political and historical dimensions of the President. From the dairies the strengths and weaknesses of his presidency can be seen. For instance, in his first term, Reagan is said to have been more alert and active chief executive than his detractors care to admit. This strength remains as his description irrespective of the problem that he was tackling.

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Winner of Seven Book Awards; Cooking on the light side by Dr. Thienna Ho is sure to transform the lives and health of those willing to take a walk on the light side. The significance as well as the value of this culinary book to the reader, lies in the fact that, it is richly encompassed with a variety of content, dynamic and captivating images as well as apposite recipes including charts for a comprehensive dietary plan. In this book you will learn the cause, effects and remedies to your skin color.

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To Kill a Mocking Bird is a novel that deals with serious issues of racial inequality and rape in the American society in 1930s. These are contemporary issues that affected the country during the time in which the book was written. The novel is written by Lee Harper and was published in the year 1960. The major issues of the novel involve destruction of people’s innocence and racial injustice (Johnson, 1994). This target audience of this book was the majority whites. Reading this book would make them realize the pains the African Americans went through. The novel became a model for many lawyers and a moral hero to the readers. Many scholars have noted that Harper addressed specific issues of compassion, racism, courage, class and gender roles in the Southern parts of America during the Civil Rights Movement. The characters and the plot of this novel are based on Lee’s observations, basically of her own family and neighbours. She also includes an event thought to have occurred in her hometown at the age of ten. Therefore, the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird is a good source for history because it has very many lessons to do with decry prejudice, racism, and tolerance.

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A good author is defined by the magic of their work and this is just what Keith kennel is. In this, the seduction of the being the author uses his native candid words to describe the characters.’ As some soft john Williams plays, the camera zooms in on O’Malley’s bar in Pennsylvania and captures the face of a blonde seductive beauty with piercing eyes that can miraculously change from one color to another. From green to blue and then to grey as she looks at the lens with a stare that penetrates the minds of the readers. In this work of fiction, the men in Scranton have mutated to idiots, morons and imbeciles as a result of epsilon radiation. The same radiations bring totally different effects in women. They are empowered by this radiation s to become supehumans.One of the women commonly known as the Bitch In Black appears real down to her value of morality and insatiable sexual desire.

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The authors of the book seek to identify the reasons that can be attributed to Israel’s economic success despite the nation’s small size both geographically and by population. Israel as a nation is faced by the some of the most formidable challenges in its pursuit of economic development. The country exists in a neighborhood of hostility, and many of its Arabic neighbors do not have any economic ties with the country. This economic isolation has meant that the country does not enjoy the economic benefits of regional integration. However, despite this challenge, the country has experienced tremendous economic growth and enjoys a vibrant economy characterized by many start up ventures. The authors have advanced several reasons for this economic success (Senor & Singer 2009).

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In the story the lord of the flies paints a clear picture on how the human behavior can be highly influenced by the society. In the story the laws and rules put a clear show of the need of rules and regulation in order to keep the human dark side in place. This rules and regulation usually lay down the dos and don’ts of the society in the story this is brought out clearly by how the tribe is govern by rules and the basic need for the rule is paramount in order for the individual to form any organized grouping. ...

The idea of persistent poverty is a pervasive one, and its context in the plantation economy is important to understand if these aspects are to be applied to one’s own concept of the economy. In George Beckford’s 1972 book Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World, he presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the plantation states in the West Indies, while expanding the scope of these appraisals to other third world countries.

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This is a comprehensive analysis that compares insurgencies and terrorists movements of post Second World War II and in our times. O’Neill begins this book by looking at post world war II insurgencies that have emerged which are related to terrorism and guerilla wars. He analyzes the nature of insurgency, tactics used in these guerilla wars both military and political “these so called small wars, which can be found on all continents, are often very costly and frequently involve major interest of regional and global powers,”1, and makes us understand both physical and human environment of these organizations and how they have shaped the modern day world. This analysis also makes us understand the role of external support and how it can influence and change the course of wars.

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