Posterity has shown that most of the men we today think of as “founding fathers” of the American Republic were not sainted paragons of virtue as they have been portrayed in history books and patriotic propaganda. These were men with clear visions of their own as to what the new...
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Thomas Chapman’s book A Practical Handbook for Ministry is an interesting and important work for any person who wants to successfully run a ministry. In this book, Chapman has edited and compiled the writings of Wayne Oates, a man who possessed tremendous wisdom both in theology and leadership. With that...
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It’s undeniable that Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad has a lot of racist elements. The dehumanization of Africans within the story and the framing of them as savages and animals is very obvious. It has been commented on by noted African writers such as Chinua Achebe. While the story...
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In his novel The Choice, economist Russell Roberts treats his readers to a fictional exchange between economic philosopher David Ricardo and Stellar TV president Ed Johnson – styled after the interaction between George Bailey and the angel Clarence in It’s a Wonderful Life. Using this method, he makes a strong...
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Chapter four of Think Like a Freak is all about finding the root cause of various problems rather than stopping at the surface, where the authors believe most people stop. This chapter provides many different examples of problems that might seem to have simple solutions, but in reality have very...
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Published in 2011, The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football was written by John J. Miller and published by Harper Collins. The main theme of the book is how football, a sport that is has adoring fans, collects the most funds and attention in the world was always a...
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1. The Book of the Dead is a translation of the papyrus scroll of Ani; it was a guide for Ani, and all other humans, to get to the afterlife. The book contains magical spells and chants which are used to guide the spirit after death, allowing it to achieve...
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At last, a Cabinet member with a good sense of humor. In his "Locked in the Cabinet" Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, has put on paper the funniest and most instructive memoir ever written by a government official. The book presents a close-up view of the way things work...
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In Book Sixteen of The Odyssey, the protagonist, Odysseus encounters his son, Telemakhos for the first time. Odysseus has been away on his journey for years and therefore has not had the opportunity to impart a father’s wisdom on his son. When he first encounters his son in this section,...
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“Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood,” tells the chilling tale of a child who was the victim of a form of child abuse called Munchausen syndrome. Munchausen syndrome is similar to hypochondria, where a person exaggerates symptoms of a disease or believes that they have a disease...
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My Prediction As normal to any sick person, the state of mind which is unpredictable, Natalie is prone to making mistakes in almost all occasion as her conscience is not capable of restricting her movement and help in making solutions for herself. The possible clues that could trigger my prediction...
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In 1776, David McCullough writes an intense and thorough history of some of the most important battles of the American Revolution. While he does not try to give a full history of the war, he focuses on a number of key battles that helped to shape the course of the...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was written in 1845, and it stands as a memoir of Douglass’s life. There are a number of characters in the book, as Douglass’s primary goal was to provide a picture of what life was like as a slave during the height of...
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I learned that what Dominguez and Robin propose in Your Money or Your Life amounts to more than managing one’s money or altering one’s lifestyle. They urge nothing less than a reassessment of priorities through the altering of one’s consciousness and the adoption of a new outlook on life. Money,...
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In the third book of Plato’s Republic, Socrates has a dialogue about the nature of love between a man and a boy. He primarily claims that the man should love the boy for the boy’s benefit, but without sexual relations. In other words, there stands a “noble” love that contributes...
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Budziszewski’s work Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law purports to answer some of the most difficult questions ever posed to man. Namely, the book deals with the question of just how far government can and should go in helping to protect people and provide for the general...
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General Purpose: To persuade audience to adopt the use of E-readers instead of textbooks. Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to transfer from using textbooks to using E-readers. Thesis: My audience ought to transfer from using textbook to using eBooks because: (1) textbooks pose a huge danger to our environment;...
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The novel in question was written by Tim O'Brien a noted American author who served in the Vietnam war and much of his work has concentrated on various aspects of this war and this novel is no exception. The book centres around the mysterious disappearance of Vietnam war veteran John...
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David McCullough’s book 1776 is the author’s jaunt into non-fiction, and it serves as an historically accurate and significant review of the American Revolution. The author relies on a number of different sources in order to provide an overview of some of the most significant battles of the war. By...
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The generation gap that exists between parents and children has been a subject of numerous discussions for many centuries. In a short story “Marriage Is a Private Affair,” Chinua Achebe focuses on the conflict between a father and a son that occurs on the basis of differences in their attitudes...
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In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel describes his horrific account of being a Nazi concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz, Germany. German guards’ treatment of the Jewish people in Auschwitz was inhumane and degrading, individuals in the camp starved, beaten, forced to run around naked, killed, and demoralized. This...
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This essay is concerned with Book III of Saint Augustine's 'Confessions.' It is specifically concerned with the way in which Augustine identifies a series of possible problems, as well as their causes, as he reflects on a specific period in his life in which he was studying rhetoric in Carthage...
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John Boyne's book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is a book about a young boy named Bruno. The young man moves with his family to Auschwitz, a move he laments because he leaves his friends behind. Bruno meets a new friend, Shmuel, who like him, does not know he...
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The perfectly just life, as defined by Plato in The Republic II, comprises a number of different factors. The author’s primary point about the just life is that it requires ultimate respect for those around the person. The just man is one that adheres to the implied social contract, doing...
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When referring to Text to self, the main objective is aimed at relating the events that happen in the novel to the real world experiences undergone by the student. The Novel Al Capone Does My Shirt is a novel that has been set in the United States at the state...
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