Women of the Revolution Why did the 13 small colonies of England with a rag tag army win the Revolutionary War against the strongest military of the time? Some say luck or God’s providence while others explain that it was the people in the background doing cooking‚ cleaning‚ spying‚ and occasional fighting; some say the answer to the question is women. Without women participating in the Revolutionary War through boycotting British goods‚ spying on the British‚ and helping their men in various ways
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Macbeth is the shortest tragedy ever to be written by William Shakespeare. He wrote this play for King James I‚ who was a largely active supporter of the theatre. The king watched many productions and soon Shakespeare’s company was called ‘The King’s Men’. In honouring the king‚ Shakespeare used King James’s I history to create characters and pieces of the plot for the play. He named Banqou after an ancestor of the king‚ who ties into Banqou’s prophecy of his children becoming kings‚ the ‘child’
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Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Penguin Book‚ 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is the story of an immigrant who came to America for a new beginning involving a “great” job. The immigrant‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ comes from a poor family in Lithuania and wants to now support his future wife‚ Ona Lukoszaite by working for a meatpacking factory in Chicago. Jurgis soon realizes that America and its’ people and opportunities are not all that he thought they would be. Sinclair exposes the horrors and
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adopts the name Sayuri and becomes one of Japan’s most famous Geishas. Unfortunately the Geisha district shut down during WWII and Sayuri continues her life as a normal Japanese woman. The book ends with Sayuri starting over her career as a Geisha and finding independence as well as success through her talents. Overall the book was enjoyable. Everything was written very eloquently and gave a clear portrayal of how the author wanted the protagonist‚ Choiy‚ to be seen. She speaks in metaphors and long
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Dabawalas Dabawalas‚ the story of Mumbai’s homemade food delivery service gives an insight of a 115-year old enterprise and what makes it a successful enterprise. Through the series of conversation amongst four characters- Anita Dalal‚ Srinivas Pandit‚ Raghunath Megde (Raghu) and Gangram Talekar (Ganga) a different perspective of organisation and its working model is known. At the end of every chapter are the takeaways which tell the reader how Dabawalas differ from their competitors in their working
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The Cherokee Removal Book Review The Cherokee Removal is a brief history with documents by Theda Perdue and Michael Green. In 1838-1839 the US troops expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for land during the growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast‚ the discovery of gold on the Cherokees land‚ and the racial prejudice that many
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The Goal The Goal‚ by Eliyahu Goldratt is a novel focused on the challenges and improvement of operational efficiency. The book is about Alex Rogo‚ a thirty something year old‚ probably has an undergraduate degree in engineering and an MBA. He is married with 2 children‚ working as an executive for UniCo for the past 15 years. He began his career as project engineer‚ now works as a plant manager of manufacturing factory in Bearington‚ his home town. His boss is Bill Peach‚ division manager at the
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The book that has had the most influence on me is called‚ A Quaker Book of Wisdom‚ by Robert Lawrence Smith. In my freshman year I was enrolled in a class called the History of Peace. The book was an optional part of the reading list. I will admit I didn’t read it that year‚ but when I cleaned out my locker‚ it was sitting there in a stack of books and I felt compelled to read it. Robert Lawrence Smith was a former headmaster of Sidwell Friends School in Washington‚ D.C. What I enjoyed about
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Impact Women Had On the Revolutionary War Throughout history‚ women’s impact in society has drastically changed. In the past‚ women did not receive the same education as men did. Women also dealt with the practice of coverture‚ which gave away their legal identity once they became married. There was also a point in time where women could not vote. After the Revolutionary War ended‚ the concept of “Republican Motherhood” impacted women like never before in history. Abigail Adams‚ Mercy Otis Warren‚ and
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Revolutionary War The American Revolution also known as the Revolutionary War was a war that ended with many sacrificial deaths but‚ it was the beginning of the formation of the United States of America. Neither‚ the United States nor‚ our identity as Americans would have ever existed‚ without this war. Down to 1774‚ the structure of the imperial controversy reinforced the colonists’ provincialism even as it exposed its limits. Americans repeatedly insisted that they sought only the restoration
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