The book I chose for my report is Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution by James E. Crisp. In my book‚ Crisp follows the Texas Revolution along with the battle at the Alamo which took place between 1835 and 1836. He tackles the questions of why and how myths are made and shows how the environment around someone can influence attitudes that people develop about certain historical events. Crisp also challenges are beliefs of history and wants us
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Claudia Chapman‚ AP European History‚ January 3‚ 2014 In The Prince by Machiavelli he explains how to get and maintain political power. The novel is centered on Italy’s government in the 1500’s and the Machiavelli’s struggle to help Italy escape the humiliation of the world. In the novel he presents types of principalities such as hereditary principalities‚ mixed principalities‚ new principalities‚ and ecclesiastical principalities. It also discussed types of armies
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Dracula Book Report Author: Bram Stoker Title: Dracula Rating: Excellent Reading Level: Hard Number of Pages: 363. With the notes and commentary: 394 Summary: Dracula is a novel about 6 comrades scheming to exterminate Count Dracula in revenge for killing the love of both Quincey Morris and Lord Godalming‚ Lucy Westenra. They soon find they are dealing with a bloodthirsty vampire‚ and their plot turns into a race for whom is able to survive‚ Count Dracula‚ or them. Their story is
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ZAPP book report 11/24/09 ZAPP The Lightning of EMPOWERMENT‚ by William C. Byham Ph.D. and Jeff Cox presents a story of different problems that managers/supervisors face and how they deal with the problems. The book shows how an autocratic supervisor would deal with a problem compared to a participative supervisor would handle the problems. The story shows the contrast between a supervisor that ZAPPS (empowers) her employees and a supervisor that SAPPS his employees by his interactions and
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Jakeshia Moore Mktg 372 Alidee Nov 28‚ 11 The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement The Goal by Eliyahu Goldatt is a novel‚ regarding the management and accounting processes at a manufacturing plant. The book focuses around a perhaps older 30- early 40s something industrial engineer‚ Alex Rogo. With the description Goldatt gives of Rogo‚ he personifies the profile of a large number of people involved in business administration (Lui 1997). Alex is married‚ with two children and
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Chains Summer Reading and Book Report In the year of 1776‚ America was much different than it is today. Back then‚ we were ruled by the British Royal Family‚ and we only had a total of thirteen colonies. Chains was based in the time of slavery and of the Revolutionary War. Isabel and Ruth were slaves for Miss Finch; in her will‚ Miss Finch wrote for the sisters to be freed once she had passed. After the funeral‚ the will could not be acquired. Now the girls were slaves‚ not free. After
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Harvard Simulation Synopsis – Week 6 Assignment Finance 571 February 8‚ 2015 Faith Walker Eric Hohl Abstract Through the study of the chapters of the Fundamentals of Corporate Finance‚ it has allowed the reader to review possible investments and projects that business management takes to make capital budgeting decisions and improve income and rate of return. This paper discusses the findings of the simulation completed for Sunflower Nutraceuticals‚ which was completed as a part of the Harvard Business
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of the scenes in the book take place in or around the estates of the characters. Their property mostly determined their social status. This setting has significance to the storyline because of the social rank. Emma‚ who is constantly trying to play matchmaker‚ tries to convince her friend Harriet to marry someone of a higher class than her current love‚ a farmer. The characters are very aware of their status‚ and can be discriminating towards people of a lower class. The book was most likely set in
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Book Report: The Goal This paper is a book report on the novel entitled The Goal written by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox. The 40-chapter book is actually a business book written in the form of a novel that makes it interesting to read unlike other business textbook. As a novel‚ the book is entertaining but at the same time‚ very informative for management or accounting students as well as for the real-life company managers and CEOs who wanted to apply different managerial practices
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The Pearl By: John Steinbeck Book Report THE PEARL John Steinbeck was born in February 1902 in Salinas‚ California and died in December 1968. Steinbeck enrolled in Stanford University however he never graduated. After an unsuccessful try to establish himself in New York he returned to California to do what he did best: write. Steinbeck’s first novel was published in 1929 but his first critical success was achieved with Tortilla Flat which won the California Commonwealth Club’s Gold Medal
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