The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence‚ Honor‚ and Manhood in the Union Army by Lorien Foote In the year 1861‚ the Civil War erupted throughout the United States. After four long gruesome years‚ the Union Army enlisted a total number of 2‚893‚304 northern soldiers. In The Gentlemen and the Roughs‚ Lorien Foote sheds light on northern conceptions of violence‚ honor‚ and manhood. Foote argues that the Union army originated by dividing class and social status‚ fighting a war for
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Tyler Yancey American History‚ Period 1 Fields of Fire 2013 February 22 Review of Fields of Fire Fields of Fire by James Webb is a historical novel first published in 1978 that takes place in the year 1969 during the Vietnam War. Although there are many characters that are significant to the story‚ the novel focuses mainly on three marines who find themselves in a platoon with each other; Robert E. Lee Hodges‚ “Snake‚” and Will “Senator” Goodrich. Webb gives the reader a great‚ detailed background
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sulfate (SDS) to denature the proteins. The method is called sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) where one can obtain information about the size of a protein or its molecular weight and yield or the total amount of the protein. This system is also called the Laemmli method after U.K. Laemmli‚ who was the first to publish a paper employing SDS-PAGE in a scientific study. SDS (also called lauryl sulfate) is an anionic detergent where when dissolved‚ its molecules have
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The Evolution of Finance: A Review of Peter Bernstein’s Capital Ideas The world of finance is ever-changing. Over the last century‚ the modern form of economic and financial theory as we see today has been developed and shaped by the minds of many. What we have come to know and accept as fact today were seemingly unheard of nearly fifty years ago. It is with the endless efforts of these like-minded scholars that gives us the opportunity to appreciate the tools and fundamentals we used today to
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shared transnational media and bound by a common identity” (Lynch‚ 9). In his book The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East‚ he sets out to put the events of the Arab uprising into perspective and to create a guide for the new Middle East. He does so pragmatically and theoretically but dismisses popular theories of international relations as outdated for the new Middle East. Throughout the book‚ Lynch emphasizes the significance and importance of the new Arab public sphere
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Inger A. Pause iPEC Coach Certification Program Class of MA-16b Susan Scott’s Fierce Conversations Book Report “Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life‚ One Conversation at a Time” ~Let’s Talk~ Author’s Major Premise Our conversations are either improving relationships‚ eroding relationships‚ or keeping relationships at status quo. The success we find at work‚ in our relationships‚ and‚ ultimately‚ in our lives then depends on our ability to consistently engage in productive
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Book Review The Bureaucracy in the Philippines Dr. Onofre D. Corpuz ------------------------------------------------- Institute of Public Administration: University of the Philippines‚ 1957. 268 pp. This book is about the administrative history of the bureaucracy in the Philippines. It spans from the 1560’s when Spain undertook to administer the affairs of the natives of the archipelago to the 1950’s when the Filipinos assumed the responsibility of self-government. The author presented the significant
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Stephano Krau Instructor Snyder A.WOH 200125 March 2010 Animal Farm: Book Review Animal Farm is a dystopian‚ allegorical novel written by George Orwell and published in 1945. Orwell was a novelist as well as a journalist‚ and is best known for his narrative documentaries and his novellas’‚ including “Nineteen Eighty-Four‚” and “Animal Farm.” His novella “Animal Farm” mirrors events in Russia that lead up to the Revolution and lasted during “Stalin era‚” and exhibits noteworthy symbolism between
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Review: Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy‚ published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction‚ Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel . The character of Anna was likely inspired‚ in part‚ by Maria Hartung ‚ the elder daughter of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin . Although Russian critics dismissed the novel on its publication as a "trifling romance of
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Book Review McDonough‚ James L. War in Kentucky From Shiloh to Perryville. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press 19 November 2012 History 108 By: Courtney Creech James McDonough ’s War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville uses exerts from diaries‚ letters‚ and participant recollection to explore the strategic importance of Kentucky for both sides in the Civil War.
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