BOOK REVIEW THE RULE MAKERS HOW THE WEALTHY AND WELL BORN DOMINATE CONGRESS The congress or the House of Representatives and the Senate or the upper house are the two components of the legislative branch of the Philippine government. They are meant to pass bills‚ create laws‚ and approve budgets that benefit their constituents and the nation as a whole. In theory‚ this is the ideal upon which they were built‚ they would legislate for the people to best serve them and to ensure the
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November 13th‚ 2012 From the beginning of the semester‚ when I see the “Book Review”‚ I looked through the list. I have read “a child called it‚” and a few others which are all great books‚ but one in particular stands of the most to me. When I first started my journey in college‚ I took a philosophy class right off the bat. The professor assigned a book to be read within the semester‚ and to be a small‚ simple book‚ literally gave me direction in my life through the hardest times. I chose
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Practical Book Review Liberty University Hearing and listening are two different things. Most of us have the ability to hear; but how many of us actually comprehend what is being said? Listening is a very complicated skill that many people do not posses. As humans‚ many of us go through life hearing what we want to hear and doing what we want with the information. In order to communicate effectively it is important to know when to
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BOOK REVIEW: THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS BY JITEN KAKAR The inheritance of loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai. The novel was first published in 2006 and won man booker prize in 2007. The book has many diverse characters but one can easy relate to all the characters unlike many novels where characters don’t have much real life traits. But I found it annoying that many characters with senseless names keep popping up with no purpose like Uncle Potty (translate: Uncle Shit)‚ and Major
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Book Review on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Young Oliver is born in a workhouse‚ and although his single mother dies in childbirth and leaves him with no one to give him true care or attention‚ Oliver thrives‚ in a certain sense. He grows up in this workhouse‚ and the horrors of his childhood can seem all the worse because of the light comic tone of the narration. Charles Dickens is always a wonderful author for pointing out hypocrisy‚ cruelty‚ and social injustices‚ but though it’s good to be
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Critical book review: Christopher Lasch (1991) The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Expectations The culture of narcissism was widely recognised as a socio-cultural critique of American society when published in 1979. Written by Christopher Lasch‚ the book analyzes a social phenomenon identified by Christopher Lasch as ‘cultural narcissism’‚ a process by which certain attributes of the pathological branch of narcissism (Bocock‚ 2002) become societal characteristics (Lasch
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Book Review The Kite Runner Summary The kite runner a novel by Khaled Hosseini is a novel about two young boys in Afghanistan named Amir and Hassan. Amir constantly struggles to earn his father’s love Baba since he feels that he was the reason of his mother’s death which happened during child birth. Finally Amir succeeds by winning a kite flying-competition. But the same day Amir witnesses the rape of Hassan and does nothing to stop it which troubles him for the rest of his life. He feels
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How to write a book review Perhaps the best way to offer guidelines on how to write a book review is to give you an example of the kind of instructions and guidelines we (i.e. the academic staff) would be given by journals who invite us to review books for them. So‚ here are the instructions given to authors by the ‘Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders’. “A book review should be an objective and tactful evaluation of a book. The review should offer logic and fact in support of its evaluations
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The movie Lincoln‚ was more accurate than previous portrayals of Abraham Lincoln. However‚ the movie did fail to include important facts‚ such as Lincoln’s belief that African Americans were unequal to whites and some details of the passing of the 13th Amendment. All in all though‚ the movie portrayed the Civil war and presidency with considerable accuracy. Lincoln focuses mainly on the passage of the 13th amendment and the trials Lincoln and his supporters went through. The film insinuates that
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Chaikin A Book Review “In ancient days‚ men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times‚ we do much the same‚ but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.” - July 1969‚ Nixon Administration Speechwriter William Safire. Award-winning science journalist and space historian Andrew Chaikin has authored books and articles about space exploration and astronomy for more than 25 years. He has taken the story of the Apollo astronauts and written a book that is
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