J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: Harper Collins‚ 2005. Print. The authors of Freakonomics‚ Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner‚ were very clear in the fact that they did not want their book to simply revolve around one single theme‚ thus making it difficult to discern a distinct thesis statement or theory. Some may perceive this type of approach as a weakness‚ but I believe it is the appropriate method for the subject matter at hand.
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Module 2 - The Old Testament Give an outline of your own personal reasons why you think that a study of the Old Testament is useful The Christian Bible has two sections‚ the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is the original Hebrew Bible‚ the sacred scriptures of the Jewish faith‚ written at different times between about 1200 and 165 BC. I believe there are many reasons to study the Old Testament. The Old Testament lays the foundations for the teaching and events which occur
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the story of The Girl unravels itself .We’re told that The Girl‚ innocent‚ is forced to work among bootleggers‚ down and out of job men looking for a drink or a working woman to drown their helplessness‚ strike busters‚ wise women who have been through hell (Le Sueur‚ 1-5). She comes into her own in
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The main theme of The Jungle is the evil of capitalism. Every event‚ especially in the first twenty-seven chapters of the book‚ is chosen deliberately to portray a particular failure of capitalism in Sinclair’s view‚ inhuman and violent. The slow total destruction of Jurgis’s immigrant family at the hands of a cruel and unfair economic and social system shows the effect of capitalism on the working class as a whole. As the immigrants‚ who initially possess an idealistic faith in the American Dream
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This summer I read the book Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw. The genre of the book is fiction and realism. Pygmalion is about a flower girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ who meets Henry Higgins‚ who is a professor. Eliza hears Higgins bet Colonel Pickering‚ Higgins friend‚ that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess at a party. Eliza takes up his offer and learns how to speak English perfectly. Many complications come along the way as the story progresses. In the end‚ Eliza leaves Higgins house and marries Freddy
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Conduct Book Reflection You never get a second chance at a “first impression”; unless you’re told by a book how to make that impression. Pride and Prejudice is an extremely clever piece of literature written by Jane Austen in the early 1800s. She pokes fun at the times and criticizes the odd qualities which made this time period unique. Today‚ many of the viewpoints made in this book have remained the same‚ and some have developed and stretched as ideas. Austen’s take on conduct books for example
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Book name: Lucky Six Getting the Message. Author: Rating: Why I like this book: I like this book because it is full of action and it’s a mysterious kind of book. When I first started reading this book I always liked thinking who would have been plotting this idea and it was kind of hard trying to find out who was helping them as in the book‚ there is only a name saying Guest not any other name and the person would only reply when it was night where Guest was sending it to. Lucky Six are a group
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26 January 2013 Matthew Smith Reflective Essay The three books I read in the holidays personally affected me in more than one way‚ not only inspiring me to achieve my goals‚ grow in character‚ overcome difficulties and become more spiritual. The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma is a book which truly inspired me to stretch my imagination‚ dream further and to achieve my full potential. In his books he says‚ “The path to success is the hardest at the beginning‚ messiest in the middle and
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“Afro-American Music‚ without Apology”: The Motown Sound and the Politics of Black Culture Chapter 4 in the book Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit by Suzanne E. Smith focuses primarily on Motown’s popularity and “the question of the relationship of the negro artist and his or her art to black struggle”(Smith‚ 139). Langston Hughes believed that “all forms of black culture‚ including popular music‚ confronted these issues (black struggle) in some way during the
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1491‚ which was published in 2005 by Vintage Books‚ is a subversive study that immensely alters most people’s understanding and knowledge of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. The nonfiction historical novel by Charles C. Mann explains about a new generation of researchers’ conclusions about the history of Native Americans before the arrival of Columbus. Mann uncovered many of the untold facts that have never been taught in traditional school. The primary point Mann is trying
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