“Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful‚ but I wouldn’t wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom‚ and who chooses not the hands that claim her‚” (Hill‚ 4). This quote signifies one of the many important messages that The Book of Negroes tries to convey. Lawrence Hill‚ the Canadian author who wrote this novel does a tremendous job to magnify an area of history that many of us have neglected over the years. He uses Aminata Diallo‚ as his main character who is abducted from her home
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on an institutional ethnography and communitybased research‚ which was conducted over the course of more than one year at an Ontario youth emergency shelter – ‘Street Youth Shelter‚ Middlesborough’. Nichols adopts a definition of youth work in the book that extends beyond the work of a “child and youth worker” (p.5) to include “all of the things young people do in institutional settings… as well as the activities of any practitioner who works with youth” (p.6). She argues that the work of young people
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Book Review: The Analects of Confucius China experienced a lot of the revolutionary changes and a proliferation of new ideas in the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period. These periods can be represented as chaotic periods‚ so eventually there were many tries for solving the disorders of the societies by many philosophers[1]. Philosophers in those periods tried to address within these historical context and requests such as the needs for stability and reunification. Among them‚ Confucius
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Book review. My book report is on ‘Catcher in the Rye’ by J.D.Salinger Over a month I have really enjoyed reading this novel. It’s a very perceptive book‚ but only in one point of view: Holden’s. I never felt attached to the book in any form‚ and when I wasn’t reading it‚ there was nothing that drew me back to want to read more. However when I wasn’t reading I would ponder about the book a lot and question the meaning and depth that Salinger was trying to get across. It’s a very interesting style
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PSYCH253 Book Review: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert In Daniel Gilbert’s‚ Stumbling on Happiness (2006)‚ Gilbert attempts to explain how our current reasoning for happiness is in fact‚ flawed. Many examples explored within the book as well as experiments provided in class supports the overarching
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Frank McCourt: Teacher Man Book Review Prestipino April 30‚ 2012 Outline 1. Introduction 2. Frank McCourt’s Personality Traits 3.1 Honesty 3.2 Loyalty 3.3 Reflection 3. Themes 4.4 Misery of a Teacher 4.5 Multicultural Classrooms – Problems and Conveniences 4. Language 5.6 Humor‚ Sarcasm and Irony as Rhetoric Devices 5. Conclusion Frank McCourt: Teacher Man - Review We all know the rules in classrooms. “Children are to keep
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Reynaldo S Leoncito ------------------------------------------------- Book review ------------------------------------------------- Stephen D. Brookfield The Skillful Teacher (On Technique‚ Trust and Responsiveness in the Classroom) 2nd Edition San Francisco‚ California Jossey-Bass 2006 277 pages On the on-set of the book‚ the author‚ Stephen Brookfield in describing the attributes of the ‘skillful teacher’‚ immediately focused his discussion not with the teacher alone but in
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Book Review Author: Jung Chang Title: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Publication: Simon and Schuster‚ London‚ 1991 1. Main Thesis In Wild Swans‚ Jung Chang describes the life of three generations of woman in her family. Beginning in the year 1909 and ending in present time‚ it gives an insight into almost eighty years of the cultural history of China. Jung Chang has said in a interview that her intention in writing Wild Swans was to show how the Chinese people‚ and in particular the women
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Review On Paul Kennedys Book The Book I am about to review “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” is one of fourteen books written by Paul Kennedy‚ the author is considered an expert in the fields of Grand Strategy and International Relations‚ he previously studied under the famous historian AGP Taylor and this is Kennedys best known book to date; it being translated into twenty three languages‚ reaching no.6 in the Bestselling Hardcover Books when it was released in 1988 and also winning Kennedy
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BLM - Reaction My personal reaction to the book titled‚ “Black Like Me” written by John Howard Griffin is as followed. At first I was amazed and shocked to know that this study was taken in the southern parts of the United States‚ not many years ago. This was conducted during a time when my parents would have experienced this abuse‚ had they live here in the United States. I personally feel that no matter how it is presented‚ racism is wrong. Whether it is perceived through direct discrimination
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