Kite Runner Book Review By: David Ongchoco Afghans like to say: “Life goes on‚ unmindful of beginning‚ end…crisis or catharsis‚ moving forward like a slow dusty caravan of kochis [nomads].” This quote was fully embodied in the story of Kite Runner‚ where despite all the difficulties‚ hardships‚ sorrows‚ devastating events‚ the world didn’t pause for Amir‚ it simply continued. Kite Runner is a story that was able to successfully cook into one melting pot a plethora of riveting plots together
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Book Review on Urban Poverty B M Hasanul Banna International Islamic University Malaysia Urban poverty is the outcome of urban-bias development projects being predominantly financed by the external capital‚ either in the form of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) or Aid. The urban-bias industrialization strategy performed as a pull factor for the rural unemployed. This strategy contributed to the expanding of urban informal sectors where unskilled as well as highly unorganized day labours remain
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Book Review [THE STARBUCKS EXPERIENCE] * Summary * Summary of this book‚ A Few companies have rallied an employees to participate in a corporate vision that creates a worldwide story of business success. Starbucks has been given access to the Starbucks experience. They are just offering us an in-depth look at every level of the company. * This book is just offering us: * A rare blend of boardroom strategies‚ * Employee motivation tips‚ * Community involvement and
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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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James Romm wrote Ghost on the Throne with the purpose to inform the reader of Alexander the Great and the empire he established‚ with the ensuing chaos the came after when Alexander tragically died at a young age. The book was organized somewhat chronologically‚ starting from opening the tombs in which Alexander was buried and how he fell ill‚ to the closing of the tombs and a reflection of the fall of his empire. Romm tried to answer the question of how Alexander died‚ providing multiple theories
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Band of Brothers E Company‚ 506th Regiment‚ 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest By Stephen Ambrose ISBN 0-671-76922-7 Review by Kevin Campopiano History 382 Prof. Schweizer Band of Brothers is a book chronicalizing the emotions‚ bonds‚ tragedies and tactics used by Easy Company in the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne which is one of the highest decorated companies from World War II in the United States armed forces. It is written by Stephen Ambrose‚ a distinguished
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Katherine A. Dettwyler - Dancing Skeletons: Life and death in West Africa (1994) Review In 1995‚ Dancing Skeletons was given the Margaret Mead Award by the American Anthropological Association. It is presented to anthropologists whose work was able to interpret “anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful and accessible to a broadly concerned public”[1]‚ which I consider to be exactly what the book does. Concerned about the relation between nutrition education and child
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2000s. Not every example provided in the book reflects a negative image‚ as Blevins is trying to prove that there are positive aspects‚ it has progressed over time‚ and is ultimately the Arkansan’s perception of it that determines its power. The books provided so much information of the state I am proud to call my home‚ and I believe that Brooks Blevins was successful in his presentation and purpose! I was pleased to find that Blevins writes this book as an Arkansas native rather than an opinionated
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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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Lord of The Flies by William Golding Introduction As a child I would close my eyes and dream of magical adventures in a fantasy world. With this allegorical novel‚ William Golding brought my childhood imagination back to me. Below is a review of Lord of the Flies written in 1954. About the plot In Lord of the Flies‚ the action takes place in the midst of a nuclear war. A group of British boys find themselves stranded‚ without adult supervision‚ on a tropical island of the Pacific Ocean after
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