Race and Revolution: A book review American Revolution remains the cornerstone of Democracy the world over. It has helped shape the History of the world and its perception of Freedom‚ democracy and Human values. However it is a historic anomaly that the abolition of slavery‚ then rampant in the various states of U.S.A as slave-ownership or slave trade‚ did not coincide with its independence but actually took more than a century to take effect. This question is often glossed over in the historic
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Gelsthorpe‚ L. (2010) ‘Women‚ crime and control’ SAGE Publications This article was written by Loraine Gelsthorpe to ‘tease out Wacquant’s treatment of gender’ in his two books ‘Punishing the Poor’ and ‘Prisons in Poverty’ (Wacquant) Loraine takes a feminist approach towards Wacquant’s work and feels he needs to look into gender more. Agreeing with Loraine although Wacquant has written about the vulnerability of women in the regimes of workfare‚ he fails to understand how social policies escalate
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Pride and Prejudice Book Review Pride and Prejudice‚ a classic novel by Jane Austen‚ tells the story of a complicated love that develops between what was thought to be two very different personalities. The protagonist‚ Elizabeth Bennet‚ misjudges a man upon rumor and appearance‚ but finds out she is extraordinarily wrong. The novel explains how difficult it is to fully understand someone after settling upon assumptions and being under the influence of the authorities around them. However this
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a. Why did you choose this book? - The title of the book‚ “Cicada Summer”‚ captivates my eyes‚ I thought that this book would be about a vacation and I like that kind of novels. Then‚ when I read what this book is all about‚ it captures me‚ because I really like novels about mysteries and solving puzzles and problems. And that’s why I chose this book. b. What was the book about? - The book was about twelve-year-old narrator Lily‚ a motherless child‚ who has exiled herself to a self-imposed
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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—Sophie’s World Sophie’s World is ranked to be the most popular and attractive history of philosophy by its readers all over the world. The book starts from an extraordinary experience of a 14-year-old girl‚ Sophie. Before her 15-year birthday‚ she took a special philosophy course taught by Albert‚ a wired but knowledgeable guy. In the course‚ she got to know the greatest philosophers ever‚ from Socrates to Kant‚ from Kierkegaard to Freud. Meanwhile‚ she was also thinking the same questions
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The World is Flat: Critical Book Review The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman gives examples from the past and present to help determine how our world is becoming closer through different technological advances. With his awards in writing‚ not only received for this book but for his other writings in the New York Times‚ it can be assumed that Friedman is somewhat qualified in writing this book. The World is Flat‚ a book about the advancements made in the twenty-first century that will effect
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Book Review #2 How History Exposes the System By: Nicholas McGee (w1073395) History 320 Fall 2012 How History Exposes the System A significant portion of African-American history in the western new age democracy of the Americas over the past four hundred years is a reminiscence of stories from the years when African-Americans were used as slaves on the plantations or farms of affluent‚ white farmers. One intriguing story of slavery and the struggles with it was written by a guy named Melton
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Becoming Insane? Or Simply Hearing a Story? Stranger Than Fiction‚ directed by Mark Forster‚ is an unusual movie. I personally liked the movie very much‚ but it was definitely out of the mainstream of movies today. The main character‚ Harold Krick (played by Will Ferrell) is a seemingly normal IRS agent that lives life on a very punctual and precise schedule. He is always on time for things and even counting the number of times he brushes his teeth in the morning! The character that Ferrell acts
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“Abigail Adams: A Revolutionary American Woman” Book Review The third edition of Charles W. Akers’ book‚ “Abigail Adams: A Revolutionary American Woman” was published in 2006 by Pearson Longman Inc. and is one of the many books included in the Library of American Biography Series‚ edited by Mark C. Carnes. This 256 page biography includes a table of contents‚ an editor’s and author’s preface‚ study and discussion questions‚ acknowledgements and an index. This chronological biography of Abigail
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