Book Review Are we Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America Introduction Are we Rome? Will America’s rise to world leadership last for a thousand years? Or will our nation come to ruin‚ like the great Empire of ancient Rome? What lessons does Rome teach us? These questions have haunted Americans since the founding of the new nation in 1776‚ and they are still with us today. While some may look to Rome as an inspiration‚ others believe it casts a dark shadow over America’s national
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Book Review “Leading Change” by John Kotter 1996 Review by Chris Shea John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of leadership and change. He is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership‚ Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and a graduate of MIT and Harvard‚ Kotter’s vast experience and knowledge on successful change and leadership have
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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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doctrine of salvation is at the core of the Christian faith and is a the heart of the work of Jesus. This paper is going to summarize the doctrine of salvation from two authors that the author of this paper read and studied and then give his subjective view or opinion of what each author presented in their explanations of the doctrine of salvation. The first of these authors is Alister E. McGrath from his book Theology:The Basics. The second author is Dr French Arrington from an essay he wrote in Transforming
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韩佳利 Starry 131100024 Class A Metaphor‚ reality or illusion? ——A Book Review on The Hunger Games The Hunger Games‚ which is considered as the best science fiction of the American writer Suzanne Collins‚ won the first place of The New York Times best-seller list. The book‚ which is “brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced1”‚ is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen‚ who volunteers to participate in the Hunger Games‚ a fight to the death on live TV and has no choice but to make
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Austin Sheehan Mrs. Stitham English 10 Honors 10/24/14 Book Review for American Sniper – By: Chris Kyle (Autobiography) Before I start my book review‚ I would like to show respect to Chris Kyle‚ who died in an incident that occurred at a gun range in Erath County‚ Texas‚ where he and his good friend Chad Littlefield‚ were slain by a retired soldier “supposedly”‚ suffering from PTSD. I greatly appreciate his dedication and time spent protecting the United States of America. Overview: Chris Kyle
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premised on the fact that law has a critical function in all forms of social conduct. Though not the exact words of lecture McNeil‚ they were enough to help me to understand the importance of this course. Therefore upon her instructions to review the book “Slavery Law and Society”‚ I was most enthused‚ as I intended to read with an objective that would allow me to understand more about the laws of slavery and their impacts‚ the composition of society and to compare it with the society we have today
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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 OF THE CHANGE MONSTER THE HUMAN FORCES THAT FUEL OR FOIL CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE AUTHOR: JEANIE DANIEL DUCK By: Rhonda Johnson MANAGEMENT 4426/G Spring 2007 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Jeanie Duck‚ author of The Change Monster proposes a plan‚ which she calls the Change Curve‚ to deal with the emotional dynamics humans face when confronted with a major change. The Change Curve was developed by Ms. Duck after years of experiences dealing with
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A Summary of: The Science of “Muddling Through” By Charles E. Lindblom ------------------------------------------------- Public Administration Review‚ Vol.XIX‚ No.2 (Spring‚ 1959)‚ 79-88 I. Introduction This article discusses two different strategies for comparing policies. The first strategy‚ Lindblom entitles Root‚ or Rational-Comprehensive Lindblom refers to the second strategy as Branch‚ or Successive Limited Comparisons. After a brief explanation of the two systems‚ he goes on to
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