Book review for “The New Gold Standard – the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company” By Joseph A. Michelli By Jie Zhang Cal Poly Pomona Winter 2013‚ GBA 671 Professor Ed von Leffern Book review for “The New Gold Standard – the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company” Introduction Ernest Hemingway once wrote “When I dream of afterlife in heaven‚ the action always takes place in the Paris Ritz.” The Ritz-Carlton becomes synonymous with perfection and luxury worldwide through its painstakingly attention
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The Things They Carried: Book Review By: M**** F**** Often times‚ it’s difficult for generations set apart from a historical war‚ or for those who never served in the military‚ to truly understand the consequences of being a soldier. History books spell out the political and official side of a war story but it is only through personal accounts that one can come to appreciate the reality of the unnerving terror offered by war. In his novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien creates
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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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Book Review: “God of the Oppressed” James H. Cone “God of the Oppressed” is a history of the African American Struggle through the complex account of its author‚ James H. Cone. Written in 1975‚ “God of the Oppressed” is the continuation of Cone’s theological position‚ which was introduced in his earlier writings of‚ “Black Theology and Black Power‚” (1969) and “A Black Theology of Liberation” (1975). This final account was put together and published as a response to the continuous dismissal of
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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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Otto Von Bismarck and the events of the 1860’s played a very significant role to the unification of Germany by 1871. Some historians dispute upon the concept that Bismarck was solely a “master planner”‚ arguing that he was in fact a pragmatist or an opportunist meaning that he took advantage of the situations around such as the conditions of the countries. Historian Mosse notes that due to the conditions of intentional opposing countries (such as; Russia‚ Britain‚ France and Austria) Bismarck was
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Mavericks at Work William C. Taylor & Polly Labarre Book Review Lau Wa Kwan‚ Edwin 11532323G MM511 Managing Organizations and People (2011/2012 Term 1) Introduction In the past 10-20 years‚ the environment changed vigorously due to globalization and rapid development of internet. If organizations just follow the old success formula‚ probably it will go out of business. In the book “Mavericks at Work”‚ William C. Taylor & Polly Labarre mentioned how “Mavericks” leaded their
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The Making of a Quagmire Book Review David Halberstam was a reporter assigned to the Vietnam conflict during 1962 and 1963. After graduating from Harvard University‚ David Halberstam went on to work for various newspapers. He went to work for the New York Times Washington bureau in 1960. In the fall of 1962‚ Halberstam was assigned to the Vietnam conflict. David Halberstam’s book is an attempt to put into retrospect the portrait of the American experience in Vietnam‚ to capture the details
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"Call of the Wild" Book Review By: Sheldon Shepard What if you were torn away from your home‚ your life‚ your family‚ and everything that was ever familiar to you‚ and got thrown into harsh‚ life threatening situations? Would you adapt in order to live and survive or would you be totally enveloped in the chaos and just give up‚ and become a name unmentioned? In Jack London’s book "Call of the Wild"‚ we are taught that anyone or thing can be taken from its surroundings and hurled into a world
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Book Review of: Tara Revisited Maria Kelly History 204.401 May 8‚ 2008 Throughout History‚ women have played various roles‚ but often time portrayed much differently. In Tara Revisited Catherine Clinton analyzes the women of the South during and after the Civil War and discusses the myths and realities. Often in literature and movies‚ there was an idealized picture of a gentle and romantic picture of Southern life‚ yet this was not the realistic picture.
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