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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Dexter‚ Christian A. Review of Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. By James Welch and Paul Stekler. New York: W.W Norton Company‚ 1994. From time to time‚ a book of true historical significance is written on a subject that has been written on almost endlessly. The Battle of the Little Big Horn is one of the most written about‚ speculated on‚ celebrated‚ talked about‚ and glorified events in American History. Popularly known as "Custer’s Last Stand"
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Book Review: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Title: Heart of Darkness Author: Joseph Conrad Publishing: Green Integer Year: October 1‚ 2003 (original 1890) Pages: Paperback‚ 200 pages ISBN: 1892295490 (ISBN13: 9781892295491) Joseph Conrad’s ’Heart of Darkness’ is one of the most well-known works among scholars of classical and post-colonial literature. It is thought provoking and ominous‚ but is also considered to be one of the most highly stylistic in its class. The novel blends the
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The film Glory‚ gives the audiences the chance to witness the close relationship between two very different men: Private Thomas Searles and Private Silas Trip. Searles and Trip started out as men from different lifestyles who have an aversion towards one another. Trip constantly mocked Thomas for being different compared to the other black man. Trip kept on bothering Searles because he was jealous of his lifestyle. Trip was surprised that Thomas talked "as good as a white folk” (Fields and Zwick
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Susan Simmons Book Review Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich October 3‚ 2010 This book was written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and is titled “Good Wives Image and Reality in the lives of Women in Northerner New England 1650-1750”. The author is giving an account of what life was really like for the women in Northern New England of 1650-1750. The book starts with a letter address from a father to his daughter pertaining to the death of his wife and her mother‚ Dorothy Dudley. He says he
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Dereck Rickman Scott Keys History 9September2012 In the book‚ Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York‚ Piess takes the reader on the journey of trials and tribulations in working-class women’s lives in the turn of the century. Going in depth of the unfair familial roles and societal female disparities‚ all the way to what women liked to wear and do for leisure‚ Piess allows the reader to step into a time machine and gives them a first-class look into what a woman’s
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Book Review: The Last Manchu Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi‚ Last Emperor of China Edited by: Paul Kramer Submitted by: Tiffany Joy A. Candelaria 2 History I. Brief Summary This book is an autobiography of a man who became The Emperor of the Manchu Dynasty‚ at two years of age‚ named Henry Pu Yi. He lived a life as an emperor up until China’s government became republic and seized his powers. Until then‚ he continued his life back in Tientsin and tried to continue his legacy by being
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CATCH 22 BOOK REVIEW Catch 22 is a satirical novel written by Joseph Heller. It is a story about American army pilots on an island near Italy in the end of World War II in 1944. Catch 22 is a story about how the main character John Yossarian wants to get out of the army and how he tries to act insane so he can be declared unfit to fly any more missions. It is a satirical antiwar novel. It was considered very unusual and was critisised by reviewers when it was first published in 1961. It contains
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The book makes a calculated approach to address the fate of queers in the hands of gay rights activist. He turns his readers from the belief that gay marriage rights solve the problem of queers. During the first chapter‚ he seeks to explain about sexual shame. Sexual shame he claims is used to incriminate and discourage things that at private morality look just right. He goes further to define normalcy as just a common statistical range. He then claims that by this definition then we are not compelled
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poet. His tale of his journey through a darkened world‚ is told in words that are not just written‚ they are painted onto the canvas that is his book. I started off full of pity for Kuusisto. He made me sad for the life that he led. I found the image of him trying to read tragic. With his descriptions‚ I could just picture him leaning 2 inches above a book‚ with one eye pointing the wrong direction‚ and the other jiggling back and forth in its socket. I think Kuusisto intentionally pressures the reader
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