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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Book Review of Gabrielle Roy’s The Tin Flute The Tin Flute. Volume 1. By Gabrielle Roy. Translated by Philip Stratford. Toronto: McClelland and Steward Ltd. 1945. ISBN: 978-0-7710-9388-3. Pp. 400. $21.95 Gabrielle Roy’s 1945 book of fiction titled The Tin Flute follows the lives of the impoverished Lacasse family living in the Saint-Henri district of Montreal during World War II. The novel tells the separate struggles of Rose-Anna and her eldest daughter Florentine Lacasse to survive the poverty
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Celia‚ a Slave Book Review Celia‚ A Slave is a story that takes many different historical facts from the era that the book was placed in‚ and uses a slave named Celia’s story to tie them all in and show how these events that didn’t directly affect her‚ would indirectly affect her‚ and the other slaves in this time as well. The author‚ Melton A. McLaurin‚ not only wrote the story of Celia in his book‚ but he also focused on other historical events taking place at the time to support his thesis
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Origins of Agricultural Societies by Peter Bellwood Review by: Ann Christine Pastor Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies seeks to focus on the origins and dispersals of ancient agricultural communities with respect to a variety of fields of study to establish a historical interpretation from a comparative perspective. Although Bellwood admits to having training only in the discipline of archaeology‚ the book also considers the areas of comparative linguistics
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Book Review on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Young Oliver is born in a workhouse‚ and although his single mother dies in childbirth and leaves him with no one to give him true care or attention‚ Oliver thrives‚ in a certain sense. He grows up in this workhouse‚ and the horrors of his childhood can seem all the worse because of the light comic tone of the narration. Charles Dickens is always a wonderful author for pointing out hypocrisy‚ cruelty‚ and social injustices‚ but though it’s good to be
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Escaping Salem Book Review Escaping Salem : The Other Witch Hunt of 1692‚ by Richard Godbeer. New York: Oxford University Press‚ 2005. In the city of Stamford year of 1692 there begins numerous odd events that are hard to make sense of or even explain for that matter. In colonial times the state of Connecticut isn’t automatically associated with any evil doings or witchcraft‚ but this wasn’t always the case for Stamford in the county of Fairfield. Richard Godbeer’s totally neutral very detailed
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The Cherokee Removal Book Review The Cherokee Removal is a brief history with documents by Theda Perdue and Michael Green. In 1838-1839 the US troops expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for land during the growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast‚ the discovery of gold on the Cherokees land‚ and the racial prejudice that many
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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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CRITICAL REVIEW ON THE FAULT IN OUR STARS The Fault in our Stars is a young adult novel written by John Green. It is based on the remission of a 16-year-old Thyroid cancer patient‚ Hazel Grace who relentlessly struggles to breathe. She attends a Cancer Kid Support Group where she meets Augustus Waters‚ a 17-year-old guy diagnosed with osteosarcoma. They form a close relationship and constantly share their love for a book called “An Imperial Affliction” written by Peter Van Houten who resigned
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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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