I enjoyed this book by Bell Hooks far more than I did Creative Schools by Ken Robinson. I thought this author had a better ability to lay out her thoughts and explain to the reader more efficiently her ideas. The chapters were fifty percent shorter as well‚ which helped the reading feel less drawn out and lengthy. The author did a better job providing examples from her life that related to the subject than Robinson did‚ although they were also rather lengthy. Creative Schools tended to have the examples
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Longman Publishing. Summary Jane Sayers takes a large portion of her writing to paint a picture of what was going on with the world of the Holy Roman Empire up to Pope Innocent. She explains the papacy at the time and how it interacted with the modern world. Sayers goes into depth as to how he made all of his power grabs with kings‚ the fourth crusade‚ and his convening of the fourth Lateran Council. The majority of the book is a gross amount of details. The beginning of the chapter on Innocent’s life
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research about the bones of colonial settlers. In the passage Written in Bone‚ Sally M. Walker develops many central ideas throughout the text. One central idea is that forensic anthropologists explore bones to tell the stories of the past. Whereas another central idea in the passage is that while forensic anthropology aids us in answering many mysteries of the past‚ it can also formulate more questions to answer. Sally M. Walker‚ the author of Written in Bone‚ helps develop these central ideas using
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In the first chapter of Freakonomics‚ the authors of the book used a quote that in my opinion best describes the whole idea of the chapter. That quote is “a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for” by W. C. Fields. This quote perfectly summarized the whole chapter’s idea incentives‚ the idea that incentive “is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing” and how incentive “is a bullet‚ a lever…‚ [and] an often tiny object with astonishing power to
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Mobile Commerce (m-commerce) or what’s known as mobile electronic commerce. In reality‚ the interaction between technologies such as the Internet‚ mobile computing devices‚ and wireless networks (e.g. mobile network) facilitates the existence of m-commerce to offer many services to mobile consumers (Siau‚ Lim‚ & Shen‚ 2001). M-commerce is directly linked to electronic commerce (e-commerce) (Tiwari‚ Buse‚ & Herstatt‚ 2006). Whereas e-commerce provides “anytime” access to online services‚ m-commerce potentially
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To summarize this Mill’s chapter two about what utilitarianism is‚ basically meaning that individuals would find some kind of pleasure that are more desirable and more valuable to themselves are inherently good. Utilitarianism is pleasurable when the actions are good; when the actions are bad the pleasure decreases. To Mill he compares human pleasures are as equal as animalistic pleasures. It depends on what kind of pleasure people are seeking. For this purpose‚ Mill mentioned that people would have
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discusses how different people keep in God close to their heart when they are making the harsh‚ physical and emotional demanding journey to America. In chapter 7 of Migration Miracle‚ Hagan discusses how many of these migrants and their families’ use something called La Promesas or promises; in hopes that God will be a helping hand their journey. In this chapter‚ we see many unorthodox ways that people use in order to give praise to their religion. A couple of ways that the migrants and their families used
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Part 1 - Book structure and arguments In order to convey the structure and arguments of Ferguson’s Empire‚ I will split it into two parts. First‚ I will discuss each chapter in depth‚ explaining the main arguments and themes of each. Secondly‚ I will bring it to a wider sense and discuss these characteristics in term of the whole book itself. Ferguson starts out his book trying to explain the underlying reasons that Britain‚ of all empires at that present time‚ was able to become an economic phenomenon
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Chapter 1- Bill Bryson and his fam have just moved to "a small town in New Hampshire" Wanted to walked the entire Appalachian trail‚ longest hiking path‚ Bryson was a nature person‚ he wanted to feel like a mountain man. Many people didn’t have faith that Bryson could complete the path‚ instead of incuringing him they tell him all the horrible things that happen along the trail. Bryson is disappointed that his friend Katz has gone back to drinking. While hiking Katz ends up missing‚ they were
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The reading for today started on Chapter 9 on the day of Paige’s big breast cancer gala. Chloe had came home after being gone the night before and shared the news about her and Chris getting back together. They were still planning on going to California‚ and were leaving the next morning to start their road trip. Paige was upset because she did not want to see Chloe leave‚ but she knew Chloe was doing what she wanted and that she would be happy. Spencer came home from his trip to China minutes before
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