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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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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INDIA‚ BY ITS PEOPLE 39 Imagining India : ideas for the new century/ Nandan Nilekani; New Delhi: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books‚ 2009. (38-61‚ 158-175‚ 256-282‚ 363-383 p.) INDIA‚ BY ITS PEOPLE IN DELHI THIS Monday morning‚ it is chaos. Despite its pristine new metro and expanding highways‚ the city can barely contain the morning hubbub‚ the swarm of people all trying to get somewhere. By the time I reach Kaushik Basu’s home—set a little apart from the highway‚ on a quiet street
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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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Book Review Understanding the Victorians Politics‚ Culture and Society in Nineteenth-Century Britain Author Background: “Understanding the Victorians” was written by Susie L. Steinbach. Susie was born in 1966 to Jewish Eastern European family in NYC. Her father was a Holocaust survivor and immigrant. She was born and raised in a lower middle-class family. She had public school education; she was able to attend gifted and talented magnet school grades 7-12‚ which provided support
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Katherine A. Dettwyler - Dancing Skeletons: Life and death in West Africa (1994) Review In 1995‚ Dancing Skeletons was given the Margaret Mead Award by the American Anthropological Association. It is presented to anthropologists whose work was able to interpret “anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful and accessible to a broadly concerned public”[1]‚ which I consider to be exactly what the book does. Concerned about the relation between nutrition education and child
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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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