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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Book Review for: _Portraits of Jesus: A Reading Guide_ Linnie Kelly Saint Leo University Rev. William Barnes July 23‚ 2013 _Portraits of Jesus_ by Robert Imperato _Portraits of Jesus: A Reading Guide_ was written by Robert Imperato and published by University Press of America in 2008. The main theme of this book is to explain the many different ways that Jesus is portrayed throughout the New Testament by the many different authors. This book gives priority to the life and times of Jesus Christ
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Practical Book Review One: James C. Petersen‚ D. Min. _________________ Presented to Rev. Mario Garcia‚ Jr.‚ Ph.D.‚ J.D. Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Lynchburg‚ VA __________________ In Partial fulfillment Of the requirements for the course PACO 500 Introduction to Pastoral Counseling ________________________ By Odell Joiner November‚ 2011 Hey Petersen‚ James C. 2007. Why don’t we listen better? Communicating and connecting in relationships
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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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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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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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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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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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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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