What is Folklore? This is the question posed in the initial chapter of the book The Study of American Folklore by Jan Harold Brunvand. There are many ways to define exactly what Folklore is‚ but it can be described as unrecorded traditions of people; the content and the manner of communication. Analyzing records and traditions allow anthropologists a glimpse into the common life of the human mind separate from all of the formal records of a people. This area of study wasn’t legitimate or organized
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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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premised on the fact that law has a critical function in all forms of social conduct. Though not the exact words of lecture McNeil‚ they were enough to help me to understand the importance of this course. Therefore upon her instructions to review the book “Slavery Law and Society”‚ I was most enthused‚ as I intended to read with an objective that would allow me to understand more about the laws of slavery and their impacts‚ the composition of society and to compare it with the society we have today
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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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Does the term “Founding Fathers” ring a bell? Warren G. Harding was the first man on record to refer to the first statesmen of America as the “Founding Fathers;” over fifty years after the last American Revolutionary soldier had died (Bernstein pg. 4). How interesting that this common term that we associate George Washington‚ John Adams‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ just to name a few‚ was not such a common term. R.B. Bernstein’s The Founding Fathers Reconsidered‚ gives us a different view of what we associate
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Get Moving: Review of “Move Yourself” Shauntay Langel University of Texas at Arlington N3335 Health Promotion Across the Lifespan Online RN-BSN July 30‚ 2012 Get Moving: Review of “Move Yourself” Part I: Book “Move Yourself” is a book written by Tedd Mitchell‚ Tim Church‚ and Martin Zucker in 2008 about the benefits of exercise. The book also outlines steps that can be taken to slowly improve exercise behaviors for those of any activity level‚ based on the exercise research performed by
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The Killer Angels Book Review The novel I chose for the historical book review is called The Killer Angels‚ by Michael Shaara. This novel is about the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War‚ and it is written from the perspective of the people fighting while sharing their thoughts and feelings about the battle as it goes on. Although it is historical fiction‚ The Killer Angels centers around the Battle of Gettysburg‚ which‚ of course‚ really took place. While the strategy of the battle is factual
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Book Review The Bureaucracy in the Philippines Dr. Onofre D. Corpuz ------------------------------------------------- Institute of Public Administration: University of the Philippines‚ 1957. 268 pp. This book is about the administrative history of the bureaucracy in the Philippines. It spans from the 1560’s when Spain undertook to administer the affairs of the natives of the archipelago to the 1950’s when the Filipinos assumed the responsibility of self-government. The author presented the significant
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The World Is Flat Book Review Daryle S. Rogers Columbia College Managerial Finance BUSI 570 Dr. Elisa Fredericks June 29‚ 2010 The World Is Flat Book Review The World Is Flat is a book about how the business world has become more interconnected within the last few decades. Friedman describes in the beginning of the book a trip to Bangalore‚ India where he visits “India’s Silicon Valley”(Friedman‚ 2007‚ p. 2) and is amazed at the level of technology that has come to the once third
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A presentation in Sam Walton and Walmart - May 25‚ 2011 - Sam Walton Wal-Mart Founder and Billionaire "There is only one boss: the customer‚ and he (or she) can fire everyone in the company from the chairman and down‚ simply by spending their money somewhere else” Samuel Moore Walton ( 1918 – 1992 ) • • Born in Kingfisher‚ Oklahoma‚ Sam Walton was raised in Missouri where he had his first retailing experience in his father’s store while attending school. Growing up during the
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