Susan Simmons Book Review Good Wives by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich October 3‚ 2010 This book was written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and is titled “Good Wives Image and Reality in the lives of Women in Northerner New England 1650-1750”. The author is giving an account of what life was really like for the women in Northern New England of 1650-1750. The book starts with a letter address from a father to his daughter pertaining to the death of his wife and her mother‚ Dorothy Dudley. He says he
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Dereck Rickman Scott Keys History 9September2012 In the book‚ Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York‚ Piess takes the reader on the journey of trials and tribulations in working-class women’s lives in the turn of the century. Going in depth of the unfair familial roles and societal female disparities‚ all the way to what women liked to wear and do for leisure‚ Piess allows the reader to step into a time machine and gives them a first-class look into what a woman’s
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Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner I have chosen the book “The Kite Runner” written by Khaled Hosseini. The Book”The Kite Runner” begins with Amir when he is about 40 years. He has published a new book and gets a call. The call is from Rahin Khan. He has moved from Kabul in Afghanistan to Pakistan‚ because it wasn’t a hospital in Kabul who could be able to help him. When he is talking with Rahin Khan‚ he is thinking back to his childhood in Kabul in about 1970. Many children were playing with
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Scholarly Source Review Upton Sinclair’s novel‚ “The Jungle‚” is known for how it changed the American meat-packing industry by exploiting the dangerous‚ unsanitary conditions. James Barrett’s article‚ “Remembering the Jungle‚” discusses the impact of Sinclair’s novel and why this novel is still remembered over a century later. Barrett argues that Sinclair’s “The Jungle” has achieved a major influence on American Society‚ and it has become a part of American history. Barrett provides multiple
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Maya Austell January 31‚ 2012 Book review Apostles of Disunion The way Charles B. Dew opened up this book was touching and smart. He and I share the same qualities in thinking about issues by looking at things from both sides‚ and in ways that haven’t been discussed or thought about. He was a born and raised southerner‚ and told of his up bringing in the south. His ancestors fought and died for the Confederacy. Although it may seem that he should be a die-hard supporter of the Confederate
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CATCH 22 BOOK REVIEW Catch 22 is a satirical novel written by Joseph Heller. It is a story about American army pilots on an island near Italy in the end of World War II in 1944. Catch 22 is a story about how the main character John Yossarian wants to get out of the army and how he tries to act insane so he can be declared unfit to fly any more missions. It is a satirical antiwar novel. It was considered very unusual and was critisised by reviewers when it was first published in 1961. It contains
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HIS306 Leo Africanus Book Review Leo Africanus By‚ Amin Maalouf In the book Leo Africanus it is a fictionalized biography of a real person‚ Hasan al- Wazzan. Hasan and his family were forced to flee to Fez‚ where he grew up and became a very well-off merchant. The book really gives a clear picture of his family life as a child‚ his education‚ his marriages‚ his travels‚ and his bitter- sweet reminiscence of exile. The narrator of Amin Maalouf’s historical novel‚ Hasan al-Wazzan - who
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BOOK REVIEW THE RULE MAKERS HOW THE WEALTHY AND WELL BORN DOMINATE CONGRESS The congress or the House of Representatives and the Senate or the upper house are the two components of the legislative branch of the Philippine government. They are meant to pass bills‚ create laws‚ and approve budgets that benefit their constituents and the nation as a whole. In theory‚ this is the ideal upon which they were built‚ they would legislate for the people to best serve them and to ensure the
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Book Review by Alan Deutschman Leadership is about inspecting not expecting or to put it another way leaders should practice what they preach. However‚ few leaders seem to actually do it. In Walk the Walk‚ Mr. Deutschman‚ a consultant and ¬former ¬Fortune magazine writer‚ argues that ¬leaders are most effective when they rely on the power of their ¬example. People who become leaders have many options. One way a leader can lead is by becoming a ruler. Machiavellian leaders who rule tell people
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Giancarlo Motta Mrs. Leite Honors English Period 4 May 12‚ 2014 Treasure Island Book Review Treasure Island is classic a pirate tale written by acclaimed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story is about a young man named Jim Hawkins and his quest for the legendary treasure of “Captain Flint”‚ a notorious pirate of the seven seas. The story is narrated and told through the perspective of Jim Hawkins. The treasure of Captain Flint is located on Treasure Island‚ a place every
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