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    Sociology Book Review

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    Bailee Elizarraras Sociology 100 Animal Farm 11/4/14 The book Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ plays on the sociological ways how overseeing government has total control over society. In the book‚ Gorge Orwell begins with the introduction of Mr. Jones; a farmer who over works his livestock. This aspect reflects dictatorship and through history‚ people in the society of a dictatorship have relatively short stands‚ as the animals do after a secret alliance is decreed between all of the animals

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    Freakonomics Book Review

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    modern world‚ despite a surfeit of obfuscation‚ complication‚ and downright deceit‚ is not impenetrable‚ is not un- knowable‚ and—if the right questions are asked—is even more in- triguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking. - Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonmics is a book written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubuer. Steven d. Lennits is the living definition of the phrase “ Think Outside the Box” He is not a typical economist‚ he even states it in the book’s introduction‚ “I’m not good

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    Prebles Book Review

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    In the first part of the book Prebles’ “Art forms” by Patrick Frank is basically about the way you’re able to view the different types of art. Also about how when you look at a certain art piece you’re able to notice the structure of the art. In the first chapter of part one “The Nature of Art and Creativity” it’s talking about how we don’t always have to showing actions or feelings in a physical way. Many artist show there way of emotions and actions through paintings‚ theater plays‚ etc. They

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    The Jungle Book Review

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    Sinclair‚ Upton. The Jungle. New York: The Penguin Book‚ 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is the story of an immigrant who came to America for a new beginning involving a “great” job. The immigrant‚ Jurgis Rudkus‚ comes from a poor family in Lithuania and wants to now support his future wife‚ Ona Lukoszaite by working for a meatpacking factory in Chicago. Jurgis soon realizes that America and its’ people and opportunities are not all that he thought they would be. Sinclair exposes the horrors and

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    Anger Book Review

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    Anger- Towards the Author Anger Robert A.F. Thurman Oxford University Press Copyright 2005 125 Pages Reviewed by: Connell Depatie The book Anger‚ written by Robert Thurman‚ belongs to a series of books individually written by different authors about the “Seven Deadly Sins” and the different ways to conquer them. This particular book tells the reader what anger really is‚ with a western definition followed by an eastern definition‚ and goes on to tell the reader several steps through which

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    Rumspringa Book Review

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    Some of the books go into great detail in how rumspringa occurs and how it follows through. Some books like the one Tom Shachtman wrote titled To Be or Not To Be Amish goes into detail but its from an amish teens point of view. He talks about how rumspringa works and what parents can actually learn from this

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    The Book Thief Review

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    would make the accordion live. I guess it makes sense‚ when you really think about it. How do you tell if something’s alive? You check for breathing. The sound of the accordion was‚ in fact‚ also the announcement of safety. Daylight." page 38 The Book Thief -"Death" first gives the reader an explanation concerning the true importance of the accordion and the role that is has to play in the life of Liesel here. Albeit indirect‚ this pioneering explanation gives the reader their first identity of

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    The Unwinding Book Review

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    The Unwinding is the perfect title for this book. It portrays and revolves around the sad and unsettling history of the last four decades in the United States. His topic is the fall of the structure of the national government. Packer makes remarks regarding the unraveling of unspoken agreements about the limits to Wall Street’s greed‚ about what a congressman would or wouldn’t do for the right price‚ about what a company owes its workers‚ and what the wealthy should contribute in tax. As Packers

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    The Outsiders Book Review

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    “The Outsiders” is a novel written by S. E. Hinton in 1967. The story is set in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ in 1965. The book follows two rival groups‚ the Greasers and the Socs (short for socials). The groups are divided by the economic status of their societies. The main Characters are Ponyboy Curtis‚ Sodapop Curtis‚ Darry Curtis‚ Dally Winston‚ Two-Bit Mathews‚ Steve Randle‚ and Johnny Cade. Ponyboy‚ Sodapop‚ and Darry are three brothers that look out for each other after their parents died in a car crash

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    The Jungle: Book Review

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    The main theme of The Jungle is the evil of capitalism. Every event‚ especially in the first twenty-seven chapters of the book‚ is chosen deliberately to portray a particular failure of capitalism in Sinclair’s view‚ inhuman and violent. The slow total destruction of Jurgis’s immigrant family at the hands of a cruel and unfair economic and social system shows the effect of capitalism on the working class as a whole. As the immigrants‚ who initially possess an idealistic faith in the American Dream

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