Block Book Reviews Samples For Students

Peter Block defines leadership as an act of stewardship where an individual commits to doing good for the sake of the community. This symbolic idea redefines the term leadership by ensuring that leadership is a form of partnership and commitment to improving a greater society and calls this act stewardship. In addition, leaders can be involved in building the economy by seeking teamwork from the people surrounding. This act is contrary to the mainstream idea of a leadership that defines it as singular and one with power and authority over the people. Thus, Peter Block asserts that leadership should be grounded to ...

Introduction to PL/SQL

Introduction to PL/SQL
PL/SQL stands for Procedural Language which is an extension to SQL. This is the standard data access language that is used by Oracle in relational databases. It ensures that procedural constructs are integrated seamlessly into SQL. Structured Query Language is the language that is commonly used in relational databases to gain access and modify data. One limitation of SQL is when there is need to have data with some conditions. An example is given below:
PL/SQL defines a block that is used for writing code. The block becomes easier to manage and maintain. With PL/SQL, ...

Main theme in the book

The main theme of this book is correction services in the prisons. The author was a prison warden who got a first-hand account of what happens in the correctional facilities in the United States. The book explores the problems faced by the inmates as they undertake their daily chores in the prisons. Ted shows that the prisoners dislike the wardens and view them as sadists and authoritarian who do not take any point from the prisoners. This makes the prisoners view the wardens as bad guys thus triggering a crisis between the prisoners and the correctional officers.

Plot of the book

The book is set in ...

Introduction

The book Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore is a true account of the happenings in the Gilmore family. The author is a brother to Gary Gilmore who was sentenced to death after refusing all attempts to block his execution. He instead demanded that he be put to death for the crimes that he had committed earlier on. He was therefore executed by a firing squad in 1977. After Gary’s death, Mikal was faced by some irresistible emotion of loss and dissociation from his family past. However, after some time he found it necessary to explore the dark events that ...

Patrick Murphy’s leadership style focused greatly on accountability; he wanted to make sure people were held responsible for their actions and those under them. (p. 33). When Murphy took over the police force, he “considered himself a reform agent,” deciding he needed to clean house to get rid of the ghosts that were rampant in Leary’s tenure as commissioner. Believing that there was too much splintering and division within the department, he sought to bring everyone back together and eliminate this sort of waste.

Murphy also took special effort to curb corruption any way he could; he opted ...

Introduction

The Second World War was one of the biggest wars to be witnessed in the world history. Countries ventured into the Second World War in order to settle their scores that were left unsettled during the First World War. German was the main problem causer and other European countries teamed up so as to oust Hitler who kept on conquering Europe. Hitler ignored advice from the military personnel but insisted that they push on further. Japan on the other hand wanted to become the world’s super power and so continued with its scathing attacks to the countries that ...