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Book Review on First to Fight: An Inside View Of the U.S. Marine Corps

Firsts to fight is a book that gives an account of the history of the American Marine corps. The book accounts of the personal experiences of brave men who helped in serving the United States government well. The book reviews different characters and facts in its different chapters which are essential in examining the history of the Marine Corp (Krulak 253). There are also accounts of the difficulties members of the Marine Corps endured to achieve a status as an independent organization free from the control ...

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Samantha Abeel has authored two books and is also a public speaker. She is a young woman who grew up with dyscalculia, a learning disability related with math. In her memoir ‘My Thirteenth Winter’ she narrates about important events from when she was a child right through the years she was a young adult and how this disability compelled her to search for inner strength and find courage in the face of all the challenges. In this book, she profusely narrates how this disability has greatly impacted her life. She says she is old enough, but she is unable to tell time, struggles with ...

Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy is an interesting, inspiring, and educative book that combines both athletic and Christ-centered approach to life. It discusses the importance of faith in relation to leadership. The book goes over story after story as it illustrates on how to tackle challenges and situations particularly in leadership. In the book, Dungy reflects on symbolic stories that are based on his football career and his walk with God. Following his victory as the first African American coach in Suoer Bowl 41, Dungy reflect on how he went through hard times and major challenges but he managed ...

The book "California Government" by John L. Korey is an intriguing look at California’s political system. By examining this process, I have gained a better understanding of the challenges faced by our systems of government and how California is working to meet these challenges.
Korey begins by explaining the background of American government. This background information sets the ground work for the more complex topics that follow. Kory offers up a wealth of information on how California’s government operates. He explains that relative duties and powers are assigned to the Governor including the powers of Chief Legislator, Executive, ...

The demand and supply of illicit drugs has increased to such levels, which have warranted the federal to have several approaches characterized of a myriad of avenues to the same. This includes legislation, as well as criminal penalties, prevention and education of potential users, users’ treatment, and research on how to have effective treatment plans. Safety is a key consideration, which has been evidenced by the existence of drug education in America for almost a century. Drug education uses a myriad of approaches. However, these approaches keep on receiving challenges since it becomes complex to know, which approach is most effective (Inciardi, & McElrath, ...

Multisystemic Treatment summary

The chapter focuses on community interventions in relation to the treatment of various disorders affecting young people. Multisystemic treatment involves a rigorous procedure carried out by the community and families. The procedure is usually aimed at managing and treating severe clinical challenges among young people. Such treatment is usually carried out in a majority of illnesses including the criminal conduct, abuse of drugs, sexual offences, as well as urgent situation psychiatric conditions.
As a consequence of increased problems among communities with regard to the management of various ailments among the youths along with the increased expenses associated with rehabilitation establishments away ...

The book presents an edited collection of letters that Corporal George Browne, a soldier during the World War I wrote to his lover Martha Johnson or "Marty." Brown narrates his experience as a soldier during the training before, during and after theatre. The book provides a fascinating first-hand insight into the life of a soldier when the division came together to Camp Mills, during the travel to France, training during the 1917 and 1918 winter, and the continuous involvement in the line of duty against the Germany Army. The book ends with intriguing photographs of Marty and Brownie during ...

The 2011 publication of the Otsuka’s literary fiction tells the story of Japanese mail order brides who arrived in San Francisco little after the Second World War. Through the force of her language and the poetic elements in the style of writing, Otsuka creates a riveting recount of the Japanese women’s desire to live the American dream. The author uses one of the most unorthodox but effective style of writing to relate the story of these women. Almost all of the story is presented in the first person plural narration form where the author uses the term “we” ...

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This is a review of the book written by John, C. Maxwell attempting to revise the idea that leadership skills can only be exercised from the top. The book proposes a 360-degee influence of leaders in all directions; vertically upwards, downwards and laterally. In order to enforce the point, the author offers some helpful guidelines in the book. He discusses the common myths associated with leadership, the challenges of leading from the middle level and how the middle level manager can exert his influence in all directions of the organization, in a concise yet effective manner.
Keywords: 360 degree ...

It was the best time for both the authors to express their views concerning the challenges that was experienced by the African American who lived in the United States. In the introductory part of the book “The Dreams of My Father.” The author uses composite character, pseudonyms and events that resulted from chronological order, most of which is about his family (Obama, Barack, 13).
He tries to explain the black American feelings and emotions that were experienced because of racial segregation, religion, and politics. On the other hand, Jack explains about the challenges of rare, religion and the ...

In his book “the Origins Of The Second World War In Europe” AJP Taylor makes the argument that the underlying causes of World War II, in contrast to popular sentiment, was the general complexity of political will and international relations at the time, rather than Hitler's dominating influence alongside Fascism and Nazi ideologies. Instead, the various powers, with their individual desires and relational struggles, embarked on the same path which nobody, not even Hitler, had wanted to pursue. Despite the devastation of the Second World War, it is difficult to pin its inception on any one individual. While Hitler ...

Book Review “Religion in America: A political History”

Book Review “Religion in America: A Political History”
Introduction
Denis Lacorne is a French renowned history scholar, religious critical thinker, and a researcher. A part from writing various books and journals, Denis Lacorne is also known for shaping France and American religious history and French social development. In addition, Lacorne is an established commentator and an anchor in French televisions. The popularly of Lacorne in United States of America and European countries is especially enhanced by his brilliant contribution in the analysis of American religious development and global politics and economic development. Numerous scholars have described Denis Lacorne as a ...

At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA is a memoir written by George Tenet and Bill Harlow. The chronicle focuses on the CIA happenings before and after the September 11 2001 Islamic terrorist attacks. In this memoir, George Tenet gives a real life account of his works as the director of the CIA and a chronological order of how things happened during his term as the chief of the Criminal Intelligence Agency. Tenet was the Director of the Criminal Intelligence Agency of the year 1997 to 2004. He writes a book where he recounts the ...

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The book “Leading With the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business and Life” was published in 2001 by Mike Krzyzewski and Donald Phillips. Primarily, the book talks about various aspects of leadership, especially how one earns it, practices it, and how they use it to improve themselves and their organizations. The book gives a detailed account of Coach K’s background where he lived with parents who demanded integrity and honesty in all his undertakings always mentored him. Furthermore, the book recounts Coach K’s experiences at the U.S. Military playing under the tutelage of coach Bobby ...

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The rise of the use of information systems has been an issue of concern and has attracted much attention by many business entities. The development of competitive advantage has been enhanced and developed with the use of information systems. Many organizations have adopted the use of information systems and enhanced the undertaking of business processes. In this paper, a review of information systems in the business context will be looked and assessed. The paper will focus on the content that the authors have focused and done research about. It will help to bring the issues that are of ...

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Ron Deal in his book dating and the single parent (2012) identifies dating as a complex matter for single parents when children are involved. Dating requires consideration of its effects on children. A single parent or the dating partner must be ready to meet the challenges both emotionally and relationally. Deal (2012) provides single parents with solutions from a view of an expert that can help them prepare for dating. His book encourages single parents to consider different perspectives before starting to date. These considerations include whether the dating is beneficial for both children and the single parent at the time ...

The theme of moral independence is well elaborated in this book. The author of the book have emphasized on thinking independently in relation to moral decisions in the story. Antonio reflected moral independence in his decisions throughout the story making him develop and mature through such moral decisions. Antonio is faced with difficulties of his life experience and the religious aspects leaving him in a dilemma. He therefore decided to make his own decisions pertaining to the situation irrespective of religious aspects and his own life experiences. He was frustrated by the fact that the church failed in giving solutions ...

Superfreakonomics is a book written by Steven Levitt- an economist at University of Chicago and Stephen Dubner, a journalist with the New York Times. The book was released in 2009 and it is a sequel to a mega-selling book by the same authors named freakonomics. The two books are based on through research and are about the application of economic reasoning to a wide range of day-to-day questions. Though the first book was hugely popular, the sequel Superfreakonomics extraordinarily challenges the way we think by questioning popular theories and myths (Levitt & Dubner). The authors examine how people react to incentives and present the good, ...

The book revolves around two young men both with the same name Wes and who happen to share the same challenges of growing up in a poor neighbourhood, the people they interact during their growing stage and how those people shaped their lives in contributing on the decisions that they made that changed their fate.The book is divided into eight chapters, each chapter discussing the development stages and the changes that the two Wes encounter in life as they grew up. For the purpose of his paper I will consider two of the concepts which we can learn from this ...

The book analyses the lives of white females with regard to the harsh conditions they encountered in the slave social order prior to the Civil War. The author focuses on the letters, diaries as well as memoirs of hundreds of planer women and daughters. The book provides dramatic details relating to the day to day life with reference to the mistress and the uncertainty of her liaison situation in the hierarchical setting between the master and slave. Further, the author brings to the fore the challenges stumbled upon by the plantation mistress and makes informing interpretations as regards the ...

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Chapter 7 Summary: Cognition

Readers can also learn the weaknesses of Piaget’s theory through its critics who look at it as a theory that under-estimates the development of children which can be beyond the factors examined by him. The chapter reading also shows that other modern constructivist theories look at the causes to different cognitive skills. The sociocultural perspective by Vygotsky's looks at the social and cultural influences as the main causes of cognitive development in children. On the other hand, Fischer's dynamic skills framework looks at skill levels as the main course for development (Sigelman, & Rider, 2014).

Important topic: Aging and cognitive skills

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The chapter on Tort Liability and Air Commerce is focused on tort law and how it influences the aviation industry. It addresses intentional, negligence, wrongful death and strict product liability torts. The aviation industry has adopted commendable safety mechanisms but whenever accidents occur, there is always a high potential for occurrence of significant challenges. The paper will summarize the key torts that affect the aviation industry while also providing key insights into the operations of the aviation industry. From this chapter, the most important idea is that the understanding of torts in the aviation industry can play a critical ...

What did you perceive to be the main concepts presented in the book Orbiting the Giant Hairball?

The concepts of the book concentrate around the critical points that kill creativity and innovation and what it might take a leader to achieve innovation. Among the concepts therein include the need for conformity in schools, corporate normalcy and traditional models (MacKenzie, 1996). The need for conformity in schools is branded as creative games in education whereby the most kids in the institutions are forced to conform; thereby killing their innovativeness. In corporate normalcy, the article implicates a top-down command which leaves no room for creativity of the employees. In addition, the article also denotes the negative side of ...

How and Why Undocumented Immigration Has Grown Since 1965

Immigration in the context of the United States has evolved into a significant problem that requires urgent resolution. While it is true that influx of undocumented immigrants in the United States date to various year ago, it is of the essence that the year 1965 experienced the highest rise in the rates undocumented immigrants gaining entry through our porous borders. The main factor that is responsible for the immense growth of undocumented immigrants in the year 1965 is the inaction of The Immigration and Naturalization Act of the year 1965. This act paved way for the rise in illegal ...

The issues in the network society have attracted enormous attention in the recent times. Rather than totalizing coeval working experience, the book “Work’s Intimacy” written by Melissa Gregg focuses on the ramifications and contradictions of professionals that hold a mid-rank, formerly defined as the white-collar workers. Mobile and online technologies have a great impact on the work, life and social relations of the people, especially professionals. After examining 26 professionals from four organizations, namely, education, telecommunications, government and broadcasting in Brisbane, Australia for three years, Gregg’s book bridges the gap in the existing literature on digital labor. In ...

During the 1930s, the Great Depression affected many states leading to major changes in most sectors of their economy. One of the countries that became a victim of the Great Depression was Canada. Owing to this, the issue has attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of this review is to examine the work of one such researcher, Katrina Srigley, in her book, Breadwinning Daughters: Young Women working in a Depression- era City, 1929-1939 (2010). The Great Depression era affected the live patterns of young women in Canada. They experienced a great shift while trying to adapt to the economic changes ...

Article Review: African Theology - Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology – Roman Catholic in Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church

The two articles being reviewed and compared here are African Theology – Roman Catholic, and Asian Theology - Roman Catholic, both taken from the Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church, edited by William A. Dyrness and Veli-Matti Karkkainen.
Both articles begin with an overview of their interaction with diversity and it is at the very onset that the reader realizes that the two theologies vary greatly in their follower base. Despite its ...

The Outsiders is a story that took place in Oklahoma. The novel describes complicated relationships between teenagers that belong to different social layers. In the beginning of the book one of the main characters, Ponyboy Curtis became a victim of a group of upper-class adolescents from the West Side. Both belligerent parties had their nicknames: the boys from the East End were called greasers because of their long greasy hair and the boys from the West End were called “Socs” that was short from “Socials”. The conflicts between greasers and Socs arose further several times based on their social background. Sometimes their ...

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Photography, undoubtedly more than any other medium, is symbolic of the nature of the modern western societies and is widely practiced. Photography is often employed in various fields including manufacturing, business, mass communication, art, science, as well as recreational purposes. Ansel Adams argued “people do not take a photograph; they make it.” Adams contends that it is important to put much effort while taking an image (Bryant 1996 p 29). Photographs are primarily concerned with appearances and through photos, the past blends well into the present (Bryant 1996 p 24). It is through images captured by the camera that we can gain a ...

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Engineering systems is an engineering concept that is of great importance to the engineers and non-engineers. This is a way on which systems are developed for some purpose is one of the reasons for the development of this component of engineering discipline. This paper will focus on a summary of the book “Engineering systems: Meeting human needs in a complex technological world” by Weck, Roos, and Magee (2011).

Chapter 1

The first chapter talks about the history of engineering and the various inventions that have been done in the world concerning engineering. The chapter focuses in the way human inventions have complicated the world. ...

‘Name’‘Class name, number & prof.’‘Paper #’July 10, 2013

Thick Face black Heart, as a philosophy, was first introduced by Li Zongwu, a Chinese politician cum philosopher, in the early part of the twentieth century, and this philosophy is the basic ideology behind the book written by Chin-Ning Chu. Thick face denotes the ability of a person to hide his intentions from others, and black heart denotes the ability of a person to force his resolve on others. Chu has captured the essence of this theory in her book “Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life”. First published in the year 1992, this book ...

This composition presents the relationship issues that arise from Bathsheba Everdane’s relationships with three men Gabriel Oak, Farmer Boldwood and Sergeant Francis Troy. This composition contrasts and compares the three relationships, and the Issues about marriage that people can learn from the novel. The relationships between Bathsheba and Boldwood and Bathsheba and Troy do not work, Bathsheba’s relationship ends in marriage. The love the two have for each other is genuine and they are bound to make it work since each of them is mature and has faced challenges to harden them. The relationship between Bathsheba and ...

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Democracy is the instances in which the majority people of a state always have their way. In democratic state people are entitled to their own freedoms of expression. For a country to be a democratic there are many challenges that they always face. These are challenges that always oppressive to those that are in the forefront fighting for these democracies. Those that are in power always find ways to stop a state from being democratic due to their own selfish motives. In Europe, it was not an easy journey to democracy. There were many challenges that they faced while they tried to bring ...

Human beings undergo several developmental stages for a complete lifespan. People develop from the time of conception until they finally die. As children grow, they are faced with health challenges in their lives. These health challenges can contain if parents take up their responsibility as parents. Some of the challenges can be contained before they pose danger to the child. Obesity for example is a disorder that faces many children worldwide. It is a condition whereby the victim has overweight and accumulates more fats in the body. This condition affects about a quarter of American population. The most common eating disorders that cause ...

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Intercultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls
Intercultural Marriage : Promises and Pitfalls, Dugan Romano. Intercultural Press. 2008, 3rd ed., rev. ed. 233p.
Marriage is a union of two people, and also intercultural. It can be called intercultural because two people with diverse backgrounds and experience bond together with their experiences, values, and personal eccentricity. Dugan Romano, the author of Intercultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls has been in intercultural marriage for more than 17 years and her experience includes working as a counselor and a trainer. In this book she provides a logical explanation by her extensive work in the field of intercultural ...

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The devil in the white city is one of the literatures by Erik Larson, which highlights some developments in the eighteenth century. This was a defining moment in United States where various architectural designs wee being adopted. Technical education had just hit its peak as many more people acquired skills. With the knowledge, they looked for creative ways of beautifying the city (Johnson, 73). They realized the need of planning everything and ensuring that both buildings, roads, rails and parks were placed at their right positions. One of the weaknesses that such architectural designs and designers had was the fact ...

As We Are Now by May Sarton

The novel as we are now by May Sarton is about Caroline Spencer a 76 year old woman who is a retired school teacher. The novel revolves around the realities of aging and death. Caro, as she is referred to in the novel, suffers a heart attack and is therefore deposited in a nursing home known as Twin Elms located in rural England. Caro is need of short term care, however, this translates to long term care and she is forced to stay in the nursing home for a considerably longer period of time than was supposed to be. The nursing home is under ...

Health policy entails the goals and decisions made so as to achieve the various health care objectives in the society. It just stipulates the future vision and establishes the expected roles of the people concerned in the health matters in the society. Health care in America has come a long way. In the recent past, health care was quite an expensive entity, but leaders have put in place measures to ensure that proper health services are accessible to every citizen. For instance, there is the Affordable care Act or else known as Obamacare, which was enacted into law by ...

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Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education, written by accomplished and known scholars, highlights the fact that students can acquire effective and useful learning only when educational institutions across the United States focus on transferring knowledge to students, rather than administer instruction with the sole objective of complying with state and donor funding regulations (Kuh et al., 2014). To this end, this paper focuses on the pivotal role of teachers in ensuring that their students are actively engaged in the pursuit of real knowledge that will help them in their career and future studies, as opposed to ...

Book Review – Outliers: The story of success by Malcolm Gladwell

It is popularly believed that hard work alone makes individuals successful in life. No wonder, many have bought into the belief that successful people are self-made. Gladwell challenges the accepted beliefs on success in his book, Outliers: The story of success. He discusses the societal and cultural factors that favor certain individuals to become successful through many case studies focused on certain well-known personalities representing various walks of life. According to Gladwell, outlier or a person who is a cut above the ordinary is in fact a beneficiary of time and opportunity.
The major argument Gladwell makes in the ...

Part 4 and Part 5 Final Paper

Actual changes that are eminent in the expounded Chapter three of ‘A History of Usury and Debts’ entails an in-depth insight of the connection between war, capitalism, Protestants as well as their significance in the development of banking and debts around the world, an ordeal which reflects the current status of financial markets. The author well explains Protestants' connection to usury and debt, and how the selection from the Roman Catholic influenced other themes in the chapter, such as war and capitalism (Geisst 107).
Actual changes include the way the three themes related in the previous part is construed ...

Geisst R. Charles’, Beggar Thy Neighbor: A history of Usury and Debt.

Part 2: Description of Expected Plans of Revisions and Expansions.

This paper primarily focuses on examining the three themes that dominated the era of usury and debt. The segregation of Protestants from the main denomination, that is, the Roman Catholic Church, the subsequent wars and Capitalism are some of the major things witnessed during that era. This paper will explore the major themes while having a look whether there exist any form of connection between them. From the Authors point of view, there is a connection between the three themes therefore he discussed them as a single ...

America is a country that is believed to have been built on the tales and stories told by its very first immigrants. They arrived in new lands that looked promising, and thus composed myths that could, later on, become the mythical pillars that the later generations hold as true. Some of the themes that are identifiable with the stories and myths told by the pioneer settlers centered on immigration, religion, the American dream as well as individualism. In the book American Mythos: Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short Robert Wuthnow delves into the greatest ...

“If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation conducted the war on terror after the attacks of 9/11, and from the way we have failed to make our case to the great moderate mass of peace-loving people at the heart of the Muslim world, we need to listen to Greg Mortenson.” (David Oliver Relin, “Three Cups of Tea,” p.5) Do we? Why/why not? To what extent can individuals make a difference in international relations?
When Greg Mortenson partook a flight to an unknown destination in the heart of the ...

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Biodiversity is essential in the sustainability of the environment. In fact, lack thereof compromises the nature’s ability to adapt to environmental changes, therefore, enhancing its vulnerability. The development of science and technology paved the way for the incorporation of genetic engineering to living organisms. Precisely, since its introduction in 1996, many nations have embraced the conveniences offered by the genetic modification of crops to enhance their resistance and overall sustainability (Rifkin 15). This method is influential as it enables scientists to combat the development of a crop disease by altering the genetic composition of an organism. However, this ...

BOOK REVIEW

Book Review: Biblical Eldership: An Urgent Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership

Alexander Strauch’s ‘Biblical Eldership: An Urgent Call to Restore Biblical Church Leadership’ is a resourceful book that addresses contemporary issues in the church. It enables the reader to connect biblical teachings with church leadership. Throughout the book, the author clearly summarizes the essential elements of biblical leadership: should be male, qualified, shared, and pastoral and above all, servant-hearted. The current church governments have a lot to learn from this book. There is no doubt that for tips about church leadership, this book offers priceless guidance.

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Protestants refer to any of the varied denominations of Christianity that differed and subsequently separated from the Roman Catholic Church based. The separation was occasioned by theological or political differences during the Reformation. Reformation was the religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church, and it collapsed to the creation of Protestant churches. Capitalism, on the other hand, refers to the economic system based on private ownership of capital. War refers to an active struggle between competitive entities. Therefore, this paper will focus on examining these three themes that dominated ...

BOOK REVIEW

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The book reviewed is named as Contemporary Health Studies: An Introduction authored by Warwick-Booth, Cross, and Lowcock is based on the discussion related to the current topics and major arguments in the field of contemporary health studies. The book is based on the closer look at the experience of modern humans related to their health, in the context of global, social, political, and environmental aspects. The book acts as a key to understand the challenges faced by the researchers in the modern world of health studies. The discussion in the book is not characterized and filled with saturated ...

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Richard Hoffman wrote Half the House: Memoir, and it was first published in the year 1995. The book was then republished in 2005 with an afterword added to the memoir in 1996. Hoffman claimed that the book was nonfiction and the scenes described by the book were experiences he underwent in his childhood life. However, the names of the characters had been altered safe for the name of the football coach that had sexually molested him in his childhood. The book describes the hardships Hoffman faced in the hands of the ruthless society, his poor family, and an abusive ...

The book Hannah Mary Tabb and the Disembodied Torso is written by a well-known individual named Kali Nicole Gross. The book discloses the beliefs about sex, justice, and race in 1887 in Philadelphia. A Philadelphia woman named Tabb and George Wilson, an eighteen-year-old man, are the main characters in the book. The book is a recapitulation of matters that resonate with today’s world. It highlights racial bias in the police force, unreliable eyewitnesses, and coerced confessions. The writer, Kali Nicole Gross, has written the story in the book with a lot of evidence. She uses the city archive's ...

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Introduction. How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie, is a book that has really stood the test of time. Initially written in the year 1936, the revised edition that is under review here is from 1981, copyrighted by Donna Carnegie (Mrs. Dale Carnegie). The book belongs to the genre of Self Improvement and talks about the basic principles that need to be followed to understand people that we deal with in our daily lives and excel in winning them. It is a book that educates people on becoming ...

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In lucid language, Tim Harford brings forth to the reader the multifarious linkages that bind the global economic system. Over the course of ten chapters, Harford brings home an account of economic activity and highlights linkages between economics, human development, psychology and similar esoteric discoveries.
Harford commences his journey as an ‘undercover economist’ by observing how Starbucks Coffee shops are strategically placed at the exits of metro stations. Harford observes that while the retail price of a cup of coffee is far in excess of the actual cost of producing one, most of the premium goes the way of ...

“The Monkey Wrench Gang” is a novel that was written by Edward Abbey an American famous and fictitious author who lived between years 1927 to the year 1989.The novel was published in the year 1975. The novel is important as far as environmental issues are concerned as it talks about the use of sabotage to protest against environmental damaging. The environmental damaging activities had been witnessed in the Southwest United States. Abbey was influenced by the term “monkeywrench", and this was interpreted to mean any sabotage machine that was used to fight for environmental conservation in the Southwestern United ...

Training Needs

This topic has a range of tools that used to analyze training needs. Training depends on the subject that helps in identifying that which is required by an individual, department and an organization in general. With minimized budget and the need for solutions that prove to be cost-effective, every organization is responsible for ensuring that the invested resources in training are directed to areas where training is needed, and a more profitable return on the investment is guaranteed. Analyzing what training requires is an important approach for effectiveness in any training programs or events (Noe, 2002). The topic calls ...

The Outsiders is a two weeks narration of a 14-year-old boy’s life. The novel narrates the story of a boy named Ponyboy Curtis, and his struggle to differentiate between good and bad within a society that he believes views him as an outsider. Ponyboy has two brothers named Darrel, aged 20, and Sodapop, aged 16. The three are recently orphaned, having lost their parents their parents having met their demise in an automobile accident. The two minors, Sodapop and Ponyboy, are allowed to live under Darrel’s care, on condition that they maintain good behavior. The boys are ...

In Richard Wright’s novel, Black Boy, he deals with many fundamental difficulties of being a young black man being raised in the American south. Unlike many of his other works of fiction, this work covers autobiographically the life of Richard Wright. What one sees is the importance of he relationship between slavery, race and citizenship and how it has always been closely intertwined in the post-Civil War American society. On one hand, slavery was a cruel institution that was used to deny people of fundamental rights of citizenship such as freedom of movement, economic freedom and even freedom of having a ...

Written by Carr Nudge, ‘the shallows’ is a book that questions the capacity of our minds to grasp and store information for future use. The power to concentrate on a specific idea or something has been lost due to the frequent use of the Internet. Carr’s book tries to answer the effects of the use of the Internet on the human mind.

In his book, Carr states that he comes to realize that his brain had lost its concentration power, as info on anything he required was a click away on the Internet. He acknowledges that most of his life ...

Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, by Anthony Arnove, is a book that gives us a vivid description of the war situation in Iraq. The Iraq war is a fight between two giants that are only concerned about their personal interests rather than that of the people. Apart from subjecting the people of Iraq to a lifetime of war, the author reveals of how the sanctions placed against the people continue to affect them socially and economically. Reading the book, one is more drawn to the suffering of children and women who have no idea of why the war ...

Introduction

Upon reading the book, the first person to cross my mind was the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale. She was a lady who loved nursing and always described it as her calling and would engage in health care activities that promoted and maintained the lives of nurses. From the stories, it is evident that nursing is not a peaceful ride as there are haunting and unclear challenges that are bound to come along in the provision of health care. Some of these stories are actually very touching such as the case where the one experiences the first birth. At times, ...

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“Sailing the Wine Dark-Sea: why the Greeks Matter” is the fourth volume of exploration by the great author Thomas Cahill. The author uses his unfathomable skill in literature and historical experience to take his readers to another world of both entertainment and extreme coverage of historical knowledge. In this book, he tags a wide range of historical unassailable features of the Greek by clearly holding an in-depth narration of the journey covered through the landmarks of art and intense bloodshed that lay the Greek culture in a historical legacy in an estimated period of nearly three millennia ago.

It is ...