Citizenship Book Reviews Samples For Students

Dalton defines a good citizen according to the first half of the 20th century as an individual who has the qualities of loyalty, compliance, and obligation to authority and also has a “subject” mentality. Dalton describes this norm as “duty-based citizenship” (Dalton, 80) However, since the 1960s to date, the definition of a good citizen has changed to one who has higher tolerance, approaches government affairs more directly, and is concerned about the well being of other individuals in the U.S. as well as globally. This new definition of good a good citizen constitutes the new norm described as “engaged citizenship” (81)
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Introduction

Elaine Kamarck seeks to explain the bureaucratic approaches in keeping with the information age economy. This argument, although it seems illogical, stems from the assertions that have risen from political leaders that suggest that the government in modern days has shifted from being the necessary solution to becoming a problem. Such statements will not be taken lightly by citizens who look up to the government to provide solutions to the many problems they face. One man who is against such an opinion is Kamarck. Largely, Kamarck supports the endeavors that the government takes in order to make the citizens feel ...

Chapter 1

NOTE 1 A
The government is defined by different branches that form the government which are distinguished and identified by the power and freedom that each of them exercises. Power is defined by the one who rules while freedom is determined by how much control of the government is allowed in a particular form of government. There can be an authoritarian system of government whereby the power is exercised through violence. A totalitarian system of government is a system of government whereby the extent of violence is far beyond that exercised by the authoritarian government (11).
The contrast of ...

Abstract.

Salman Rushdie’s non fictional work The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey expresses the gongs on in Nicaragua after the revolution. In this paper, this will be focused on more so the feelings of the people, its culture and political environment and analysis of it. Rushdie seemed to question a lot of things and even back others from a political point of view. This portrays him as a honest visitor of the state who so wishes to explore the land and get to know what really happened behind the scenes of leadership and governance.

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

In the book The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan ...

Abstract.

Salman Rushdie’s non fictional work The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey expresses the gongs on in Nicaragua after the revolution. In this paper, this will be focused on more so the feelings of the people, its culture and political environment and analysis of it. Rushdie seemed to question a lot of things and even back others from a political point of view. This portrays him as a honest visitor of the state who so wishes to explore the land and get to know what really happened behind the scenes of leadership and governance.

The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey

In the book The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan ...

Book Review

Book Review

Introduction

Policing in the United States is democratic not only in theory, but also in practice. Policing plays a crucial role in encouraging the institutions in a democracy, thereby either sustaining or eroding the quality of democracy. It is important to note that democratic policing often employs practices that lead to an increase in inequality across the society. Therefore, the book titled “Democratic Policing in a Changing World,” written by Peter Manning offers a theoretical background with regards to the nature and function of democratic policing. The author presents valuable information about Anglo-American policing and its effects on ...

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 ...

Introduction

The book, “Up from Slavery” is a chronicle of the life of Booker T. Washington. He narrates of his life from slavery to schoolmaster. The book recounts how Booker T. Washington scaled the social ladder through manual labor, hard work, relationships with famous and great people and a decent education. The purpose of the book is to illustrate the problems that faced the African Americans by chronicling the problems of one. This way he would demonstrate how he rose from servitude to success thereby demonstrating how other fellow humans could do the same, in addition to how philanthropists and sympathizers could ...

Introduction

The book “The French and their Revolution by Richard Cobb” describes the French Revolution that took place in the last decade of the 18th century, between 1789 and 1799. This period was marred with political and social turmoil in European history. The revolt resulted in the crumple of the ‘absolute’ kingdom that had governed France for several decades. This book gives a brief summary of the revolution and how the government reacted towards the same. The author states that monarchy had ruled France for years which resulted into different social classes emerging. There was a very big gap between the poor ...

Summary

The book “Where Does the Money Go?” by Scott Biddle and Jean Johnson has been made to reflect the current financial crisis and the extensive legislation passed by the Obama’s administration. The book is unbiased and stable, straightforward, eye-opening, and pleasantly irreverent guide to the federal budget problems. DiBiase (2009) stated that is by no means outdated. It was made when the nationwide debt was only $9 trillion. It talks about the method of setting the federal budget up, where the money derive from, where it goes and the reason the government is spending more that it has. ...

Immigrants represent a worthy proportion of the population in the United States. The immigrants took part in the First World War when the United States entered it in 1917. It was quite subtle that one out of the five soldiers belongs to the immigrants who sacrifice themselves to serve the nation. In the book, The Long Way Home, David Laskin represents the heroic character of dozen immigrant men. These men were born in Europe who got emigrated to the United States in search of faith and liberty, and ended up fighting with American armed forces in The Great War. These ...

Introduction

Japan encountered both good and bad experiences after the war between the year 1945 and 1952. This was the period when occupation officially ended and later, followed by chaos and destruction in Japan. The emperor Hirohito gave his surrender speech, and most people felt betrayed and displaced. During the early days of occupation, Japans had to deal with hunger due to food shortage. There was excavating black market and Japans traditions were forgotten. Decisions made by USA resulted to change in societal conscious instead of focusing to change everyday life of the Japans. USA government did not punish the ...

This is a book report on “Everyday life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside. The text is a collection of many different articles by authors who were based in Russia in the early 1930’s. This was the period right after the Russian revolution in which the Bolsheviks emerged as victors. As they exercised their authority, they attempted to implement different new strategies which were interpreted by different citizens in different ways. The collection of articles best explain how the different categories of citizens adopted to their changing way of life.
The first aspect of the collection of ...

The name

The United States has always been a multinational country, and immigrants have always constituted a significant percentage of the American population. Thousands of people from all over the world come here to find something they lack in their home countries – stability, prosperity, even happiness, and they stay here for years, generation after generation. But is it true to say that these people become American citizens, acquiring the same rights as Americans? In “When the Emperor was Divine” Julie Otsuka answers this question, and the answer seems to be – no, it is not. According to the novel, immigrants are vulnerable ...

Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. New York: Grove Press, 1999.

On the afternoon of October 3, 1993, more than one hundred and sixty men prepare themselves with a mission to capture the two men. Following the starvation of Somalis, food is brought into the country but the people do not benefit from it as warlords store it and in turn, cause further starvation among the people. However, the mission on that day targets the two men, Salad Omar and Awale Mohammed, the lieutenants of Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The rangers manage to capture the two men ...

Publisher: New York, NY: Harper, 2005, ©2004.

Summary
The enormous explosion of the Kursk submarine happened on 12 august 2000 during a crucial military demonstration. The explosion resulted in the sinking of the Russian most expensive nuclear submarine, which was known as the Kursk. All those who were in the submarine perished as the Russian president refused the help of the foreign countries.
The note became the cry of the sea of the Russian souls that were tormented, as some of the people of the briefed families and the citizens confronted the Russian government. They were inquiring to know what was important to the Russian ...

The Irish Way

Analysis of Chapters
The book, “The Irish Way” by James R. Barrett describes the life of Irish immigrants who went to start new lives in America after conditions at home became un-accommodative. The author of the book has structured it in a very interesting manner. To show the various interactions of the Irish immigrants, the book has been subdivided into sections namely, The Parish, The Street, The Stage, The Workplace, The Nation and The Machine. This essay however focus on two of three sections that is, The Workplace, The Stage and The Nation as well as the introductory part ...

Introduction

The book, “The Irish Way” by James R. Barrett is a masterpiece written to describe the life of Irish immigrants who went to start new lives in America after conditions at home became un-accommodative. Widespread insecurity, callous English colonizers and the ghost of great famine still lingering on and on in their lives, made this ethnic group be convinced that home was longer a home anymore. They descended in United States of America in large numbers. James R. Barrett in his book notes that these people were the first group of immigrants to settle in America. According to him, there were a ...

Is the Federal Reserve Good For Business?

Federal Reserve System is the main banking unit of the United States. It was enacted under the Federal Reserve act in 1993.Its establishment was influenced by the need to address financial shocks in 1907. It is the central bank of United States whose role includes the supervision of commercial banks, government’s bank, and formulation of monetary policies and lender of last resort.

The main point of discussion is the role played by federal system in the United States economy. According to Daniel Indiviglio, Federal Reserve is the backbone of United States economy and why the economy has withstands ...

Question 1

Karl Marx
Karl Marx theory of conflict has a lot to offer about wilding behaviour in the United States. Wilding behaviour is all about self interest, individualism and many others which do not conform or are not supported by others resulting in a conflict. Conflict is a misunderstanding that is derived from any decision made by another with or without the intentions of hurting others but mainly as a way of being in power. This is shown in the Karl Marx theory of conflict where there are two classes in the society, one is the ruling and the other is the ruled.
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1: Book Information

This book is as a result of informative essays on the daily life during the French revolution. The essays are presented from a Master historian who had the gift of understanding some great historic events in terms of ordinary human relations. The author admired chronicles of daily life in Revolutionary France. He gathers the accounts into one volume with an enlightening introduction by his former pupil David Gilmour. In the book, the reader is able to not only meet history makers like Danton and Robespierre but is able to understand the occurrence of several events during the time of the revolutions. ...

Approximately 100 years after Union troops settled the issue of slavery, a second Civil War played out in America’s courts and on the streets of the America South. In Mississippi, as in Alabama, Georgia and other states where the Civil Rights movement played out, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education and the ensuing battle over school integration inflamed white folks, who adopted every available tactic to maintain the doctrine of “separate but equal.” Black folks responded with incredible courage, implementing strategies that would eventually turn the tide in the battle for civil ...

1. The Social Miracle
T. R. Reid moved to Tokyo, Japan, with his family – composed of his wife and their two daughters – where he lived for five years, as an expatriate employee for the Washington Post. He posits that some Asian nations (such as Japan, South Korea, and Singapore ) have built modern societies within the safest environment, providing the best education for the children, and with probably the most stable families on Earth. In Reid’s opinion, this accomplishment is due to the widespread acceptance by Far East countries of the ethical values of Chinese philosopher Confucius. He pointed ...

Introduction

In his book “Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq”, Stephen Kinzer examines the various overthrows the government of the United States has undertaken since 1893. According to Kinzer, the invasion of Iraq was not an isolated case. It was just a continuation of the list of very countries America has invaded and aided its overthrow. Kinzer examined 14 overthrows that the U.S government has been involved in the last 110 years (Kinzer 8). According to him, the intension of most of the overthrows are not what the government tells the public, both the American citizens ...

Introduction

In her book entitled The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, Harney discussed about the impact of the rapid industrialization in China. She pointed out how the industrialization and economic progress transformed the country to what people would consider as the world’s factory, yet, the author argued that this progress resulted in adverse consequences. Accordingly, the book talks about important elements that relate to the country’s geography.
a. Migrant Workers Issue
One of the factors that was discussed by Harney in her book is the issue of migrant workers. According to the author, there ...

Central Part of Mexican National Identity

Mexican identity was shaped during the 19th century not by the elite in the society but the ordinary people who were limited in both social and economic resources. Even after independence in 1821, there were persistent issues of political instability, military uprising and foreign invasions that led to social problems among the citizens. As Gillingham puts it, the village benefitted from Cuauhtémoc bones through economic progression that led to major development programs and achievement of political prominence. Cuauhtémoc was a symbol for the elites before it decided to embrace the lives of the ordinary people, thereby, leading ...

Ellis Joseph opens up to his readers through an examination of America’s third president, Jefferson Thomas. As it concentrates on Jefferson’s character, the text gives insight to the ideologies and decisions he made that in turn, led to his different achievements in office. For instance, there was the Louisiana Purchase and the Declaration of Independence, which has shaped the politics of the United States since its drafting. However, there are many more achievements as evidenced by documents passed down through history and his duties whilst serving in different offices, aside from that of the president. In the ...

“Coming of Age in Mississippi” is a classic autobiography of Anne Moody that was first published in the year 1968. Readers get to know about Moody’s life of her childhood and till late twenties. The book presents the struggle faced by African-Americans in Mississippi, and how it was to be grown up in a very racial state. The autobiography of Moody is unique in a sense that it reflects direct voice of a poor, oppressed black women, who is struggled to change the society and tried to make it a better pace for African-Americans. Moody was grown up in a society where racism was ...

Introduction

Journalism is a field that can have many faces. One may even go as far as saying that this industry is the best one when it comes to making perfect disguise. Throughout history, it can be attested that journalism and political science has been merged, perhaps subconsciously by the people working in these fields. In modern day politics, for example, a stage where democracy appears to be the dominant player, as evidenced by the fact that the number of counties that are based on a democratic and liberal type of government is far larger than those that are based on monarchy and ...

Michael Moore believes that while it maybe morally wrong to ingest drugs, that a general principle of liberty should allow free citizens the political liberty to ingest them for recreational purposes. He believes this because he believes the freedom to harm oneself (using recreational drugs) is of a higher order than politically restricting that liberty to do so. He shows historically how t a general principle of liberty is elusive since “Anything that could be called a general right to liberty has proved elusive to the considerable number of philosophers who have pursue it” (Moore, 82). Moore distinguishes between legal rights that should ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

Why Nations Faillooks to the past as well as today’s world in order to answer the age old question of why some nations prosper while others fail. Historically some countries’ citizens are considered wealthy, their nations in rich material goods, education and freedoms while and others are perceived a generally poor, or divided by lines of wealth and poverty.
It is obvious by looking at more universal factors of culture, weather, and geography that countries with similar external and internal factors can enjoy, or suffer different circumstances. North and South Korea and East and West Germany are evidence ...

Introduction

The book Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason by Christopher Hibbert take a closer look of the life of King Charles. The book is a biography of King Charles from the begging of his life a simple boy to what he came to be know globally and finally to his shame (treason). Christopher uses his creative mind in his book shed some light on how the kind grew from a simple boy who knew nothing and was very weak in character to a strong man who took the nations to a civil war. The books also take a look at the person who had ...

The Hart-Celler Act is also known as the Nationality and Immigration Act of 1965. It replaced what was formerly known as National Origins Formula which had been enacted in the United States since 1924. The NOF was enacted to put a quota on the immigration of national from other foreign countries into the United States. The Hart-Cellar Act therefore abolished the quota system of national origins. Instead of putting the numerical restriction of immigrants at 150,000 people per year as was in NOF, this Act extended it to a maximum of 170,000.
The Johnson-Reed Act was the Act ...

In the beginning of 1924, the United States’ immigration had reached a record high. It is said the percentage of immigrants entering the country from foreign countries was so high that it warranted government intervention. The White Americans who are still the majority population up to the present started fearing that the immigrants would star taking over their businesses and infringe on their culture and traditions. Since they were the ruling class, they had to make due with law provisions that would restrict immigration. The major immigrants were from Europe, Mexico and the larger Latin America and the African Americans. ...

Introduction

Edward Conlon is the author of this award winning book. “Blue Blood” covers his years in NYPD, the law enforcement background in his family, his work of conducting the street level narcotics enforcement in Housing Bureau, and a number of anecdotes concerning policing history. He is in fact a stereotype who has doggedly endured in the popular culture. Portly, flush-faced and very possibly crooked, Conlon continues cropping up everywhere from The Simpsons to The Departed. Even while real life in New York streets is policed by the boys in blue of all the colors, their fictitious counterparts inflexibly retain their ruddy ...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation supports a “Development Dialogue” series in order to encourage and promote dialogue, communication and debate on subjects between North and South global divisions. In June 2012 the Foundation published a book edited by the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives titled No Future without Justice. The civil society reflection group was established in the fall of 2010 and is comprised of members of a variety of civil society organizations (CSOs). At first the group came together informally in order to discuss the numerous global crises that are happening simultaneously. By November of 2010 the group ...

Joseph Smith’s religious vision has lead to the development of a uniquely American region. Smith was the founder of the latter day saints church (LDS) which holds 14.4 million members worldwide. In the United States, the church is rated as the 4th largest Christian denomination by the American council of churches. The church has led to the development of both the American religion and the economy because of its highest population in the United States. It is one of the most widespread churches in America and the wealthiest compared to other denominations. Through its expansion in the United States, ...

William Vernon Harris wrote the book titled ‘War & Imperialism in Republican Rome’. Oxford University Press published the book in the 1985. The author of this book attempts to review the grounds for wars and imperialism in Rome in 327 to 70 BC. It was the time when the Romans outstretched their empire to the Mediterranean. The book attempted to reviews the feelings of the Romans in their mission to get power and their actions. The urge for Romans to have power over all their neighbours was clearly reviewed. The Romans zeal for power gave them an attitude towards ...

The Myth of a Christian Nation by Greg Boyd

The Myth of a Christian Nation is a book that presents ideas that argue against Christians’ belief that engaging in politics is a God –assigned mission. Greg Boyd argues that American Christians have gotten carried away by political ideas trying to justify unchristian- like actions all in the name of trying to spread Christian values and glorify God (Boyd, 10). This article will focus on the ideas and thoughts in this book by analyzing the author’s main purpose of writing this book, the key issue being addressed, evidence the author has to solve this problem, the author’s ...

Ronald Takaki, in his book A Multicultural History of America in World War II, argues that historians must ensure that those individuals and/or groups that were marginalized in history have been given a voice in major historical events, like the Second World War. Takaki is undoubtedly a revisionist scholar. He claims that certain stories have been methodically ignored and omitted in prevailing histories. In his book, Takaki claims that World War II is an extraordinary event for majority of the American people because it was where the courage and nobility of the American nation were vividly displayed. However, Takaki ...

Nature of Development in China

The mysterious growth of the Chinese economy today have had diverse effects on the social well-being of the country. The economic growth in the country failed to portray equal social development among the citizens. This fantastic but colossal growth of the economy have hence impacted negatively on the social lives of the people in the country. Through globalization, today, cultural crashes and the need to embrace the changes continuously affect the national development in a country (Williams, 2008). In the case of China, a communist country is trying to adapt to the capitalist world to sustain its development. With ...

"Thе Lіmіts of Pаrtnеrshіp. U.S.-Russіаn Rеlаtіons іn thе Twеnty-Fіrst Cеntury":

Book Review

Introduction
In the introduction to the book The limits of partnership: U.S.-Russian relations in the twenty-first century, Angela Stent mentions in passing the reason the United States remains interested in Russia.
Every American administration since 1992 has recognized that a key interest in dealing with Russia has been to prevent it from that a key interest in dealing with Russia has been to prevent it from acting as a spoiler in areas where the United States ...

35 Dumb Things Well-intended People Say: Surprising Things We Say that Widen the Diversity Gap by Maura Cullen (2008) provides valuable insight on the choice of words in communicating with people during the course of our daily life. Words have different meanings in different contexts and cultures. So we should know which words are acceptable and which words are offensive, and also the contexts and cultures where they are applicable. Those who want to maintain good personal relationships with people in their social and business circles should take special ...

Guadalupe in New York, by Alyshia Galvez, is a look inside the lives, culture, and faith of Mexican immigrants in the urban United States. The book is a collection of stories, histories, and information about the lives of Mexican Immigrants trying to make a living for themselves in the land of opportunity. Galvez describes how these immigrants find themselves living a difficult and fearful life, working long hours for low paying jobs, and in constant fear that they will be discovered as illegal immigrants. This book touches on a wide variety of subjects including immigration, Mexican-American culture, religion, and the American dream.

The author ...

The book titled “Here is New York” written by E. B. White gives an account of the differences between the New York that White visited when he was young and the New York of the year 1948 . In this book, White provides a great deal of information about the metropolis and explains that he possesses a clear place for the city and defends the same. White describes his reactions about New York, which has transformed to a great extent in the modern day. He also gives various reasons as to why he left his hometown Maine for New York to write for ...

Should the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act be declared obsolete following the Wal-Mart case in 2012? In the opinion of Jeffrey Miron, it should. He holds that the Act should be abolished, but Wal-Mart should be prosecuted. This is because its existence alone is bound to increase the rate of corruption. In business, bribes are mainly given to get around minor laws that are deemed unnecessary. These laws are an excessive invasion by the government into the businesses of its citizens. They make expansion of these businesses unnecessarily hard. This is because it is hard to open different outlets of ...

Question one

The government of United States had been exposed to extensive communism that had been considered an element of exclusive concern. Through the element massive changes had been experienced in the nation. The government had used its extensive powers to influence how activities flow in the country. The case was revolving around a prayer that had been defined as the overall prayer that all the public schools were supposed recite. The prayer dictated “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our Country.” It was believed that this prayer ...

Introduction

In the history of genocide crimes, the question of responsibility always crops up. International organizations of justice have always argued that responsibility for genocide and war crimes is a collective and individual responsibility. Everyone is responsible in their own right but also it is the duty of the society as a whole to work against forces that would otherwise promote occurrence of war atrocities. This paper is a comparative piece drawing evidences and incidents between the works of Slavenka Drakulic in the book “They Would Never Hurt A Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague” and Heda Margolius Kovaly works in ...

The book The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism is a book that was written after interviewing Tea Party activists across the United States. This was an exercise that was conducted over a sixteen month period. According to the book, as the digging in into the movement gathered momentum, it became clear that the Tea Party is not the giant obstacle that it’s occasionally painted as. The political approach that is taken by Tea Party members is conservative in nature. Aside from this it has divergent views, interests and goals. Further research into the book was conducted by ...

Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, published by Pantheon Books of New York, NY in 2003, tells the author and artist’s own story of her childhood in Iran during the 1970s and 1980s during revolutionary times in her home country. Told in graphic novel or comic book form, Satrapi’s book illustrates what it was like to be a young girl growing up in Iran as regimes and social standards underwent monumental change. Presented from a young girl’s point of view, she navigates not only the typical hazards of growing up, but also encounters the violence ...

Book review Breach of Trust by Tom Coburn

In his book, Breach of Trust, Tom Coburn narrates some of his experience in the US House of representatives as a congressman. He is a former businessman and a practicing physician with equally ardent views about the congress, religion and implementation of the constitution. Tom Coburn is a true legislator and he even honored his pledge of serving for only three terms as a congressional representative then leave Washington. Breach of trust offers a candid look at the internal workings of congress, and why ‘Washington turns insiders into outsiders’. The reader’s are served with shocking behind-the-scenes stories and why the reforms that the country ...

Introduction

Kevin Poulsen, a former hacker has over the years built a recognizable reputation as one of the top most investigator reporter in the cybercrime world. In the book Kingpin, Kevin brings out his unmatched expertise in the form of a book, developing a fascinating cat and mouse narrative with a unique view of the twenty-first century organized crime. The book gives a detailed account of the inside look at the cybercrime world, focusing solely on carders. Carders in the book are the people responsible for stealing or outdrawing information from credit cards. The book is superbly written by Poulsen, making it extremely hard to think ...

What does the author mean by India’s strange rise?

India’s ‘strange rise’ is a phrase which is the reader encounter on the title of the book, In Spite Of the Gods: the Rise of Modern India. It is hard to explain what the author meant by the phrase without looking into the detailed meaning of the whole title. It is also proper in the outset that the author wrote the book while living in India where he worked for the financial times in the period 2001 to 2006 in New Delhi. The contents of the book, In Spite Of the Gods: the Rise of Modern India, are therefore a ...

In Ward Just's 1997 novel Echo House, the titular house is a mansion that has been owned for three generations by the Behl family. This family is one of the hidden powerhouses behind American politics, who are always shaping public policy and keeping secrets for people. Three generations of the Behl family are focused on in the book, which demonstrates the potential for political power as well as its price in the 20th century. Senator Adolph Bell, in the 1930s, is first nearly guaranteed that he will have the vice-presidentship. However, once he is refused that title, he is despondent. ...

Introduction

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 ...

Introduction

The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies is a book by Alan Taylor that takes us through the events of the civil war of 1812. This literature gives comprehensive coverage of events of the civil war and therefore, making it easier for people to picture what happens. It was a war between the Indians, Canadians, Britons and Americans. The battle was for a portion of land that belonged to Canadians born in United States. The war took a different shape as parties collaborated to facilitate the needed victory. It was a defining moment for the different nations, ...

Book Report- Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy

Introduction
Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy is a book by Professor Michael H. Hunt that describes the history of the American foreign policy and how it has affected the nation. The author has taken us through historical events and facts that led to the implementation of the policy and what the initiators thought would impart on the nation. This is made in relation to the events that followed its implementation, which includes various resistances from people who thought America was being too selfish1. The author looks at both the positive and negative impacts of the US foreign policy to ...

In the past, the churches have always avoided engaging in political activities. According to theologians, church and politics are two separate things. Engaging in politics was thought to be wrong and therefore Christians were not allowed to engage in politics according to the Christianity beliefs (Espinosa, 34). However, churches have started engaging in political activities. Among the churches that have encouraged the Christians to engage in political activities are the Catholics and Protestants. This research paper will evaluate the intersection of religion and political activism.
The rights of the women in the society have been voiced by the ...

Introduction

Chicago Housing Authority abbreviated as CHA, was established in 1937 by the state of Illinois and had the jurisdiction for the administrative oversight of the public housing within the Chicago city. The mission of the agency is guided by a Board of commissioners who are appointed by the mayor of the city. This agency has a budget which is independent to that of the City of Chicago. This agency has built a number of public housing projects over the last few years. The agency was hit by a setback in 1966 when a suit was brought against the agency. This forced the US department ...