Diversity Book Reviews Samples For Students

In the semi-arid south-west of the United States of America (U.S.), there exist rare and lush wetlands that form habitat to majority of the US’s desert most spectacular biota. Basic biological concepts confirm that where there is permanency of adequate water at the surface or even a few feet below the ground, numerous diverse water dependent floral communities can develop. In this part of the US, there is the Sonoran Desert Ecosystem. The ecosystem is one of the few rarest and most exquisite habitation in the continental North America since majority of the original riparian habitats has long dried ...

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 ...

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Robinson Crusoe

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The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe (1660 – 1731)
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Social and Diversity Issues

including Logical Human Reactions to Incentives and Penalties
with Examples from the Book and Personal Examples
CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE STORY
3. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS NOVEL IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
4. THE AUTHOR, DANIEL DEFOE (1660 - 1731)
5. THE IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF THE NOVEL
- The Title
- The Plot
- The Narrator, Robinson Crusoe
- The Use of Imagery
- The Setting
- The ...

I am writing this paper on the book “Identity and Violene” by Amartya Sen who is a Nobel laureate in economics. In this book he extensively discusses about his concern with the ‘miniaturization’ of human beings. He goes on to touch on the topic on identity in connection with civilization, religion and culture while also in historical context, individual freedoms and globalization. In this book he presents his argument in such a manner that is persuasive and is able to convince the reader of the book easily. This book should be a must read to anyone with any liking to the state ...

Analysis: American grace

In the book American grace, Putnam and Campbell are surprised by the uniqueness of the American religion. The religion in America is a conundrum; people are able to unite despite their sharp religious diversities and tolerate one another. So, this book is set to answer a number of questions: What possible factors could be shaping the religious landscape in America? Do people of a faith have distinct characteristics that differentiate them from the rest? Are there characteristics for people of faith as compared to those who do not have? What could be the explanation for the unique combination of the Americans despite ...

The main theme for the book entitled “The Spirit Level: Why equal societies almost always do better” was about how inequality can affect even those who are not well off. This information is vital for someone in the planning profession because the economy and the labor force affects the job outlook as well as the other important factors in a certain area. The book was well written and was done with extensive years of research, not focusing on only one country, but doing a case study on many. When it comes to someone from the planning profession, it is important that ...

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Now that the pollen grain is mature, what has happened to the micro sporangia?

The microsporangium is likely to wither and then stop producing the microspores.
#85 what is the term given to this stage of the anther

Dehiscent

#91

Why is the endosperm being digested?

#92

How are the seeds of this three similar and how are they different

#93 what does the staining pattern tell you about the content of the endosperm and embryo

Fruit

#94 what type of fruit does each item represent
- Drupe
- Berry
- Pepo
- Pome
- Complex fruits
- Dry fruits
#95 does this structure look to have arisen from a single carpel housing multiple seeds or multiple carpels each housing one seed

Multiple carpels each housing one seed.

#96 is the sunflower a ...

A single train track can be seen the dust jacket of Edward L. Ayers’s monumental books The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction that cuts through a forest and points into an apparently unknown terrain. The image seems to be both promising and foreboding because the progress that the train track symbolizes also posed a threat to the necessary changes in the physical and social landscape that so well known to the southerners. The fundamental theme of Ayer's book is propelled by this image, in which the uneven course of fundamental changes in a post-Reconstruction South is tracked.
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“I Want to be a Veterinarian” by Michaela Muntean

- Is the story age/developmentally appropriate? Yes How and Why? Preschool, teaches about careers
- Is the subject matter interesting to children? Yes Is the content well written? Yes
- Do the text and illustrations work together? Yes, a: Is the language suitable for children? Yes b: Are the illustrations good quality? yes
- Is the information accurate? Yes, information is accurate but could be more through
- Are characters depicted positively? Yes a; Free from bias? yes
- Relates to learning areas? Yes, Learning Area: learning about a career, Yes, the area of science could ...

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 ...

According to Kirton and Geene (2015), though diversity is not always easy to measure within an organization, the most common means of doing so includes looking at the workforce profile, the nature of the relationship among its employees, the level of teamwork, team productivity as well as innovation and creativity (Kirton & Greene, page 202).
How the another measure these issue representation in hiring, level of employee satisfaction the pay equity, employee inclusion the positive customer feedback on diversity initiatives?
Another best measurement for workforce diversity initiatives is level of employee satisfaction. Kirton tand Greene assert that these initiatives helps ...

Book Reviews

Book Review # 1: Zeitoun
This book by Dave Eggers is a spellbinding and enthralling description of Hurricane Katrina. Zeitoun, a true story, tells the story of an unjust arrest of and racial discrimination against a Syrian-American named Abdulrahman Zeitoun. Eggers tells the shocking tale of Zeitoun family and has once again proves that he is one of the most impressive literary writers in the United States of America.
When New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, the prosperous Abdulrahman Zeitoun opted to stay at his place through the storm for protecting his house and business. After the passage of the ...

Summary : Managing business ethicsLinda K. Trevino & Katherine A. Nelson. Wiley; 5th edition

Chapter 4 – Addressing individuals’ common ethical problems

Ethical issue when people work together (privacy, discrimination, sexual harassment or simply how people get along. Key is fairness meaning equity, reciprocity, impartiality
- Equitable is when something is divided between 2 people according to the worth & inputs of the 2 individuals. Most people think it’s unfair when 2 people have performed the same duty but receive a different share of the reward
- Reciprocity: “if you do this for me I’ll do this for you”. Most ppl think it’s unfair if ...

Hernstein & Murray’s The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, offers a controversial statistical argument about social stratification and race being concretely linked to intelligence. However, the book more effectively investigates the consequences of American social stratification. The rich and educated members of society are increasingly isolating themselves in zip code enclaves instead of contributing to the American ideal of diversity. As a result, society has become increasingly divided by education, class and race. Overall, the book attempts to deconstruct complex socioeconomic issues of race, class and intelligence using statistical analysis. Intelligence is an important part of social ...

The purpose of this assignment is to understand the different religions that have been studied throughout Unit 3. Vedic, Spirit Possession, Hindusim as well as Islam and Judaism will be evaluated. Lessons that have surrounded each of these paradigms suggest that there are considerable core concepts that can be defined throughout religion universally.
Lesson 10 on Christian Hymnody in Uganda explains an important issue relating to song contests. The way that Catholic Identity and African methods of expression have contributed towards observable comparisons in multiple ways.
India is the motherland of not only particular religions, but a unique spirit ...

The Immigrant Advantage: What Rest of America can learn from the fresh Immigrants.'

Cultures for Longer and Happier lives
Inspired by her culturally diverse life in Houston, award winning journalist and author Claudia Kolker investigates the attitudes and traditions towards education, hard work and health that have been imported into the United States by immigrants from different nations. She addresses the fact that natives to the United States have so much to learn from foreigners and that they should not be viewed form only an outsider point of view but should instead be embraced for the diversity they introduce to America. She argues that it is meaningless to fuss over their ...

Summary and Critique of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

The book Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson try to convey the incentives motivating individuals and the regulations influencing a nation’s economy and its possible outcomes. The result is an extremely valuable work providing loads of information based on chronology and geography and consists of highly appealing historical accounts involving the political and economic environment.

Drifting apart: chapter summary

This is one of the important chapters which traces the type of institutional drift, the evolution and significant junctures either away or towards inclusive institutions. The chapter tries to inform that most societies ...

Everyday Life In Early America

The book ‘Everyday Life in Early America’ by David Hawke is an enlightening book which provides a detailed account of the history of early settlers in the United States of America. the author maintains that the geographic concept including the physical environment is a chief factor which influences the conduct of individuals. He maintained that early settlers came to America in the hope of taking forward their customs and traditions while starting afresh in a foreign land. However, the physical environment brought about certain changes to their traditions and customs. The people slowly began to understand that the only way to survive ...

Introduction Culture and Leadership in New Zealand

Introduction
Culture has a great influence on leadership according to various researches that have been conducted. According to Hewison (2006), leadership characteristics are deep rooted in the unique context of each culture. There has been no generally accepted definition of leadership, but majority definitions focus on values, beliefs, attitudes, behavior across cultures and influence that people hold in leadership position hold. Cross cultural research have identified what constitute leadership and the behaviors across cultures. It has also been also identified the various theories used in description of leadership. Leadership in most of the cultures across the globe is dependent ...

Gary Yukl is a well-known professor of management and leadership, who has served as a faculty and board member of the leadership quarterly Journal published by the State University of New York in Albany. He has written several articles about leadership and its application and impact on business. The first version of the book leadership in organizations was published in the year 1981 and there were various other versions which were published after which the fifth version was published in the year 2002 where the pre-existing 19 chapters were consolidated into 15 chapters and a new chapter on ethical leadership and diversity ...

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 ...

Introduction

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 ...

Disneyland has a very strong brand, but in different regions of the world it faced the culture related problems and opening a typical Disneyland theme park did not guarantee the immediate success. Based on its experience received in Japan and France, the company should learn to be able to cope with the cultural diversity in the future.
First of all, Disneyland should rely more on the local top managers that know the internal business environment better. For instance, Disneyland had a lot of problems in France and only after the company hired the French man Philippe Bourguignon, the Euro ...

The four articles summarized and discussed in this annotated bibliography were selected because they deal with some of the civilizations of the first Americans, the Aztecs in particular. There always seems to be a lot of information and research into Western and pre-Western archaeology and anthropology, such as studies about Celtic, Roman, and Egyptian culture and mythology, but less about pre-Columbian America. All four of these articles were selected from peer-reviewed journals. Journals were selected instead of a book because it seemed like the best way to get a general idea about some very diverse topics regarding the Aztecs. Topics for three ...

Chapter 1: Learning Objectives

- Define development, focusing on three elements of its scientific study.
Development is the scientific study of people’s lifespan changes, that is, from conception (womb) to death (tomb). It focuses on the systematic changes that occur over time among all individuals, and which explain continuities and discontinuities in life.
- List and describe the basic steps of the scientific method.
- Posing of the problem is done based on prior research, theory or observation.
- Formulating of a hypothesis refers to an educated prediction, which can be verified or tested.
- Testing of the ...

The declaration “It must and will not happen again” in reference to war has been repeated over and over again by people from all over the world. Indeed, freedom from war has become an essential component of human well-being. This is in an attempt to stop people from fighting, harming and killing each other, scenes that unfold in various battle grounds around the world.

Sebastian Junger’s documented experiences of the Korengal Valley during the war in Afghanistan perfectly exemplify the adversities of wars. The film, Restrepo directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, explores the life of a US ...

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 ...

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 ...

Summary

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 ...

Sledge used the term “The old breed” to refer to the marine veterans of the first Marine World War. The marines were expected to undertake proper training before going to the Pacific War in Peleliu and Okinawa. During this war, most of the corps exposed themselves to fires, all to save those who were wounded. For this, the sledge was proud of their commitment towards one another. He viewed them as a brave lot as they preferred to suffer for their nation, giving up their lives, health and sanity. Theirs was to ensure that their motherland enjoyed peace, which ...

A Critical Review of Moloney’s Chapter Five

Public Relations vs. Propaganda: A Critical Review of Moloney’s Chapter Five
Introduction and Summary of Chapter Five
In chapter five of the course textbook, Kevin Moloney provides a thorough discussion of the history and nature of public relations, particularly as it has been practiced in the UK. He covers the ideas of several of the most recognised PR scholars, including Sir Stephen Tallents, who used public relations as a way to promote business within the British Empire. Tallents framed what he was doing as “national projection” (p. 61). Others have called PR various names, such as “public diplomacy,” “ ...

Introduction

This paper aims to relate the concepts of and the paradoxes behind equity, efficiency, security, and liberty to a news article titled San Francisco students suspended over racist ‘wigger party’ by Kale Williams (2016). It reports the incident where over twelve high school students were suspended from San Francisco’s St. Ignatius College Preparatory for taking part in a “wigger party,” a racist themed party where White individuals emulate the culture of African Americans through a depiction of the stereotypes in mannerisms and clothing (Williams, 2016).

Equity

The news article depicted the paradox behind equity in that although the school ...

Book review: Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 5th Edition by Chandler H. Barbour, Nita H. Barbour and Patricia A. Scully

Introduction

Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 5th Edition offers more choices for teachers and students than the previous editions. The authors are all educators and their combined experience easily reaches 100 years. Professor Chandler Barbour has retired from an elementary school teaching career but he is still actively involved as a volunteer to his community’s projects with public schools, church boards, directing a fishing advocacy group and as a member on a hospital board. He ...

Introduction

Me, my? My life in the Rough and Tumble World of New Jersey Politics is Richard Codey’s critical analysis of New Jersey politics through his strong memoirs. He was born in November 27, 1946 to a former county undertaker. He worked in the senate from 1982. He served as senator in New Jersey. He replaced McGreevy as New Jersey governor after he was trapped with a sex scandal involving a member of staff. Codey was not compatible with political kingpins. He knew they would pick a puppet they could control and manipulate that’s why the governor’s resignation was timely for the ...

Culture is one thing that we human beings all have. Conversely, different ethnic communities are associated with different cultures. This is in most cases an added advantage as diversity caused by the different cultures is usually one that contributes to the fun in life. In the case that we all had the same cultures, then there would be nothing to learn. We would be waking up in the same routine day in day out and, in the long run, life would be rather boring. However, with the diversity created by the vast number of ethnical groups, it becomes fun ...

Management

Introduction
In his book, “Supportive Leadership: The New Role of Leaders in the 21st Century”, Gunther H. Schust declares that the paradigms of management and leadership are changing in an increasingly globalized world. Schust points out that leaders could get the job done with blunt tactics of hiring and firing. However, the need of the hour is for leaders to professionally select employees, support them in their endeavors, challenge them in the work environment, make them further qualified and enable them to function seamlessly in a networked world. Schust (8) uses the new requirements of leaders to call for ...

Book Review

A Book Review
Background of Reading
Teaching is noted as a series of procedures taken into account by educators as they go along particular responsibilities of engaging in the process of passing on knowledge to their students. In relation to the concept of teaching, teachers are expected to take on necessary procedures that are considered essential especially when addressing the different needs of the students given that they are all unique learners. One of the most common patterns of approach taken into account by teachers is the idea of implicating holistic instruction; an approach that affects not only ...

The book developed from the introductory stages of Muslim taught in the Universities in religious studies lessons. In an attempt to understand the Islamic concepts, it tries to explain the principles in simple and familiar language. Form the onset, Islam has been a difficult subject to present to students especially those who emanate form other cultures. It is harder to teach Islam in learning institutions as a result of the cultural diversity. Sachiko asserts that Islam is best understood by individuals who have been born and raised in Islamic backgrounds.
The book focuses on what Islam has brought of its ...

Shaul Magid’s (2013) idea of Jewish identity is very different from the views of the past. Instead of looking at the people who make up the community as a whole, he took the elements outside Judaism and helped those factors shape the overall identity of Jews or what it means to be a Jew. Unlike the stereotypical images of the past, Magid (2013) fuses these different elements and separates Jewishness in a way that it makes sense in a post-modern world. His post-ethnic idea of Judaism is groundbreaking because he defines culture in such a multifaceted way. Instead of taking a look at Jews ...

The conflict between Tradition and Modernity

The ideas of tradition greatly differs and conflict with the ideas of the people living in the modern world. The people in the traditional world views the world in a different way from the way those in the modern world do. The conflict of traditions and modernity is clearly elaborated by Chaim Potok in this book where the two main characters viewed the world differently due to the aspects of modernity and tradition with respect to the Jewish religion. The book shows the different views the people with respect to the how the children were raised in the Jewish community. ...

The zoot suit culture was flamboyant embedded in fashion, unique patterns of speech, lindy hop dancing, jazz, swing music and jitterbug among other factors captivating the youth in the 1940’s. In this book, Luis Alvarez explains the relationship between race, region and politics of culture during the World War II in the urban America. He argued that most of the American youth from diverse communities such as African American, Mexican and American youths adopted the popular culture in opposing the commonly accepted modes of youthful behaviors. For example, the dominance of white, middle class expectations and behaviors was ...

There is a lot of disagreement within the subject of anthropology, this disagreements come up due to the differing concept of time. In addition, ethnographical fieldwork, a field that relates closely with anthropology is in deep discrepancy dialogue on this issue as well. A number of critiques have been made on the foundation of how the anthropologists “make their object” in the book by Johannes Fabian, majority of the ideas in the book can be traced back to the 80’s and 90’s. This book analyses how time is maneuvered in a way that it creates a boundary between “us” and “them”. ...

Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South by Kenneth Bindas is an impressive book and the most intriguing thing about it is the diversity of the individuals that Bindas interviewed. The major theme in the book is the tender balance of austere poverty and bounteous selflessness. By using thematic presentation in his book, Bindas has interwoven a hail of voices and has run interpretive analysis. He has done this in order to skillfully demonstrate not only the crisis and destitution that was involved in the Depression but also the clear “collective consciousness” that left a lasting mark on the ones ...

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, ...

In her book, Literature as Exploration, Louise M. Rosenblatt takes us through a comprehensive review of literature work and how it should be perceived. It is a challenging piece of literature that encourages both the readers and the teachers of English to look beyond the style and wording of the work and reflect it more on their lifestyles. In most cases, literature has been used mainly for teaching grammar and ignoring other aspects of the book which mainly inspired the author to come up with the literature. She emphasizes on the importance of drawing an emotional connection between the reader and ...

Introduction

Humans react differently when presented with the problem of environmental degradation. There are those who are conservationists while other are just after reaping as much as they can from the environment regardless of the degradation that may take place. Environmental History of Latin America and Defending the land of the Jaguars both handle situations on how human beings react to the problems of environment conservation. This paper analyses the opinions provided by the two authors of the books on the reactions of humans to the problem of environmental conservation.

Environmental History of Latin America

This book generally gives a representation of the fatal historical competition ...

MacLean, Nancy. Freedom Is Not Enough. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2008.

In Nancy MacLean's Freedom Is Not Enough, the difficult transition between a white-dominant culture into one of greater acceptance is described, particularly as it extends to the workforce of the United States. According to MacLean, after World War II, American society could be classified as a "culture of exclusion"1; whites still had the political and social power to prevent African-Americans and Mexican-Americans from participating in the American workforce on an equal level. However, many different forces came into play that managed to increase and promote diversity in the workplace, ...

Dharma is under the teachings of Buddhism as a religion which was practiced by the Hindu people in Ancient India. To understand dharma we must first understand the religion itself. From the previous chapters of the book we realized that Buddha was the founder of the religion. Buddhism is a form of religion whose inception was in India. Buddhism as a religion gained followers who were supposed to follow certain regulation, and that’s where Dharma originated as a teaching under Buddhism religion. According to the teaching of Buddhism, Dharma is comprehended as the way of the living of the people who practice ...