Book Review Essays and Term Papers
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Movie Artificial Intelligence Review
The movie Artificial Intelligence was entertaining because of its exciting scenes, therefore making it more pleasurable to watch. The story line dealt with a meca boy that wanted to become down-to-earth and sensible so that his surreal mother (Monica) would love him. The meca David was made so that he could love a human once it was programmed into his system. The problem with this was that he would have unconditional love for his “mother”
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Ethics Article Review
Ethics Article Review The purpose of ethics in business is to direct business men and women to abide by a code of conduct that facilitates, if not encourages, public confidence in their products and services. Professional accounting organizations recognize the accounting profession's responsibility to provide ethical guidelines to its members. According to the article, “It's a matter of integrity,” ethics in business is also about the integrity of the people. Summary of article “Integrity is
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Informal Cd Review (yellowcard)
CD Review The band is Yellowcard, the album is Ocean Avenue, and the verdict is one of the best CD's I've ever heard. When I first heard that there was a punk band with a violin player in it, I thought this was going to be good, NOT! But, then I started hearing some of their songs on the radio and really liked them. Shortly after, I bought the CD and it was worth every
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The Ebusiness of Books
The eBusiness of Books eBusiness EBUS/400 Lisa Graham July 18, 2007 The eBusiness of Books Over the next four weeks, the authors will analyze three websites that market books. These three websites include Half-Price Books, Barnes and Noble, and Borders Books/Amazon. They will describe the “look and feel” of those websites and the subjective ease or difficulty of navigation for each of those sites. They will explain the supply chain modifications necessary when doing
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Has the Amount of Information on African Americans Increased in Secondary School American History Books?
With new discussions and debates about the changes needed to the curriculum of the United States Education System, especially in the area of history which scholars say that the curriculum leans toward an euro-centric model of teaching with information about European Countries and the Anglo-Saxon move to the United States. I wanted to look at American History and analyze it to see how much information is in books about African Americans and the details
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Critique of Frederick Douglas Book
Frederick Douglass' narrative is one of the earliest pieces of writing by a slave. His narrative is both accurate and a inspiring portrayal of slave life. Douglass', in addition to being an author, was also well noted for his oratory skills, this helped catapult Douglass' fame as well as his reputation as a great leader, orator and author. The themes in his narrative hit on much larger issues of freedom. It not only speaks
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Glory - Movie Review
“We Went Down Standing Up” Glory is a movie about the fifty-fourth Massachusetts regiment in the civil war. This was the first all black regiment the Union ever allowed to fight. Throughout the movie one quote kept proving itself true, “We went down standing up.” The members of the fifty-fourth proved that they wanted to go down standing up just by joining the army. However there were many situations that proved this further, as
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Article Review of Jake Wageman - Giving Liquor Sales a Shot in 3 Towns, an Effort to Boost the Economy Is on the Way or on the Ballot
Summery Paper In September 15, 2002 an article was printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The article was about giving liquor licenses to three “dry” towns. Jake Wageman wrote the article titled “Giving liquor sales a shot in 3 towns, an effort to boost the economy is on the way or on the ballot”. The article contained several opinons, on the topic. The idea was, wether or not, to give these towns a licenses to
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Saturn Car Case Review
Table of Contents I. Introduction 3 II. Wake-up call 3 III. Advanced Product Design Team 4 IV. Common Threads of Success 5 V. Business and Marketing Strategy 8 VI. Challenges for Saturn 10 VII. Future for Saturn 12 VIII. Conclusion 13 IX. Bibliography 14 Introduction/Overview: America did not alone invent automobile, but America had been the leader in the automobile technology and manufacturing for several decades. During that time, American automobiles shared their technology
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George Orwell, Book Jacket
Eric Arthur Blair, known as George Orwell, was born in 1903 near Nepal in the Indian Village Moithari. "This is exactly what he tried to do: he tried to change himself from Eric Blair, old Etonian and English colonial policemen, into George Orwell, classless antiauthoritarian." (www.k-1.com) His two most famous work were Animal Farm(1943) and 1984(1946). Other books he has written have been Why I Write, Road to Wigan Pier, Down and Out(which was almost
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Would Defeat in Iraq Be So Bad?: Review
In the essay “Would Defeat in Iraq Be So Bad?,” Leslie Gelb proposes a new approach for what to do in the war in Iraq. Gelb believes that if America follows in Bush’s strategy of “staying the course,” or turns to the democrat’s strategy or as Gelb says, “pulling out by timetables,” we will inevitably meet defeat and then disaster. Defeat in Iraq is a disaster that has almost every American quivering at the
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The Seven Samuraii - Movie Review
The film Seven Samurai is about a village of farmers who have repeatedly suffered yearly raids by a group of merciless bandits. These bandits steal from the farmers and kidnap the women. Unable to protect themselves, the farmers decide to hire a samurai to do the job for them. This changes the course of their lives in numerous ways. Initially, not everyone in the village agrees with the idea of hiring a group of samurai
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The Maltese Falcon: The Film & Book
The Maltese Falcon: The Film & Book Dashiell Hammett was a prolific writer of short stories for the pulp magazines in the 1920s-1930s, but only wrote five mystery novels. Most of his works involved his anonymous detective The Continental Op, an employee of one of the big national detective agencies. Sam Spade became popular because of the movies, but didn't feature in much of this author's work. Hammett's greatest skill was his combination of terse
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Restaurant Review
Restaurant Review It was rainy, crowded and loud at the entrance, the smell of cigarette and rum filled the air of the lobby area. It was Saturday night at the T.G.I.F in San Francisco, the Giant's were playing so the place was packed and fans were being loud. The restaurant is located on a corner nearby Pier 39 and it almost has an Aspen look to it. The building itself is made of bricks with
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Ethics Review of Subprime Meltdown 2008
The subprime crisis has started hurting not only the U.S. economy but also the worldwide economy and has not made its entire appearance yet. This invisible fear tumbled the worldwide stock market in mid of August 2007 and came again in late November. It has not been figured out how big its impact and how long will it take to overcome it, though many economist and financial firms have been working on figuring out them.
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Review of an Inspector Calls
"An Inspector calls" takes place in 1912, where there are great social divisions and distinctions. Written by JB Priestley in 1945 this allows for hindsight which eventually leads to dramatic irony. There are many examples of this, all of which are said by Mr Birling, "Just because the Kaiser makes a speech or two, you'll hear some people saying that war is inevitable. Well I say to that - fiddlesticks" This play was first published
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Nickel and Dimed Book Report
NICKEL AND DIMED BOOK REPORT Barbara Ehrenreich is a journalist who wrote the book Nickel and Dimed. She goes undercover to see how it feels to work for $6 to $7 an hour. She leaves her regular life to explore the experiences of a minimum wage worker. Ehrenreich travels to Florida, Maine, and Minnesota, looking for jobs and places to live on a minimum wage salary. At one point in time, she had to work
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Bible: The Book of Daniel
I enjoyed reading the book of Daniel very much. I can only begin to report how much reading this book has taught me about faith, sacrifice, humility, trust, control, and obedience. The book of Daniel has made a huge impact on me and inspired me to put my full trust in the Lord. Being a Christian in 2006 is hard at times. There is so much temptation to do the wrong thing and rarely any
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In Search of Excellence: Review
In Search of Excellence is a book dealing with many different principles of economics and what makes big business' excellent. The first idea that Peters discusses is his chart of the McKinsey 7-S Framework. The graph is very simple but the ideas are fairly complex. In their research, they found that their philosophies were too hard to explain and easily forgettable. They made this Framework to deal with strategy, structure, style, systems, staff (people),
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Analysis from Feminist/gender Critic of Book Wicked
Picture a child sitting in front of a television watching the Wizard of Oz. To them, it is an assortment of magical beings, a land filled with wonderful places, with varieties of different colors. They do not picture it as something with far more meaning than just a plain fairytale. On the other hand, gender/feminist critics have been able to analyze the Wizard of Oz as well as Wicked, in order to find a more
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Film Review - Daddy’s Little Girls
Film Review of “Daddy’s Little Girls” Director and writer Tyler Perry creates a serious film where he picks his comedic interruptions and without his famous “Madea” character taking up the limelight the cast does a great job of filling the void. The focus is on Julia (Gabrielle Union of The Honeymooners), a no-nonsense lawyer who has been nursing a broken heart since a terrible breakup. Cast member Idris Elba (From Television’s The Wire) plays a
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Hr-Ease | Product Review
HR-ease Founded in mid-2000 as a “highly flexible and scalable HR/Benefits application”, HR-ease is a web-based Human Resources Management System (HRMS) product. The purpose of this software is to automate all the manual paper-intensive processes associated with human resources files, compensation, and benefits. HR-ease provides these five areas of functionality: 1. Human Resources - contains personal & demographic information 2. Payroll - paycheck & salary histories, expense reports, PTO balances 3. Benefits - personal elections
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Review of the Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919
The Other Side of the American Revolution The focus of the essay will be on Chapter 4, Evaluating One Historian's Argument: The "Other Side" of the American Revolution in the textbook, Thinking Through the Past by John Hollitz. The American Revolution involved more than the War of Independence and the elite; the Revolution unleashed a struggle to achieve greater equality and rights at home amongst the common people. The Stamp Act of 1765 imposed unjust
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Short Review on Snow Falling on Cedars
Evocative and extremely well written, this book lets the mind soar throughout all different types of drama. The fictional world the write has created is so realistic that the atmosphere is unmistakably recognized. Including history and romance, this incredibly written book satisfies the reader in ways no book can. The primary pleasure of the book is David Guterson's interpretation of the diverse characters and the beautiful places. Set on an island in the straits north
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Nasser Book Report
A Report on a Previously Read Book Entitled: Nasser; The Last Arab Written by Said K. Aburish I chose a book titled “Nasser; The Last Arab” written by Said K. Aburish. This book is a bibliography written about a former Egyptian president named Gamal Abdel Nasser. Many refer to Nasser as the most powerful and brilliant political leader who achieved unprecedented popularity in both Egypt and the Arab world. He was said to be
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