Book Review Essays and Term Papers
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A Review of Emma
A Review of Emma I’ve read Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and most recently Emma. All of them are wonderful, and I can never decide which one is my favorite book by Jane Austen. But definitely Emma is, to me, a very engaging one. I have no special feeling about this book at first glance. Because of Jane Austen, I choose it and take some patience to read. And finally, the patience is greatly
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Literature Review
Annotated Bibliography (Synopsis) Citation Detert, J.R., Schroeder, R.G., & Mauriel, J.J. (2000). A framework for linking culture and improvement initiatives in organizations. Academy of Management Review, 25(4), 850-863. Article Overview This article presented an analysis of the dimensions of organizational culture commonly used in existing research, delineating how these dimensions corresponded with the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM). Researchers, consultants, practitioners, and members of management continue to view culture as essential to the success
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Book Report on the Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Book Report on The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger The fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, just north of Boston, is one of the oldest fishing ports in the United States and can trace its history to around 1623. Since that time, around ten thousand men have lost their lives fishing the Atlantic Ocean. Not only did the fishing port feel the full brunt of the storm but that fateful day in October 1991 was to
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Moulin Rouge! Review
Moulin Rouge! Review The main character, Christian, is an English writer who comes to Paris during the Bohemian movement. He falls in love with the singer of the Moulin Rouge cabaret, Satine, who suffers from a terminal case of Tuberculosis. Satine is a worldly and beautiful courtesan who believes that diamonds are a girl's best friend. She wants money and not love from her gentlemen clients, yet she dreams of leaving the show to become
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Review
I first read Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel in the Fall 2003 based on a recommendation from a friend. Many chapters of the book are truly fascinating, but I had criticisms of the book back then and hold even more now. Chief among these is the preponderance of analysis devoted to Papua New Guinea, as opposed to, say, an explanation of the greatly disparate levels of wealth and development among Eurasian nations. I will
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A Child Called It Review
A Child Called It David Pelzer’s A Child Called It, is so good. It is based on a true story of his life. Everything that happened in this book happened to him in real life. It is about a boy, David, who is abused as a child. He lives with his parents and two brothers. His mother abuses him and only him. The things she does to him are horrifying. And the dad wont help
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Why It Matters an Analysis of Nicholas Carr’s Harvard Business Review Article - It Doesn’t Matter
Why IT Matters An Analysis of Nicholas Carr’s Harvard Business Review Article “IT Doesn’t Matter” Does IT still matters? Nicholas Carr offered a thought-provoking theory in his 2003 Harvard Business Review Article “It Doesn’t Matter”. He said that Information Technology or IT doesn’t matter anymore in business because it has lost its strategic edge and is now a cost that should be managed. In previous years, IT became very important to business because it
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Review of Charlotte’s Web
Review of Charlotte’s Web ‘Charlotte’s Web’ by E. B. White was first published by Hamish Hamilton in 1952. It is a classic children’s novel which won the 1970 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (Amazon). It is beautifully written with a great mix of seriousness, excitement and comedy. Even though this book is now over fifty years old it is still a wonderful book for children as its main themes of friendship and hope will always
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Alphabet Book Report
Book: Amazing Alphabet Book Author: Dr. Seuss ISBN: 0-679-88281-2 Publisher: Random House The plot of my book is very simple. It is an alphabet book that is intended to help children learn the alphabet. It gives the letters in order and 3-4 words that begin with that letter and pictures for the children to easily understand the letters. It goes in order from A-Z which is the best way to help a child learn his
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Critical Review
Introduction For this session of critical thinking, we have been given the task to evaluate 2 articles that has the same core subject of implementing a specific curfew time for teenagers living Down under (example : Australia ). The first article, entitled “It’s 11pm. The cops know where your child is” was written by an anonymous writer with the benefit of being anonymous, the writer has expressed his/her feelings regarding the redundancy of the idea
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Ethics Article Review Paper
In today’s day and age, the ability to make as much money as quickly and easily as possible is found around every corner. With this topic in mind (ethics in finances) the first article researched, entitled, “Ethics In Accounting And Financial Decision Making”, talked about how ethics in accounting and financial decision making provide the foundation on which a modern business system exists (Accounting, 2007). The article speaks of how making ethical financial decisions sets
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Public Relations: Organizational and Societal Functions Reviewed
Public Relations: Organizational and Societal Functions Reviewed Introduction The pituitary gland is a human body part that is no larger than a pea and is located in the base of the brain where the three lobes meet. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center (2007), this master gland of the endocrine system performs a number of functions from controlling skin pigmentation, an external activity, to the internal action of increasing hormones found in the
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1984 Book Report
Joshua Sanchez May 7 2004 English 100 M-W Professor Hu Not so free after all Big Brothers eyes are over watching us everyday. The privacy we once had has dissipated. His focal point is in the sky like an eagle stocking its prey. The camera lenses of Big Brother dwell everywhere. Big Brother is always awake and has an eye on us. As of today, Big Brother has risen taller and mightier. He has gained
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Puritan Society in Review
Literature about the puritan lifestyle makes it very clear that is most puritan societies are very sheltered. Although these extremist beliefs do not seem present today, back then they where enforced strictly. The where not allowed to wear any clothing revealing a single ounce of skin. They lived in little communities where everyone knew each other, therefore wedlock outside of their communities where very rare, if it existed at all. And speaking of marriage,
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Of Mice and Men - Theme of Lonliness in the Book
Of Mice and Men Literary Analysis Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is a book that can be analyzed and broken down into a vast majority of themes. One of the predominant themes found in this book is loneliness. Many characters in this book are affected by loneliness and they all demonstrate it in one way or another throughout the book. Examples of these characters are Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and Candy. All through
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Review of "since Yesterday"
Review of Frederick Lewis Allen: Since Yesterday: the 1930’s America. (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc., 1939), 362 pp. Frederick Lewis Allen’s book tells in great detail how the average American would have lived in the 1930’s. He covers everything from fashion to politics and everything in between. He opens with a portrait of American life on September 3, 1929, the day before the first major stock market crash. His telling of the events
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Scarface Movie Review
Scarface This film revolves around the world of an immigrant from Cuba by the name of Antonio “Tony” Montana. Along with his very close friend Manolo “Manny”, their goal is to live the American dream, which is to leave Cuba, relocate to America and become filthy rich. Tony’s mother and sister Gina are already in the States and currently residing in the state of Florida, where he plans to go and reunite with them. He
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A Review of Management Techniques and Practices
A Review of Management Techniques and Practices Over the past 150 years, Wells Fargo Bank has become one of the largest financial institutions in the North America. Wells Fargo Bank is much more than a bank. It’s a premium financial service provider. It believes in its people and products to help them to succeed. So how has Wells Fargo become such a leader in the financial world? It measures its success by its management
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Ethics Article Review
RUNNING HEAD: ETHICS ARTICLE REVIEW Ethics in Accounting Ethics in accounting has faced increased scrutiny since the collapse of the Enron Corporation. In December 2001, the Enron Corporation shocked the world when its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, was accused of failing to abide by the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); a widely accepted set of rules, conventions, standards, and procedures for reporting financial information, as established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). In other
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Viking Game Review
VIKING: Battle for Asgard (Xbox 360) SEGA – 18+ Viking is a brutal hack and slasher game but with the occasional strategic sections to do. The game has some very good graphics and some graphics that could be improved for example the graphics on the close up of skarin and the in game videos are excellent whereas graphics on the scenery such as trees and hills could be improved. The game is a story about
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The Namesake Book Report
In Juhmpa Lahiri’s novel, The Namesake, the reader is thrust into the daily life of Gogol Ganguli. Gogol is a promising young man from a Bengali family, which the reader gets the pleasure of knowing since his birth. Ever since Gogol’s childhood all he ever wanted was to find a place where he could truly fit in, whether it be in his own culture, or in the American one in which he lives. During his
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A Beautiful Mind Review
A Beautiful Mind Review A Beautiful Mind tells the life story of John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who struggled through most of his adult life with schizophrenia. Directed by Ron Howard, this becomes a tale not only of one man's battle to overcome his own disability, but of the overreaching power of love - a theme that has been shown by many films that I enjoy. A Beautiful Mind may have been developed to
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Blood Diamonds Movie Review
Against my better judgment, my wife and I attended another one of Hollywood’s attempts to coerce public opinion on their latest target. Blood Diamonds, the saga surrounding the moral challenge of the international gem trade. Based in Sierra Leone, Africa, in 1999, it depicts the story of two mercenaries fighting to locate a rare blood diamond the size of a golf ball. The local region, engulfed in a civil war between the government and
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Review of Oleanna
“That was the end!” was the phrase I yelled when the credits started to roll. It definitely was not the response that I usually express at the end of movies. I typically express a feeling of fondness or aversion. Instead, I found myself less concerned with how much I liked the movie and more concerned with sympathizing with the professor and trying to understand the complexity of his position. One thing I noticed that David
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A Critical Review of Missions by Gailyn Van Rheenon
Gailyn Van Rheenen thoroughly presents a Biblical basis for the theology of missions. Rheenen studied at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and at the time of publication he was working as a professor at Abilene Christian University. In this particular book, he explains what is needed to be done in order for missions to be effective. The world is changing and Christian faith must be theologically anchored in order for missions to be effective. Rheenen clarifies
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